So on Saturday we had our pre-wedding photoshoot.
This is the extremely long winded story of how we ended up doing what we did *clears throat
When we first started wedding planning, a lot of people already asked us what we were going to do about pre-wedding shots.
At that point I was so overwhelmed by all the other more urgent wedding stuff (like think what kind of dress I want wtf) that pre-wedding shots seemed so unnecessary and not time-sensitive.
Also, my friends like Bobo were all going for bridal house photography packages. Fatty and I didn’t feel like doing that because:
1) I’m not a fan of the commercialization of bridal houses
2) the dresses sure cannot fit me and would have to be heavily altered. Even so, they would not do the hems and I foresaw myself (a) standing on phonebooks (b) hitching up my skirts every 5 seconds
3) we didn’t want to have to do dramatic shots with lightning striking in the background or whatever that seems so typical of wedding photography
I thought if we did a shoot, it’d be something more fun and casual and subtle and totally not dramatic. Cos our wedding theme is aready Up, if we were gonna do a shoot, I wanted an Up themed photo shoot!
Then don’t know how people kept sending me links to photo albums and photographers. And I came across a wedding photography company called One Way Ticket. They offer not just photography but also photo styling (including props and outfits) which was very appealing!!!!
One of the people behind it is Kim from Kiminpink. I’d seen her blog on and off over the years and I knew her as someone with awesome taste (in clothes and decor) so I had full faith in her wtf. Also, One Way Ticket is a very new company and while they probably didn’t have as much experience in wedding photography as say, the average bridal house, I chose them cos I thought they would really go all out to personalize our shoot and achieve whatever we had in mind.
And they did lo seriously. From what I know (although I could be wrong) for other pre-wedding shoots you’d get to choose your location and your outfit and that would be it. With One Way Ticket, they sat down with us to figure out the people we were and customized the shoots according to our ideas and preferences.
Haven’t seen the finished products yet but super happy with their professionalism and effort and artistic sense! And mostly their effort leh they really gave like 250%.
A lot of behind the scene pictures coming up!
They can do makeup too but I prefer to do my own 🙂 That’s Kim doing up my hair for the first theme. We had three in total!
The setup for the theme.
I only wanted one theme with a long white dress and since my real dress is all princessy and poofy, I wanted to wear a simpler, more elegant gown for the shoot. I told them to match, I wanted something very simple, a little bit antique-y and rustic. We decided on brown flooring and green and white setting.
That’s Shu, the photographer.
Check out the old bottle crates!
This dress is also from Weddinspired! One of his rental pieces. Actually it’s all pinned up at the back -_______- I was gonna borrow another dress from him wan but last minute I thought I looked fat in it WTF so I took this other dress but no time to alter so everything was pinned behind. I even had a paper clip behind me WTF.
Part of the photo styling they had 🙂
With Kim <3 Flower in hair was from her, necklace is mine super old dunno dig out from where wtf. Luckily it matched the dress.
With Fats.
Then second theme was the Up inspired one! Kim sourced both our outfits! Everything in pastel shades.
Fatty’s shirt and shorts are by Gallo by Thian. Kim handmade the bowtie for him and found the brown suspenders somewhere. Based on the colors of Fatty’s outfit (pink + purple shirt, yellow shorts), she got someone to tailor my dress (yellow bustier, pink skirt with a purple collar accessory)
My makeup! Actually same makeup as the morning shoot except my lipgloss was nude.
A close up of the setting 🙂
I think I was instagram-ming #efficient
Oh I paired the dress with ankle socks and fake Miumiu shoes wtf.
Another idea Kim had was that since we both blog, she printed out cutouts of our blogs and had us write messages in the middle to each other. That’s what I mean by customized 😀
This is what 30 balloons look like wtf.
Thank goodness they didn’t ask me to do anything too over the top! But the team did ask me to manja to Fats and I responded by attempting to throw him a punch -_- #cold #unaffectionate
Then at night shoot! The theme was Shanghai hahahahah.
Fatty’s outfit is fawesome haahahahha.
Actually it was because I knew we had to do one shoot at night and I thought I wanted to do it somewhere bright with lots of neon lights. I thought of Petaling Street (Chinatown) immediately so we decided might as well go the whole hog and do a whole early 20th century Shanghai theme.
According to TVB dramas (ahem), at that period, women were still wearing qipaos (the traditional dress) but men had graduated to wearing shirts and slacks with suspenders like in the West.
So like that lo hahahaha. even had a scarf to stick in his shirt collar. I wasn’t too sure about the hat cos it looks like Hard Gay to me wtf but the whole look gelled hahahaha.
Kim put my hair up and made me wear (fake) pearl earrings to fit hahaha.
And applied red lipstick wtf. I’ve never worn red lipstick in my life! I rarely wear anything on my lips also to tell you the truth and I worried I might look like a vampire after a meal wtf but ok la wasn’t too bad.
From what I saw in the camera, the night pictures looked the best even though I didn’t really put that much thought into it! We’ll receive them in a week cannot wait 😀
We got the whole world in our hands wtf.
Comments (32)
OMG. THE SECOND PHOTOSHOOT IS AMAZING. The clothes, the setting, the theme, did I mention the clothes?! aha can’t wait to see the result if you guys are going to share it. if too personal better don’t lah
xo
Looks really fun !!!
I can’t wait to see the pictures 😀
love love love! Looks like you had so much fun xx
very cute!
the pics are so cute, congratulations audrey & tim. 😀
you are so so so petite!! omg. i love this shoot esp love the pic of you holding the balloons! 🙂
the BALLOONS the BALLOONS OMG
love the Up set!
NICE! i get first dips at the pics next week when im back!
Yay! Can’t wait for the pictures. I trust in Kim’s work as well! 😀
So cute! 😀 😀
so nice!!!! can’t wait to go to your wedding. u made me seriously considering pre-wedding shoots now!
Congrats, really nice photos.
I am also getting married end of this year but I have not taken my pre-wedding photos. Somemore my photographer is not as efficient as yours which they will give you your photos in 2 weeks…*panic*
You should have gotten her to do your invitation cards 🙂 I like her style. Less cartoony, more whimsical. Will suit your theme more. Don’t kill me ya..
you’ve got like the fun, the serious and the romantic shots! ^^ *like*
can’t wait to see the night shots!
omg the photoshoot is so sweet + vintage + personal! i usually cringe at pre-wedding photoshoots everytime they play it in wedding slideshows but urs made me smile 🙂 also made me wanna get married just so can do photoshoot like that HAHA.
PS: u also look super pretty in the pictures 🙂 congrats! ずっと幸せになってね〜。
Photos look amazing!
love the pics, especially the up-inspire ones! can’t wait to see the actual ones 🙂
how romantic things are! 🙂 next time when i get married, i’d tell my photographer that i want something of fourfeetnine inspired photoshoot :D!!!
^^ looks wonderful!! Can’t wait to see the outcome. You looked so petite with the 30 balloons, lucky not enough to make u fly o_O and…is that a typo on your name on the mailbox? Or my eyesight is off?
Everything looks so adorable! I saw the pictures on Instagram first and can’t wait to see the official photos! ^o^
Picture perfect 😀
Love them soooo much!!!!! I like the blog layout idea!!! Soo cool and personal! XD
love the pastel coloured outfits and both of you look great!
I love this <3
Tim looks like lei kei for the shanghai theme hahaha
I bet after this everyone’s gonna flood the photog company and have similar photo shoots out -____-
Very lovely post! (^^)
so nice ! how i wish i can find someone as loving too and have nice wedding shots 😀
<3 congrats again!
I can’t believe I’m in tears reading this post. Im so touch and happeee for you 2. Cheers and wished you all happee till white hair.
Aww this is so cute! In the pic with 30 balloons I was worried you would float away haha
I find that you resemble Ayumi Hamasaki!
nice!! i can’t wait to see all of the pictures! 😀 😀
Haha Timothy’s legs are as fair as snowwhite. Can’t wait to see the photoshoot photos =D