My good friends Jaya and Ruby, had a huge poster size photo of themselves on an easel at the entrance to the wedding reception. Later their two best wedding photos were displayed in their new home, one large picture reproduced like an oil painting above the dining table, the other, a more romantic picture, over their double bed.
The system in Singapore adopted by at least one photography studio is that you pay a large sum of money upfront for a day or two of photography. I think it costs £500-£2,500, depending on which options you go for.
The full package would give you a visit to the studio where you dress in your own wedding clothes and/ or a selection of costumes for the studio shots a few of the bride alone and the groom alone, but most in special poses, such as the two looking at each other, him standing behind her chair with a hand on her shoulder, or both shoulders, the two on love seats, holding champagne glasses, whatever the studio and couple deem suitable.
In order to have a large photo of the couple displayed at the door of the wedding reception, you need to do the photography at least a day earlier, more usually a week earlier to allow for delays caused by rain, cloud or other bad weather. If you are having a winter wedding, you could even do the photos the previous summer or autumn. If you already have your wedding clothes, they would be used. If not, you use the studio's historic costumes for the day shots, and a cocktail dress or even a night dress for the romantic bedroom picture.
The second day is a trip around the city - or across to Malaysia, to be photographed in romantic settings, at a waterfall, under trees, beside flowers, in areas of natural beauty, gardens, hotels, famous buildings, historic buildings, religious buildings, on bridges, on beaches, beside water, at dawn , mid-day and sunset, in a horse and carriage or grand car, tandem bicycle, museums - wherever the photographers can take the couple with permission or not needing permission.
I understand that in the old days brides liked to be photographed outside the main (Protestant?) cathedral. But this became so popular that worshippers would try to emerge and be held back by brides who had been married elsewhere, at other churches or the register office, or temples and other non-Christian buildings, but wanted their photo taken at the grander and more expensive cathedral. The cathedral admin, I believe, then limited photography to those who had just been married in the cathedral.
Although the upfront cost of the photography package including the two oil painting style pictures seems a lot, it can be good value compared to what you would end up paying if you hired a photographer and then paid for photos to be turned into oil painting style pictures - I've seen these services offered separately.
Certainly some protection against an eternal triangle. Off-putting for any other woman, or the family's maid, if she had an eye on the husband, if the bride's photo, hugging her husband, is watching everyone in the living room and over the bed! No way the husband can pretend he's single whilst his wife is out of town. And when the bride has turned into a plump pregnant woman, or an elderly mother or grandmother, instead of those old photos being lost in an album, she is preserved in her radiance for her husband and children and the family to admire. And I'm sure it's also good for her own morale. And an encouragement to stay looking young and slim and pretty.
I also do photography and caricatures. And wedding speeches. And comic poems - about weddings, bride and groom, anything you like. I wrote a book called Wedding Speeches & Toasts by Ward/Lock/Cassell which you can probably find in your library or on line. I mentor speech-writers and performers.Your business enquiries, information, and other feedback are welcome. Contact
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