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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

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So we reached the museum, bought our tickets and we were super excited! There was a national day promotion going on (think it was the last day already), you get free access to the Shipwreck exhibition if you purchase the Salvador Dali’s and Van Gogh’s. Awesome! I was super excited about Dali’s so I told Raymond we’ll go visit the Shipwreck first and leave Dali to the last.

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The Shipwreck was pretty cool, I was expecting a lot of golds and pearls and rare treasures…. maybe skulls and bits + pieces of the ship. But it was all ceramics, gold and silver pieces of artefacts. Pretty amazing and awesome stuffs too! And I like how they laid the plates out individually, each with a serial number of their own.

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There were interesting pieces of objects such as tweezers, mirrors, storage jars, silver ingots etc. The gold were super polished and it kinda looked very delicate too, I wonder how these managed to survive through the years!
We came across this corner where there were 4 mini “counter” for you to emboss pretty patterns on papers. Raymond had fun playing with it, and even took out his name card to emboss. The result turned out pretty good, so I suggested to him to bring his boxes of namecard, slowly sit down there to emboss. MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!

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The Shipwrecked exhibition has been extended till 2 October 2011.

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Shipwrecked relates the story of an astonishing cargo of some 60,000 objects carried from China by a ninth-century Arab dhow, presenting a dynamic tale of trade between China and West Asia along the maritime silk route.  The cargo had lain undisturbed on the ocean floor for more than 1,000 years before its discovery near Indonesia’s Belitung Islandin 1998. Many surprises were yielded upon recovery, ranging from huge numbers of mass-produced ceramics to exceptional items, such as the earliest complete examples of Chinese blue-and-white dishes and intricate items of finely worked gold.

The exhibition features hundreds of highlights from this remarkable find, considered to be the largest quantity of Chinese trade goods and luxuries from Tang Dynasty China ever discovered.

Excerpt taken from Singapore Tourism Board: https://app.stb.gov.sg/asp/new/new03a.asp?id=12323

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Next, we went ahead to Van Gogh’s exhibition. You’ll be disappointed if you’re expecting to see the physical artwork, cos like the title of the exhibition suggests – Van Gogh Alive, it’s actually an exhibition of his artwork put together using the latest sound and projection technology.

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Initially we were pretty excited, and we went all the way to the inside and sat on the floor, trying to absorb ourselves with the sight and sound. Raymond felt so inspired and comfortable that he decided he’s not gonna leave. =_=”

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Admittedly I’m a noob when it comes to art pieces, especially masterpieces from great artists. Personally I feel i’ll enjoy the works better if they were in physical form instead of the shifting projection. After 1 round of presentation, I didn’t feel good, started to feel dizzy. Recalling of the experience I had then, I’m starting to feel my head spinning again as I’m typing this.

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So I had to pulled Raymond up who was happily vegetating there, and we continued walking to the other end, finally saw some physical still copies, with interpretation and description. I cannot help but to feel very sad after looking at each pieces and reading about his life from the descriptions. Then there were a lot of “if-onlys” popping up in my head again… If only he’s still around, if only there’s someone who can make him feel better, if only he had the support and recognition, if only if only if only…

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The Van Gogh exhibition is on till 9 October 2011, and you can read more about it from the Marina Bay Sand’s website: http://www.marinabaysands.com/uploadedFiles/Marina_Bay_Sands/Content_Blocks/Company_Information/Media_Center/2011/Museum%20Press%20Release%20-%20Van%20Gogh%20Alive%20(FINAL)%20-%20March%2028%202011.pdf

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We left and grabbed some food at the SweetSpot. The cookies are yummy – just the kind I like, soft and sweet. I didn’t feel any better with the spinning head, but how can I miss the Dali exhibition?? So we went to the Dali exhibition!

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Apologies for the whole chunk of words, cos I’m pretty much a law by law person. They said no photography, so I abided and hence no pictures to share.

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But here’s one from Raymond’s phone! Hahaha!

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Dali and us! With my sexy 48-46-49 vital stats. HAHAHAHA!!
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Here’s an image of Dali if you’re wondering how he looks like. These images are not ours, I grabbed them off the internet and copied the sources in a notepad to credit the images, but before I could save it down, I accidentally deleted it!!

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An image of Dali’s Spellbound. So cute!! Love the sleepy eye… hahaha~

This is what you’ll see outside the museum, the melting clockkkkk..

The faceless woman in flame with chests of drawers…

A section with damn awesome furnitures!


Adam and Eve ant the evil serpent.

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I am super amazed with Dali’s works, his thoughts, his philosophies! And if only I can meet him personally!!! I kept thinking of Dali when I got home, and for the whole night I couldnt sleep well at all!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…… how is it possible that such a person exist/ed??

Here’s a few quotes from dali;

Have no fear of perfection – You’ll never reach it.

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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane, I know I am mad.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not to eliminate it.
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“Since I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.
However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: “Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?”
Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”
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And then he wrote a book (The Secret Life) about lobsters and telephone demanding to know why when he asked for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, he was never presented with a boiled telephone.

I think he’s crazy, and I like it!!

Dali’s exhibition till 30 October 2011, read more about it from Marina Bay Sands website here;

http://www.marinabaysands.com/uploadedFiles/Marina_Bay_Sands/Content_Blocks/Company_Information/Media_Center/2011/Dali%20Museum%20Press%20Release.pdf

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Hope you’ll enjoy the exhibits as much as we do, and enjoy the weekend!

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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

So I thought what a great way to grow up quickly and be like the adults! End up for all the remaining Winter Solstice festival, I never fail to stuff my face with the glutinous rice balls which came in various fillings such as peanut, black sesame, red bean etc. Come to think of it, I was so darn naive to believe! And guess what, I scooped the number of glutinous rice balls into my ball accordingly to the age I wanted to be. Then I asked them does it mean that if I am 10 years old and I eat 10 this year, I’ll be 20 years old? But what happens if next year I’m already 20, means I cannot eat anymore else I’ll become 30 years old? No. Apparently there’s a COUNTER RESET for every year. *Faints*
 

Now that we have all grown up to be young adults already, I wish I can vomit out all the glutinous rice balls I ate and turn back the time. Things are happening real fast, and moments kept whizzing by like the wind. Too fast for me to catch, too quickly disappeared. I only hope every single adult who happens to be reading this will really slow down their pace, listen to their own heartbeat and breathing. Don’t waste your life by doing nothing at all or being too busy. Indeed moderation is the key to life.
 

Anyway, on 5 August 2010, Raymond attended the award ceremony for the ASEAN Young Photographers’ Award 2010. He was the award recipient representing Singapore and he had to dress in the national dress or formal attire. With Time as the limit factor, we were not able to source for an appropriate national dress for Raymond, and being bugged with truckloads of work to do, we could only fly down to Zara at Vivocity to do a super last minute shopping on the day itself with Chris Woon being the fashion consultant. I’m kinda used to calling him Lao Woon though. Muwahahahaha!
 

So for those who haven’t seen Raymond in formal, here’s a few pictures taken along the corridoor of our studio at Central.

Lao Woon helped a lot with the selection of outfits, which inner shirt to match with the coat, what color for the tie goes best with the overall look etc! Next time if any guys need to go shopping can ask Lao Woon along! He’s pretty fashionable and very straight to the point, nice will tell you nice, not nice will tell you not nice.
 

That’s Raymond with his award.
 

And lastly, a solo picture on its own.
 

Now that the event is over, the entire outfit goes right into the wardrobe to grow mushrooms. I was telling him the next time he’ll be wearing it would probably be our ROM, or Actual Day wedding already. HAHAHAHA! =p
 

Speaking of wedding, here’s some images from Andrew Gabriel & Sylvia’s actual day wedding taken during their banquet day. The first half of the wedding was the Church ceremony done at Church of St Mary of the Angels, which we have uploaded some of the images to our Facebook Page. Feel free to click over to our Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/RaymondPhangPhotography and have a look!
 

The dinner banquet was held at The Regent hotel Singapore.
 

Preview of the ballroom and decor.
 

Here’s Sylvia at the pre-dinner reception.
 

The couple had sword bearers for their first march in, and the second march in was something special.
 

Sylvia had her make up and hair done by Jean Aw.
 

SO STYLO MILO!! Holding a videocam on one hand and a camera on the other, but recording and snapping together at the same time! O_O”!!
 

Almost all the guests were seated, couple ready to march in soon.
 

I’ve always enjoyed looking through images with sword bearers present during the wedding. No particular reason, but I thought the guys looked really smart in their uniform! Kekeke!
 

Some of the guys will make things “difficult” for you, they’ll cross their swords and either make the couple kiss each other, or make the groom carry the bride all the way to the stage.
 

I love beautiful wedding cakes!
 

While the guests were happily mingling away, the couple were up at their suite getting ready for the second march in.
 

One of my favourite images!
 
 

AND THIS ONE TOO!
 

And this as well! I love the series probably because personally for me, the feel is there. The subtle and abstract forms.. something like you don’t have to explain much or show everything, so it allows even greater room for people to exercise their creativity and interpretation!
 

The couple rode in for their second march in, and this particular image got us a first place in the 2010 Q1 Wedding Photojournalist Association contest for the ceremony category.
 

It’s not an easy feat for the couple to ride in, because the flooring of the ballroom was really slippery even with the red carpet! But very glad that everything went well smoothly for them!
 

Next comes the couple’s first dance.
 

Off to mingling and farewell.
 

One of my favourite image too! Hahahahaha!!
 

Ending the night back at the hotel room re-watching the express photo montage we did for them.
 

Andrew and Sylvia invited us and the brothers+sisters who helped out at the wedding to their new place last month and we had a feast of yummy food! They had a cement screed flooring done up for their kitchen, and their place look really cosy with the long wooden table + benches. Very raw feeling, both Raymond and I love the idea to bits! Hehehe! We’ll see you guys again soon when Satin is abit more settled down and we’ll let Satin, Bailey and Rusti have a ball of a time k!! Hehehehe~

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On a side note, ever since we shifted to SOHO 1 @ Central a year ago, we haven’t share any images of our studio yet. Here’s one taken without the lights on. It’s actually a loft with a ceiling height of about 4.5m to 4.75m, which is more than enough for us to build a mezzanine floor to make it a duplex. A little complicating, so we will probably consolidate a few images to share for the next entry especially when there’s a frequent “breakout” of fireworks these few days due to the Youth Olympic Games.
 

Susu might also be sharing some of her awesome cat images which were selected for exhibition!! I’ll go bug her on Monday to blog! Muwahahahaha! Good night!
 

Lots of ♥,

- Angeline

BRAS – Baileys, Raymond, Angeline and Susu!!
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We decided to take a short break from our work and editing in our studio, so we thought why not let’s take a picture together. Here’s just one of the image from the series which I’ll share with you guys on a seperate entry another time. Raymond acting like Superman gone wrong (where’s the inside out underwear??), I’m feeling all angsty for no reason (menopause maybe??), Baileys guarding his post (the toilet bowl), Susu all drunk and stoning (see the bottle of Baileys in her hand!).
 

The new blog has flexible width to maximise the viewing size of images unlike the old one which was maxed out at 500 pixels. I hope it doesnt take too long for the images to load, but the increment in image size means you can view the details more clearly now! Weeeeeee!! If you’d like to contact us, our details can be found at the tabs above in blue, and in future if there’s any latest news or updates, we’ll add in a new tab right there.

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Next on, as I was browsing through Raymond Phang Photography’s Facebook Page, I chanced upon this Youtube Video. The title of the video “Elderly couple of 62 years plays piano” caught my attention. I rarely click on the videos posted by friends on Facebook because I thought it’ll take time loading, and I’ll have to spend time watching, which I could have used the waiting + watching time for work. But this one felt pretty worth the time waiting and watching, so I decided to check it out.
 

Here’s the video description – “An elderly couple walked into the Mayo clinic for a check up and spotted a piano. They have been married for 62 years, and he will be 90 this year. Check out this impromptu performance. We are only as old as we feel, it’s all attitude. Enjoy! They certainly do”

I thought it’s a super sweet video clip!! So sweet of the couple to play the piano together, and play it so well at this age! So sweet of them to be such a good sport for an impromptu performance! So sweet that the couple still feel for each other after 62 long years of marriage! So much zest and energy coming from them, to me it just felt like they’re only in their 20s or their courtship period!! In fact I felt so ashamed that even though I am not married and have not even walk through half the journey of a century, I already feel all old and tired and sickly!! Urgh!!
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I do envy them a lot and feel really happy for them. Even though it’s 62 long years of marriage, they’re still so much in love with each other and the number of years being married to each other is really just a number. I would like to dedicate this video to all couples out there looking for their one true love, getting married, or already married, and I wish you love. :)

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As promised, here’s something from a wedding shoot to share. Currently we have quite a few backlogs of images from weddings this year to share on the blog, so it’ll take quite a while before we go to the very recent works! Hehehe. The following are from Yikai and Fei Ling’s collection of ROM images to share. The couple engaged our service for both their ROM and Actual Day this year in January and May respectively. Their ROM was held at 1TwentySix at East Coast Parkway, Playground @ Big Splash. Pretty nice place for chill-out, with both indoor and outdoor area accommodating up to about a maximum of 250 guests. It’s a little bit more romantic in the evening when you get to enjoy the nice cooling sea breeze, but for the nature lover, you’ll get to enjoy the view of the the lush greenery.
 

Couples looking to source for venue for their solemnisation or wedding parties can visit the 1 Twenty Six website and contact them for further details.
 

And because my previous entries were all so long winded and wordy, I shall attempt to keep it short and sweet this time! Enjoy!!

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Phew! I’ll share with you guys the images taken on their actual day wedding in May on a seperate entry. Their actual day wedding was planned by The Wedding Entourage with an Alice in Wonderland theme, amazingly decorated ballroom and a special item for their march in, so do check back for regular updates yea? Cheers!!
 

Lots of ♥,

- Angeline

Currently we have tons and tons of wedding backlogs to edit and share, so do be patient with us while we find the time to update constantly ya? We’ll also have images from Raymond’s editorial shoot in Silk Road (where he met with some misfortune during his birthday), some images of our long overdue Kelong trip as SAR, maternity shots (yes, maternity), more amazing pre-wedding images (confirm never seen before, once in 16 years and never again), and more images of recent actual day weddings! We just did one for Kenny and Sherry’s AD on 3 July 2010 (super popular date!), one of the group shot taken for the groom and the brothers is really nice! To the brothers, the sacrifices your shoes made were all very much worth it!

At present, Raymond is enslaved to the nation for his Reservist and running his ass off to make sure he pass that darn IPPT. We’ll see him when he’s back by the weekend for the actual day wedding shoot of Sam and Shen Hwee.

 
Raymond has also won himself a First Place for the Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA) 2010 Q’1 contest for the Ceremony category. It’s our first time participating in the WPJA contest, and we’re very humbled by the achievement. We’ll share the winning image on a seperate entry with the rest of the couple’s wedding images. Lots of images which we personally like, and definitely lots of emotions happening during the wedding as well.

Another piece of good news to share, Raymond has been selected to represent Singapore for the ASEAN Young Photographers’ Award 2010 which will take place in Singapore in August this year. I’m sure he must be really excited to meet the other representing photographers from their respective countries. It’s a very good opportunity for him to interact and exchange ideas with photographers from abroad, and I hope it will change his perspective be it towards photography or even Life.

We’re super excited for the plans we have for next year as well, and we’ll share with all couples once we have the details finalised! The SAR has even made a pledge to make sacrifices for it just to see it come true! Emily and Colin has been really supportive, and we’d want couples to take advantage of the opportunity too! So do stay tuned for more updates ya?

That aside, couples have feedback to me that my SMS-es are like emails, and my emails are like story books! I’m so sorry to be this long winded again, blame it on the lack of writings and updates!

Seriously, I would also like to share with everyone another piece of news update. One of the couple whose wedding we shot this year has been featured on the front cover of the current issue (July 10 – December 10) of Blissful Brides magazine. Their wedding is also featured in the Real Weddings section from Page 340 to Page 343. Do grab a copy of the magazine at all major newstand and vote for your favourite cover ya? You’ll stand a chance to win an Elegante Diamond necklace worth $3058 from Goldheart Jewellery. Voting form can be found on Page 48 of the Blissful Brides magazine, and contest ends 30 November 2010. Good luck to all who have voted, and enjoy the images taken during Qi Wei and Hsiao Hui’s actual day and pre-wedding! It’ll be a looooong post with lots of images. Loading of images will take abit of time, so do be patient ya? Hehe. Cheers!

Front cover of Blissful Brides Magazine

Real Wedding feature
 

Contest Form on Page 48

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Hsiao Hui getting ready

Merrymen and groom’s arrival… groom seemed a little nervous…

Kena tekan by the sisters during gatecrashing, begging for mercyyyyy~

That’s Eileen, one of the bride whose wedding we shot on 6 June 2009 last year!
To view the blog entry on their wedding, visit http://www.raymondphang.com/blog/2009/ho-wei-eileen-6-june-2009

Evil sister dangles the key to the padlock infront of the helpless Qi Wei… So… it’s key, or money?

* Qi Wei ponders*

“Bo bian, have to eat grass for the next few months already…”

The sisters opening up the red packet with delight!

“HAR!! Only 10 bucks ah!”

The last resort, if still cannot clear stage, have to go sell backside already….

Wah headache, how come my wifey’s girl friends so scary! Heng they accept my last ang pow!

HA-HA! See if you dare to bully me or not!
 

There’s something I like about this image and I cannot explain why…
Maybe it’s the atmosphere, or the way everyone is focusing on the couple who is offering prayers with all sincerity…

Must be the soup not nice to drink right…

Actually amongst the many brides we’ve photographed, Hsiao Hui is one of the few brides who has the most expressions!

I think the bowl of something must be pretty hard to swallow down the throat… =x

I love red umbrellas! If i have the time, I might update a post on all the red umbrella shots we have done. You’ll then see the different expressions from the brides, and it’s really interesting!

Personally I haven’t visited their place, but when I first saw this image I thought their wardrobe looked amazing! It looked like there’s an attached bathroom right beyond the wardrobe!

Eileen in the wind~

Tea ceremony! I never used to appreciate tea ceremonies, and I thought they were one of  the most boring part of a wedding, next to table to table shots and group photos. But recently somehow I had a change of perspective. I came to value human relationship more, and trying to appreciate the much elder folks. There’s a few images from Kangwei & Shuqin’s tea ceremony which I’ve listed as my favourites. Might seemed like some extremely normal shots, but nowadays I tend to look beyond the surface of the photos and realised that the ties or meaning behind it is worth much more than anything else in the world. I’ll update an entry of their actual day wedding (18 July 2010) once the images are ready.

Tricky tricky part! Unpin the wrong one and you might destroy the hairstyle! Maybe the sisters ought to collect bribery from the groom for completing this task for them.

I seriously wonder what’s the piece of paper they’re looking at. Love the expression and the whole feeling/tension!

Instead of the usual traditional Kwa or cheongsam, Hsiao Hui wore a gorgeous traditional peranakan outfit!

Intricate details, and it’s not easy when the shoes are handmade and every beads have to be sewn on individually. Takes alot of patience and skills!

One of the must haves for weddings! When else do you get a chance to hug the groom like this, take the opportunity to poke his waist and squeeze his butt!

Now’s the eggies eating time!

Start of the evening session with Ho Wei and Eileen goofing around..

Who’s the Karaoke King!!

A picture of the mum and daughter getting ready! We call Hsiao Hui’s mummy as  星妈 (celebrity’s mum). Hehehe! Don’t you think Hsiao Hui has the looks of a celebrity? When I first saw her, I thought she looked like Zhang Zi Yi! But of course Hsiao Hui is the super friendly, warm and outgoing version.

Hsiao Hui’s gown with a super long train! Gown from Bridal Veil by Michelle Hui Min.

They had time for some quick photo opportunities around Raffles Hotel where they had their banquet.

Love the tone and lighting for this one.

Hsiao Hui had her hair and make up for the evening done by Cleo Chang.

Putting on the shoes~

This picture reminds me of the day when my uncle got married. I was only a primary school kid’s age at that time, and my parents decided that my brother and I will sleep over at my uncle’s place together with my granny. I couldn’t sleep well, probably too excited and didn’t know what to expect. So I had my granny to tell us stories of her life, and probably what marriage is about. The next thing I know, my uncle’s alarm clock went off, he immediately dashed out of his room, washed up and got ready. He was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nervous, until he actually forgot how to put on socks!! Hahahahaha!! I can never forget the scene, and I’ve decided to use that against him if he ever teases me on my wedding day.

“Na, you hold it like this and you push it like that ok?”

“OKIE!”

“Grrrrrr… Vrrrrr…..”

“Nonono, hold it like this, and then push it like that…”

“Heh heh heh, seems to work now!”

“Woooooaaah, suddenly fly out like that!”

Kids on a high…

I must say Hsiao Hui’s Kwa is also one of the most beautiful one I’ve seen. The cutting fits her perfectly and look at the colours + details!

“Our Huihui is a very good daughter, filial and prettttyyy… so lucky to marry a good husband…”

SIAMI HUI HUI??? Where’s my Zhang Ziyi???

Muwahahahahaha! I’m a little in the cranky mood today, thus the weird captions for the images. Luckily I postponed my driving lesson. Else I would have given my instructor a heart attack since yesterday I almost made him choke on his sweet when I swirve the car to almost mount the pedestrian walkway at the slip road. HEHEHEHEHEHEHE! Rainy days make it easier to drift… oops! I drive golf buggy can mount kerb, drive car can swirve elsewhere, so please don’t invite me to a go-kart race cos I will confirm flip and toss the car in mid air and do the mid air car explosion stunt. I don’t mind Daytona invites though.

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Now for a few selection of the pre-wedding images at Raffles Hotel, with hair and make up by Cleo Chang as well.

That’s all for today’s super lengthy update! I hope you’ll take a looong loooooong time to finish reading so that I’ll have more time before I update on the next entry! Hehehe. Cheers!

Lots of ♥,

- Angeline

Throughout the first half of the photoshoot, Raymond was the one driving the buggy from point to point, while Susu and I sat and grumbled at not being able to hold the wheel. It seems fun to drive a golf buggy, especially after we experienced how Raymond manoeuvered the vehicle over steep slopes and “canals”. We thought we were going to crash and die whenever he did all those supposedly dangerous stunts which to Raymond was common.

Finally my chance to drive the golf buggy came when he needed clearance for one of his angle. So while everyone was fussing over the bride and groom, I was tasked to move the buggy to the other side! YES!!! I do not have a driving license, but I thought it’s like driving a bumper car! The instructions were pretty simple and easy to comprehend, and I happily drove the buggy with success!! FUWAH! What a feeeeeeeeling!! It was damn fun!!! I got addicted to it, and so I waited and eyed at every opportunity to drive the golf buggy again.

Done with first half of the photoshoot, and we wouldn’t have done it without the help from Mia and Clarabelle – very nice friends of Kangwei & Shuqin who helped toss the veil, hold the speedlite, provide tissues etc!

So Raymond drove the golf buggy back to the pick up and return point. On the way back, I wanted to take over the wheel and he let me!! So I was sitting in the middle while the wheel was on the left, I totally enjoyed myself driving the golf buggy!! I drove like a pro, until we met with a vehicle parked at the left side of the road. I had to avoid it so I drove closer to the right. Looking at the pathetic battery left, plus I didn’t want the three of us to be stranded in the middle of nowhere, I stepped on the accelerator with all my might! Especially so when I saw that we were approaching an uphill slope! Jialat I thought…. the golf buggy sure don’t have enough horse power to take us up… Who knows, if it rolls backward I will surely be laughed at by Raymond. My bimbo moment strucked, and I figured by stepping the accelerator pedal fully, it might help a teeeeeeeny weeeeeeny bit. 

Fuwah, indeed the golf buggy seemed to respond better. Ai seh, I thought I was a heroine!! Muwahahahahaha! But I didn’t anticipate that there’ll be a downhill turning slope right after, so I happily mounted a kerb! Maybe cos I played too much Daytona, watched too much Need for Speed or Initial-D and the likes, I swirl/swirve (don’t know how to spell) and thought maybe by doing that the golf buggy will drift and move to the right track! Fuwah! I always thought those drifting scenes in the movies are really cool! But I forgot I’m a no license driver, and I’m not driving a vehicle built for F-1 races. Tsk…..

Seconds before the Mayhem… Look at my expression!! Something doesn’t seemed right…………… MUWAHAHAHAHA!!!

Right after Raymond took this self snap picture of us three in the moving golf buggy, I mounted the kerb and Raymond flew out of the buggy, turned and did a few rounds of summersault with his hands holding the camera high up in the air!!!! Fuwah my goodness, it was like a “jump car” scene out of the movies!! I saw it happening right before my eyes! So i jammed break and ran to Raymond. He was laying on the ground motionless… Luckily it was all superficial injuries and the pole didn’t poke him and pierce through his body. Phew!!! He thought I’d be crying like the Nigeria falls, but who knows my first reaction was a giggly “sorry sorry”… HAHAHAHAHA!!

I picked him up, and he limped his way back to the buggy. Luckily the camera was perfectly good too! All thanks to his professional dedication for passion  - he saved and protected the camera instead of his body/head.
 

I forgot what happened after… forgot who drove the buggy back. But anyway, here’s his battle scars! If he didn’t fly out of the buggy, the whole vehicle would have overturned, crushing his ribs and the three of us could have just died like that… freak accident!

Pretty badly injured, and he had a suuuuuper big piece of bruise on his waist area. I would love to drive the golf buggy again if given another chance!! Hehehehehehe… =p

 
Anyway, here’s a few images from the day’s shoot to share!!

We spent the entire day for the shoot from morning to night, and even when it rained during the night, Kangwei and Shuqin was really cooperative with us!! Must also thank the couple for being so patient and trusting even though they could have fallen sick, they had to rush off for an important birthday dinner right after, risk their makeup getting all smudged, risk falling off the building etc etc etc.

More to come, and we’re also really excited to share a recent series we did for Eddie and Aileen!! Something never seen before… hehehe… Till then, cheers!!

Lot of ♥,

- Angeline

Heard from Raymond that one unique point of Christian Louboutin’s shoes is the signature shiny red lacquered soles! You must be wondering why there’s like at least two images of this pair of shoes. Actually it’s a surprise gift Bowen got for Nadia from Paris!

Taking the time during make up to memorise the wedding vows. Scaaaary! Makes me feel like it’s exam timeeeeee~

Shaun Lee the make up artist & hairstylist for the day.

Here’s Bowen with a bouquet of big red roses in hand, looking all bright and cheery!

Gatecrashing is fun! For couples who find gatecrashing meaningless, maybe you can try looking at it from another point of view. I’m sure the gatecrashing segment will be one of the most memorable part of your wedding day. Perhaps you find it meaningless for the groom and merrymen to suffer while being forced to lick cucumbers and eat wasabi + tobasco filled bread. I do agree to a certain extent that it’s pretty pointless, but it’s all in the name of fun! Life would be so dull and mundane if everything is to go according to plan and perfection, if everything is to be judged by face value.

If you’d like it to be meaningful, maybe you can think of meaningful gatecrashing games like getting the groom to chain a necklace using the available materials your sisters have for them etc. At least you get to keep the necklace at the end of the day even though most probably you wouldn’t be wearing it. It’s something your beloved hubby make for you (probably that’ll be the only piece of jewellery he’ll ever make for you too! You know… Guyyyyyss). It’ll be something which I guarantee you’ll cherish, and something for you and your hubby to look back and laugh together when you both grow old.

The auspicious red thunder granny undies for good luck! Huat ah!

Bowen holding a piece of mini polaroid. Guess what’s in the picture!

Yoga poses!

Very happy for the couple that they have spontaneous friends who are willing to play along!

More yoga poses

The gorgeous sisters!

Poor brother, had to sacrifice and stretch with all his might to mimic the pose shown on the mini polaroid.

Finally!!

Solemnisation at Oosh.

Here’s Sumei marching in together with the flowergirl. Actually it’s quite a small world because Nadia actually knows Anamika (one of the couple whom we photographed for their solemnisation and banquet last year)! I only found out about it until I saw Sumei appearin in one of Nadia’s past photographs when I was doing the childhood montage!

Daddy handing over his daughter to Bowen. That’s their Justice of Peace – Mrs Chia Swee Tin.

After exchanging the vows and “mini handcuff”…

You may now kiss the bride!

Then they changed into the Cheongsam, head back home for Tea Ceremony.

Hope you guys enjoyed this series! Will try to update an entry on their evening banquet once we’re done with the edit! Cheers!

Lots of ♥,

- Angeline

Susulini (a.k.a Susu) has more or less settled down with Raymond Phang Photography. Feeding our grossmits (Hermit crabs), disturbing Baileys our Mascot chihuahua, raiding the fridge (she actually only raid the drinks and not the sinful food like chocolates!)! Susu not only does the editing, sometimes when we have pre-wedding shoots, she’ll tag along and help us out with the lightings and stuffs. She’s a straight forward person with a unique personality. Sometimes when she gets too carried away, she tends to forget about stuffs like formalities & manners, so please do pardon her if she has ever offended anyone of you ya?

As for meeeeeeee… I’m still vertically challenged (which I think will be the case forever), and horizontally empowered!! In fact, I’m getting more and more empowered! I attribute the cause to my occupation hazard. Irregular meals, super gigantic meals, and after all the sinful meals, I slam my fatty ass on the chair and grow roots infront of the monitor.

I’ve actually proposed an idea to my Boss – exercise at least once a week, sleep before 12 midnight, or the very least walk the dog for 30 minutes after a meal. My Boss liked the idea! Initially we followed the plan, but after 2-3 days, everybody seemed suffer from amnesia, they actually forgot about my plan. *Shakes head*

Nonetheless I hope Year 2010 have been good for everyone of you so far!

Here’s some images to share from Matthew & Melissa’s wedding! We met the couple quite some time back at TCC when we haven’t got our current studio yet, and I had quite a deep impression because TCC actually black out on that day and we had to walk to another restaurant to do our meet up. I remember we chatted not only about the wedding, but also on HTC phones. Hahaha! Perhaps because Melissa is an artist (she plays and teaches the Piano!!), so they’re more spontaneous in making decisions and “fearless” about doing what they really want.

They had two day wedding celebration, but we only managed to cover one of the days since Raymond had another shoot for their first day. We’re really glad that the couple chose us to photograph their wedding day, and after looking through the images, it makes me even more certain to have a wedding celebration like theirs! One which is super fun filled, one which is arranged specially for themselves and close friends to enjoy, instead of the typical dinner banquet at night where couples usually are clueless about 70-80% of the guests attending!! So a two day wedding would be perfect! Day 1 for family with all the traditional rituals and ceremonies to go through, Day 2 to let your hair loose and party like crazy with your friends!!

Enough of my naggy wordings, enjoy the images!

The couple decided on an outdoor beach wedding theme where they had their solemnisation ceremony, and thankfully they were blessed with good weather that day!

Here comes the bride!

Here’s Matthew & Melissa!

Very Club Med feel… Hahaha!

Afterwhich it’s the must have “Toss the hand bouquet” time! Guess who caught it!

So unfair since Matthew’s status has already upgraded to Married few moments ago, so they had a Toss the bouquet again, this time without Matthew!

I love the series from their wedding images because there’s a lot of big big smiles, laughters, and I could actually feel the joy and happiness from the images even though I wasn’t present at the wedding.

Having some on stage games… Hehehe…

I wonder what foodie did the friends asked Matthew to eat, but it looks like yummy satay to me!

Hmm… Maybe not? Wait, are these the evil sisters we usually see during the gatecrashing session  or are these angels??

I wish I was there to witness everything cos the images make me want to know what was happening! That’s why I say Raymond is really lucky cos he not only witnessed all the Love and happy marriages during various wedding shoots, he also got to do what he love doing the most!

Then it was time to let the hair loose and have fun dancing!!

You really don’t have to care too much about what other people think of you, whether the folks or other random strangers would think what you’re doing is pretty shameful in their eyes. I’ve heard of couples being “scolded” by their parents right after their actual day wedding banquet ends, simply because the couple removed Sharks Fin from the course and it made the parents “lose face” because other uncles and aunties complained about it, saying nasty things like “got money hold banquet at this hotel, no money treat sharks fin” even though they replaced it with individual servings of gigantic abalone for every guests. But they cannot understand how their children felt as divers and lovers of the waters, the environment and the sea creatures.

I’ve also heard of couples absolutely detesting taking the the table to table shots and faking a smile. They actually wanted to do away with the whole banquet and have an intimate dinner/luncheon with only close friends and immediate family members but couldn’t because of the parents.  I’ve heard of couples working with too many restrictions because their parents didn’t like it. No black gown, no black theme for the banquet ballroom, must wear the traditional kua and no modern cheongsam and blablablablabla.

It’s a good thing that you’re still keeping the tradition, it’s also a very good thing that you respect your parents’ wishes because you want to be filial to them. Personally I feel that the wedding is pretty much like a show. It’s the marriage that matters. Although your Actual Day is a once in a lifetime thingy,  it’s your decision whether you’d like to have it your way, or have it their way. I agree that holding the wedding over two days will really burn a much bigger hole in your pocket. So maybe it’s a good time to save up lots lots now! And ultimately it all depends on whether you’d like your Actual Day to be a grand affair for show, or to keep it small but meaningful and purposeful.

Matthew and Melissa sure had tons of fun that day.

When you do something to the groom……

You gotta do something to the bride too!!

And the couple continues to dance. It reminds me of the dancing scenes from Bollywood movies. Kekekeke.

The lovely Angels.

Congratulations once again to Matthew and Melissa on their marriage! It takes a lot to pop the question and even more to say “I Do”. I’m glad you guys have made it, and all the best to you guys as you embark on a new journey of life together as husband and wife!

Lots of  ♥,

- Angeline