I had the chance to interview one of the photographers of Image Garden Photography and his name is Teck Meng.

Here is the email interview:

1) Can you give me an introduction of yourself, when and how did you start out and what is your wedding site about?

In 1998, the designer of a bridal shop chanced upon Teck Meng’s portfolio and unique style so captured the designer’s eye that was engaged to conceptualize their bridal advertising campaign. That’s how Image Garden started from shooting commercial photography to bridal. The aim of our wedding site is to provide getting married wedding couple an online wedding portfolio of couple’s in different venues and themes.

photo from bombadil

Do you think what is the biggest headache you can get from your wedding?

Yes! Your new house!

Initially you are very excited about moving into your new house with your newly bought rugs But you never realise the torrents of problems that are crushing you, in addition to the many other problems from planning your wedding alone.

Back to the house, there are many problems from moving the house and the furniture, cleaning the new house, getting new furniture, arranging the new furniture and preparing your new house for your wedding day.

In this post, I reveal 6 stress free tips to keep your sanity and still remain a happy bride.
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Recently, I read an article on house husbands, fathers who witness their babies every first.

These fathers took up the unconventional role of stay-home papa while their wives are out in the commercial world working.

It somehow is really strange. The more I want to be a house-husband, the more I see of such news about modern fathers staying at home to look after their little ones once after they are born.

How sweet!

Being a house husband is not easy. There are many mothering roles to be done from feeding the child to buying baby shoes for them, especially personalized baby shoes if you are willing to spend more.

I know nowadays mothers, especially the working moms, do not really fair well in how to take care of their babies.

But it is never too late to learn to take care of our young ones. We all need to start somewhere.
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Hong Kong Skyline

We are planning our trip - again. Yes, again! Every year, we have consciously set aside two parts of the year to go oversea together as husband and wife.

Last year, we went to Hong Kong and we found cheap Hong Kong hotels. Why do we want to go to Hong Kong? In Hong Kong, it is a paradise for shoppers on its own. There are also many types of food to eat and you may not even have time to eat because you will be out there shopping like a fanatic. There are numerous Hong Kong-style and Japanese-style department stores, such as Times Square and Sogo. Causeway Bay is another Hong Kong’s shopping, gourmet and entertainment center which you must vist while in Hong Kong. Of course, there are plenty local food to try out in the restaurants on the streets! So you would need to spend at least 5 days in Hong Kong.

Do you know what is the most expensive travel item beside air ticket?
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Your wedding is in a month’s time and you are short of US$15,000 for some immediate payments.

What can you do?

You can call off your wedding…(just joking)

You can borrow from your family members or swipe your credit card dry or rob the bank.

I don’t think the third option of robbing bank is a good idea but this other idea could be your life-saver.

A personal loan.
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Singapore Night Scene

If you are planning your wedding right now, one of the important stuff you may overlook is hotel reservations for your honeymoon.

Wedding budget is definitely tight (unless you are really rich!) and couples are mostly looking for the lowest rate they can find.

In the midst of busyness, hotel reservation seemed to become among the last priorities due to the reason that honeymoon is after the wedding.

“So who cares what is after the wedding? Lets settle what is to be done till the wedding” - this is what most brides and grooms will think.

What about those who have suddenly awakened and realised that they should book their hotels for their honeymoons?

Looking at the hundreds of hotel booking sites, printing them out to compare the rates are good ways to be overwhelmed and become lost.

Don’t forget you have a million and other to-do tasks on your wedding to-do list!

In fact, there is no need to go through this hassle of browsing all the hundred sites to get the best bargain.

Here are 3 ways you can do it - stress free.

1. HotelCombined.com
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I had the chance to interview the founder of WowMedia.com.sg, Daniel.

Here is the email interview:

1) Can you give me an introduction of yourself, when and how did you start out and what is your wedding site about?

My name is Daniel, 2 years ago I started Wow Media in Singapore, providing videography, photo montage creation and cartoon animation production for weddings.

So how did I get started in this wedding industry? Well, it was a bit complicated, and divine

My background was in Electrical & Electronics Engineering but my passion has long been in digital media. I started shooting video at wedding at 2004, but that time it wasn’t a full time job for me yet as I was doing quite a lot of other freelancing stuff, such as web design, game programming etc. To cut the long story short, there was a window of opportunity in year 2006 and I felt a tugging in my heart to step into the full time. I registered a business license and set up a website containing a brief description on my services and got my first official project few weeks later through the internet.
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