Feedback welcome on this set of images. This is the first time im trying a rangefinder so please be gentle! Most of the shots are taken at waist level without focusing thru the rangefinder with a rough gague of the distance. The m9p makes me feel like a photographer again! Haha!

Hope you guys will enjoy this series – my virgin try at wedding with the Leica M9-P. Happy Boxing Day!

Happy Boxing Day to you guys!

Love,
Raymond Phang

One shot of Daphne sharing a sweet moment in her getting ready state. She had to wake up about 5am in the morning, but she was bright and chirpy throughout the whole day. I guess the excitement really kept her going.

Daphne’s lovely wedding gown from Bridal Veil – Michelle Huimin. Quite a number of our couples picked Bridal Veil for their excellent and dedicated service, and I remember one of our previous couple Rachel & Morrison wrote an entry on their service, and it was nothing but raves of good reviews.

Love the exquisite design of the peeptoe heels.

Brother on right: “Eh, I heard today got solid breakfast for us! You eaten already or not? I fasted the whole of yesterday just for the breakfast later.”

I shall name this Brother on right as Brother X.

The gang arrived at the mini outdoor cafe. Alfresco breakfast with yummy bandung (rose syrup, one of my favourite drink), nutritious sandwiches made with love, peppered bitter gourd skewer, soury yoghurt thingy to aid your digestion, what more can one ask right?
But before the brothers lay their hands on the breakfast, they had to answer some questions first. Sisters were kind enough to include some hints and multiple choices.

Unfortunately they did not gave the correct answer, but the sisters were kind enough anyway to let them have the sandwiches. Ben took a bite and he felt so happy because it’s been such a long time ever since he last ate such delicious sandwiches. It’s so spicy, but shiok at the same time. So all the brothers decided to take one for themselves too.

Brother X took a bite, AND I SUPER LOVE HIS EXPRESSION!!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

The questionnaire went on and on, end up they finished the spicy sandwiches, drank diabetic bandung, gobbled sour yoghurt and munched the crunchy bittergourd. After having their tummy filled, there were even entertaining games and healthy exercises for them to do.

Brothers were supposed to swing the basketball into the basket, and i love the first picture where the ball covered Ben’s face coincidentally!

Then they had to do sit ups and ate grapes dangling from undies. *coughs* I know I mentioned before on not posting too many gate crashing images anymore, but this series had too many happy faces, I thought I’d share a mini portion with you guys.

The sweet sisters.

Finally the key.

You’d have realised by now that I haven’t post any pictures of Daphne’s frontal view right? Kekeke.

Here you go!

While Daphne was getting ready for the Solemnisation, the groom and brothers had time for some “group photo”. The solemnisation ceremony was supposed to be held at the Creek, which is at the Pool area, but the sky decided to be generous and rained showers of blessings on that day, so they had to shift the ceremony indoors.

The guests had a quick bite right after the solemnisation.

I’m watching you from behind.

Quick mingling before heading off to prepare for the banquet ceremony.

An image of a quick shot around the hotel. This one took quite some time cos they had to wait for the lift (sometimes 1 lift was in use, so had to wait, then when that lift finally came, someone had to press for the lift from another level and up it went etc). Finally they managed to get this shot of both lift at same level, and the couple looking at each other.

Some set up shots of the ballroom and reception area. I super love colorful receptions!!! The lollies, cute little cards for guests to write their blessings, handmade ang pow box and pretty flowers! Everything looks so sweet and happy!!

And here comes the couple for their first March-in!

Second march in – elegant evening gown with sooooooo many buttons!

And it’s Speech Time! Daphne got a little emotional, but her mummy-in-law actually went up and comfort her. Speaking of couple’s speech, some just gave a straight forward thank you, some really went all out to thank every single one of their friends who helped at the wedding. Some really heartfelt and touching ones that sometimes make Raymond himself feel like crying too, and some really funny ones that tickled the guests.

Last week I attended my cousin’s wedding at Goodwood Park Hotel, my cousin in law’s speech was so unforgettable! He started off by thanking everyone for taking the time to attend their wedding especially on a weekday, thanking the parents, the siblings and relatives, and then the epic one came when he started to thank my cousin. It was all sweet and romantic, until he said something like this;

“Daddy mummy, no worries, I have found someone who can take care of you already!!”

I don’t know, it might not sound hilarious, but the way he put it got everyone laughing. Heh heh heh heh.

Not forgetting during the champagne popping they actually broke the chandelier. So funny!!! To some couples incidents like this might make them paranoid, get all stressed up and cannot properly enjoy the rest of the dinner. But it’s little hiccups like this that makes people remember the wedding too.

Okokie, back to Ben and Daphne’s wedding!

YAM SENGGGGGGG with the close friends and relatives!!

And a hearty farewell.

I’m really happy for Ben and Daphne, and through their personal wedding website, I got to know more about this sweet couple. When they came by to pick up their DVD, I totally enjoyed sitting through the session when they browsed through their images. Daphne is just so bubbly that she gave funny comments for almost all the images, and Ben as always will smile and laugh in a more discreet manner as compared to Daphne.

Anyway, congratulations once again guys! Hope to hear some good news on your status “upgrades” soon! Muwahahaha!

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P.S/ Watermarks were placed randomly in some pictures in this entry  if you haven’t noticed. This will go on for a few AD wedding blog entries for a contest to reward couples who have been following our blogs all these while. This entry marks just the beginning, so stay tuned! Cheers!

Love,

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

We also had the opportunity to photograph Colin and Emily’s pre-wedding in New Zealand, damn awesome shots, and super enjoyable! We can do it a million times over, and I believe even after the millionth time is done, we’ll still want more. But I shall not sidetrack, will keep my focus on their Actual Day Wedding for this post. :p

So… here goes!

Spot the resemblance? Kekeke. The bunny earsssss!

The couple actually got to know each other during their school days, and they’ve been together for almost 10 long years already!

Jean Aw (a friend of the couple and also Andrew + Sylvia) did the hair and make up for Emily that day. Wonder why was she laughing so hard until she was sitting on the floor!

Preparation for the gatecrashing, so pretty still go do Heart shape pattern on top of the gooey bitter gourd mixture.

I’m not gonna share too much images on gatecrashing, just a very few images.. otherwise it might scare the groom/brothers away~ This time round the girls are so considerate, before the start of the gatecrashing games, they offered the Po Chi Pills to the groom and brothers, to prepare their stomach for the just-in-case!

We have encountered cases whereby grooms and brothers puked and had tummyache during the wedding, which can be quite a spoiler for the couple as it affects the mood of the entire day. So maybe can refrain from playing with too much food stuffs, otherwise gotta take extra care and make hygiene practice a top priority. Or maybe… po chi pills at the start will be a good alternative. LOL!!

$8888 all for a keyyyyyyyyy?

The TEN Commandments… LOL!! If there’s any couples out there who’s doing a role reversal (might be a bit too much to ask bride to fetch groom, but girls doing gatecrash to win the groom should be alright), please text us, call us, email us, leave us a note on our facebook or even on our blog! We’d loveeeeeeee to photograph your actual day wedding! Muwahahahaha!

Emily in her pretty gown from Dang Bridal`

There there, finally the groom gets the bride!

Off to church for the church wedding at Life Bible Presbyterian Church!

Pretty floral decors by Flower Couture.

And awesome guestbook! Mini pretty cards and guests can write their well wishes~

All set and ready, waiting for bride’s arrival.

The darling flower girls and bridesmaid – Jolene, who is also Emily’s sister.

Evening banquet was held at Pan Pacific Hotel.

Oh no… red wine… I smell danger!

Super love the cake design, so pretty! And look at their wedding favour – a bottle of happy pills for the guests, label designed by couple, and they had friends to help them pack + label the bottles individually. Made with loveeeee!

Here’s the second change, with this beautiful pink cheongsam gown, also from Dang Bridal. It’s really really pretty!

Couple shared the first dance together~

There were a whole lot of happy images from Colin and Emily’s wedding, and I love it! I love it when the couple knows how to enjoy and relax on their wedding, when Susu (our digital plastic surgeon) saw the images, she also enjoyed working on the images. Raymond had fun shooting the wedding, everyone is happy!

I think this is cute! First time I see couple drink champagne so cute one.. Usually it’ll be the cross arms, you drink yours and I drink mine kind.. Hahaha~

Fierce yum seng!!

Time for candiiiiiids~

And huggies to end the post! Cheers!

Lots of ♥,
- Angeline

So this album is a mixture of Raymond’s and Angthommie’s works. One Canon user, the other a Nikon user. Both are Geminis, and both happened to be born on the same day! Just a year apart.

It was raining that day, and the solemnisation cum dinner was supposed to be an outdoor affair…


Kangwei and Verene at the far end, they’re all friends!

Very awesome wedding cake!!

Chilli and Onion, believed to possess mystical power to stop the rain (which it actually really did!!!!!)

Grumpy kid. Muwahahahaha! Love his expression.


Boy boy stuffing his face with fooooood~

See, the rain stopped!!!

Here comes Davina!


Solemnisation!


And then it’s mingling time!

Kids series!!!

Sweet Boy Boy says please mummy can I have a popcorn?
Mei mei more straight forward, immediately stretch her hand out! Hahaha!

Cute BB looking around~ Love the fishball cheeks, and I think BB resembles a bit like the cute Ponyo cartoon~ Kekeke.

Love mei mei’s look in the last picture. Abit wicked, abit mischievious, abit scheming like planning something to steal more onion rings~ Hahaha~


A series of group photos – Ah gong says everybody look at the camera!

Then everybody laugh and laugh and laugh~

And finally a proper one for the photographer taking group photos~

To end the post, here’s one posed shot of the day to share. Hehe. Cheers!
Lots of ♥,
- Angeline

Couples can be Multi sure that they have all angles covered with friends/relatives happily snapping away too! Hahahaha~
And they had a quick outdoor shoot at the Basketball Court.

The girls’ hero with a flying slam dunk! Muwahahahahaha~

Don’t ask me why I share this image, I just think it’s simple and I kinda like it for the simplicity.

One of my personal favourite solemniser/justice of peace – Dr Phua Tan Tee

Roger, you have made a good choice and married a good wife!

Roger:  *fake laugh*.. I hope she won’t get me to wash all the dishes and do all the housework after today. *fake laugh some more*

Muwahahaha~

While the folks are busy getting ready~

I enjoy the kids series! Hahahaha! It’s like goodie two shoes reading book, and then the last image we have a little drunkard totally wasted on Champagne. Hahahahaha~

Super love this little post box they had at their reception!! Instead of Singapore (Local) and Overseas, they had a For Him and For Her. Guests can write well wishes etc and then slot it into the respective slots.

For some reason, Bailey and Satin our Chihuahua loves the Conrad Bear…

Evon’s gown for the first march in, followed by the second change.

A series of candid shots at the banquet besides the standard programme for the table to table.

Evon: “You ah you, you better dont drink too much I tell you ah! Otherwise tomorrow nobody mop the floor!”

Dad: “Hmm… what evon says is true huh… come, I sniff sniff see this one potent anot, QC for you before you drink… ”

Roger: “COME ON… *fake laugh*… it HAS to be potent otherwise I cannot siam the housework tomorrow! *fake laugh*”

- Roger heck care, bottoms up! -

So Roger drank… and drank some more…

Evon buay tahan, at this rate if she don’t drink she’ll be the one doing housework… so she attempt to drink and drink too…

Roger got scareded, and the night continues with more images of Roger drinking… Hahahahaha~
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And here’s another pretty raw image to share from their outdoor shoot on Day 1!

Till the next, take care!

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

Here’s an interesting time lapse composite from thousands of images taken on the wedding day into a single slideshow which looks like a video. This time lapse is captured from a Groom’s perspective of the Wedding Day – getting off and on the car, gatecrashing, unveiling the bride etc. On the wedding day while Raymond focus on his candid shots, Dominic is the man behind the “Groom’s perspective” where he captured the thousands of images just for this project. It is definitely not an easy task putting all the images together, summarising the entire wedding luncheon into a less than 4 minutes slideshow.
 
 

A break away from the usual montage taken from a third person’s perspective, this time lapse on an actual day wedding is a first in the wedding industry, brought to you by Raymond Phang Photography and Synesthesia. We hope you guys will like it, and if you would like to enquire about this special service, please feel free to drop us an email at contactme@raymondphang.com. Enjoy!
 

Choon Wei & Ren Ying – Time Lapse on Wedding Day 2010 from Raymond Phang Photography on Vimeo.

Enjoy the long weekend! Cheers!
 
 

Lots of ♥,
- Angeline

 
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Lots of ♥,
- Angeline