I have to appologize for not keeping the blog up-to-date. For those who are not on our Facebook Fan page, might think we are inactive lately. The fact is, we have been so busy with weddings / engagements / new initiatvies this year, we barely have time to blog. We found the easiest way is to do a batch blog update as well as adding photos on our Facebook page.
Without further ado, I would like to present one of the projects we have been busy with – our first video production!!!
This trash the dress was definitely fun to shoot. We did not want to just do a trash the dress session where you get the dress dirty just for the sake of it. So we came up with a storyline together with our Bride and Groom. They both liked ice-cream and the beach, with that input we went away. We did some brainstorming, added some twist to it (you will see it in the video – hint: paint), and re-group again with our couple, they liked the idea and then the date was set.
The whole shoot took about 3-4 hours… we were able to pull everything together fairly quickly. We also had another team shooting along side with us as well for another purpose, which I will disclose in a later date.
Overall, we had fun, it was more than we expected. And certainly you can tell from they video our Bride and Groom (Danielle and Erik) had fun too. Definitely looking forward for more opportunities like this in 2011.
If you would like to have videography included in our services, please let us know. I will be glad to provide you with more information and pricing.
Dec 1st, 2009
Great thanks to Isa and Thomas being so generous, gave me such great opportunity to shoot their wedding photos in Macau! Provide us nice room and greatest foods + shark fins soups etc… Thanks again! :
Thank you for Alison and Edward for giving us the opportunity to document their wedding in Jamaica, a very dreamy Caribbean Wedding. We all had lots of fun! We took a slightly different approach this time around. Instead of just photograph their wedding, we did their entire trip!! During this trip, not only do we get to do our favorite beach photography session, we also get to photograph their cliff diving jumps as well. (We did a couple jumps too!!) All in all, we very much enjoyed ourselves in the setting of Jamaica Wedding Photography and hope to return soon!
Over the years, we were asked a lot of times “Have you gotten tired of wedding photography?”. Sometimes even I have wondered that myself… why have I not been tired of it… well, if you love what you do, how can you get bored of what you are doing? And every now and then… we get our rewards. It’s not a trophy from winning a photo contest, nor it is the money we get. It’s just a simple “thank you” from our brides and grooms telling us that they appreciate our hard work, that they love our photos, that our photos brought them back to the moments on the very special day they had.
This is why we have not gotten tired of wedding photography, and never will.
Formula to a successful “trash the dress” session…
(Us to Bride and Groom)
“Can you guys wake up at 4am after the long day?” “YES!!”
“Can your dress and shirt get wet and dirty?” “YES!!”
“Can we have more than just fun?” “YES!!!”
Three “YESes” and these pictures are born. Chrizuru and Shachin are truly an amazing couple, they will do whatever it takes to get the pictures done. We have a feeling they both have a secret job of doing professional modeling.
Nonetheless, we had yet another super fun session. Oh, and if you haven’t noticed… we got into the water for some of the shots too… we all got wet that morning!
I would like to thank Chizuru and Shachin once again for giving us such a great time!! Looking forward to their wedding in Toronto in October!
WOW… what a trip!!! Where do I begin?? I can’t really call this a wedding after the day, it was more than that, it was truely an experience of the culture.
When we shoot Chizuru and Shachin’s engagement back in May this year, I recall we had more fun than they did (and they had tons of fun!). We were all hyped up about their Japan wedding knowing this couple will definitely do something special there. We were shocked with what they had arranged for their wedding day! There was the traditional Japanese crememony at the shrine, the special entertainment brought on by the groom’s friends (all the way from Toronto!), and the beer shower!! And on top of all this, we woke up at 4:00AM the next day, went to the beach and did a trash the dress session!!
“Someone is looking down upon us.” That’s what the mother of the bride said to me after the ceremony. It was forecasted to rain on Saturday and at the end, we only had a few drops of rain. Jayme and Robin had set their wedding to take place at Robin’s family estate, which is a farm located in Alliston. They had wished for their wedding ceremony to take place in front of their house where they sat a pair of musicians on the side of the porch. Everything went well on the day off, except the weather forecast wasn’t co-operating. But at the end, we had a beautiful sun almost the entire time till the end of it. Their wedding was done in a very relaxed manner. The food served was great. We took alot of candid shots. I was impressed with all the work they had put through for the event, with so few people involved. We had lots of memorable pictures, and I have quite a few bug bites… LOL.