I just bought a copy of the latest Wedding Essentials Beautiful Weddings issue and as usual, I’m having a hard time putting it down. There’s nothing quite like reading heartfelt wedding stories from the brides (or grooms, in Dino’s case) themselves and, as it always have been, that is the beauty of WE magazine. The sincerity and glowing happiness of every couple that is featured just radiates through. And like always, the magazine is chock-full of real-life anecdotes and features about everything any couple will ever need to know about wedding planning.

And that is because Ed-in-Chief Marbee, Managing Ed Kitten, Art Director Jepoy and the rest of the WE team are very passionate about what they do and they genuinely enjoy bringing you all these stories so that you too may have the wedding of your dreams. This passion shows in the way they put the magazine together. This enthusiasm never falters, come rain, shine or deluge (speaking of deluge, check out the fantastic feature on page 84 about how some wedding vendors came through at the weddings scheduled on the day Typhoon Ondoy hit our shores).

Yes, I do know about this enthusiasm and passion, I was there too.

This picture was taken in November 2004 at the launch of WE’s first ever issue.

Longtime readers of WE may (or may not) have noticed that this is actually the third issue where I’m no longer the Design Director after working on WE for 5 happy, fulfilling years. I still love weddings — that’s why I’m here — but Marbee and I have always been a believer of following dreams and our hearts’ desires so she understood completely when I knew I had to follow mine. (Love you Marbs!)

Make sure to get yourself a copy of the magazine (and all the magazines under the WE brand) because it is truly, always a labor of love.

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By the way, we’re sorry about our sporadic blogging but we both promise to write more frequently from now on. Also, a surprise celebrity bride blogger will grace this website with her musings soon. Can you guess who she is?

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