Thursday, November 01, 2007

Business: New Boutique Studio

To follow up on some more blessings that we have been experiencing, on October 25, we held the grand opening party of our new boutique studio. CVI Photography & Co. is no longer based out of our home. CVI has a new headquarters. CVI has a new home located at the heart of downtown Summerville.

What is a boutique studio? A boutique studio is a modern place of meeting clients and showing them the modern services and contemporary products that we offer. Our studio as you will see below is loaded with different modern furniture to create the total feel of our services, personality and style. The studio gives every client a very good idea what to expect from us- modern, fun, unconventional and a total customer-focused service.

After a 3 year seach for the "perfect place,"I fell in love with the location back in July. It is located at a place becoming to be an art district of Summerville. It is a short drive from my house. This 823 sq. ft boutique studio is very hip and contemporary that brings a totally different and unconventional ambiance to today's modern day photography market.

The boutique studio is easily accessible and has ample of parking. It is only a 30 minute drive from Charleston and surrounding areas. To better accommodate our client's schedule, the studio is a "By Appointment" only studio, which means we can meet you whenever you're available. And yes, we can meet you even in the evenings and/or weekends.

We are very blessed to have such an opportunity to have such a wonderful place. It took a lot planning and conceptualizing and hard labor, lots of late nights, but in the end everything is worthwhile. Ultimately, it is all about serving our clients better and giving them what they truly deserve.












Bathrooms... you gotta have a nice bathroom. I am not too fond of going to a small business retail using the bathrooms as STORAGE! or JUNK ROOM! Bathrooms are where people go when they need to go. It is a fundamental way of additional advertising. It is another place to brag about what you can offer. We wanted to make sure we make our bathroom nice and pleasant.









I would like to thank all of the people that celebrated with us at the grand opening party and all of the people that called, emailed and sent goodies. Life is truly an amazing experience. I am very grateful to be your friend and have all of your support and prayers.

Special thanks and kudos to my mentor, teacher and dear friend, Scott Henderson for randomly picking up his camera to take some photos of the event and the people we celebrated with. Scott is an amazing photographer and fascinating guy. He is also a funny guy sometimes :) Check out some of Scott's pictures from the opening:





Me and my beautiful, pregnant wife, looking as lovely as ever. Thank you, my love for everything! You are amazing!







The amazing Rotie ... great voice, amazing guitar skills, overall nice and decent guy. Thanks Rotie for playing for us! You can check him out at www.rotiemusic.com










What do we have to be depressed about? Life is amazingly beautiful.

Much love,

Virgil Bunao
Charleston Photographer

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm so sad we couldn't make it to your shindig! We
tried! But I saw the pictures of your studio and its FABULOUS.

Anonymous said...

Congrats Dad!!! I'm sooo happy and excited for you.
Tell Courtney we said congrats too...give the belly a rub for me. Talk to you later, C

Anonymous said...

Hey Virgil!

I'm so sorry we didn't make it to your grand opening. We had full intentions of coming, but then Morris ended up working for someone at the Country Club that night, and I didn't want to come by myself :( Please don't hate me! It looks absolutely beautiful though! I'm so happy for you. And Courtney was glowing...I'm so happy for the both of you!

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Anonymous said...

Congrats honey!!!! good luck maybe one of these days ill be down there again and we can chat!!!! Cant wait to see her baby bump!!!!

Anonymous said...

Thank you and Court for having us last night at your studio opening! It looks great! And congratulations again on y'alls pregnancy!

Anonymous said...

Thanks so much for allowing us to be a part of your Grand Opening last night. The studio is AMAZING! You should be very proud of yourself. We are sure proud to have such an awesome photographer and friend! :)