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I had funny experience days before Antonio and Lourdes’s engagement session. Her mom called and asked if we could meet. Lourdes’s asked her if she could pay the booking fee on her behalf. When I told her that I do not have a formal physical office, she wondered if I was for real.

I think I made her doubt me even more when I told her that I usually meet clients outside (meaning coffee shops or anywhere convenient). I can’t blame her though. There are, after all, suppliers who disappear after the initial collection. It is sad because it gives the industry that I’ve come to love and respect a dark cloud.

For the past years, I’ve been debating if I should rent a small office. It has been a constant tug of war of I want to and sometimes I need to versus I don’t need one.  The I-don’t-need one (for now) always wins. My home office is too comfortable to barter with a much formal set-up. If and when I decide to go ahead with it, I want to go all the way. When it’s meant to happen it will happen. I don’t want it forced.

Antonio and Lourdes’s were a joy to photograph. It gave me time to know them a bit more. Our email exchanges were quite formal. It gave me the impression that Lourdes’s was the quiet and yes formal type. But during their engagement session and our first meeting, she was the opposite. Antonio, the chef, was funny too.

Location: Plantation Bay Resort & Spa | HMUA: Jessa Horca