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

Personal: Life is beautiful

There's so many exciting things lately at CVI that I need to write and brag about. Nothing tops this one.

July 18 (or right around that date) Courtney (my wife) and I anxiously went to the drug store to purchase a pregnancy test. Yep, we were trying to get pregnant. We decided that we were going to try in Hawaii while vacationing.

When we returned back to the house, Courtney did the test. Because we were so anxious, neither really of us at first wanted to look at the result from the test thingy . Courtney volunteered me to do it. I was clueless what to look for. Back in the day, they had some code. Blue means yes, and red or yellow or some color means no. Well, by reading the instructions I learned to just look for the word "Pregnant".

So I went. And the blue pregancy test thingy simply read, "Pregnant".

Lord and behold, WE ARE PREGNANT. Woodaloooo!!!! We were jumping with joy and some tears when we saw the result. And so we took some pictures of our mini-celebration dance and act. Ivory (our pal) even got excited about the news.

Here are some pix from that night.









There are so many things to blog about, but I wanted to share this with you. I am going to be a father. And tomorrow I will meet with my child. We go to our Ultrasound appointment and see some pictures of the baby inside Courtney's womb. I am very excited. Nothing excites me more this week than tomorrow's appointment because we will discover the gender of our baby. Wow!

Some people say we are lucky. I believe we are blessed. I don't consider myself lucky. I see myself as blessed.

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

'til next time, much blessings...

Virgil Bunao
Charleston Wedding Photographer

Business: Thryn and Gabe

This week, I'll take you wonderful people to Thryn and Gabe's September 8, 2007 wedding in Augusta, Georgia.

I met Thryn and Gabe almost a year ago after a long search for a photographer. They both live in Baltimore and decided to tie the knot in Augusta. Friends and family came from all over to witness this amazing wedding.

I've never done an eco-friendly wedding before. Thryn and Gabe have done an amazing job designing, planning and implementing everything. Thryn and Gabe are certainly one of the most talented and creative people I've ever met. Check out Thryn's blog to see more of what their wedding entailed.

I feel so blessed to be a part of Thryn and Gabe's special day. I met so many wonderful people at this wedding that it made me sad thinking that the likelihood of seeing all of these nice folks again is very slim and that the fun memories of this wedding celebration will only be "a memory". Hopefully the pictures will help me relive the good times.

A billion thanks to Thryn and Gabe for the opportunity to document their wedding. I had loads of fun. Thanks to Thryn and Gabe's wedding party. You all are certainly one of the most fun, entertaining, creative, animated and witty wedding party ever! The pictures made me smile and laugh during the post production process. I could remember everything vividly through these images how you guys cracked me up!

At any rate, I will stop talking now and let the pictures do the rest.

















Click click here for the slideshow.

Enjoy it.


OPA!

Virgil Bunao | Photographic Artist
weddings | portraits
charleston | atlanta | charlotte
available for travel

Sarah and Jason

BUSINESS:

Hello fantastic people!

This week brings us Sarah and Jason's wedding celebration.

Sarah and Jason were surrounded by amazing friends and family when celebrated their wedding on September 2. The wedding itself was magical!

I enjoyed working with everyone dearly. I am very thankful that I played a part in documenting this wedding. Thank you Sarah and Jason and The Coker's for your trust!














Check out the slideshow: click here

Much blessings!

Virgil Bunao
Charleston Wedding Photographer