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Wendell & Ivy Wedding | Our Wedding in Cebu, Philippines. Wendell & Ivy Wedding Menu Wendell and Ivy Wedding Almost 13 years ago on June 19, 2008 - 3:00 PM Our Lady of Perpetual Help Redemptorist Catholic Church Celebrant: Reverend Father Patrick Martin, C.Ss.R News Blog -- Home A Year Since Fr. Patrick 'Paddy' Martin Passed Away posted by Wendell on 23 April 2011 at 7:47 PM It has been a year since Father Patrick 'Paddy' Martin passed away on April 23. He died two months after our baby was born. We were waiting for him to go around and greet people as he usually did so we can introduce him to baby Shawn but he was already too weak to get up during that time. Fr. Paddy has touched many lives whether he knew it or not and ours were among those. 0 Comments Farewell to Fr. Patrick Joseph 'Padi' Martin posted by Wendell on 30 April 2010 at 6:17 PM Today, we attended the requiem mass for our wedding celebrant Fr. Martin. There were about sixty Redemptorist priests who took turns to bless his coffin with holy water. Fr. Martin died at dawn Monday, the 26th of April. He is survived by his sister Maureen who stayed with him in the remaining days of his life. 4 Comments 1st Wedding Anniversary posted by Wendell on 21 June 2009 at 11:27 PM We celebrated our very first wedding anniversary in very simple ways. We have to save for our future expenses. Attended the 5 o'clock mass of Redemptorist Church. Luckily, we met Father Martin, the wedding celebrant and bid him farewell on his vacation back to his homeland in Ireland. Ordered a couple of breaded porkchop meal at Sugbahan in Ayala Center. It's just a little more than our usual order of lumpia meal after the Sunday mass. Lighted the wedding candles before going to sleep. We let it burn for about twenty minutes. Then put it out with the Silka deodorant cap instead of blowing it. They say that blowing to put out a candle blows away the holy spirit. 2 Comments Congratulations to Engr. Frederick David & Mrs Ma. Jocelyn"Joji" Chiong posted by Ivy on 15 May 2009 at 8:42 PM Tuesday, May 12, 2009 was another grand celebration for the family. I was my Uncle Freddie and Auntie Joji's silver wedding anniversary. Family and friends gathered at tthe Archbishop Chapel to witness their renewal of vows. It was so nice to see familiar happy faces like those of Auntie Janet who was their Maid of Honor who just arrived from USA, Florida with his brother Joey and his family. I was also delighted to see Patricia looking real pretty in her fancy flower girl's dress. And of course Auntie Susan and Uncle Noel and the rest of the clan. A reception followed at the Grand Convention Restaurant after the mass. As you may all recall, Engr. Frederick David Chiong was one of our principal sponsors and her wife Mrs Ma. Jocelyn Chiong was also one of our readers during our wedding. For me, witnessing the celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary was truly an inspiration. And as Wendell and I is about to celebrate our first wedding anniversary this June, we hope that we too could reach the same milestone that they had achieved as a couple. Congratulations Uncle Fred and Auntie Joji and may you have many more years of married bliss. Almost in Full Circle posted by Wendell on 07 May 2009 at 8:58 PM Finally!!!!!! We are done with all the video edits in all parts. All we need is to do some finishing touches which would include the interactive DVD menus, DVD cover design, and the end credits Wendell and I have been working intensively in it for the past three weeks. Its amazing to see how collaborative work can make a difference not just in terms of speed but also in artistry. We have almost come full circle and we can't wait to have it released in DVD and to share it with family and friends who have been asking for a copy. And what perfect timing, our first anniversary is drawing near. I guess this would be a great way to refresh and share this special memory. So this is marriage. posted by Wendell on 27 April 2009 at 1:03 PM After finding out that many are waiting for the wedding dvd, we have managed to gain more time in edit work than there used to be and significantly increase the amount of video clips finished per week. Thanks to Ivy's directorship and relentlessness at keeping at it, it went continously and smoothly. The recent video releases for the last two weeks are results of true collaboration between Ivy and me. She was there all the time to supervise the musical score, scene sequences and timing. The pages for the recent videos has not been written yet as our priority is to release all of them in DVD format as soon as possible. You can find the most recent video releases by clicking here . I admit that my past performance in mastering the learning curve of multi-camera video editing had been slow, sporadic and too step-by-step. Any changes in technique to easier ones took time to be decided by trial and errors. I am glad to have gained such a skill and experience which others do not see as anything valuable or necessary now. Bad Materials One of the things which greatly slowed down the editing process is the quality of the videographers' shots. One of them took shots so shaky and jerky it requires a lot of stabilization. This is the most difficult aspect of editing as video is panned and cropped almost frame by frame to compensate for the shake. Along with the shaky camera, there were irregular zoom ins and outs that are too fast and too frequent in a span of several seconds. This, too is compensated for by animated cropping. I often use a video stabilizer software to automatically hold still the shaky shots but it is only applicable to certain clips where loss of some picture information is negligible. Dark shots are common but these are easily adjusted with software filters. Along with brightness adjustment is color balancing. A lot of hours went into experimentation with color and brightness adjustments during the learning stage. Another thing to make up for is the videographers' composition which can be too centered, too far or taken from eyesore angles. The most frustrating perhaps is the segmented shots of the videographers. It is difficult to assemble together a seamless and coherent video where speech plays an important role when all that the videographer took are little parts of it. We ended up including every little scrap of good and not-so-good shots we can get. All of the aforementioned video material limitations certainly blocked the creative flow of video editing. I have failed on my part to brief the videographers which events to take completely and what kind of shots to make. We thankfully have the music to go with slowed down scenes to patch some missing parts. With all these work, it takes about eight to twelve hours to complete one video clip of less than five minutes. It took much longer than that while experimenting in the learning phase of the project. People say that we should have spent more on a more professional videography studio and that proves a good point in saving time. The bulk of the budget has been for the sake of the guests to have a nice reception venue and not on documentation. It was a gamble to trust videography to a cheap video studio and a few artist friends. I am thankful for their contribution and was expecting only little from them as our budget was little. Before the wedding, I was only bracing myself for the work to be done to edit the video in the best way possible out of what they will come up with. I value most what was learned from this experience and have never considered it a waste of time as others may see it. Work Hazards As it seems that we owe everyone an explanation at our failure to release the videos at expected time, aside from the learning time and plain laziness, here is an explanation which hindered the video editing project in a big way: Only one computer powerful enough to edit the raw video files is available and it is at my room in Pit-os. It is not al...