Lovely lemons and lemonades :: Xoan's 1st

When life gives you lemons, make lemonades! Exactly, better yet loveliness.

Let me go off tangent. Like most dysfunctional families, ours is, yes, like yours, perfectly imperfect. We do get our shares of lemons too- in different forms, two legged folks, the weather, fate! But somehow, I think growing up surrounded by strong women, made me resilient. It is not something I talk about everyday because like days, it passes and call me cray, but I like life's challenges. And apparently,I'm loving saying "Bring it on!" quite often. And like making lemonades, if you have just one lemon, it makes one glass, more lemons, more glasses... One challenge, one victory, more challenges, more victories. Oh and with Ava's cakes, we translate challenges to loveliness.











































Going back to this party, a little past seven this morning, we had a visit from Xoan's parents. His dad was quite pessimistic about having us at first, but then last night we hit it spot on... According to Xoan's mom, it was the dad who insisted to see us first thing in the morning to tell us about how lovely their party was. Yay! A lemon made to lemonade again. Couldn't be more pleased.

So thats how we ended one of our loveliest summers.

Hello June 1st! May we all embrace life's lemons and make them to lemonades err loveliness.

Location:Laoag City,Philippines

Of monograms and a little one:: Jesus Carlisle's Baptism

Nothing's too much for Little Carlisle. Sigh! Anything that we could put on these lovely monograms and logos we did. From his 2D name, JESUS in Louis Vuitton and CARLISLE in Chanel, the invites, the paper straws, wish pads, cupcakes, the cake, the door... Goodness! Literally in anything we could put those loveliness on.

Monograms and logos everywhere

A mash-up of lovely brands

Designer cupcakes!

Dear Carlisle

Gucci x Lindt yay!

If the server won't fit all, you gotta be creative!

Chic cupcakes

Loveliness

Don't you just love Werther's?

Thank you from the little one

Candy bar in one corner

Yes, the balloons!

And even the straws!

First page of Carlisle's invite, photo taken by Ferina Albano

Did enjoy myself styling for Little Carlisle's party so nothing elates me more when I received compliments from the guests for a very lovely party, And the glee from Carlisle's parents is priceless. Carlisle's dad actually said "Perfect". Sigh! Forgive me for being lost for words, it's getting worst... can we just ogle on the photos together? Teehee!

So thank you Kap and Cathleen for letting us work on the little one's party, for having so much faith in us. To your guests, who were so generous in showing their love to what we have done. Much love.

Tropical loveliness:: Trina + Lester

I was asked  "Do you have a magic wand?" It would have been much much easier if we did, believe me, I did wish for that  too many times already. But then, if I come to think of it, I think we do. And it comes in the form of a husband who is a few notches higher in terms of creativity than me (wink! yes, just a few notches), a staff who is well oiled- understands our demands in the execution of everything. 

This wedding has to be one of the most challenging we did so far. I somewhat knew where we were going to do this loveliness but it differs when you are already standing right there and about to begin. We arrived at a very huge space, think of bleachers on its sides, a stage meant for huge fiestas or town programs, and if my calculation serves me right, you can fit in at least 300 trucks in it. Goodness gracious, I know! It's not a gross exaggeration folks. Teehee!

Bridal and entourage bouquets

Dainty, lovely.

Together from this day forth

Loveliness by the Mister

So yeah, we did this for Trina and Lester, one of the nicest  couples we've worked for... of course, we do have our shares of those otherwise, just but glad that the ratio would be 1:50. Freaks of nature, I guess. Teehee!

Venue:: Banna Cultural Center

Cake:: Ava's Cakes

Floral and event styling:: Kit + Ace of Ava's Cakes

Photobooth: Faces and Giggles

Photography and Videography:: Ferina Albano, Shayne Lauricio, Cesar Lauricio