We don’t usually do this, but this time round to spread the joy (besides having a mini celebration by binging on chocolate cakes ourselves)…. we’re offering to all couples……

20% off all wedding photography packages / services by Raymond Phang!!

Yup, 20% off for ROM/Solemnisation, Actual Day Wedding, and even the Local + Overseas Conceptualised Pre-Wedding, or Post wedding. Despite giving a 20% off Raymond Phang’s photography service rates, rest assure we’ll put in an additional 200% of our love and effort in all the shoots + editing. Hehehe.

However kindly note that the promo is only valid till 31 December 2011 for new sign ups of Raymond Phang’s wedding photography services and cannot be used together with our “Botaks Combo” .

For bookings or enquiries, please kindly email us at contactme @ raymondphang.com. Do include the code “Hurray!” and we’ll get back to you in the fastest time we can.

Check out our Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/raymondphangphotography for updates, and have a merry merry weekend!!

Love,
Angeline

Many people don’t understand the way we work and why we call it conceptualised pre-wedding, and not just a pre-wedding shoot. From the beginning to the end, there’s a storyline when you string the images together. It starts off with this and ends off with that. There is a concept, and idea, and most importantly a story behind it. Everything needs to be PRE-PLANNED months ahead, and not on the day of shoot I go there, I see something and decide to use it, I shoot it and I call it conceptual. No. We put in so much passion into it, that sometimes we cannot help but to feel insulted, especially when the comment comes from people in the same industry.

If the comment comes from a couple, that, we can understand. But from people in the same industry…. or from someone in the same industry yet telling other people it’s fake………… ARGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! You know how we feel, right??? When you put in so much effort but instead of recognition and encouragement, all you received are doubts and more doubts?? And worse is everytime at the shoot, our hands are full holding lights and equipment, we do not have the free hands to shoot behind the scene as much as we would love to shoot something to prove ourselves.

And today, we decided that we have had enough, and I specially went all the way out to source for any image taken of us at work for our conceptualised pre-wedding shoots. I found 2 images from the Official Sundown Marathon Singapore Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/SundownMarathonSG) taken from someone else when we were shooting Roy and Amy’s conceptualised pre-wedding right before the marathon race start. YES, EVERYTHING IS REAL. The mattress, the couple, the props, the people waiting behind the starting line for the race to begin are real too……………………….. and there’s also news coverage in the papers……………………………………..

Minutes before the race, on to the next concept where the butler wakes the couple up for breakfast before the race.

And this one we posted up was when the couple was still sleeping…. in fact, overslept when they have a marathon to run……

Newspaper coverage……. They were in wedding gown for the ending scene…………

And here’s another one from Joy Phua shot of us when we were shooting Eddie and Aileen’s conceptualised pre-wedding with the toilet bowl right in the middle of the traffic infront of Orchard Road Centerpoint.

And here’s the final image for the shoot………………..

Come on, please don’t doubt us like that. Or is it cos we put in too much heart and passion into it already, everything turns out looking too perfect, looking too good to be true? Should we not be too 10000% hardworking and leave some flaws in the conceptualised pre-wedding  images we create so that people will then start to think it’s real? Sigh…….

Only couples who have engaged us for their conceptualised pre-wedding will understand how we work. And I know they feel the same way as us, when their friends doubt the image… cos it’s like doubting their efforts too…

If you manage to capture any behind the scene images when you see Raymond Phang Photography out on a conceptualised pre-wedding shoot, please email them to us at contactme@raymondphang.com. Very much appreciated, and thanks a lot!

Upset Angeline.

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Leap of Faith – Our couple actually did a cross dressed thematic shoot for their pre-wedding. It was a known fact that the groom rarely had pictures of him taken.. he doesn’t like it somehow.. but I think it must be the power of love, he actually agreed to do a conceptualised pre-wedding shoot with us. Imagine a person dislike having pictures of him taken, yet agree to spend a full day accommodating to our requests for the photoshoot!!! We were so touched and honoured because the groom was really super co-operative! And he must have love the bride so much to agree. SALUTE for Private and Confidential!!

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SeaPits – Super love this shot. Some people might have think this is disgusting.. Well, if you enjoy this series as much as we do, and you’re looking to do a super crazy conceptualised pre-wedding shoot with us, drop us an email at contactme@raymondphang.com!

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Love – One of the romantic series from Amy and Roy’s conceptualised pre-wedding shoot at the Museum. It’s kinda hard for us to do romantic cos we need to like… feel a triple dosage of love until we get soooo inspired to do a romantic one. But it turned out well, pretty classic. :)

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Celebration – Same couple as the “Love” piece, they had a shoot done on the Sundown marathon day itself. This was sort of a one shot one kill image, and we had to clean up the floor after that. Slippery floor will pose as a hazard for other runners coming in right after, especially when this is the finishing line where the runners will usually chiong their way in.
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Shiok Shiok Curry Pok – Conceptualised pre-wedding in New Zealand, South Island. Super love this farm… not a very big farm, but I love it for the beautiful friendship/relationship between the animals, how they were able to co-exist together in harmony. I’ve never seen pigs, horses and sheeps “playing” together, and I’ve never witnessed on live how piggy can sneak out for a little tour and came back through the same hole he sneaked out from! It’s like watching Animal farm or Babe the movie!

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Goose Bumps – Conceptualised Pre-Wedding in PRAGUE, at the Prague castle! Woohoo! Prague is quite a romantic place, and we’d love to go back there if not for the crowd. I think it’ll be beautiful to go during the cold winter season, but be prepared to freeze like hell. We were already freezing when we went there for the shoot in April. Again, gained weight like hell cos we couldn’t resist the good food. All the joggings from the ups and downs to carry lights and equipments didn’t help at all. Grrr… This is from the romantic series, more crazy ones to come from the Prague shoot!!

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I don’t give a fart – Conceptualised pre-wedding shoot at Sepang Circuit (KL). Subang was a damn awesome place with awesome good food!! We flew there on FireFly airline, the propellor plane was suuuuuuupeeeerrrrrrrr awesomeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! The G-force was so shiok, service was fantastic, crew was friendly and we’d love to fly with Firefly again!! The food there was yummy, black noodle was so yummy with the black sauce, the fried rice, the bak kut teh, the steamed beancurd buried below the rice, the planta prata, the bandung was super shiok and we gained weight from the trip. Can’t help it when our couple was such a good host!!

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There’s many more to come from the conceptualised pre-wedding shoots! Recently we’ve been receiving quite a number of enquiries from couples to do conceptualised pre-wedding with us, and it’s on rare occurrence we get super loony couples who are riding on the same wave as us to do things crazy enough. We get a lot of crazy ideas in our brain, especially when we don’t get good sleep and we keep having dreams about weird stuffs. We would love to actualise them, and I believe more loony couples are somewhere out there hiding in the dark. Come to papa, hit us via email at contactme@raymondphang.com. We’ll see how we can work & gel together like the Buns and the meat patties in a burger. Muwahahahahaha!! Have a good weekend!
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Lots of ♥,
- Angeline

Believe it or not, we actually have 3 people throwing the food for this shot!! Chopped carrots, Spaghetti, dried mushroom, green apple, chilli padi, corn, there were oranges or something as well but I guess it missed the frame. We had fun throwing the food, and some of it hit the ceiling, the whole place was super messy after that (felt really bad about it though), sometimes an apple will land on the couple’s head or thighs as well….. but they were really professional, and gave us awesome expression! Fearless, nonchalent, and not a blink of eye. NICE!
 
 

This was a hot and stuffy shot – it’s actually an “oven” to dry the paintwork of the car and we were actually waiting for the oven timer to go off before we went in to do the shoot cos they had a car inside for drying. I guess the spray of water was an enjoyment in this case. Everyone was hot and hungry and thirsty during this shoot, and they had to wait while Raymond set up his angle and lights, but look at their expression!
 

Naughty naughty!!
 

This is actually a real place where we managed to recce for the shoot. The planet Earth was fake though… kekeke. But I like it!
 

Last image to share from our latest pre-wedding shoot in New Zealand – The STAR TRAILS!!!! Here’s an excerpt from Raymond along with the image posted on Facebook;

Contrary to the belief that the lunatics at Raymond Phang Photography are dummies to Romance, we present you with our latest pre-wedding work from New Zealand – TADAH!
 

Kudos to Colin and Emily the awesome for braving the wind so strong it can almost carry us away, and the teeth gritting cold that instantaneously transformed us all with chicken skin!
 

Getting this shot of the couple – sitting in the SUV holding hot steamy coffee mug in their hands, with the tent and a mini campfire isn’t all just me. I am extremely proud of my team that made it all possible – Angeline for making sure everyone is comfortable, art directing (nit picking so that the final image comes out as envisioned), holding lights and getting her hands all extremely icky preparing the Vaseline for the campfire. Not to mention Susu our talented awesome Digital imaging artist, who helped picked the dry wood and got a splinter on her finger as a result, hold lights, run around chasing tents that flew away in the strong wind and working her ass off back in the studio to put the final image together.
 

Colin was our “guest assistant” helping us to set up the tent and mini campfire, holding our “secret weapon” together with Susu in the wind (extreme arm muscle training!) to shoot the car panel so that it looks just right, both risking their eyes being blinded by the flash gun that Angeline was holding in the process. Colin didn’t have to do anything originally, but for the sake of protecting his princess Emily from suffering in the cold, he sacrificed. *bite lips with a distant look – everyone please say awwwww*
 

Without this awesome team I would not have gotten away with this image. I am truly blessed. This single image alone took a total of 4.5 hours from the beginning (setting up the scene) to the end (packing up in the wilderness) and when the camera was in the midst of capturing the startrails, I could clearly see Angeline and Susu dozing off in the car and that really pains me. We worked hard and played hard, and we hope this image is well worth our efforts.
 
I can’t wait to share the rest of the images from the New Zealand and Prague shoot!! One of the bestest things that we did in Year 2011!!
 

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Pre-wedding images aside, here are a quick few shots from our New Zealand travel.

Moo Moo Cow.
 

We drove all the way from North Island down to South Island – it was free and easy, and we drove all the way up to the Sand Dunes when we were on our way to Cape Reinga. Love the sand dunes, cold nice fine sand!! So we had to take a group shot there. Hehehe.
 

Next we went to this mini waterfall, and I had to take a picture with grumpy Su. :p
 

And we went to Cafe Eutopia!! Quaint little place selling organic yummies, and I bought a really pretty pendant called the Tree of Life. AHHHH!!! So many things to share on my travel!! I wish I had the time to post the images we took and the places we went to and the things we experienced!!
 

Susu had the most yummy Bagel!!
 

And my organic Lemonade tasted ssssssssssolidddddddddddd…
 

We went to another Cafe, and Susu had a hot chocolate. Susu is forever having hot chocolate.
 

And we went to Hell’s gate…. NICEEEEEE….
 

And a group photo of the five of us – Raymond, Angeline, Susu, Terence, and Scooby Loon!! Hehehehe…
 
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Till the next when I have more time, I’ll share on how I dumped my boyfriend and how Raymond dumped his girlfriend in New Zealand. Muwahahahahahahahahaha!!! Cheers!
 
 
Lots of ♥,
- Angeline

Come another 24/5 more days Raymond Phang Photography will be away in New Zealand + Prague, and we will only return on 24 April 2011. Couples who would like to meet us before we fly on 27 March 2011 for discussion, view our works and albums, do feel free to send us an email at contactme@raymondphang.com, or give us a call at 81383397!
 
 
Just a quick update as well, we received an email from WPPI today with the news that out of the 10 prints Raymond Phang has submitted for the WPPI 2011 Award of Excellence 16″ x 20″ Print competition, 7 of the prints were awarded with the Accolade of Excellence, with a score of 80 points and above! 
 
 
This is actually our virgin attempt and we had no prior experience with international Physical print competition where stringent requirement is placed not only on the photography work, idea/concept, technicality, but also on the physical print such as the print quality, colors accuracy and details, including the matt board and physical quality too. It was a lot of effort put in to source for the best matt board, print the images with the best certified fine art printer, work on the images and learn from fellow peers on the details to look out for in terms of the image processing. It’s really different from all other competition where you can just submit the digital softcopy for the competition. 
 
Nonetheless we are happy that our hard work was paid off and we are really grateful to all who have helped us achieve what we have today. This competition has really opened our eyes, and from this experience, we are becoming even more of a demanding person than we already are, especially on the work we produce. I hope that’s a good thing though!  
 
Art is really subjective, and to every single one of you who have always given us the constant encouragement and have always believed in our work, thank you very much! We put our love in the images that we capture and create, and we’re very happy to know that you like them as much as we do. A super big thank you to our couples and fellow peers who made this happen, we lurb you guys deep deep!
 

 The following are the 10 images submitted for the Print competition. Enjoy!
 
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The scores for the individual images are actually posted on our Facebook Album, under the  Milestones and Achievements. Do take a look if you’re curious to find out. Enjoy the Thursday! Cheers!

 
 Lots of ♥,
- Angeline 

Early in the morning doggie sleeping at Charmaine’s lap, waiting for its turn for the make up. Just kidding!
 
 

Here’s Maria from Wedding Acts looking all bright and cheery!
 
 

And Damon Low in action with his gears.
 

One of Raymond’s favourite image.
 

And this one too for the expression!
 

The couple had a few gatecrashing games including this, eating food like Chilli, Wasabi, drinking disgusting stuffs and chewing off a big stick of chocolate moulded after men’s vital organ *coughs* , but I’ll just post the most innocent one here, the rest is for the couple and their xiong dis jiemeis to enjoy.
 
 

Raymond Phang’s signature car shots.
 

Here’s Cameron Simpson looking all cool and happy! Bet he’ll look even happier on his own wedding day years later!
 
 

A quick shoot around Kok Keong’s place.
 

Again, ah boy’s expression stands out!
 

Quick shoot at Orchard Road right after tea ceremony. All thanks to the professional jie meis for their help!!
  

Here’s the table set up. Pretty right!
 

And a giant blue ”box” for their wedding cake!!
 

 Lovely color theme!! Super nice!
 

Mini cupcakes for everyone~
 
 

Charmaine’s gown has a super long train…
 

Bevlyn the singer from A Little Dream
 

Here’s after a second change into the evening gown with the Champagne popping~
 
 

The fierce Yum Seng to shout out all their frustrations for all the nasty treatment they suffered during the day gatecrashing.
 
 

Speech time from Bestman!
 

And Maid of Honour actually prepared an exaggeratingly long piece of paper for her speech! It’s like pieces and pieces of A4 (or bigger?) papers all taped up into a “scroll”.. LOL!!

Ah boy really is a chick magnet… guess that’s the benefit of being cute - swarmed by pretty ladies all the time… LOL!
 

Couples’ time to give thank you speech~
 
 

And proceeded on with the table to table + crazy drinking sessions with friends.
 
 

Kok Keong drank soooo much, he was practically red like a lobster.
 
 

Cannot take it anymore~
 

He must have waited for this day for a very long time… can drink and drink like crazy!
  

More drinking shots of Kok Keong… and you can only imagine how’s the rest of the night will look like. More toastings, more drinking, more lobsters~ Hehehe. Will be meeting Kok Keong and Charmaine later in the afternoon to show them the entire set of images! Been a long time since I last met them personally. So excited!
 
Hope you guys enjoy this series with little wordings this time round. LOL!! Cheers!
 
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Lots of ♥,
- Angeline

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That aside, we will be sharing some images from Kok Keong and Charmaine’s actual day wedding in the late afternoon, so stay tuned ya! Ciao!  ;)
 
 
Lots of  ♥
- Angeline

 
So she got suuuuuper high, started laughing like hyena, “cursing and swearing” while Raymond and I were happily taking video – at least some memories for  her to look back when she’s older. And I secretly think it might make the most awesome wedding gift for her in the form of a video montage. Muwahahahahaha!
 
I got a terrible headache afterwards, and Susu started hiccuping non stop. With every hiccup she had, it will be followed by an “aiyo” sound from her. Then she started sprawling all over the floor, volunteering her tshirt and jeans as a mop cum broom. She crawled all the way from the meeting area to the toilet, complaining that the light switch was so high and beyond her reach, she broke the lock to the toilet door, hugged the toilet bowl, wet her tshirt when she tried to wash her face, wasted a few glasses of water when she almost fell asleep without closing the tap, hugged the toilet bowl again, and puked gloriously like the Merlion.
 
 
WHAT A WAY TO START THE NEW YEAR! Hahahahahaha!! Raymond had to leave at about 10ish for a shoot till about 2am, so Susu and I watched the pathetic fireworks together. I think she caught like 5-10 second glimpse of it and then concuss again. We had to send her home when Raymond returned from his shoot.
 

For Susu, it was a Happy new year “吐011″! Muwahahahahahaha! How was yours?
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That aside here’s one of my favourite series of wedding images shot in Year 2010! Keng Been and Elayna’s actual day wedding~ The couple had the morning whipping session for the groom and brothers, tea ceremony, some quick outdoor shots, and dinner banquet. You should see the dinner reception where the table was laid with all the super nice goodies, very pretty and it makes you feel like lingering around as long as you can and finish gobbling them all.
 

I was feeling hungry and this image of the buns appealed to me with the smooth texture, pastel color and cute little umbrellas. So I had to post it.
 
 

One of my favourite getting ready shot.
 

For Cinematography, the couple engaged Ami from The Wedding Paparazzi.
 

The sisters were all clad in school uniform, seemingly innocent, but wait till you see their power at the gate crashing…
 

I like the “kungfu manual” they were holding, it was part of the gate crashing props. I saw it at Mini Toons or More than words one day, expecting cartoons or drawings to be inside, but it is actually a plain notebook! And they come in different titles for the cover page, and if I remember correctly, it’s about $2.90 or $3.90 each. Nice!
 

Elayna putting on her chunky earring, and I thought it matched pretty well with her gown together with the other pieces like the bangle and ring. Her ring is very unique, and I’ll share a close up picture of it at a later part.
 

When mummy put on the veil for her, she got a little emotional and started tearing. A very touching moment, and often at this point of time Raymond will usually be affected too.
 
 

Now let’s go welcome the groom shall we?? I love Elayna’s doggie, especially the pointy tail that looks like an antenna! Hahahaha!
 

Here’s dog dog with the tail down, secretly warning Keng Been of the coming storm.
 

But Keng Been was not daunted by any of the sisters’ evil plot or tricks. I like the image with dog dog included inside, with everyone facing away from the camera except for dog dog. Yes, the brothers wore the same school uniform too!
 

The games started even before they arrived at Elayna’s unit!
 

Sweet school girls with geeky glasses. Don’t you just love them? And because a lot of relatives / friends will surely be taking pictures with their cameras as well, they tend to upload the pictures to facebook within the week. At least there’s something for excited couples to browse through after the wedding ceremony is over. But on our side we take a much longer time looking through every images individually and edit them because we shoot in Raw format. So we will usually take at least 1 month to 3 months depending on the wedding season to complete the editing. In this case, we really appreciate all our couples who didn’t haunt after us for their wedding images, like Keng Been and Elayna!
 

Now back to the gatecrashing part. The brothers were actually welcomed to Hawaii once they arrived at the lift lobby of Elayna’s place. Posters of pretty Hawaiian girls pasted on the wall with a table full of props for the brothers. So exciting!
 

See how happy the sisters were!
 

“Fine, I will sacrifice my chastity and strip down to nothing if it makes you happy!”

“Nooooooooo, darling, let me do it!”
 
 

Meanwhile, Gary decided to heck care and flaunt it. Feeeeee-U-weeeeeet!!
 

And let the games begin!
 

Raymond spotted one particular brother who likes to “piak” people’s underwear. Muwahahahahaha!
 

Hmmmmmmmm…………. I can’t help but to notice that the sisters nowadays are getting more and more into “nipples”… wait till I share with you on Andrew and Claris’ actual day wedding. Poor poor brothers…
 

While one was being tortured, the other stood by and laughed at his poor misery…
 

Look what happened next…. Muwahahahahaha!
 

Next, the sisters presented a dish of something. Looks like fermented curd or weird looking poisonous Cheese…
 

But once again, Gary the brave warrior beats all the brothers hands down!
 

And decided to sabo Keng Been this time round when Keng been was innocently eating the pink fluffy bun… =_=”
 

Poor Keng Been was forced to have a taste of the yucky curdy thing.
 

Moving on, the brothers were then asked to doll up and look pretty.
 

Oh my goodness… Keng Been had indeed went through a lot of suffering for his princess!
 

Next, the sisters present more kungfu manuals!
 

Keng Been buay tahan already…
 

Decided to make his first offer of bribery
 
 

End up it was a trick!!!! And it got the sisters reeeeeally unhappy~
 

Sensing the wrath of the sisters boiling like hot lava, Keng Been quickly took another ang pow and put in some money to appease them.
 

Angry sisters rushing Keng Been to quickly hang over the ang pow, or else. Keng Been pretended to look as if he has placed a lot of money inside this time round, with a happy and excited face.
 

Who knows, it’s a cutesy note of $50!!! Sister is reaaaaaally unhappy this time round, and if she unleash her power from the kungfu she has mastered from the “Heavenly Wordless Manual”, nobody is able to determine Keng Been and his brothers’ fate within the next 2 seconds.
   
 

Brothers trying to stall time and appease the sisters by looking as smiley as possible while Keng Been decided to make a phone call for help! I guess he has already utilised his 50-50, Ask the audience, and now he’s left with the final Phone-A-Friend.  
 

Who would have thought that the sisters really loved the cutsey note, and in fact they wanted more~
 

So when Keng Been presented the legal tender note to them, the sisters got even furious to the point of breaking down!
 

The gatecrashing went on and on and on, and I shall spare you the details of it by skipping to this image with the KEY!
 

Finally Keng Been stepped foot in the house after being tormented and tossed around like salad by both the brothers who kept sabo-ing him, and the evil sisters.
 

He gets to meet his beloved princess!! Look at the kids’ expression… I’m sure the curious kids must be wondering what on earth are the two of them doing, why are they doing it, and how does it feel. Will it hurt or give them wings? Will they exchange the satay and burger they had last night with each other during the “transfusion”?
 

Awww… so sweet!
 

So the couple had some time for a quick outdoor shoot at the rooftop of the car park.
 

Class photo of the 14 “pai kia” students and 2 teachers.
 

They love their teachers! Awwwww~~ (:
 

Now let’s get ready for the morning assembly and say our pledge with pride!
 

As you can see, when the teachers were not noticing, the students were all up to no good! Just like how you secretly munch on snacks when the teacher turned his back towards you, or how you quickly unfold the notes with answers you have in your pencil case because you didn’t want to study for your spelling test. Kekekeke. 
 
 
Bullying incidents on the left, sharing censored material stored in their mobile phone at the back, girl tugging another girl’s collar with the other pulling the pony tail, and two other female students plotting to elope together. Wah, not easy to be the teacher of this class!

After the shoot when everyone let down their guard, who knows the brothers decided to sabo Keng Been again!
 

They carried him and tossed him in the air like roti prata! Only difference is they managed to catch him when he fall and not turn and walk away or smack him down against the floor. Muwahahahaha!
 

It’s the weird tang yuan (sometimes red date soup, sometimes egg with mee sua, sometimes half cooked fish etc) feeding time.
 

And a hearty tea ceremony session!
 

Oooh la~la~~
 

Keng Been happily removing the veil for Elayna for her next change of Cheongsam.
 
 

Loving the window light and how it soften the whole image.
 

 Raymond Phang’s signature motion car shot on actual day wedding.
 

And here’s dog dog with a change of outfit too!! A red ribbon!
 

Here’s the second part of the wedding with Elayna getting ready for the evening banquet.
 

This is the first time I’ve seen a super blinged up handphone cover! With crystals, ribbons, pearl, flower and everything else. Too bad I cannot survive with this because I often abuse my phone with too much work, need to keep in pocket, squat down and throw all over the place.
 

And now, the many many boxes of wedding favours and goodies!!
 

Little buckets of raspberries, boxes of popcorns, and sticks of macaroon!
 

This must be bars of chocolate and customised M&Ms! A lot of thought has been put into setting up a corner like this!
 

Pretty “cakes” and lollipops, in the theme of red and black.
 

TADAH!!
 

Whirly cream sticks~
 

Pretty roses, and I believe Elayna must be a big fan of roses!
 

Luckily I wasn’t at the wedding, otherwise I would have shifted the entire table back to the studio. Muwahahahahaha!
 

The couple had their wedding at Marriott hotel, and Michelle the wedding coordinator was a great help!
 

More of the wedding favours… SO CUTE! Elayna is a partner of WeddingFavours.com.sg, and the many varieties of wedding favour given out in our goodie bag at the Style Weddings roadshow last year was kindly sponsored by them!
 

 
 Here are some of the wedding favours by their company, and the images taken are from their website :: http://www.weddingfavours.com.sg/index.php

This is actually a handphone charm. So sweet!
 

Wedding favour box with robot bride and robot groom. Hehehe.
 

Wine stopper with heart shape crystal drop.
 

Little bearer of blessing handphone bears, and it comes with the chocolate!
 

You swept me off my feet favour box.
 

This is a pink blossom flower pouch which doubles up as a corsage!
 

They have a variety of wedding favours ranging from as low as $0.50, with new stocks and designs coming in frequently and clearance sale items as well.  Super cute bridal cookies, handphone charms, ring pillow, feather pen, favour box and  lots more! It is highly encouraged that you join their mailing list for the latest updates, and if you would like to customise your own wedding favours, you can drop them an email enquiry at sales@weddingfavours.com.sg.  :)

Now, back to the wedding! Yes, this blog post took me a lot of time to write! Hahahaha! But I’m enjoying it!
 

The flower girls, scattering petals even before the march in.
 

Little girl complaining to Keng Been, and the facial expression is a matter of few seconds.
 

Bangyao the bilingual emcee for the night whom Raymond mentioned has done a wonderful job.
 

Here’s an image of the couple’s wedding ring. Yes, their wedding ring!! The most unique ring we have shot so far, and the couple designed it themselves. I haven’t had the chance to speak to the couple (will be meeting them really soon to show them the wedding images!!) about the ring, but personally I think this is a 2-in-1 ring, which serves as an engagement ring and a wedding ring altogether. That’s why got the diamond on top of the rose. Hehehe~ 
 

Maybe you might have to be a bit more careful when you’re wearing or handling clothes with frilly or lacy designs, but I thought this ring has an even greater meaning since it is a design by the couple themselves. You cannot buy this off the rack in a jewellery shop, and you won’t see a second couple wearing this for their wedding. I’m not so sure why the design for the Keng Been’s ring, but this is exactly the point! Only the couple knows the siginificance of it. And whenever they see the ring, it will remind them of the times they spend together.
 
 

Hor hor, never do homework, last minute then think of Thank You speech!
 

Demonstrating how should a bride kiss the groom? Muwahahaha!
 

I like this image a lot, and Keng Been’s expression tops it all.
 

The March-in.
 

Champagne popping
 

Champagne pouring

And toasting!
 

“Gud lat” brothers doing the yum seng.
 

I love the irony of this image!! Boy Boy finds it noisy so he’s trying to block off the yum seng shouting from his ears, yet at the same time he’s contributing to the noise by joining in with the yum seng!
 

More Yum Sengs from the sisters.
 

And Bangyao gave a speech.
 

Which touched Keng Been’s heart, as well as Elayna’s.
 

Now the couple’s turn to give a speech.
 

A kiss for his lovely wife.
 

Darn! I should have been there to listen what Keng Been was saying! Heartfelt thanks to couples who have invited me to their wedding, but unfortunately most of the time I couldn’t make it to the ceremony as I had to stay in the studio to do backups, clear email enquiries, work on album layout.  We do three level of back up, one in the main computer, one to the NAS network storage system and final level of back up by burning them into DVDs making sure all datas have been successfully verified. After which I need to label them properly, and usually I will take a quick browse of the images as well.

Keng Been plays a tune on the Saxophone specially for Elayna.
 

It moved Elayna to tears.
 

Play a tune on saxophone not enough, must constantly maintain eye contact with the person whom you are playing the tune to. Like that then can shun bian send some electric vibes across to the person. More effective, success rate of sending the message across is higher!
 

Not an easy feat, and mission accomplished!
 

It made Elayna happy, and I am very sure she will remember this special performance for life.
 

As you can see, Keng Been was rewarded with hugs instead of rotton eggs, so it means his performance was good!!
 
 

Raymond had a breeze photographing their wedding simply because the couple enjoyed themselves and let go, they laugh when they are happy, they are not overly worried on whether they will look good infront of the camera. As long as you throw these restrictions away, you will naturally look good. Bottom line is –  your mood affects Raymond’s and also the outcome of your wedding images.
 

Here comes Alcohol, the life of the party.
 

1 glass where got enough, must drink 3 / 4 glasses ah!
 

Love this image too!
 

Oh no, everyone is high! But zoom in on the person sitting down beside Keng Been.
 

Ooops~
 

And Keng Been gulped a glass of weird concoction. Look at the glass…. all goey and blurred and stained…
 

More drinking, gung ho uncles game for more yum seng!
 

And then, Keng Been received a miniature chest as a gift.
 

He opened it up, and found some silver coins in a pile of sand.
 

I’m not so sure if these are the wedding unity coins / arras, but it seems like there are  12/13 coins altogether. The gift represents the bride’s dowry and good wishes for prosperity, symbolising the groom’s trust and confidence with the responsibility of a provider. With this, he pledges his ability to support and care for the bride. The number 13 actually symbolises Jesus Christ and his twelve apostles.
 

On a side note, besides symbolising the groom’s committment to take care of his bride, it also make his wealth hers!!! I believe it should be a latin american tradition for weddings, and it’s a goooooood one! No wonder Keng Been is laughing so hard. But I think he must be crying even harder inside. Muwahahahahaha!!
 

And time to say goodbye.
 
 
Hope you guys enjoy this series as much as I do! Till the next, you guys take care!
 

Lots of ♥,
- Angeline

That aside, we have quite a few backlogs of images to share as well! Few months back we did Kenny and Sherry’s actual day wedding, with solemnisation on the same day. It is actually quite tiring to do everything on the same day, but it saves the cost and hassle altogether. The couple had the solemnisation and banquet at Oosh (Dempsey Road) with a freestyle buffet dinner. Personally I really like the cosy venue with indoor and outdoor settings, guests are free to walk around and mingle, no restrictions, and less tensed up as compared to a full course sit down banquet.
 

Morning make up and preparation was done at the Bride’s place. 
 

The sisters getting ready.
 
 

Here comes the groom and his brothers! Looking all enthusiastic and eager to find out what challenges awaits them.
 

They arrived at the bride’s place to find this suspicious looking paperbag hanging by the main gate.
  

And some pretty bras sleeping on the floor with colorful balloons. Not bad leh, bra still got double strap pattern pattern ones. Luckily no lacy ones. But they have got the outstanding Barney colored bra. Hahaha!
 
 

So the brothers had to inflate the balloons. 2 each!
 

The sisters all gleeful and happy! 
 

Now we all know guys prefer woman to have a heavy top… even when they claim otherwise… Look at the size of balloon they blew up!! They’re all overspilling from the bra already!!!
 

Here’s Kenny with a humongous boobie and barney bra peeping into the other red bag.
 

This kind of question can sometimes be tougher than Phd thesis questions.
 
 

I thought this view look quite funny. Hehehe… now we know who’s the slacker!! *points to second brother from right*. :p
 
 

Kenny consulting the brothers for an answer…
 

Cannot tahan already, must bribe the sisters with more ang pow money.
 

WHAT?? Not sing dollars??
 

Fine fine… see what will the brothers get if they play this kind of dirty tricks on us again…
 

This is how Sing dollars look like. I think next time the sisters must do up a chart of currencies they accept such as Sing dollars, Pounds, Euros, Aussie dollars etc. =p
 

Cannot stand the size of their balloon boobies. Poor bra looked like they’re over “worked”, but here we see one of the brother preparing the “white flag” to surrender.
 
 

The best white flag – cheque!
 
 
 

At least now they get to enter through the main gate, and…. take off each other’s bra… Muwahahahaha!

Brothers and sisters can play any games during the gate crashing, from food to intellectual to physical torture. From meaningless to meaningful games. But most of the time the games played during gate crashing are for the pure pleasure of the sisters. Afterall how many times in life do they get the chance to take “revenge” on the groom and his brothers without them retaliating? Only this once man, only this once…  But of course the sisters cannot be overboard and must try to take note of the hygiene issue during the preparation especially when it comes to food handling. We don’t want the groom and the brothers to get tummy ache, puke all over the place, fall sick and stuffs right? Not only will it spoil the morning, it’ll affect the rest of the wedding day.
 
 

In the past, the games played during gate crashing are more simple. But nowadays the sisters all very jialat, and super sadistic. Maybe because the value of brides nowadays are appreciating… You know, like inflation, property prices and Gold prices? Last time nobody would have imagined the price of COE can go up to $70K, but today, it did. HDB at Shunfu can go up to a million! So I guess it applies to Brides too! Brides are getting more and more expensive because the ladies nowadays are smarter, prettier, capable, and filled with goodness from Vitamin A to Z! Muwahahahahahaha! Ok that’s a bimbotic comment, but quite true to a certain extend! :p
 
 
 
So the gate crashing games are supposed to be a way for the bride’s knight in shinning armour to “show” how far a distance will the sweetheart go for her. It’s like the answer to ”how deep is your love”…. Or “你問我愛你又多深”. Hehehe. The twist and turn of events make gatecrashing seems like an extortion process for the sisters to get more ang pow money. But I’m sure we know the gatecrashing games are all in the name of fun. Maybe the games played nowadays caused people to think that gate crashing are evil and meaningless, aimed only to embarass the groom and brothers. Well, it is your choice to decide whether the gate crashing will be a meaningless or a meaningful one.
 
 
 

After all the cruelsome games, the groom finally gets the bride!
 
 

Oh I like this image!! I thought it felt something like “Lao eh, you look la, look at what your bao bei daughter is doing inside the room!!” Muwahahahahahahaha!!
 

And I thought this look kinda interesting with everyone’s eyeballs looking up, except for the groom’s.
 

Sneaking a kiss at every opportunity possible.
 
 

Rain or shine, it’s a different feel for Raymond Phang’s signature car shot.
 

Tea ceremony from the other perspective.
 
 

Some spare time for a quick casual shoot. Must applaud the brothers for their sacrifice… sinking their spanking new polished shoes into the muddy soil, and violently scrubbing it right after to continue the end of the day.
  

Touching up at Dempsey.
 
 

The table settings.
 
 

Mini cupcakes surrounding the the main cake at the top.
  
 
 

The couple marching in for their ROM.
 
 

The solemniser/JP for their wedding Mr Tan Yan Boon.
 

The vows exchange. It is very meaningful when couple customise their own wedding vows – something that they will remember for life, will live by, and will hold close to their hearts.
 
 

The solemnisation ceremony usually take about 10-15 minutes. Such a short period of time, but this short period of time is an important committment made that will last you a lifetime. Not simple, and it’s not just a ceremony.
 
 
  
 
 

The couple has this very interesting guestbook. It’s actually a piece of mirror where the guests write their well wishes.
 
 

I love the walkway!
 

Love the textured wall!!
 
 

And the bricks, decor, the feel of the place.
  

The view from outdoor. Really pretty isn’t it!
 

The emcees inviting guests to gather around for the couple’s first march in.
 

A real wedding cake is the best! The couple had a 7″ cake at the top tier of the wedding cake, surrounded by about 200 over cupcakes.
 

They had 3 LCD TVs and 2 projector screens set up all around the lounge and restaurant area so that the guests can also view the ceremonyfrom the different corners.
 
 

Alcohol seems to be the life of most parties (except children’s birthday parties?) and I haven’t seen a wedding without any alcohol, it will be cool to witness one! (: 
 

Bride preparing for the second change.
 

More mingling~ It’s better this way when you personally know most of the guests. :)
 
 

Some time for a quick couple shot to end the entry.
 

 
  
 
Lots of ♥,
- Angeline

 
Raymond Phang Photography has a BIIIIIIIG plan for coming year 2011, and this involves trottering to the land of the milky cows next year in April!! 

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I bet you guys must have watched at least 1 episode of the movie – Lord of the Rings. Well, few years back before the movie production started, we thought we could sneakily fly ourselves to them for the movie casting, get ourselves chosen and earn some quick bucks.
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Raymond was hoping he could land himself in the role of the handsome Legolas and all… but unfortunately his hair wasn’t long enough, and his botak head couldn’t hold the wig well, so he got kicked out. The director wanted to use his botak head as a prop or reflector, but Raymond declined the offer and continued photographing weddings back here in Singapore.
 
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Susu wanted to be Gollum cos she thought Gollum looked reeeeally special, especially with the husky voice that goes “my prrrrreciouss”…  But too bad Susu didn’t make it to the cut cos all she thought about was the Onion Ring from Burger King, plus the late night intensive gamings during the previous nights made her eyes looked ultra sleepy. Gollum was supposed to have bigger eyes, or should I say soulful eyes. In the end Susu got sent back, and reluctantly came back to RPP doing Digital Imaging work.
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I was eyeing to play Frodo. Being the most bimbotic of all, the reason I gave was simply because Frodo was supposed to be a Hobbit, and Hobbit sounds pretty cute, like rabbit!! Unfortunately I did not make the cut as well with that un-cute sausage lips of mine which looked like they chewed on land mines and exploded a million times over. So here I am, back in SOHO growing roots infront of the computer and expanding the base around my waistline.
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Life went on, and one fine day, the calling came for us to create our very own fantasy! We have finally decided to come up with this plan to fulfill our dreams. Come April next year, the LOTR rejected cast will set foot on the New Zealand soil (both the north and south island), to stage our very own version of the LOTR!! But us being weirdos, forever thinking out of the box and all, decided on our own movie title –  the Lord of the Onion Rings – The return of big fart king!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Presenting the rejected cast of LOTR – original cast of Lord of the Onion Rings – The return of big fart king!!
MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! 

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Staring: Raymond as Arwen – maybe Legolas is a bit too far fetched, but Arwen has the long flowy hair too. Raymond has got like 4 months to grow his hair to be long like Arwen’s, so shouldn’t be a problem. Kekeke.
 
 
 
 

Susu will play Gandalf this time round, but because we will be working hard on the laptop at night when we get back to our inn after a day’s adventure, I guess Susu won’t be able to rid the sleepy eyes too. So this is Gandalf Susu with sleepy eyes, and still thinking about the Onion Rings.
 
 
 
 

I will play Gollum this time round. No special reason, well, maybe because Gollum sounds cute, like Goli (marble). Round round one… Muwahahahaha~!
 
  

We are inviting 2 pairs of couples to join us for a pre-wedding photoshoot scheduled in between our personal adventures!
 
  

We will be spending most of our personal time chasing cows, scaring sheeps, baking ourselves silly under the sun until smoke comes out, rolling all over the green green grasses and cow poo, drooling and snoring like sea and thunder,  stuffing our faces with food, dozing off on the road and trying to jab each other’s eyes to keep ourselves awake while driving etc.
 
  

Currently we have already garnered the support from Hero and Heroine like Colin & Emily for South Island of New Zealand, scheduled for 8 April 2011. The couple has been most helpful, sharing with us information and bought us pancakes to munch on when we met them on Wednesday!!
 
  

If you would like to join us for the pre-wedding photoshoot session at an attractive rate, email us now to contactme@raymondphang.com for further details and date schedule for the pre-wedding shoot (North and South Island)! This blog entry will evaporates into thin air right in front of your monitor within 5 seconds when the remaining 2 positions have been filled.
 
  

We are sooooooo looking forward to this adventure, and Raymond’s brains are pumped with tons and tons of creative juices!! Totally hyped up for this shoot, and I’m sure the images will literally blowwwwwwww your mind!!  Hehehe~
 
  

So email (contactme@raymondphang.com) / SMS (8138-3397) / call (8138-3397)  us now if you would like to have a pre-wedding shoot done in New Zealand next year in April 2011 by Raymond Phang Photography aka the rejected cast of the LOTR!! Muwahahahahaha!! Cheers!!
 
  

Lots of ♥,
- Angeline