(Excerpted from Manila Bulletin, March 21. 2011.  I swear! I could give the writer of this piece a hug and a kiss.  We’re not related, promise!)

If you’re getting married and have been to a fair, you know who Jason Magbanua is – if simply because he is the Holy Grail of videographers, whose videos are posted all over the YouTube, personal blogs and websites.

You may have also heard the urban legend about the bride who moved her wedding date to make sure that Jason would be her videographer.  You might be thinking that, what with the overwhelming demand for his services and his many inernational awards, wedding videographer Jason Magbanua might be completely inaccessible.

Not exactly.

Those who have had the privilege of his services think he’s a genius.  Others think he’s a magician.  Still more know him as someone committed to working wonders with every wedding he shoots, no matter what.

But as far as Jason is concerned, he’s simply a visual storyteller, someone who draws on his life-changing experiences and surprising personal stories when he wants to tell a story.

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Jason Magbanua is a wedding videographer.

He’s also a father to three beautiful children. Jakob, Lukas and Elise.

If you get to meet him , he doesn’t really refer to himself in the third person.

And in case you want to read on, here’s something in the first person (written some 5 years ago yet surprisingly rings true to this day):

“My shooting style is highly unobtrusive and candid. I don’t get in the way. I don’t direct events but rather, wait for them to unfold. A wedding day has enough drama, humor and romance by itself. I wouldn’t want to tamper your experience of it by asking you to “act out” something which never really happened in the first place.

The magic begins anew when we proceed to edit your video.

We thresh out the raw footage and artistically weave the story of your wedding day and come up with something exciting and enjoyable to watch – everytime. The videos are a collaboration between you and me. My best videos are the ones in which you had a hand in creating.

Just like the wedding day, the video is fun, dynamic yet moving and romantic.

What sets us apart is the evolution of the styles we employ. We immerse ourselves in other media to gather inspiration. We keep abreast with the latest technology so the newest tools are available at the clients disposal. But technology is never a crutch, the creative mind is our primary tool.

It’s been eleven years and the vision has remained – deliver the best wedding films clients (and their children) will rave about for years to come.”