admiring ads

we just bought the latest issue of wedding essentials magazine this weekend. bakit pa? mainly because of a couple of reasons:

1) the wedding industry is very interesting and we’re planning of slowly creeping into it. we just wanted to be updated on what’s the trend in the industry so that we may be more successful in our planned business.
2) we got to chat with bob just a few days back and besides a couple of exciting news (to be disclosed later 😉), we got to learn that he finally had an ad printed… in the latest issue of wedding essentials.

these reasons were enough for us to buy the mag. we were surprised by the price though… nag-mahal na pala. 😀

just browsing through the magazine, one thing strucked us both. the quality of the ads have vastly improved. though there are still clunkers, there were real winners… and 3 of our favorite suppliers had awesome ads. fol kasi don’t do print ads or else it would’ve been 4 awesome ads. 🙂


we love ads that are subtle yet visually appealing and this ad by kaye is exactly like that. we would bet that kaye herself conceptualized the ad and took this photo. she’s a photographer din kasi… a highly-skilled one. 🙂


one of the reasons we bought the mag and bob did not disappoint. bob took the minimalist approach combining a striking image with a definitive statement.


lanie took an even simpler approach. what more can be more convincing than a pretty face for a makeup artist? it would’ve been better if it’s a photo of my wife though. 😉


as you open the new mag, this 3 page series ad will be the first to greet you. seemingly a master in marketing, jason magbanua used catch phrases to promote his services.


a 4-page folded spread for photographer, lee llamas , showcasing a collection of his shots. this has got to be the most expensive ad in the whole magazine. 😀


at first glance, it seems like another wedding photographer ad with the elegant layouting. but a look closer and it’s an ad for madge , one of the more popular makeup artists.