The bride with no veil

7th of March is one of the hottest date in a wedding calender, we had calls coming in fast and furious well in advance and its a great blessing to be able to cover Thomas and Alicia's wedding that day! As an avant grade branch of folks, Alicia wanted to do with the most minimal of things for the wedding, including not using the veil. It spooked Kenneth, the makeup artist, as well as her friends and I was totally cool with it!

She wants to do away with the ragging sessions as well! Thomas is one lucky groom, not to be sway by other folks do, which was my ideal of cool! Overall I had a great time covering this wedding, and had all the time to document most of the wedding party at their most unassuming state.

Grace and Adrian Wedding

Chijmas holds plenty of memories for different people, it was the place where I did my graduation collection back in 1996, a good 12 years later, its holds wonderful memories for Adrian and Grace as they hold their banquet in style there! The gate session was one very fierce affair, with Grace aunt's holding her forts and guns well! Adrian and gang come well prepared too, with plastic bags to collect all the 'damage'.

rain drops platter on my wedding day

that don't stop us from having a little fun, out in the open.

Despite not meeting Matthew until the pre-shoot, I think we get along well! This was the place where they first met!

I love doing pre-weds with backgrounds that the couple can relate to!

Lovely gowns from Dang! Some details from the hems of the skirt. I feel that for a skirt, the hems take the longest to be sewn (diameter the widest) so special attention needs to be placed there!

Outside the Jim Thomson Resturant, lovely setting, cool weather that day. This year, April and March did a swop and we are getting so many increment weather days.

A little Dream

What set weddings apart for me is the fact that I can hum and sing along the songs played by the band during our coverage of an wedding. 

 

Not to long ago, Hsin Yeow and his party, A Little Dream, made one such impression for me. Days after the wedding back in our editing studio, I was eager to search for the songs i was humming in my Itunes without luck. I would vividly remember the lyrics, the soul that A Little Dream puts into every of their repertoire. What sealed the deal for me is that when i finally bought the CDs and try to relive the same songs I heard from them, it turned out to be a tad bit different. They do make a great twist to the original cover. 

 

Its our great honour to work with some of the industry's finest and I would love to recommend everyone to take a listen at alittledream02.livejournal.com

 

If you like what you are listening to (We do!) A Little Dream provides an attractive discount to all 9FramesPhotography clients. I think we work better with great music!

Pardon us for the moment!

Hi Guys, Thank you for the CNY break we had with our family for 2 weeks. Its was a great time to reflect and organize materials for our 2009 direction. 

We will be working more on refining our work with more intimate moments in a group, work on our wides and re-explore our lenses and how I approach my subjects. We will be working to further our Pre-Wedding Photography with more interesting places to shoot and poses to work on. 

Its a great year for us in 2008 and we met so many wonderful clients along the way and each of you bought different facets to our lives and work. Thank You! 

With weddings, I learnt so much about people, our culture and gain insight to your lives, thank you our clients!

We also like to announce that Alyce and I will be away (again) for the next 3 days and we will not be bring any computers and will not access our emails. Please write to us at info@gilbertchua.com and I will get back to you asap. 

Have a nice weekend!

Love

Gilbert & Alyce

9Frames

Happy Lunar New Year!

Hi Everyone! We wish all our readers and clients, clients to be plenty of love, happiness and a great year ahead! 

We would also like to inform all our clients that we are closed till 10 Feb2009 for our Chinese New Year Holidays. Emails and calls will only be replied after the 10thFeb. Thank You for your Support!

Twinkle in your eyes!

This has got to be one of the most fetish ragging sessions i have covered with Yang of Substance films and Bryan on Anita & Kenneth's wedding in december last year.
Working with Jasmine at the Fullerton suite, they had just updated their entry to rooms so its was a little hard getting up.
It was an emotional day ( we had a play in this, haha)
Father and daughter, a mood shot
bracing the skies, that right, the skies is where Kenneth works.
here comes the groom!

There were lots of nasty stuff going around, and a little kinky for 9Frames general audience. This is the edited version.
the word is OBEY!




At ACM, a beautiful wedding, with great details and preparation by Anna of Spellbound weddings!

This is super sweet, anita, your speech teared me, honestly.

another competitor, bring it on little one!

Out of town notice

Hey Friends! We are off to somewhere for the next few days and will not be accessible by emails or calls, please continue to write to us at info@gilbertchua.com and we will get back to you by Monday 19th January 09.

Thanks and have a pleasant week ahead!