Grand Shanghai Wedding 17 March 2012 Banquet
20 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Actual Day wedding, Grand Shanghai, Honeymoon
It’s our wedding day!
This is the finale of the day. It’s the final piece of the day’s event and we all deserve to finish it with a BANG! My brothers were early to help with the set up of the restaurant and the arrangement of the photo albums. We have a total of … Pre-ROM album, scrapbook album, Romantic Wedding album, Universal Studios themed album and the Shanghai themed wedding album… 5 albums! Haha.
I was lucky to see the same day edit while Jason was loading it into the computer. Man, I was blown away TOTALLY! It was damn bloody awesome!! I immediately rushed over to Han Siong and shook his hand! Man, he did a fabulous job! Thank you Han Siong and academy video!
A few shots of the restaurant taken beautifully by Yu Hsin.
The grand ballroom feel
Our Ang Pao cage
table decor with wedding gift
plate decor
table centerpiece
Our Emcees for the night Edric and Weili
Guests started arriving and we are all busy entertaining them. Wedding banquets are great platforms for friends to meet up and exchange stories. Friends whom we only communicate via SMS or MSN or FB can all meet face to face to have a mini gathering of sorts.
what are they happily discussing about?
And finally the beautiful bride makes a grand appearance!
The wonderful sisters
We had a loop of our pre-wedding shots during the cocktail period, while waiting for about 80% of the guests to arrive, together with music and songs from Jim Brickman…truly romantic.
When it’s finally time for our big moment, we stepped outside and waited eagerly for our turn to walk down the aisle! We have our childhood montage played, followed by the ROM montage done up by Rick, our ROM photographer.
Eagerly waiting for the walk-in
Waiting for our montage to finish playing
Entrance of the beautiful bride and ahem..handsome groom
Cheeky moments
enjoying the attention
Next we have to move to center stage, where we will make a symbolic cutting of our wedding cake!
Cake cutting
We can settle down for our food! No time to waste, coz we only can eat 2 courses before having to go change up again…haha. The live band started their show and the guests are well entertained with Old Shanghai classics performed by a seasoned singer, backed up by the powerful music from the grand piano, cello and saxophone.
The Grand Shanghai band
enjoying the oldies
Sharing stories
We finished our double boiled shark’s fin and have to prepare for our changing parade.
Leaving hand in hand for our change of gowns
While we are changing out, the crowd is continued to be awed by the 3 piece band and live singer. The Emcees take the stage again after 2 more courses and introduced the same-day-edit video. By this time, Darling have already finished changing into her gorgeous cheongsam! Haha, she was so excited!! And it’s her first time looking at the video, although it’s a partially blocked view due to the pillar.
Big smiles upon seeing our same-day-edit video by academy videos production
Then it’s our turn to WOW the crowd again with our second march-in, to the tune of “Cha-Cham-Bo”! We attempted a dance but it’s such a failure that Yu Hsin didn’t take any shots of it! Haha. But I enjoyed the stupid moment.
2nd march-in
It’s champagne popping time after the 2nd march-in and it’s another round of applause.
Champagne fountain
A kiss after the exchange of toast
I delivered a simple speech, thanking all the guests etc…actually I also cannot remember what I talked about. Haha. Does not matter, Happy 就好!
Next up are the table shots… 22 tables, so chop chop finish already! The time passes very quickly and the banquet is almost coming to an end.
VIP table
Darling enjoying herself
The OAC family
Of course, all thanks to Yikai and his powerful concoction, I was drunk in no time! Hahaha
Toast to my longest pal, Yikai
The banquet has come to an end, we thanked our guests with a warm handshake and it’s time to rest.
Tomorrow is the start of our Honeymoon!!!
The Rings that bind us… …
Grand Shanghai Wedding 17 March 2012
14 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Actual Day wedding, Love Nest @ Pungol Springs
Today is the day, the one we have been preparing for and waiting for!
The day started early, we are supposed to bash the gate and brave the onslaught of the merciless sisters before entering the door to my bride. The auspicious timing to enter Darling’s house is 9am so we have 1 full hour of “torture” before the “sweetness” of seeing Darling in her white gown and veil.
Brothers arrived promptly at 7am, to prepare. We had a dress code, I am going to be the “Wong Fei Hung” and the brothers are going to be my disciples. They will each be armed with 绝世武功 and they brought along their 武林秘笈, just in case they need last minute revision…haha.
Meanwhile, Darling is busy with her make-up and hair-do while her sisters are cooking up many fierce barriers and obstacles to test us!
Darling with hairdresser
sisters checking on progress
Evening gown Wedding gown
The roped-in “sister”
良药苦口
busy with the sweet part
Thick Gooey Nectar with red dates
Wasabi Apples
The make-up process is completing and my lovely darling is becoming the bride of the century!! (In my opinion…)
Happy and Excited bride!
Mama covers the veil
Well, well, it’s our turn to showoff what we are made of!! Come on 兄弟们!上! “ROAR”!!
Badge of Valor
Head Brother’s Badge
18 palms to tame the dragon
打狗棒法
胜利的吼叫
The gatecrashing games are well thought of and are not your typical games, using typical tools. The presentation and delicacies and games combine into 1 unforgettable experience! Even Zhenxian says that it is confirmed THE most unforgettable gatecrashing he has been through! The delicacies especially!! We have to drink green poison ivy, followed by a sweet looking Killer, then eat some hot spicy shit, not forgetting the sour lemony yogurt designed just for me! (I hate raw yogurt!)
The 3 REAL sisters
welcome drink
Toast to a good start
Toast to a sour good drink with good friends
Eating shit Yikai
Varied reactions after eating spicy shit
lip swelling after the green poison ivy? Or just natural thick lips
Next up, some games to spice up the day! The spinning around the umbrella game really got our Teacher mad! Haha, but we love our creativity! “Hold the umbrella and spin around it”, never expected a bunch of 30 year-olds to be so cheeky eh, and old students are the worst to teach! Hahaha…
What they want us to do
What we did instead
We were supposed to each go around the umbrella 10 times before collecting a handful of jigsaw pieces, to form the big picture…which we were never ever meant to know….how can we possibly finish the jigsaw puzzle within 15 minutes??
The jigsaw puzzle quest… …
So we had to eat the wasabi apples….yeah, where got people add wasabi to apples one…except during gate-crashing gates? Haha =D
gulp it all down! I Love Wasabi but I love Darling more
When we thought things couldn’t get more crazy, we were made to wear the Hawaiian straw dresses and we were to draw a smiley face on each other’s tummy using lipstick! Hmm…Belly dance coming up?? Yup! We were made to dance to a Korean girl group’s MTV! Haha, I don’t know what I am doing, I just knew that I was shaking my butt non-stop! =p
Edric showing us the role models
Hilarious dance move by me
U think thats all? Nonono, next we have to eat Ang Ku Kueh.
Instructions: “Put the Ang Ku Kueh on the forehead and try to eat it.”
No way are we going to let the oily ang ku kueh slide down our faces!! So we put the ang Ku Kueh on each other’s forehead, and eat them directly from the forehead…hahaha..
Me eating from Jianye
Then we are supposed to smear lipstick all over our lips and plant these lips on each other to form “I Love You”
Is that a Channel lipstick?
Our collective Love effort
Now it’s time finally to write the wedding promises to Darling!
Looking through the wedding promises
With 1 final show hand Ang Pao, we were finally allowed through the heavily padlocked door!
Victory!!
I changed out of my war suit and went on to claim my wife! Yeah Darling, I am coming for you!
A Kiss to seal the victory
Now we have to go through the traditional bit of the wedding ceremony. We are going to have the tea ceremony at my parents’ place, then return to Darling’s place to have the tea ceremony.
Darling is shielded from any bad spirits as well as bad sunlight, using the little red umbrella.
Nice colors, good shot by Yu Hsin
serving tea to my parents
团团圆圆，圆圆满满
We changed to our beautiful Kua and MaGua
Tea for my mama =)
The soft boiled egg dessert together, 甜甜蜜蜜
group shot with sistas
group shot with brudders
So we have our fun at the tea ceremonies, it’s time to journey to our future home…our very own Love Nest! There we will switch on the bedside lamps to signify prosperity and many many children! (darling will faintz at this, Haha)
back at our Punggol Springs Love Nest to switch on the 床头灯
I like hearing Darling Laugh Out Loud =D
Finally, we proceeded to My Waterway @ Punggol, to take some outdoor shots and footage for our Same Day Edit Video. I can sense Darling and the brudders and sistas being a bit tired by now, but it’s the almost the last phase, hang on!
Our Paths crossed and we are destined to be together forever
The couple of the century
Thank you sisters!
Thank you brothers!
Love is in the air
We wrapped up the day’s photoshoots with this final group shot, before heading for our own rest haven.
Brothers and sisters will head home for some rest and will dress up for the Grand Shanghai Wedding banquet tonight.
Darling and me made our way to Grand Copthorne Waterfront hotel to prepare for our final show! Hahaha.
The ending picture of this post will be a meaningful shot.
I hope it will come true.
Hold me Tight Darling and Never let go… … Please
Buildup to the big day.
10 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Actual Day wedding, Grand Shanghai, Love Nest @ Pungol Springs
It is going to be a series of backdated entries as I try to revisit the days leading up to our Grand Shanghai wedding =)
There is the traditional 过大礼 and 安床 that we have to complete before the big day and it does involve lots of shopping and buying!!
Our 过大礼 is on the 11 Feb 2012, from the auspicious date chosen by our Geomancy master “Orh Kee Tong” (Haha, the nickname we gave him…Shh..). I got Jeff (1 of my eventual brother-in-arms) to help out. Quite a number of stuff to bring over, including the oranges, candles, pig trotter cans etc.
So we made our way to Darling’s place after 9am (the auspicious time) and had the simple ceremony. The groom is supposed to hand over a set of gifts to the bride side and the bride is then to return a portion of the gifts as an exchange, of course not forgetting some Ang Paos here and there.
The Ceremony is completed fast and this is all the gifts we exchanged. Kinda ripped off by the shops as they kept telling us what to buy and exchange “by tradition” but nonetheless it’s an interesting piece of tradition we succeeded in preserving.
Now is the showcase of what we bought for our wedding cakes!
I got the traditional Teochew wedding biscuits…
Darling got the beautiful cupcakes from Cheryl!
Next up, we have to tie the red cloths in front of our doors!
Our 安床 is on the 15 March 2012, where we are supposed to put the bed nicely, decorate the house, put on new bedsheets, in preparation for our new life together!
Looks like we are all set for our Grand Shanghai wedding on the 17 March 2012!
For now a sneak preview… …
Less than 1 month
20 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Actual Day wedding, Grand Shanghai, Wedding photography, Z Wedding D'sign
Stress stress stress. It all seems simple to do but somehow time just does not seem to be working with you.
We are meeting Z Wedding tomorrow to collect our long-awaited albums!! Yeah! Really dunno what to expect. Lois, our album consultant keeps telling us how nice they look but I guess we can never believe her until we see it with our own eyes. I have absolute faith that our albums will turn out superbly gorgeously beautiful but Darling has her reservations. Well…she also keeps thinking she’s fat and ugly even though she looks stunningly pretty and on the verge of being underweight. Well, we will know soon enough…
We will also be meeting Academy Videos on 23 feb to discuss our videography style. Hopefully the videographer can understand what we want!
I’ve already placed reservations for the 红绣球 we are going to tie to our black Jaguar and will be getting them on 10 march. Slowly can tick things 1 by 1 off my list of “to-do”!
Now the headache remaining will be:
1) Jie-Mei attire and accessories
2) Xiong-Di attire and accessories.
3) banquet table seating arrangements
4) travel photos montage for background playing loop
5) “special” montage for final march-in
6) 安床 which we will be doing on 11 feb
7) rehearsal with grand shanghai on 11 feb as well.
I think most probably still have a lot to do but my small brain cannot remember now.
Haha, have to ganna the wrath of Darling to boost my memory again.
You are all I need
14 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Actual Day wedding, Grand Shanghai, Wedding photography, Z Wedding D'sign
It’s been a long time since I last had an entry. Today is Valentine’s day and I think the best song to suit the day will be “YOU” by Jim Brickman. This was our “marching-in” song during our ROM ceremony at Shangri-la hotel on 31 Jan 2010 and I still think we made an excellent choice of the song! Just wanna share the lyrics of the song with all the readers.
And also to wish my darling and all lovers a Happy Valentine’s Day!
Artist: Jim Brickman
Song: You
I never felt alone
I was happy on my own
And who would ever know there was something missing
I guess I didn’t see the possibility
It was waiting all the time
But it never crossed my mind
Till you opened up my eyes
Now all I think about is
CHORUS: You in my life
In my dreams
In my heart I know it’s true
That I belong with you
Because of you in my world
In my arms
I have everything and now
I can’t imagine what I’d do
Without you
I never thought that love could be
Such a curiosity
But what attracted you to me
Was so unexpected
But it was waiting all the time
And it never crossed my mind
Until you opened up my eyes
Now all I think about is
CHORUS (x2)
In my life
In my dreams
In my heart I know it’s true
That I belong with you
Because of you in my world
In my arms
I have everything and now
I can’t imagine what I’d do
I can’t imagine what I’d do
Without you
Without you
It’s going to be our actual day wedding soon my dear, on the 17 March 2012, we will walk the aisle of Grand Shanghai and enjoy the “red carpet” treatment again! Haha.
Our honeymoon itinerary is almost done and now it’s time for me to embark on another mission, the montage. It’s stressful but I’m sure it’ll all work out. Good luck to both darling and me! May the preparation journey be smooth and enjoyable!!
Oh yah, our pre-wedding albums will be out soon!!
Sweet Valentine Pink cake from Baskin Robbin
2011 in review
05 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,500 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Oven adventures
29 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Bring me out Darling/Dar Dar, jiak jiak 吃 吃, Love Nest @ Pungol Springs Tags: Bosch
Having an oven is so much fun!!!
Initially the salesperson was warning us that the oven will spoil if we never use it regularly. He even advised us to switch it on and heat up the oven for fun if we do not use it regularly. Haha, no need lo!! We are fully utilizing our oven!!
And with the addition of our super Kenwood kitchen mixer, nothing can stop Darling and Dar Dar from their Oven fun!
Kenwood Classic Major, Winner - Domestic Diva Awards (Singapore Women's Weekly)
We have yet to sign up for our free baking workshop at the AFC studio…haha but we are already experimenting with online recipes.
One of our very first bakes is the chicken… haha, my babarian obsession to grill my own chicken and tear the meat off it!! Grunt!
In the end, I was too lazy to marinate my own chicken, so bought a readily marinated one from Cold Storage. Lolz
Grilled herb marinated chicken
The chicken is quite big for Darling and me, lucky we got Xian’s sister to help eating and help in da-baoing a big drumstick for Bryan. We also made lasagna and brocoli to go with it. =)
The next major meal made by darling using the oven was this super Lovalicious breakfast!
Breakfast full of love
This breakfast really touched me deep deep! Darling really put a lot of effort into this. Everything is in hearts!! Truly amazing my darling. That’s how creative my Darling is!!
Our current favorite website for baking recipes is “joyofbaking.com” The website has lots of nice easy-to-follow recipes and some even comes with a video demonstration! Really easy way to learn to bake =D.
Next, Darling made these lovely muffins, using the small foil cups. Don’t just look at the pretty face of these muffins, they really pack a punch! Full of flavourful chocolate chips! And most important of all…handmade with Darling’s love
Love Muffins
More pics of the lovely chocolate chip muffins
After muffins, Darling wants to take up the cupcake challenge! She wants to try out cakecups as well as the icing decoration =) We even bought small packets of decorative sugar from Red Man =p
The cupcake batter ready to be baked
With the 3D hotair of our Bosch oven turned on, the batter soon becomes… …
Fresh cupcakes hot from the oven
And then with the whip of our kitchen mixer and under the delicate hands of my darling, they soon become… …
The finished product, Vanilla Cupcakes
This is our very first attempt making and decorating cupcakes and it’s a really fun and sweet (coz we keep eating the left-over icing) baking session!
This attmept really perked up Darling’s interest in cupcakes and very soon, there shall be a second attempt. =)
Darling bought Hershey’s chocolate powder for her next cupcake experiment and off we go to our next cupcake adventure!
Darling's Hershey Choco-Love cuppies
Up close and personal with the Choco-Love Cuppies and the improved icing!
The previous icing made for the Vanilla cupcakes was too soft and fluid so this time round, Darling added in a generous amount of icing sugar and the consistency of the icing turned out just nice.
Now is my turn to try my hand at baking something for darling. Christmas season is near so I decided to give it a shot at making Gingerbread man! Darling has never eaten a gingerbread man before, neither have I…haha
The ingredient list really got me blurred…what the hell is molasses? Well, a trip to Red Man got me all the listed ingredients. Molasses is a type of cane sugar extract which is thick and sticky, almost like honey’s consistency but black/ dark brown in colour. The smell is also different…haha
Quite exciting to really bake and create something on my own. I did not study Home Econs before and the only thing I really cooked myself is instant noodles. All the time I have my darling at my side to guide me in cooking…this time I was alone. So scared, yet excited…
I was thinking how happy and surprised Darling will be when she sees and eats my gingerbread man! Shiok!
My first attempt at making the dough failed miserably… =( The dough I made is so sticky!! It looks so so different from the joyofbaking.com video! I was so so sooo disappointed… Well, maybe I added the ingredients in the wrong order? Or maybe my measurements were not accurate? I endured the heartache and threw the failed dough away, and started my second attempt at the dough! I must succeed this time!! This second attempt, I have not enough molasses as per the recipe so I used 3/4 volume of what the recipe suggested…Viola, guess what??? The dough came out perfect!!! Hahahahahaha
I really shouted “YES, YES, YES!!” when I saw the dough changing into the consistency as shown in the video! I knew this will definitely succeed!
The freshly baked Gingerbread man
My babies came out of the oven in 4 batches. The first batch were too crispy as I made them too thin…so I made some adjustments to the subsequent batches and they really looked more like the gingerbread man I knew. Next mission… the decoration… So what do you think of my art-work??
Batch 1 decorated by me.
Decorating them is so much fun!! I was smiling to myself while decorating them coz I knew Darling will be so happy to see these cute babies!! Haha.
She was indeed surprised and happy and excited to see these gingerbread man! Mission accomplished!!
So we went back to our Punggol love nest in order to continue the decoration of the rest of the gingerbread man…but there was a big twist of event…I was too rushed to finish decorating the first batch of gingerbread man so I did not have time to clear up my mess before I left the house. Darling was so so angry and disgusted to see the whole kitchen in a mess…sigh…all my fault. I have successfully turned an happy event into an unhappy event single-handedly again…
Well, I cleaned up the mess and mopped the house floor to atone for my sins and lucky darling forgived me in the end…and we ended up finishing the decoration for the remaining gingerbread man!! Yay!!! Mission finally accomplished and all’s well that ends well!!
Darling and Dar Dar's combined efforts. Can you guess who decorated which ones?
The latest additon to our oven adventure has to be the chicken pies =)
Darling has always been famous for her chicken pies at home. Even her picky brother likes her chicken pies and her sisters are eagerly looking forward to them too. This time round, darling is making chicken pies for me!! Haha YEAH!
The "I love U" chicken pies
I showed my colleague KJ this picture and she was like “So pretty!!!” Hahaha
When I finished work that day, I rushed home and enjoyed the best chicken pie I have tasted so far!! Darling’s version of the chicken pie =x
The pastry was light and fluffy and the fillings were not too watery. And it’s not excessively oily too. Healthy chicken pies by darling!
The finished chicken pies
I gobbled up 4 STAT! Haha, really good stuff. Today I brought some for my colleagues KJ, Chris, Vincent and they all have praises for the pies! For the rest who have no chance to savour these pies…there will be chances…wait for them. Haha
I am looking forward to our next project! The countdown cupcakes. They will be chocolate cupcakes with Hershey’s chocolate frosting! Can’t wait…
Happy 2011 birthday Darling!
06 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Birthday, Grand Shanghai, Love Nest @ Pungol Springs Tags: grand shanghai, hairy crabs
Time flies and it’s that part of the year again, drum roll….Darling’s Birthday!!
I Initally planned on giving a surprise to darling but she found out about it anyway…darling is too smart!
Darling sensed that the arrangement of the pillows on our bed has changed so she started to explore before she found the flowers!
Simple "Lego-style" Birthday greetings and fresh flowers
Opps, showed darling's age unknowingly
So flowers I gave to darling, what about the present? Haha, had it all preapred!!
What's a birthday without the present?
What did Dar Dar buy for Darling???
Au Revoir
So what did Dar Dar write inside that small small card, that resulted in Darling reading it with so much interest?? Well, you can only ask Xian to be sure.
Hmm...what sweet stuff did Dar Dar write??
Judging from the smile on Darling’s face, I think Darling likes the tiny surprise I had for her!! Yay!
Happy Happy girl
Next up is Darling’s Birthday treat =)
She had this strong desire to eat hairy crabs so she requested that as her birthday treat. Hmm…I initially had another place in mind which can offer great views and good ambience but since darling is the birthday girl, she gets the final say!
The dinner venue is the same as our AD dinner venue…which is…
Grand Shanghai
Taking a pic with what we are going to eat later..hahaha
We are always amazed by the setting of Grand Shanghai…the charm it exudes, the beauty it holds…
The interior of Grang Shanghai
Here comes the menu proper =)
The Menu
The hairy crab menu
We chose the set whereby we will have 2 hairy crabs each! Haha, it is our first time eating hairy crabs and since it is a seasonal delicacy, we must truly savour this creature by eating 2!
Our dish to share, the crispy eel
Our crispy eel does not taste like eel at all leh, but it does have a certain shiokness to it. Munching it while listening to oldies and sipping tea…quite a nice combi.
Black Fungus Salad
First up is the black fungus salad. The black fungus are big big pieces and really crunchy. The dressing is mild spicy yet slight sourish, really good appetizer.
Xiao Long Bao
The Xiao Long Bao is a nice size, full of savoury juices inside. The meat is tender and when taken together with the ginger and vinegar, is simply heavenly.
Next up is the nightmare of some support groups out there…but it’s a heavenly dish for me!!
Double boiled Shark's bone with Superior Shark's Fin
The soup is full of flavour, and the shark’s fin are really big pieces! Full of Shark’s fin in every mouth! This dish we must have in our dinner banquet menu! =p
Now the main highight of the night.. …The creature that is renowed over the world…all the way from China…these hairy things that are only available a few months a year…大闸蟹!
The cute little hairy yummy thing
If you are wondering how to start tasting these little hairy creatures, heehee, there is nothing to worry about coz the waitress will help us prepare the delicacy =)
The waitress is making bite sizes of the crab in the background. The sauce for dipping is in the foreground.
All ready to go into our tummy. Look at all those yummy roe!!
The roe is the main highlight of hairy crabs and the roe is really smooth and yummy. There is also this sticky stuff around the roe area and the waitress says they are all fats… (-.-”
They have these crab meat eating tool provided so it’s really easy to finish eating the whole crab with minimal meat left behind. There is not much meat in this tiny thing but the meat is quite firm and have a good texture. Lucky we ordered 2!!
Darling using the tool to extract leg meat
After the main dish, we are going to have some fibre to help in the digestion =D
Braised Abalone with Sea Cucumber and Spinach
The sea cucumber is nice and squashy, I like!! The spinach portion is big too.
Next up is something light, also made partly with the yummy hairy crab roe.
Steamed Dumplings with Crab Roe
The dumplings itself is quite nice but I really cannot taste any crab roe. I supposed they used it to make the skin of the dumplings since the colour is yellow too.
At this point we are quite full already so it’s about time we have dessert =)
Chilled 胖大海 with Lily Bulb
We have no idea what 胖大海 is but it does taste nice and chilled…haha. A refreshing dessert.
That ends Darling’s birthday dinner! Full and satisfied!
Hmm…are we missing something here? It’s a birthday right??
YES!! The birthday cake!! it’s at our Punggol Springs love nest =x
Darling's birthday cake during the combined birthday celebration with Darling's mummy
Darling's very own birthday cake from Awfully Chocolate
Make a wish darling, and may all your wishes come true!
Happy Birthday my darling! Hope you enjoyed your birthday and your gift. May all your wishes come true!!
I love you!
Photo Selection Day
05 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Actual Day wedding, Bring me out Darling/Dar Dar, Grand Shanghai, Sentosa, Universal Studios, Wedding photography, Z Wedding D'sign
Today is really a day of headache and heartache! Haha. Supposed to choose photos today!! We are both really excited about this…at the same time, we are also worried that the photos may turn out too nice for us to reject!
We only have 24 photos included as part of the package…with each photo priced at S$115, it’s no joke if we are unable to “throw away” photos.
Well, if we have to spend, we must make sure it is worth spending on…
We saw the photos…die liao…the photos are ALL DAMN BEAUTIFUL! 真的是美到。。。。。The indoor shots are all taken beautifully, darling looks great in the white wedding gown!!
The outdoor shots are equally nice. The only disappointment is that the rope swing series did not turn out as nice as we expected…sigh…The big pink balloon also did not seem to make much impact.
Our USS series 众望所归 contains the best photos of the day! We are both quite natural when doing candid shots…haha, really not cut out to be models.
I shall upload a few photos to wet your appetite…hiak hiak hiak…
The white Room
Darling in her Cheongsam, damn seductive
The Happy Universal Studio Couple
Pre-wedding photoshoot
06 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
in Actual Day wedding, Bring me out Darling/Dar Dar, Grand Shanghai, Universal Studios, Wedding photography, Z Wedding D'sign
The day has finally come!! The day when I can preview my lovely darling in a wedding gown, all dolled up… OUR pre-wedding photoshoot!! We are doing an indoor shoot at Chris Ling Studios in Orchard in the morning, and then will proceed to do our outdoor photography! Exciting day ahead, so I shall re-think the events of the day.
We have packed our huge luggage bag the night before with all our props for the day! The huge luggage is courtesy of Darling’s mum, the one she frequently brings overseas to bring back all the goodies from abroad…haha, really really huge! I brought my “walking tall” shoes while darling brought her ROM shoes and the newly bought Anna Nuci black crystal shoes. Attire wise, we just brought along our newly bought couple synchronized clothing, which happened to have a purple theme. Next are the props for the photoshoot. The main props are those for the Universal Studios session, comprising of
1) huge plastic heart shaped spectacles,
2) condensed milk cans joined by a rope,
3) Rilakkuma bears,
4) our giant purple lollipop, customized with “I Love You” wordings,
5) bubbles blowing liquid
6) Ring pillow from our ROM
7) green fan to accompany Darling’s CheongSam
Bag of of goodies
We also ordered balloons from the shop near Bugis Iluma. 1 huge pink one and 10 small ones. However, according to shop-keeper, the helium air can only keep the balloons floating for a 7-8 hours, so we can only collect today for best effects!
In the morning, we took a cab to Chris Ling Studios…haha, the cab uncle probably though we going airport with the large bag, sorry to disappoint you…hahaha. Chris Ling studio is actually a private terrace house, upon arrival at about 10.30am, we walked around the house interior, admiring the many themed interiors they have. Our assigned MUA is Angela who came just on time so darling can start to have her makeup hairdo.
Dick is our photographer, apparently he is damn good and is the top 2 photographers of Chris Ling Studios… …we shall see!
Wedding indoor shoot commenced with darling in her White actual wedding gown, Simply Gorgeous!! Then we went through the many rooms and corners of the studios, with darling wearing her actual wedding gown, the Chio Cheongsam and the Victorian style night gown.
After the indoor shoot, we took a short break and ate pizza…before we commenced on our outdoors!
First stop will be Grand Shanghai, but we will need to collect our balloons enroute to the restaurant. Lucky the balloons can be squeezed into a car…HAHA
We were early for Grand Shanghai and there are still customers eating or finishing their lunch. With a professional photographer around, there will always be photo opportunities. In the waiting room, we took a series of pictures, most noticeable is the set where darling is exposing her calves sexily…YUMMY! There is also a series taken through the window panes, super artistic!! Darling totally suits the Cheongsam, super SUI! I am looking forward to darling wearing the cheongsam and walking down the aisle of Grand Shanghai!! Everyone will definitely have a JAWDROP expression!
After Grand Shanghai, we proceeded to Hort Park, Alexandra hill. This is a hill full of greenery and big trees. There is even a rope swing! This place has a perfect setting for a romantic picture series. This is where we shot the pictures of our balloons and the rings. Really got feel. Carefree, happy, having fun together, these are the feelings portrayed in this series.
Last but not least, there is 1 place which is strongly associated with us… …my close friends will know… UNIVERSAL STUDIOS SINGAPORE! Where else right? We both held the year pass for USS and We went there at least 6-7 times?? Haha, knew the place inside out! The universal studios set is extremely fun!!! Dick is really creative and talented in taking candid photos. He also makes sure that we used all our props that we brought along!! Darling is so natural and relaxed when taking pictures in USS!! I think being familiar with the place has its benefits. =) We did some extraordinary stuff in USS, darling and me both attempting stunts which we will never thought of doing, if not for this photoshoot. We totally love the photos from USS and have a strong feeling that the USS photos will turn out to be the best!!!
We totally enjoyed today’s photoshoot and even though Dick keep saying he wants to vomit blood and shouted his voice hoarse…we are sure he enjoyed it as much as we do!
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