I was surfing the net and I found this web site by Lesley-Ann Graham. This author is amazing and owns quite a number of wedding websites and blog.

This is what the author wrote about choosing photographers and I find it to be clear and simple to read.

“Every wedding deserves to be captured for posterity in print. Your pictures aren’t just any images. They are souvenirs, heirlooms for your descendants to look at and exclaim over. So it makes sense to get a photographer who will really bring out the best images of your special event.

Here are some things you should check when looking for the photographer for your wedding:

– His previous work must appeal to you. Put yourself in the place of the people in the images in his sample albums. Are these how you’d like your pictures to look?

– Confirm if he will be the photographer at your wedding himself or if he will assign someone else. Some shops have many photographers in their stable. You need to see the work of the person who will actually be handling your event.

– Promptness is a very important trait in wedding photographers. Your wedding is a once in a lifetime event. His being late will make a difference in your album.

– His attitude and appearance will also be important. You are looking for someone who can make the transition shots very smoothly, has good crowd control and who looks presentable and acceptable at your event. The last thing you need are offended friends and relatives on your wedding day.

– You can’t argue that some people have a great eye and timing. You need someone who can capture the soul of your nuptials, not someone who will make you all look like you’re posing for high school class picture.

– Cost is the last item on your list. Once you’ve found the photographer you like it’s best to find out if your budget can accommodate his fee. Keep in mind that the higher his skills, the higher his fees will be too.

This article is from Lesley-Ann Graham runs WeddingTrix.com

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Hi before you carry on reading, I hope you can vote for Your Favourite Photo on the left sidebar… >.< --- * --- From Valerie:

“hey i saw from the forum that u held ur banquet at HIPV too! i juz chanced upon it. looks not bad leh. can tell me more and show me ur wedding dinner pics?

how many ballrooms do they have? how many themes? easy to nego for perks not?

seletar broadway gd? who was ur PG? i wan see ur pics also
cant find on ur site.. a bit hard to navigate leh..

thanks! ”
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Hi Valerie,

I can sense that you have many questions to ask. Lets me answer you one by one.

This is the link to my wedding pictures…”My Wedding Snapshots” (You may want to view each post separately as the simultaneous running of all slideshows may slow down your computer.)

As for Holiday Inn Park View, you can download 2006 packages from here.

Easy to negoitiate perks or not…hmmm…you can read these few posts and then you decide for yourself. The BIG Surprise HIPV gave us, How we squeezed HIPV dry

As for Seletar Broadway, you can click here to see our wedding photos .

The service is generally fine (not sure is it because they know that the boss knows me.) Overall, their service is prompt and they call everytime one day before the appointment. As for my photographer.

This was what happened during our phootshot at Seletar Broadway.

As for my Actual Day Photographer, he is Ant and you can see his website www.antevy.com (He left “Let There Be Light and set up “Ant Evy”.)

My only comment for him is “under promise; over deliver” >.< You can read more about him here Post 1, Post 2 & Post 3.

I edited this post which I posted yesterday. And uploaded new wedding photos.

Just in case you miss this, here is the page on more wedding photographers.

And here are places you can go for outdoor photoshoot.

This is another link to the wedding photos of my cousin during her ROM. I took the photos.

If you don’t click this, you may regret.

Below are some of the photos from Let There Be Light. (actually, the link broke so I replaced them with antevy.com photos)

The photos are really very beautiful. (edited on 14/3/06: I have no idea what happened to the photos at Let There Be Light photos…anyway..i added some antevy.com photos so that my readers can see photos.)

Go see…

These photos are taken at my cousin’s wedding. And the bride has become my cousin-in-law…and the smiling aunty is my aunty.

Coincidentally, my cousin and I engaged the same photographer, Ant who happened to move to set up another company called anyevy.com

(I think my cousin’s assignment is the last one Ant took. So that he can rush out our photos..what dedicated photographer!!! We waited for 1 month plus la….which is a decent period.)

Confusing, isn’t it? Both are named Ant except one ends with Ant”z”. Hehehe…many of friends had asked me so which will I recommend. I say follow where the photographer goes to.

Ant used to be from “Let There Be Light” and this is their website web site . Happy viewing!!!

My VERY pretty cousin ROM today!!!

And these are the photos taken by me. >.< Happy Viewing!!!

10am – call every relative to formally invite them to her ROM
10.30am – Vist Make-Up artist to do her make-up and have her hair done

At ROM:
(1pm – My mom and I had reached the Registry of Marriage)
1.20pm – The arrival of my pretty cousin
1.30pm – Take of photos with the wedding couple
2pm – standby at the door of ROM and take queue number

Inside ROM:
2.05pm – with relatives & witnesses (normally the fathers), proceed from waiting area to Registry Office
2.05pm to 2.15pm – After saying marriage vows and signing the marriage certificate, the
Solemniser announced them “husband and wife”
2.15pm – Take group photo in the Registry Office

Outside ROM:
2.20pm – Take photos again outside ROM
2.30pm – Proceed to China Square to have tea
3pm – Tea and chit chat and take photos again
4.30pm – Leave the Tea House

I’m so delighted that my cousin had gotten married and I wana wish her and her boyfriend – oppss…no i mean husband all the best!!!

Items that you MUST bring to the Registry of Marriage:
1. Your Wife or Husband
2. Photographer
3. Witnesses
4. Identity cards of wedding couple and witnesses