Our Wedding Photo Shoot

I guess most of those who had went through this process would agree that the wedding photo shoot is tiring. In fact, tiring is an severe understatement. If there were a 26-letter word in the dictionary (by using all available letters) to describe extreme fatigue and exhaustion, I would use that. Then again, I would rather do this than face a disruptive class. That is sure mental exertion and slow painful torture for a longer period. At least this was enjoyable.

We woke up quite early in the morning at 6+ am, even though our alarm was at 645 am and our appointment was only at 930 am. I guess both of us were extremely excited about this event. We were informed to take a heavy meal before going to the photo studio, and as such we decided to go to MacDonald's to enjoy the weekday breakfast promotion for the very first time. We also brought some museli bars for breaks in between. It was lucky that we catered for enough buffer time as we were a bit delayed in setting off due to the scramble for use of the sole toilet (at the moment) and we also sort of got a bit lost finding MacDonald's at Tanjong Pagar due to yours truly remembering the wrong location.

Upon reaching the photo studio with our luggage (yes, we packed all the stuffs that we need in a luggage, namely 4 pairs of shoes and all the props we need for the shoot which came up to quite a lot), my dear was ushered to do her hair and makeup. I was just sitting down waiting for my turn, while at the same time, feeling weird at the awkward silence with another groom also waiting there. Eventually, we talked. For one sentence. Before we were asked to go change and do our hair and makeup. Talk about poor timing. Guess we were not fated to chat.

After which, it was just listening to the photographer, Charlie and following his instructions for the various poses for our five changes of clothes. He is quite a nice person to be with. Hope that the shots will be nice (after all the photoshopping, lol). Below are some shots taken by ourselves:

Outfit 1: Guy version

Outfit 1: Gal version

Outfit 2: Guy version

Outfit 2: Gal version

Outfit 3: Guy version

Outfit 3: Gal version

Outfit 4: Guy version

Outfit 4: Gal version

Outfit 5: Outdoor version

After the indoor shots, it started to rain very heavily and we were given two options: 

1) to proceed and risk getting no outdoor shots due to the weather and therefore needing to come back for another shoot which costs $300; or

2) to postpone the shoot at a cost of $100.

Frankly speaking, I was rather pissed at this information because the bridal studio did not covey the cost to us beforehand even though they mentioned that they will make up the shoot if the weather is bad. I guess it is normal to expect that there will not be any additional cost incurred, right? In addition, the cost of the fake eyelashes and ampur were like ripoffs as well. I guess we were lucky that we decided to proceed with the shot as the weather improved once we reached NIE (actually we were sort of forced to proceed as we were not free after December). The rain also stopped when we came back to MBS area to take the night shots.

The entire event only ended at 9+ pm, when we finally returned to the studio to return the outdoor clothes. Indeed, it was tiring and we were famished as we did not have time to even eat our museli bars, but I guess it will be worth it (it better be) when we go and select the photos in January.