engagement

Grace Tan In Portraits, Pre-Wedding & Engagement Portraits

Sadi + Purny

After traveling to Bangladesh in April for Ali & Farhat’s wedding shoot, I’ve had multiple inquiries about flying the team to Bangladesh for other weddings. I’ve learnt so much about the Bengali culture these past few months and found out that there a number of Bangladeshis who live in Malaysia! (even Integricity‘s office has one working there).

One day, I received a call from Purny. She is a Bangladeshi student in MMU and is engaged to Sadi who also studies at MMU. Their wedding is in January 2010. Though they didn’t fly me to Dhaka to cover their wedding, I had the privilege of shooting their portraits here in Malaysia.

Can you believe that this was taken in their backyard in Putrajaya? If only Putrajaya wasn’t so far, I wouldn’t mind waking up to this kind of view every day!

Grace Tan In Portraits, Pre-Wedding & Engagement Portraits

Ashley + Candace in Singapore

Ashley & Candace maintain a long distance relationship, with Ash living in KL and Candace in Singapore. Before I even met the both of them, Candace told me over email that she wanted to hire us to shoot her wedding and her pre-wedding portraits in Singapore. Ash and Candace are a very funny couple. They’re creative (of course, since Ash is a graphic designer!) and willing to try out fun things. It was my first time shooting in Singapore. One of the things I really love about Singapore is the amazing architecture they have. So modern and funky!

This 1st January I’ll be photographing their wedding in KL and then off to Krabi for another photo shoot with the both of them and their friends.

Here are some of the images from the Singapore shoot.

Played a lot with shadows on this shoot.

There was quite a bit of drama on this shoot. Since Ash doesn’t really live in Singapore, and Candace doesn’t drive in Singapore, they got a little lost on the streets, trying to pick me up, AND also getting to our first location. During the shoot, Candace’s gown got a little dirty after a little ‘incident’ on the rooftop garden when Ash accidentally stepped on her gown during a difficult pose. :) After Marina Barrage, Candace wanted to change into something a little more casual, but her gown zip got stuck! It took Ash a lot of yanking to get the zip down again!

Brides, this is something that can definitely happen to your wedding gown! Kris of That Special Occasion mentions that gowns with zips tend to be more problematic than gowns with strings or buttons. Something to consider when you’re choosing your bridal gown!

Good thing Ash and Candace have such a good nature – the zip issue didn’t upset them one bit!

Grace Tan In Portraits, Pre-Wedding & Engagement Portraits

Langkawi Portraiture Shoot

I am so excited to share this set of photos. They are special because it features really really cool people from the wedding industry. People whom I work with, and people I admire. Ever since meeting Kee Sitt, Sharon, Mark and Ian, the colours of my life has doubled drastically. Not to forget, Alex too! They add so much fun to my life, and I truly cherish the friendships that have been built over this one year. They have challenged me in my art, my thinking, how to run my business, marketing it, to creating wacky ideas and then executing it.

Through these relationships, I’m glad to have known Mun Tzin and Lai Yeen too. Thank you for being so generous with your love and support. We took so many lovely shots that day, it was hard choosing favourites. These are my personal favs from the collection. Photos were taken by Mark, Ian, Kee Sitt, Alex and myself. Unfortunately 2 other people could not be with us on this trip as they were overseas – Choon Ean & Chua who are part of the video team.

First up… Kee Sitt and Sharon!

2nd: Mark & Mun Tzin. I love this shot of Mun Tzin.

Yummy flares! And these next 2 shots are just soooo like Mark & Mun Tzin.

They have extra photos featured here since they are getting married next year! :)

Grace Tan In Portraits, Pre-Wedding & Engagement Portraits

Pre-Wedding Portraits: Amri & Daphne

He was the Malaysian club president in university. She was the secretary. Apparently they attended the same high school and college in Malaysia but funnily enough, they only got to know each other during university in the UK. One of her first thoughts of him was “Isn’t he my senior from highschool? What is he doing here in the same university?!” whereas his thoughts were “She’s quite a cute secretary. Must try to have some personal meetings with her to discuss about ‘work’! ” After numerous encounters, they discovered a spark for each other. And then they started dating. Now, 6 years later, Amri and Daphne have jumped through many hurdles and have finally tied the knot!

Here are some photos from their pre-wedding session. The akad nikah shots will be coming up soon in another post!!

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_044

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_0581

Amri is so cute. He loves making faces at Daphne and she keeps telling him to “stop it!”

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_0131

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_1211

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_1361

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_0801

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_084

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_0951

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_1001

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_125

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_1521

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_1561

I love the Malay / Chinese elements in the next few photos. So representative of their relationship. :)

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_1741

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_1861

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_188

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_2232

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_2291

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_2321

20090526_pre-wedding_amri_daphne_2331

Grace Tan In Portraits, Pre-Wedding & Engagement Portraits

Jack & LeAnne – Pre-Wedding at Putrajaya

I’ve been to Putrajaya a number of times but all this while, I’ve never shot there before. So when Jack and LeAnne requested for a pre-wedding shoot in Putrajaya, I thought, ok where to start!? There’s just too many buildings and too many choices. The best thing about Putrajaya as I discovered was the lalang. Plentiful of good lalang to take shots in! :) We started our shoot in the afternoon and carried on till after sunset. I love how Putrajaya looks at night, it’s just a completely different feeling to the day shots.

Jack and LeAnne seem quite at ease in front of the camera. Jack is into photography as well, so Leanne’s pretty good at posing in front of the camera. She has had practice. :) It’s easy to make her look good on camera because she is super photogenic. I’ll be shooting their wedding in Ipoh this coming week, so am looking forward to that!

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_007

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_018

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_025

Don’t they look gorgeous together? Her laughter is so infectious.

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_034

Her gorgeous gown is from our vendor partner That Special Occasion. You can choose from a variety of gowns when you book a pre-wedding session with us.

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_050

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_079

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_107

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_118

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_145

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_134

I don’t usually shoot pre-weddings on my own because it’s a lot easier when you have someone holding a flash or light for you! This time round, I had 2 with me – Nigel Sia who recently joined the Wedding Story team and Hafiz Ismail who tagged along that day. Thanks Hafiz for pointing the way to good lalang. :) Here’s a funny shot of the both of them clowning around!

20090604_pre-wedding_jack_leanne_159