she’s been doing thissince 2010.
One Twenty-Three opened in 2021. By then Jomai Arnaiz had already spent eleven years planning other people’s celebrations — long enough to know that the work is mostly listening, and that the details nobody notices are the ones holding the whole day together.
The company is the newer thing. The hands are not.
the long version
Two years get confused for each other
- 2010
The first of other people's best days
Jomai Arnaiz starts planning weddings and events professionally. Eleven years follow before a single one carries her own name — venues learned by walking them, suppliers learned by working beside them, and timelines learned the only way anyone learns a timeline.
- 2021
one twenty-three opens
She launches the company online, mid-pandemic, on her grandmother's birthday — in a year when almost nobody could gather. Nothing about the timing was convenient. The name was chosen long before the business was.
- Today
Weddings, and everything else worth gathering for
Full planning and on-the-day coordination for weddings, vow renewals, debuts, christenings, children's parties and corporate work — with trusted colleagues beside her on the bigger days.
one twenty-three
is a date.
It belongs to her uncle Bujit — her most beloved uncle, and the person she names first when anyone asks where all of this came from. The company went live on the 25th of February, which is her grandmother’s birthday.
Neither date has anything to do with business. Both belong to someone she loved. That is more or less the whole philosophy, and it is why the brand is never written as a bare number — it’s a birthday, not a brand exercise.
Her uncle Bujit.
“When it isn’t easy, you’ll know the idea you want to put in action is essential.”
It is the reason there is a company at all. She started a wedding business in a year when weddings were being cancelled, because the difficulty was the point rather than the warning.
Five years on, that instinct is the one couples end up paying for: the rain that arrives anyway, the supplier who doesn’t, the programme that has to be rebuilt between the ceremony and the reception — handled quietly, off to the side, while you are somewhere else being congratulated.
how she works
The job is mostly listening
Ask her what sixteen years taught her and the answer isn’t a technique or a supplier list. It is how important it is to listen — really listen to the people she is working for. A wedding built from a template with your names dropped into it will look like one, and the fastest way to end up there is to stop asking questions.
So the questions come first, and they keep coming: who actually has to be at the top table, which of these traditions matters to your mother and which one you’re only including because you think you should, what you want the room to feel like at ten o’clock at night. The spreadsheets come after. Her own four words for it are the ones she still uses:
Sincerity, integrity, warmth, and understanding.
And not only weddings. Vow renewals, debuts, christenings, first birthdays, company parties, and the sort of community gatherings that never get a hashtag — the same care, whichever bond is being celebrated. What they all have in common is what the day is actually about, which is rarely the flowers.
Who Else Is in the Room
Jomai plans and leads. On the larger days she calls in reinforcement from trusted colleagues. At One Twenty-Three, collaborations are welcomed and encouraged — never dismissed nor doubted.
Ask us about the other teams we work with. Jomai can plan with you and entrust you to whoever she sees best fits you and your needs.
- Team Jonas
- Team Sheila
- Team Bench
in the press
Where the work has been written up
Seven titles so far, over five years — a wedding blog’s archive, a couple’s real wedding, a business paper, and the expo that put Baguio on the same page as Spain and Tagaytay.
Modern elegance, fresh ideas: Everything we loved at Let's Celebrate Expo 2026
GMA Lifestyle's round-up of the expo gave Baguio its own heading, and put Jomai's name at the top of it.
“Mountain Romantics in Baguio: Planner Jomai Arnaiz, alongside designers Miguel Bautista and Tiffany de Castro, highlighted picturesque cool-climate weddings featuring Itogon Mountain Village, Montesierra, and Danum (Baguio's artisanal liquor).”
Inside Let's Celebrate Expo 2026: What to expect at this year's most curated celebration gathering
The paper's preview of the expo, published two days before it opened, billed the Baguio showcase as one of the things worth turning up for — and named the planner running it.
A love that feels like home
A Manila Bulletin title ran Karlo and Karmel Marfori's wedding as a full feature, with One Twenty-Three credited on the day as their coordinator.
This Couple Stunned Their Guests With an Amazing Aerial Hoop First Dance!
The country's largest wedding blog keeps an archive under her name. Jeanne and Dexter's aerial hoop first dance is the one filed there so far.
Inside Let's Celebrate Expo 2026: What Was Unveiled at This Year's Most Curated Celebration Gathering
The magazine's write-up of the finished expo, filed under the same destinations heading as the rest of the country's wedding regions.
“Planner Jomai Arnaiz, together with designers Miguel Bautista and Tiffany de Castro, showcased the charm of mountain celebrations through Itogon Mountain Village, Montesierra, and Danum, Baguio's artisanal liquor.”
Rediscover Baguio as a wedding destination
The line the landing page quotes came from here — Baguio put back on the map as somewhere to get married, rather than somewhere to honeymoon afterwards.
One Twenty-Three Weddings and Events
The interview she gave a month after opening, and still the source for most of what this site says about her — the eleven years before the company, her uncle's birthday, and her own four words for the job.
now yours
Start with the questions.
Fifteen minutes, free, no commitment. Tell her the date, the venue — or the one you’re dreaming about — and what you’re picturing, and you’ll get an honest answer about how she’d approach it.
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