Wow…I have been pretty busy for the past few weeks. At last I got my pre-wed photos back in soft copy from Keep Gallery about 1.5 weeks ago. These are un-touched photos. We were so shocked to find out that we took a total of 299 photos!! We expected only about 200. To choose 60 out of 299 would not be an easy task.

Truthfully when I first saw them with my hubby, I was a little disappointed. The photos looked nice but just do not have the “WOW” factor…not just yet. This may be because I had high expectations on them as I have seen Eugene’s great work. I thought it would be out of the world! I am mainly disappointed on the white wedding gown I chose for the photo shoot. The gown plus my hairdo makes me look much older in the photos.

But as time goes by and I had a look at the photos again and again (and had really good comments from others who saw them) and I slowly fell in love with them..well at least towards some of them..haha. Lots of them need to be photo shopped to make my arms looks slimmer and this will make the photo look more appealing to me :P.
Anyway, in my previous post I did not show which three gowns had the Top 3 spots out of all 20+ gowns I tried on. Hence now I will present you THE gowns:

First up is a black gown (some of you may feel uncomfortable with this but we just love it in the shots! Believe or not, my parents chose their framed photo of me wearing the black gown..haha)

Front View


Back View


Second is the SEXY purple gown (with the Nu Bra effect, my boobs really looked huge!..haha)


And lastly my white wedding gown (It looks nice in most photos but some I feel I looked too old)

And as a bonus, here are some of my favourite shot of the both of us.

AKPP at CLOUD 9...



Love this shot!

Finally our photoshoot day arrived. Perhaps I was too tired from everything that happened on Monday that when I woke up for my photoshoot day yesterday, I had not much of excitement in me. I was too busy thinking what were things that I forgot to pack for the photoshoot. I was also still wondering if there was a glimmer of hope that DJ would be able to join us in the shoot (ended up he could not).

Anyway, the photoshoot started with some make-over for AK and I..mostly for me..haha. It took more than an hour for me to get ready for the photoshoot but just about 20mins for AK. We spent about an hour to finish up with the indoor shoot and started getting ready for our outdoor photos. It was hilarious when we just started shooting as AK and I could not keep a straight smiling face while the photographer guided us through. Keep Gallery is well known for their outdoor shooting so we did not expect much from the indoor ones.

The journey to PD was tiring but once we reached there and started posing (jumping, walking, climbing branches, lying on the sand, etc), it started to get really exciting. Our first experience on the beach was terrible because the sand was SO hot and there were a few “time-bomb-plants” there that got stuck on my dress and cut my toes..OUCH. We went to a few locations in PD and had a great time :).
Overall, it was a great experience. I like our photographer Eugene and my MUA Crystal very much..not forgetting Joey, the assistant to the photographer was good too.

Actually, my hubby warned me early in the day not to get too stressed up during the shoot and start showing tantrums during the event. Told me to just enjoy myself and stop with my WORRYING..hahaha. Well, I am proud to say that throughout the whole day of shooting, I was patient, obedient and just enjoying the moments. I am sure you are proud of me, hubby!
Follow up photos to come soon……cross your fingers.

Just a short summary before I start with the main story. AK and I have been together as a couple for 8 years plus now. When we got registered on our 7th year anniversary, whatever happened after that was the same as when we were just dating. Basically, we were like a married couple even before we signed the marriage certificate. We were in no mood (mainly financially) to do any wedding dinner or wedding shoot. Long story short, our parents said that it is a MUST for us to take the photo. My guess is for them to put it up in the house to show that their children is already married :P. My mum said it is a symbol in my house to show our marriage to people.

After having thought about it, we decided to go for a simple one..perhaps a total of 1-2 gowns. Why take so many when it will all end up in a photo album or a casing which will be kept under the bed or on the cupboard or in the store room? At last we did what all other married couples have done…chose a bridal studio, paid the deposit and went for our gown selection. In the middle of all these events, I got excited (like many other brides will be). Had so many ideas and thought that the “simple” one we were going for was just too simple…haha. And many friends will tell me it is a once in a lifetime thing. They were shocked that I had not much preparation done for the dinner and the photoshoot.

Anyway, we ended up taking a package with Keep Gallery which supposed to include 4 gowns for the shoot. However, we chose PD as our photoshoot location (as we love the beach a lot) and this location was counted “far” and we could only have 3 gowns in total. I had my gown selection on 27th May 2010 and was tempted to add another day for shooting (which is quite normal) because I thought that 3 gowns was just too little..hehe…see how much I changed? But I kept reminding myself that it would be a waste of money because after everything is over, the album will just be a dust collector. So…wish me luck that lots of my poses are good enough for the album! :)
Here are some photos of the “almost” made to the Top 3 gowns during our selection.









More photos to come..(snapshots during gown selection)