I met Andros and Diana when I shot Nate and Terri’s wedding middle of last year. If I’m not mistaken, it was actually Diana who found me through flickr and recommended me to Terri :)

Then during Pat and Ea Wei’s wedding in October last year, I met them again and this time round, Andros mentioned discreetly that he might want to arrange a photo session for when he pops the question to Diana. Of course, this was brought up when she wasn’t around la.

Three months passed with no news and just a couple of days before Christmas, I received a call from Andros.

“I got the ring”, he said. My response? “Wahliao eh, damn long right you?” :p

Andros and I schemed on ways to get Diana to come out for a photo shoot without getting her suspicious. Since we both are hopeless liars (failllll!!), it took a while for us to agree on something convincing. I basically called up Diana 3 (or was it 4?) days before Christmas and said I needed a huuuuuuuge favor whereby I had to submit pictures of a couple who have known each other since school times (which they have) to a friend’s new webmagazine and could she and Andros please be kind enough to pose for me?

On Christmas Day, we started off the shoot at the shop area near Diana’s house. They both said they were not used to being in front of the camera and needed directions, so I just gave some tips which turned out to be unnecessary as they were absolutely natural in front of the camera :)

We then headed over to Tmn Sea Secondary School, which was the place where they first met yeaaaars ago. We took some casual portraits around the area and then I asked them to pose at the school field.

When I asked Andros to kneel down and asked Diana to stand in front of him with one hand on his shoulder and the other hand holding his hand, I thought to myself “For sure she suspect something liao. So obvious!”

But nooooo. She just laughed and said “Eh woman. I feel like I’m knighting him la”.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

Instead of proposing straightaway, Andros continued pretending, “Knee pain la”. He fidgeted around and shifted his knees.

I continued shooting.

As I was standing quite a distance away, I couldn’t hear what was being said, but after nearly a full minute of Andros talking and Diana listening intently, suddenly Diana was smiling and I heard her say, “You’re bluffing!”.

Andros said no and pulled out the ring from his pocket :)

She was really surprised as she wasn’t expecting it at all and they were both grinning ear to ear :D After much laughter, Andros said “You haven’t said yes”. Diana laughed “Yes!” and the ring was put on.

The whole time Diana laughing and saying “You lied to me!”. She then realised there were a lot of small signs leading up to the proposal, but these were signs that she said she ignored or didn’t think much about cause she didn’t expect it at all :D

It’s the first proposal I’ve ever had the chance to shoot and you know what, I feel absolutely honoured and touched to have been part of such a personal event :) Thank you

Eh why point at meeee? I didn’t wanna lie, it was Andros *points at Andros* ;p

You two have fun with the preparations for the big day and I’ll see you both soon! :D Hugs

I met Kat a couple of months ago when I was down in Singapore for a short roadtrip. Over a drink, we talked about wedding photography and she told me what her plans were for her wedding day and a bit about how she and Sern met.

I remember Kat also told me about how they weren’t exactly childhood sweethearts but their love bloomed through friendship since highschool whereby they had joked they would marry each other by 30 if there was no one else around ;)

Given a choice, I reckon Sern and Kat would’ve just eschewed all the customary’s and gone ahead with just a simple ceremony as long as they were married to each other. But customs being customs and since you’re only married once in a lifetime, Sern and Kat had a traditional tea ceremony and dinner reception held to celebrate their union together with family and close friends.

Sern and Kat, thank you again for having me be part of your wedding day celebrations. Kat, you looked absolutely radiant on that day and no, not like a martian at all! And Sern, having seen the pictures that you shot during your travels, I am in awe of how you see things and it has been a priviledge (not to mention a bit of pressure there to perform better :p) for me to shoot your wedding. Much thanks to your family members too for their hospitality.

Here are some of my favourite shots from the day.

I met up with Andrew and his family members on a bright sunny morning at Rimba Park in TTDI. It was a fun shoot for me as they were all really accommodating and up for whatever I suggested :D

Andrew, thanks again for inviting me to shoot your family and congratulations again to you and wifey on baby number 2 :D

Cheerio!