Wednesday, October 30, 2013

REVIEW: Bella Ibarra

PROS:

  • Their food are delicious. 
  • The venue are ok for guest of 150s++ not that crowded. 
  • Sounds and lights are good
  • The couch and backdrop where we did our photo ops with each tables are ok
  • Cake yummy!
  • The presidential table look fine
  • Courtesy room, very clean and beautiful. A place where we can retouch and eat. I wish my hubby and I ate there first before entering hehehehe... we barely touch our food there... sayang masarap pa naman. 
  • My hubby love the sparkling wine. 
CONS:
  • Flower settings in each table/s are so so. It is not like what I choose / told them I want it to be. 
  • Their waiters: FAIL!!
    • Some of our principal sponsors gifts lost (yes I blame the waiter/s)
    • It is good that they help our guest to their vehicle....but asked for a TIP on every ninongs/ninangs there. KAPAL NAMAN NG MUKHA NYO. (this is according to our guest)
    • Not only that... they even asked for a tip from my dad and to my hubby's father... naman!!!! (according to our fathers)
    •  Left over foods.... it is difficult to understand that there are no leftover food. 
    • They did not assist our guest to fall in line to the other part of the buffet. It turns out that one side of the buffet table are untouched. But they said that there are no leftover foods.
OVERALL VERDICT:
Sayang masarap pa naman food nila...pero NAAAHHH...

Would I recommend them: HECK NO!!!!

REVIEW: M Events

PROS:
  • Grace is friendly, casual at the same time professional. I love her, she replies immediately and direct to the point and when there are topics that is not clear over our text she called me right away. She also do followups and reminds me with my task. 
  • Team: they are very professional. friendly and divided with specific task during the event. One stayed with me all the time, one is with my hubby, the others are in the reception and others are in the church...The way they divide the task i love it. 
  • They came in our hotel ahead of time.
CONS: 
  • Had a conflict with some suppliers with their food in the reception, w/c I think if other suppliers was informed about it there should be no problem. 
OVERALL VERDICT:
They are great. 

Would I recommend them :  YES

Sunday, October 14, 2012

REVIEW: Limelight Digital Photography and Videography

PROS:
  • Jeannette and Russel are super friendly and professional. They are easy to talked to and flexible with my demand/s or request/s.
  • The team are so nice I feel so relaxed posing for them. 
  • The Guestbook: I LOVE IT! It is printed beautifully... so beautiful, I did not allow my guest to write on it hahahaha.....
  • Rates: reasonable
  • Quality of the pictures: Average to Pro. Dont take me wrong the photos are very good but not that super-wow-factor-pano-nila-nagawa-yun-shot thing. hehehehe
  • Same day Video : most of our guest love it! we love it... the transition of the video to our music are just right. 
CONS:
  •  In the prenup, I did not get the effect/s or idea that I wanted. although my fault that I did not direct them what to do or not....I just give them my idea and I want to see how they will execute it. It turns out that it is a so so prenup photo-ops. 
  • Most of them are wearing jeans and rubber shoes. I am expecting that at least they should wear slacks or uniform colored shirts.
  • Upon delivering the final product:
    • Main album and 2 parent album : quality it is very good. 
    • Framed picture : not good. The picture is over exposed and washed out. 
    • DVD / usb video : average. The editing of the final video is not that we imagine. (because the same day video they did was superb!)
    • Service : FAIL. it took us months of transaction/s just to have a working copy of our video. They've send us 3x of dvds but none of them work to any video player and software. Either one part do not have sounds, not playing or the audio is distorted. Making follow ups on them is a pain, I need to talk to jeannette directly just to make our transaction work. Finally to resolve our video copy problem, they send me a USB free of charge.
OVERALL VERDICT: 

The team are OK during the event. They are friendly, easy to talk to... they are alright. Professionally, not that much they are casual. 

Would I recommend them: If your event or you live in Batangas... yes. So that it is a lot easier for you to go to their office if there are problem/s and directly talk to them. Hence, if you are in Metro Manila (like me)... NO waiting for their response may it be in email or text is a pain.