jojo + alfred + video

I promised you before that I ‘ll post more video here, here is another amazing video for JoJo and Alfred.

If you like their pre-wedding photo, the wedding day same day photo edit, don’t miss this wedding day video prepared by Ken

ceremony + reception = island shangri la
make up artist = Zi Wan of violet
wedding planner = pink wedding
music and band = ME2 production
decoration = The Mozz
video = ken of simon.the.photo

more and more love everyday, rachel and charles

“I ‘ll love you more and more everyday”, said charles. simple but beautiful words.

ceremony and reception: Intercontinental Hotel Hong Kong
makeup artist: Man Chan of Miracle (tel:27391988)
music and band: unison production
video: ken of simon.the.photo

my fav bridal portrait of the day, taken at spoon of intercontinental
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love.surprise.diamonds venice and kenny

we love capturing the love between the wedding couple.

we love seeing surprises prepared by the wedding couple.

but we never expect to see so many big diamonds on a wedding day … …

After changing into a evening gown, venice walked into the ballroom from the changing room. To her surprise, “I have prepared a special desert for you” , said kenny. When the dish was uncovered, we saw shining light – it is a  set of diamond jewelry. Under the spot light, kenny helped her to put them on in front of all the guest.

Hi, all the other groom, if you are still thinking of what surprises you ‘d like to give to your bride on the wedding day, you may consider kenny ’s idea !!!!

reception: four seasons hotel hong kong
ceremony: no wedding ceremony on the day
video: ken of simon.the.photo
wedding planner: the plan

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diamond of love
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whole day summary prepared by ken of simon.the.photo

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box of love - part two

remember the story of “a box of  love“ of charis and tsui kit?

a touching summary video prepared by ken of simon.the.photo.
Great works!!
it may takes 1-2 minutes to buffer before it plays

*Video:charis and kit summary video edit

if you can ‘t watch the video above in IE, you can  try the following one

BTW, I asked you to guess where I took the following photos in Four Seasons. Sorry, I almost forgot to give you the answer. Click the following link to SEE !!
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a box of love and memories
– charis and tsui kit

it is exactly one year after I took the pre-wedding photo of charis and tsui kit. since then, we became good friend of each other and I am so looking forward to their wedding day.

Honestly, I personally feel that tsui kit has a “hyperactive” problem :-) , he just never stop, full of energy anytime, anywhere !!!

But, on the wedding day, I learn the other side of him, and it is very touching to me.

In the middle of the day, charis took me into a room and asked me to take some photos of a present that she received the day before – this is the last present she received from tsui kit as his girl friend.

What is it? This is a box full of notes, paper, letter … … Since the 1st day they met eight years ago, tsui kit believed that he ‘s going to spend the rest of his life with charis. Day by day, he wrote down what he felt about charis onto this little notes, paper, he never showed them to charis for eight years, and never told her about this. He kept this box of papers to himself, until the day before their wedding, it became the last present to his girl friend.

what a man, very impressive !!!!

ceremony and reception: four seasons hotel
makeup artist: Eva of faces hk
video: ken of simon.the.photo

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charis ‘s reading one of the letter
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the same day video edit by ken

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– charis and tsui kit

wedding of michelle and tony

since I post michelle and tony ’s pre-wedding photo back in July, I got lots  of positive feedback. When I met new clients  and asked them what kind and style of pre-wedding they like, answers like ” I love michelle and tony ’s photos, something similar would be very nice” is not uncommon.

I shot michelle and tony ’s wedding early Oct – what a beautiful wedding. Though Michelle has a very high standard of requirement of every single detail of her wedding, it ’s not difficult to take picture of them as everyone ’s so nice and always had smile on their faces. After we prepared the childhood video for them, we found out that michelle and tony knew each other when they ‘re still a child and the two families ‘re very close already. So you can imagine how happy the two families are. Congratulations !!

ceremony and reception: JW Marriott Hotel
video: ken of simon.the.photo

I did a same day photo slideshow for them.  All photos are direct jpg output from camera, other then B&W conversion and simple burn and dodge, not much Photoshop editing was done.
The slideshow was re-edited (from 4:3 to 16:9 and a faster song is used) for web display purpose. It may take 1-2 min to load … …

wedding of karen and wanson

a beautiful wedding – simple but full of touching moments.

ceremony: St. Margaret ‘s Church

reception: four seasons hotel hong kong

video: tomoko of simon.the.photo

on arrival at the church. Karen was still in the limo, with the reflection of the bridesmaids on the window. My fav photo of the day
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the whole day summary prepared by tomoko. A brief introduction of tomoko: she joined my team since last year. Prior to joining us, she has been working with NHK for years and with experience producing over hundred documentary films before. I really love her style – documenting a wedding, with lots emotions and details.

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you made me cry – part ii

still remember vivian and roger – the couple who made me cry.

many people asked me why I cried ( after shooting hundreds of wedding in last few years), I would say I was really moved by what roger said to his father at the end of the two-days wedding.

I was so close to them and could hear what he say, and that ’s what really made me cry.
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take a look at the following slideshow, not only me, everyone cried … ….

after seeing the sentimental side of the wedding, the day was also full of fun and surprises.

roger prepared a surprise to vivian before the first dance, in roger ‘s introduction video, he said ” Hi everyone, I am roger, 26, I am a teacher …. …. and I don’t know dancing …. …” What surprised everyone was that roger prepared a hip hop dance performance for vivian. No one knew about it (OK, Ken and I knew a little bit, we got notified that roger is going to dance, but we didn’t know what kind of dance, and we didn’t have rehearsal neither).

Starting from knowing nothing about dancing, roger kept learning and practising for 6 months before the wedding day. How good was the dance? take a look at the following video (prepared by ken)

amazing, isn’t it? back to the photos, it was very challenging to capture the dance shots, it was dark (btw, who turned off the hotel spotlight :-| ) and  motion was fast. To capture the following shots, I had set up 3 off-camera flashs on the site – two on light stands and one (with a 8 degree grid) on a lighting stick held by Canly. Canly did a great job as she needed to keep aiming the flash to roger while he was moving around and had to adjusting the flash power at the the same time. Here are the resulting photos, I love them so much !!!!

cool !! my fav of the day for roger
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the first dance
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ceremony: the peninsula hotel Hong Kong, garden suite
reception: Intercontinental Hotel Hong Kong (day 1) & Kowloon Shangri-la (day 2)
make up artist: gracy of JustGracy
video: ken of simon.the.photo

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