Dear Diane, Mark & Johan,

I meant to send this earlier, but I didn’t expect the week post-wedding to be equally as hectic as pre-wedding. I actually just wanted to drop a quick e-mail to let you know how awesome it was having you guys as my photographers.

I thoroughly enjoyed the times on-camera as well as off-camera. (Chewah, mcm celebrity, liddat!) Seriously, though, I’m so glad & grateful for how (unexpectedly) easy it was to get along with you, right from the start -  tbh, I didn’t expect that having photographers around would be such a pleasant experience. I was surprised at how comfortable I was with you & how much fun I had just hanging out with you guys during those brief moments after the ceremony/during the luncheon/dinner.

It was a genuine pleasure for me to have you around, so much so I felt as though you were actual guests at my wedding. Having said that, I can understand how you might not share the same viewpoint, seeing as the cameras would’ve been a weighty reminder of the work at hand. All the same, thank you for being such great company.

Thank you, Diane, for all the chats & e-mails, and for all those gentle reminders – yep, I know we’re due to think of that extra song :) It was great to finally meet you in person – I’m so happy you came to photograph my wedding! :D :D – & you are just as nice as you sound over Gtalk. True story. I bet most brides say this, but we really should hang out sometime. Any friend of Switchfoot is a friend of mine & Aaron’s :) (Btw, I’ve got Vice Verses on repeat in my car – that’s probably going to run until I get the new David Crowder album.)

Mark, thank you for enduring my numerous rants regarding the breakdown of my precious system & my “Y U NO [insert appropriate bridezilla expectation here]?!?” Despite how the photo-session went up in flames – in FLAMES, Mark – I was actually present in each moment of my day & enjoyed it, from the chilled-out make-up session, to the ceremony (thank you SO much for giving me no cause for concern during the Mass – I personally thought you did a brilliant job of being unobstrusive & yet the pictures still turned out fabulous ;) to the dinner.

Btw, one of my overseas guests was particularly impressed with the slideshow you put together, esp. considering the limited amount of time you had. As was I: Thank you so much for highlighting what, or rather, Who was & is at the centre of Aaron’s & my union, and I noticed that the pictures came together beautifully at the chorus, so well done :)

Johan, we saw those great shots you’d taken from the balcony. My mother-in-law also made special mention of how you’d subtly (hehe) grouped the guests during the toasting & the different angles you used. Thank you for the efforts you took to to get those quirky & candid shots that I was hoping for, esp. at the main table. (LOL-ing at how you had to recall me from the meet-and-greet for the slideshow during the dinner!) It was a real pleasure encountering you & your sense of humour, and I know my sister was happy to put a face to the gentleman who was so impressed with her Gantt chart, haha!

All in all, I thank God the actual day went the way it did, and that He made our paths cross the way He did. Thank you for being a part of our wedding & I hope you enjoyed yourselves in our company as much as we did in yours. Looking forward ’til we next meet again. In the meantime, take care & God bless!

Yours sincerely,

Sheena

Shooting Aaron & Sheena’s wedding was fun, I have never seen such a cute couple together and boy the wedding day was equally exciting. Interesting things such as the wedding dinner plan laid out in a gantt chart (project managers would probably know what I am talking about) as well as the bride who travels so far away for work because she was posted out of town. In a strict sense, it was beautiful because of two things, it followed the traditions of a Catholic wedding and the wedding itself was held at such a beautiful church. Despite what people might say, I guess deep down I am a traditionalist at heart. Traditions and cultures are some of the few things I see getting lost in this extremely fast paced world.

Surprisingly I found out that I knew Aaron’s brother who was my university mate all the way back in the UK. It really was such a small small world. I consider it a double blessing especially if I find out that I know the couple or one of the couple’s family members.

Congratulations again to Aaron and Sheena. May this new journey in life be a fantastic and fruitful one!

- Mark -

Credits:
Photographers: Mark, Johan & Diane
Location: Church of St Thomas More, USJ & Summer Palace Restaurant, PJ
Wedding Gown: Eva Enchanted
Shoes: Alvin Tay Couture
Make up & hair: YenTan Bridal Make up & Hair Do Service
Stationery: Friend of the bride & groom, Crisabel Clare
Cake: Friend of the bride & groom, Denis Ngu
Flowers: Sprinkled with Style
Videography: Beezworks Productions

Roshan and Janis’ wedding was especially meaningful because Janis’ mum passed away from cancer a few months before their wedding day. Janis’ mum was too ill to travel from Perth, Australia to Kuala Lumpur for the wedding in November, but they wanted her to witness the ceremony. So Roshan and Janis made a decision to hold a small wedding ceremony at the hospital chapel, just for her mum. That made me tear, Roshan must have really been Janis’ pillar of strength during such a trying time. The theme of this wedding is based on these little stones Janis’ mum had in her home – Love. Faith. Hope.

2011 was a challenging year for Roshan and Janis, but is was the strength from God, their friends and family, and their love for each other that brought them through it. This post has fewer images than usual, but it’s because I hope you’ll make time to view this slideshow, as we did something different this time round – incorporating speeches into our slideshow.

Roshan and Janis were introduced to each other by a mutual friend and immediately bonded through their love of music. He’s Fijian Indian and she’s Malaysian but they’ve lived in Perth almost all their lives. I always find it interesting to hear stories of the couple’s first impressions of each other…

Janis: My first impression of Roshan was that he is an extremely kind soul and incredibly talented with music and computers!  He’s such a giving, loving and devoted partner. He’s my best friend and makes me laugh every day. Roshan is soooooo patient with me (anyone that knows me will understand how hard this can be sometimes!) and I’m looking forward to the rest of our lives together!

Roshan: My first impression of Janis was that she was a beautiful, outgoing, warm and fun person. I have always admired her passion for the things that she loves and cares for in life, and the fact that she is “ever reliable” for anyone close to her. She is a kind hearted, warm and loving person, and always lights up the room with her presence. I can’t wait to share a future together with Janis and to call her my wife!

From Roshan & Janis: 

We were very fortunate to have been referred to the Stories team by a couple who had engaged Grace and her team for their own wedding. After countless hours of researching photographers, one look at photos by the Stories team and we knew our search was over!

From the very beginning, we dealt with Grace and Diane and they were so committed to our journey through prompt communication and follow up!

When we met up with Grace, my first impression was how warm, friendly and professional she was! Then over the course of the next 2 days, we also met Alex, Felicia, Mark and Weiming. Roshan and I were just so impressed with the level of care, attention and creativity from each member of the stories team!

On our actual day during the chinese tea ceremony, I remember turning to Roshan and whispered that my hands were sticky from the chinese tea! The next thing I knew, Alex had handed me a napkin with water to wipe my hands with! How thoughtful and sweet this gesture was! This is just an example of how our actual day went with the attentiveness from Grace, Alex and Felicia.

For our second ceremony the next day, Mark and Weiming were so accommodating in taking specific shots that we asked for. They really were so patient and creative in getting that perfect shot for us!

Grace’s bubbliness, expertise and vision completed our wedding experience! The feedback was unanimous that the quality and creativity of photos were just outstanding! Our family members and friends consistently told us that they had goose bumps when watching our same day slideshow which was edited to incorporate parts of our reception speech! It was truly amazing.

The Stories team are just incredibly talented and we are so blessed to have been introduced to them. They have gifted us with memories we’ll look back on and treasure for the rest of our lives.

Thanks and big hugs to Grace and the entire Stories team!

Thank you, Roshan and Janis, for reminding me that love conquers all.

Credits: (most items sourced overseas)

Photographers: Grace & Alex, assisted by Felicia
Wedding Gown: Hob Nob
Groom’s Attire: Hugo Boss
Make Up: Vanz Lee
Stationery: Starfish Lane
Cake: Tea Room
Flowers: Buds ‘N’ Blooms
Dinner entertainment: Mosaic Entertainment & DJ G-Mix
Location: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, KL 

Though I was excited to photograph this wedding, it came with a new set of challenges as I had just twisted my ankle the day before the wedding. In an unglamorous fashion, I tripped when I came down a short flight of stairs at my home, just before I was due to head to the airport. My ankle ached that entire night even though I had placed an ice pack on it, and I had no choice but to pray for a better ankle for the shoot the next day. On the morning of the wedding, I hobbled slightly to Michael and Vanessa’s room, but miraculously, once the whole event started, I was prancing around… almost normally.

I also thank God for Johan who was there as my 2nd photographer. On the day we arrived, he carried my bags, drove the car to Andaman and got me food and an ice pack. I could not have done it alone! That’s just one of the reasons we ALWAYS shoot a wedding with 2 photographers! Photographers are always expected to perform, even though they are sick or injured. Vanessa and Michael were really kind though, they were totally concerned about my foot and my wellbeing.

Vanessa & Michael first met at a mutual friend’s Halloween party years ago. He definitely created an impression on Vanessa as he came dressed as a fairy all in pink, with a tiara, wings, corset and long hair (real one at that too!) to match. I would have loved to see photos of how he looked like back then! From that time on, Vanessa and Michael continued to see each other regularly and now, five years later, they are married!

About the wedding (from Vanessa & Michael’s perspective)

Our wedding was a long time in the making. It all started at a mutual friend’s party in London more than 5 years ago and from here on, we knew that are our lives were destined to move in the same direction. Given our mutual love of travel and our heritage being from UK, Malaysia and Australia, we always knew that our wedding would be held in some exotic paradise far from our home in London…

After many discussions as to where we thought we could realistically get all our family and friends to come out to, we settled on Malaysia - halfway between where we each grew up and not to mention, home of Vanessa’s cultural roots and where a large majority of the family already were. A whirlwind trip to Langkawi less than a year before the wedding saw us visit a few venues, but we fell in love with the Andaman as soon as we were there, with the rainforest in the background and the stunning beach on the doorstep of the hotel. The inquisitive monkeys hanging out during our meeting with Norliza the wedding planner also helped sell it to us, and thus begun our long process of planning a wedding from half a world way.

The day could not have gone any better for us. It was everything we really wanted and had envisaged and more. Everything worked out perfectly from the weather to the food, the backdrop during both the ceremony and reception was stunning and the day just went by so quickly that we wish we could have slowed it down somehow! It was a beautiful, unforgettable day and we are just glad to have so many amazing photographs to help us remember it all.

Right from when we met Grace before our wedding to the morning of the big day when we were still deciding what it is we really wanted from our photos, the Stories team had been really helpful and supportive in providing suggestions and understanding what we wanted from them on our most important day. They blended in with the day so well and at points we didn’t even notice them (in a good way!) but they were always on hand if we did decide on a whim that we wanted photos taken with certain family and friends, and were totally at ease with it all. What we loved most about the Stories team though, was their ability to take stunning pictures of us that were natural, unintrusive and that captured our loved ones and their expressions when they least expected it. Their style and way of working resonated so much with us both and we were very impressed with them both on the day and in terms of what they have produced for us.

There were a lot of tears shed during the vows. It’s usually the bride who cries at weddings, but this time, Michael was the one who did!

We definitely have to squeeze some time in for portraits after the ceremony!

Their wedding came together with the help of many of their friends. From the make up (done by the maid of honour, Reema), to the wedding menu (created by the best man, Mat) to the table plan (designed by Vanessa’s sister’s boyfriend, Dhanesh), everything was created with love.

The world map (table plan) is customized with their names on it, and each table was named after places they have traveled to and love.

Congratulations Vanessa and Michael! All the best for the future and I hope you cover the world map with more pins and postcards!

Credits: 

Photographers: Grace & Johan
Wedding gown: The Bride, St Albans
Groom’s Attire: King & Allen
Cake: The Andaman 
Wedding Planner: Norliza of the Andaman
Flowers: Darling Florist 

So 2 presidents from 2 Christian Fellowships, from the same university ended up marrying each other. Despite it being a half day event, it was a big privilege that Johan and I got to document their wedding. I could feel the strong emotion and genuine love they have for each other on their wedding day. And that made it one of my favourite weddings by far.

The wedding was not entirely about themselves but also about their families whom they really love and care for, friends that spent the entire night lending them a helping hand to decorate the church and also about God. What touched me was that they honoured and gave thanks to God for He had handpicked and brought them together. I particularly love the part where Audrey said she sees God in her parents’ lives and wants to be like them.

On behalf of the Stories team we wish both of you much joy, happiness and excitement on your journey together!

- Weiming -

Since Justin & Audrey’s wedding theme is about celebration, the coral and mustard theme colour works really well! We love this line that is on their wedding program:
Please cheer and celebrate with us during the ceremony. It’s not a funeral! :)

A calendar as a wedding favour is not only unique, it’s practical! Featured below is their cool postcard wedding invite with personalized stamp at the back. (same design as the wedding car)

It’s important to have some nutrition before the big task of walking down the aisle.

A Note from Audrey:

We had a really pleasant and memorable experience with the Stories team led by Johan. Justin is usually a bit shy posing in front of a camera but the warmth and encouragement given by the team really helped us relax. :) And of course, they were extremely accomodating to our requests, for which we are super grateful for! We also appreciated that Nigel took time to come by during the rehearsal to ensure that the sound would be captured for the video. Oh and incidentaly, Weiming is our university friend, so it was an extra bonus to have a familiar face in the team.

Our wedding planning experience was all sorts of crazy. Justin proposed on 1 August 2011 and we decided to wed on 2 Jan 2012, which gave us 5 months to pull everything together. So I suppose to sum it up, we would say it was a miracle, starting from the obvious fact that we managed to secure our venues with little trouble. :) we also couldn’t have done it without the love and support from our family and friends. Our team of helpers totally blew us away with their awesome-ness. (we LOVED the decorations! Our friends were working wayy overtime to get it all perfect. And Audrey’s family hand carried the wedding cake and cupcakes from KK)

Most of all it was a wonderful celebration of friendships. Both of us are from Multimedia University, Justin’s from the Malacca campus and I am from the Cyberjaya campus. We love how the day of our union was also a day of reunions!

Thanks Justin & Audrey! Recently, the Stories team has been producing wedding videos. Here’s a highlight of their wedding day . We hope it brings back memories for the both of you.

Credits:
Photographers: Johan & Weiming
Videographer: Nigel Sia
Wedding Video Edit: Weiming
Wedding Gown: L&L Bridal Collections
Make Up: Haze Long
Decorations: Michelle Ding
Stationery: Designed by Charel Ong & Lydia Chew
Flowers: Gabriet Florist
Church Location: Luther Center, PJ

Their story (as written by Stefanie):

Vijay and I first got to know each other in Multimedia University Christian Fellowship (MMUCF) in 2003. We started dating in 2005 and in December 2010, Vijay proposed to me. While all our friends and family had pretty much expected us to get married to each other at some point in our lives, few people truly realized what a big step this was for us. While most people would have been saving money for years with a house on the side, we started wedding planning with only RM1000 in our bank accounts with no other financial support. Crazy? You bet! However, we both believed and trusted in a loving Father God who gave us several promises that He would provide for our wedding and our married life.

In the course of our eleven months preparations, we faced several financial and personal obstacles but we kept praying and trusting in God to bring us through. Many times, we were challenged by God to give towards our church’s (Acts Church) building funds while maintaining our regular tithes to church. Yet, we always had enough to survive and contribute to our own wedding fund.

Despite the overwhelming odds, God’s faithfulness prevailed and 2011 proved to be a year of miracles and breakthroughs. I changed my job and my pay increased significantly. Vijay, who works as a pharmaceutical salesman, achieved every single quarterly sales during our entire engagement period. Our salaries and incentives, combined with several surprise gifts or opportunities enabled us to pay off our wedding. Amazingly, none of our wedding expenses were paid on credit but were always paid in cash. God always provided the money when it was most needed. God even provided a beautiful house at half the normal rental price and provided the furniture to furnish it. God’s faithfulness was evident in every part of our wedding!

From the moment Stefanie walked down the aisle, Vijay started tearing…

During the praise and worship session, I could not help but feel overwhelmed by the energy and excitement from the crowd. It was the first time I cried at a wedding. A lot of tears rolled that morning, not just Vijay’s and Stef’s.

The following crowd shots were taken by Diane. I love how she managed to capture everyone’s candid expression perfectly!

There’s always time for a silly group photo…

And portraits, of course! (quite different from their day after portraits, right?)

I love this awesome champagne shot by Mark!

Stefanie: 

While planning our wedding, we discussed several photographers and settled on Stories. We loved their work and decided to take a leap of faith to hire Stories as our wedding photographers. It was the best decision we’ve made! Not only were our photos simply beautiful, our photographers are the most professional and friendly photographers we’ve met! Stories captured every single precious, emotional, joyous, fun moment. They tried their utmost best to accommodate themselves to our requests and somehow turned us – the most unphotogenic people in the world – into superstars. Their people skills are excellent and we had so much fun interacting with them during the portraits session.

To Grace – thank you for teaching us how to pose and look our best! Thank you also for accommodating to our requests and giving us the best photography experience!

To Mark – thank you for making us laugh while taking all those beautiful shots! It was so much fun working with you and Grace. We hope you enjoyed all that Melaka food!

To Diane – thank you for your warmth and professionalism in dealing with us before and after the wedding! You’re such a upbeat and friendly person and made the whole experience great! Appreciate all your assistance and help!

To the rest of Stories team – thank you for the wonderful editing and lovely shots! Please keep up the great work!

To anyone considering hiring Stories for their event, we HIGHLY recommend them! Thank you again Stories for covering our wedding photography and making it one of the best experiences in our life!

Aaw, thanks Stefanie! :) We are truly honoured! We had an awesome time photographing your wedding! For those who would like to view more photos from the wedding, please click on the same day slideshow below.

Credits: 

Photographers: Grace, Mark, assisted by Diane
Location: Calvary Life Assembly, Malacca & Holiday Inn Malacca
Wedding Gown & Make Up: Increative Bridal House
Flowers: Gabriet Florist, Malacca
Videography: Joshua Chiam
Dinner Entertainment: Cross Fusion

I hope you are having a great time with your family members this Chinese New Year, and for those who are not celebrating, hope you are having a good holiday. I want to kick off the dragon year by sharing the wedding of Saw Wen & De Way.

Now, Saw Wen & De Way had come to enquire about our services more than a year before their wedding. At that time, my business was just starting to bloom, and I was stoked that someone wanted to book us that far ahead.

Saw Wen & De Way’s story started 11 years ago while they were still in school, meeting at the sweet ripe age of 16.

That girl in the Calvin & Hobbes t-shirt

De Way: I remember, 3 girls. That was in a tuition class for Bahasa Melayu when I was in Form 4. 3 fine looking girls from SMK Seafield, 1 tall, 1 pretty and 1 nerdy. Fast forward to SPM year, I noticed her. She was generally louder than other students during class, gave opinions when not asked for, irritatingly completed the teacher’s sentences every now and then etc. Oh yes, she wore a Calvin & Hobbes t-shirt to class, just like me.

Saw Wen: De Way was a perpetual sleepy head and seemed like the quiet type. At the beginning, we hardly spoke to each other until form 5. We got to know each other better during our after BM tuition yum cha sessions, went cycling and hung out in a nearby park together with a bunch of friends. As the months went by, I found De Way to be charming and had such “beautiful eyes”. He made me laugh (he still does) and I found myself to be falling for this guy.

De Way: She used to tell her stories when we met at a mamak for drinks after tuition. This went on for a while and it felt normal spending time with a girl, no special feelings I dare say. Then, one fateful rainy evening, I had to send her home with my bicycle, with her holding the umbrella. That was when something felt odd…good but odd. Since that day, I made it a point to accompany her home after our mamak session.

Prom Night

De Way: Fast forward after SPM… one of the most crucial moments in high school – prom night. I knew who I wanted as my partner and this was what I went through to get her agreement. It was during her open house with all our friends present, I deliberately cycled back to her house after all of us left just to ask her. Unsurprisingly (ahem ahem), she agreed. That night, the moon was high and so was I.

And so, prom took place and what set me on the course of having this girl as my wife 11 years later happened that night. We danced towards the end of the night and I asked her if she would be my girlfriend.

Saw Wen: I actually said, “No, I don’t think so.” At that time, I was planning to further my studies overseas and didn’t think that it would work out. Worse still, when De Way said he would wait for me and I had to rub salt into his crushed heart by saying “Ya right!”

De Way:  After breaking my heart into pieces, she crushed it further into atoms, by mocking about my promise to wait. Bah!

Saw Wen: Till today, I am still reminded from time to time how mean I was back then to him.

Two Hands

De Way: We parted ways after that dreadful night, only to meet again in college a month later. We were still on good terms and 1 day she saw me walking with my classmate – a girl.

Saw Wen: I thought this might be his new love interest. Regret was within me and knew I had to do something about it. One night after yum cha, being the gentleman that he was, he offered to send me home. During the ride home, I asked De Way how were things between us and he replied that we were still friends. I needed further confirmation and asked him if he still likes me and he said yes. I said “It takes 2 to clap.” Much to my surprise, the reply I got was “I will take my hand out to clap with you.” It has been 11 years and the rest was history. We have been together ever since. He sang his proposal last year and we got married on 9.10.11.

De Way: At the risk of sounding cliché, the rest is in fact, history. But that was how I met my wife – the one who is loud and opinionated (now not so much already *phew*), who took my heart and crushed it into atoms, who got jealous/upset after seeing me walking with my female classmate, who set me up with her friends’ help and lastly – the nerdy one in the tuition class. Who would have thought? The nerdy one. Hah!

What made this wedding so memorable were the many funny expressions we managed to capture that day. De Way also started learning the saxophone a few months before the wedding day, practiced really hard and performed to hundreds of people that evening. If I was wearing a hat, I would have taken it off as a salute to him!

Reflections…

Saw Wen: Why Stories? We started our wedding preparation early and were looking around for wedding photographers. Don’t quite recall how we tumbled across Stories’ blog and love the rich and vibrant photos which captures the moment and details of the big day. Stories, we truly love the photos captured during our wedding and a BIG thank you goes out to Grace, Johan, Weiming and the entire Stories team! We hope you guys had as much fun as we did! :o)

De Way: Photographically, this is what I have to say – most importantly, what I fancy are photos that are lightly edited. They should look as close as the one out of the camera even after editing. Long story short, Stories was able to provide that feel. Being passionate about photography, I believe the depth of FEEL is larger than the depth of field. And this goes beyond Stories’ photos but also the service by the team as a whole, which is awesome.

In a nutshell, Stories team was able to:

Keep it simple. Make it elegant. Keep it personal. Make it happen. Keep it coming. Make it great!

Credits:

Photographers: Grace, Weiming & Johan
Location: Sime Darby Convention Centre
Wedding Gown: Valerie Fan
Groom’s Attire: Fit & Match
Make Up: Leric Yap
Cake: bejewelled*
Flowers: Weng Hoa
Dinner Entertainment: One Under the Five

Thanks to Stories!

Everything was great on our big day!

Mark, Johan and Diane are really heart-warming. We thought we got to know 3 more friends during our big day!

From the initial arrangement of meeting, Diane has done a really good job in liaising between us and Mark/Johan, rounds and rounds of emails, without complaining. She has done a really really great job too, on the actual day. Especially during the toasting from table to table, She took the initiative and helped us to coordinate.

Johan, he was funny, but serious. The first time we met up with him, it was the discussion on actual day run down. Though it was just a 15-minute discussion, I had strong impression on him, as he took out a pen with angry bird design. Too funny! It doesn’t match with his serious look (He did look serious when we ran through the rundown with both him and Mark).

During the dinner, he told me “Stephy, I am sitting at table … (I couldn’t remember), if you need me, you just hand up and I’ll be right here for you”.. He was simply too thoughtful!! and I wanted to make fun with him by handing up again and again, but i thought i shouldn’t.. LOL

Needless to say. Mark is way too professional! He gave us a lot of suggestion, I wanted to have the original version of “just the way you are” for morning SDE, he recommended me acoustic version which many of my friends told me they fall in love with the it. Mark offerred to take some portraits in the Hilton. But too bad that we did not make it as our schedule was just too tight. But He followed us, to make sure he got the chance to take even just one portrait, be it in the bridal suite, or any single corner.

With all these, they move us.

We were very worried and nervous for the actual day. Allen told me, somehow, he felt a lot more relax after the discussion with Stories, that i had the same feeling too. We are blessed to have Stories with us on our big day.

So, Thank you for your dedication, passion to our day!

Best Regards,

Stephy

So I am glad that we managed to complete this edit, thanks to the ever hardworking Weiming. He shot and edited this video entirely on his own. Amazing work! Thanks Weiming for making me look good in video (though I cringe when I hear my own laughter).

To view the photos from Alvin & Melissa’s shoot at Carcosa, click on this link!

Do let me know what you think of our little video!

Grace and Mark shot our wedding on Langkawi Island in Jan 2011. We found Grace and on the Internet and after seeing some of her work, we knew that we wanted her to shoot our wedding.

Grace was professional from the beginning and even though we were only able to correspond by email, communication was always very clear and we were always on the same page. No hidden costs or unpleasant surprises.

It was Grace’s pro-active approach that really convinced us that we’d made the right decision. I (the groom) had no idea what I was going to ask Grace to shoot when she got here. I had no real ‘vision’ or anything and the bride was flat out in preparation, as brides often are on their wedding day. Grace, however, knew exactly what was doing and basically took off and started shooting, assessing the situation and deciding the best way to do things on the fly. This was really great and I can’t say how relieved I was.

Grace is very dedicated and is not too shy to take control when she needs to in order to get the best shots. This was very much appreciated as we are extremely happy with the results. She and her assistant, Mark, shot non-stop from start to finish. They maintained a high level of energy throughout and clearly enjoy what they do. This is important as it rubs off on everyone present and adds to the occasion.

In short, I have no hesitations in recommending Grace and her company. They are dedicated professionals and really very, very reasonably priced. We live in Japan, and seriously, what you get for 3 or 4 times the price here is very much inferior to what Grace did for us. Very happy.

David and Risa Lee.

You have seen some of the images, now you can see what happened behind the camera! It always feels weird looking at yourself on camera, but I hope that by doing this video, you can catch a glimpse on how we work. At the end of the day, it’s about having fun!

Alright, here’s the behind the scenes video as promised! Do leave us a comment or two about what you think because we LOVE to hear from you!