Woman, thy name is water!

Max & Constance's wedding was held last month at Amara Sanctuary.
Now Max was the best friend of one of my old-time clients from Temasek Hall. He left a deep impression on me, as well as many of the guests present that day, because of a 45-minute multimedia presentation-cum-speech at that client's wedding. It was heart-felt, original, personal and dotted with funny anecdotes.

Incidentally, at Max' own wedding, that groom-now-turn-best-man reciprocated with a skit complete with life-size cut-outs and an all-star ensemble!

Constance was a complete unknown prior to the wedding except for the fact that she works for George Yeo, and helps distressed Singaporeans overseas look for the best laksa in foreign lands. Of course, other than this very important portfolio, she also has to deal with overseas emergencies or foreign political crises or natural disasters with respect to how help can be rendered to Singaporeans. All this require a cool head, quick thinking, and nerves of steel.

But when it comes to her own wedding, she's a romantic softie who goes all teary....this, my friends, is my type bride.
































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The Young & The Bold

Some of you may remember recent pictures of Ann Shae at her 2nd birthday party. Well, she now has a younger sister named Annabel and they had a full-month party at Il Lido, Sentosa, a couple of weekends ago.

Ken & Eileen were one of the first 5 couples who put their faith and money in this rookie/part-time press photographer to shoot their wedding. I felt so honoured at that time (at least 5 years ago) and the wedding was so fun to shoot because they were surrounded by many loved ones and fun-loving friends. From then, I went on to shoot several more of the friends' weddings and it brought tingle to my tummy that Ken & Eileen still tasked me to continue document their family celebrations.

I really hope I can last many more years in this industry. We hear of the old neighbourhood fishball noodle stall, the family doctor or dentist who takes care 2 or 3 generations of a family, the familiar face who has been around serving customers for decades.

Can we have a friendly family photographer?

Imagine my client saying:" Hey grandson, this is the photographer who shot ah-gong's wedding. You should check him out."

Grandson:" Err...ok ah-gong....let me consider. But you really think Uncle KC can still shoot while sitting on the wheelchair?"

From the office to the chapel

I met Damian at a corporate project of which he was responsible for the client's website and marketing materials. I was quite stressed when we were working for that project because after all, he was the art director.

After some chit chat, he realised I specialise in weddings and then one thing led to another: I became his wedding photographer. Then the stress level just shot up 10x! Liana and Damian are such a nice couple that the last thing I want to do is to let them down on their wedding day.

Thank goodness theirs was a beautiful wedding on a beautiful day.

Their pre-wedding photography was shot by my friend Gilbert (9frames) and was done in Penang. They met the cast of Little Nonya there at one of the Peranakan attractions. I think Liana looked more gorgeous than Joanne Peh and Jeanette Aw. I'm sure Damian will concur.

(Picture below)Liana was deliberating whether to wear this "loud" necklace. The makeup artist (conservatively) said it wouldn't go well with the gown. When Liana asked for my opinion, I could've said the safest and most neutral thing. However, I have always admired women who have their own minds, and I thought what she really wanted was a shove in the "right" direction, so the "kay poh" in me said: "Well, wear it if that's your style. If people see it and gasp 'That's so Liana', then I don't see why you can't wear it". In the end, the necklace stayed on her neck.




This is not the unveiling. The veil is irritating her, and the ever gentlemanly Damian gives a helping hand.



"Mummy....do we have to be here?"








My impression of Damian is that of a soft-spoken and gentle thinker. I never know he is capable of such big gesture. He must have been VERY happy that day.


The woman on the extreme left is actually the church worker waiting for the make-up to be completed. We were under much pressure to double-up.






She was the flower girl for Daniel and Eliza's wedding. But here, she reminds me of The Joker. (just watched The Dark Knight on DVD recently)