Wedding anniversary is a special moment. Last year, our couple, Michael and Shellia tied the knot in a moving ceremony at Phoenix Restaurant Manly.

On this special day, we would like to say, happy first anniversary to Michael + Shellia!! We are very honoured to be part of their journey!

Check out their wedding slideshow and some photos from their wedding day.

At this time last year, my beautiful couple Scott & Melissa tied the knot in St Brigid’s Parish, Marrickville, followed by the reception in the elegant Tea Room, QVB.

Just wanting to congratulate them on their first wedding anniversary!! Hope this blog post will relive their memories back to the day they started their life together.

Scott & Melissa’s wedding is still one of my proud works until today – check out their wedding slideshow below! And shared some love if you may…!!

Since the shoot of their portrait films, we know that their wedding was going to be awesome. They are the clients we wish to have all the time. I know that it’s just a dream.

With the terrible weather on their wedding, it didn’t stop them to have a good time and showed their love to each other. That’s the best way to describe of how much they are in love.

The soundtrack (Blood by Middle Eastern) of this below video was specifically asked as it has the meaningful purpose for them. We can say it is very uncommon for couple to have this kind of genre for wedding video but we thought it was so cool and the tone is very storytelling. Hopefully the video does the justice of how beautiful and cool their wedding day was.

Howdy and welcome to my second blog on the new home of Foto Expression blog. This time I would like to share my first wedding anniversary in Bali recently. If you have read my previous blog, I mentioned that this year I had a great opportunity to shoot my first destination wedding outside my comfort zone, it is in Bali! The other thing that excites me was the wedding day happened one day before our first anniversary. What a coincidence!

Bali, for some reason has special place in our heart. I tried to ‘google’ around and found this statement that best illustrates the magical of Bali.  Here it is: Bali, known as Island of God, with its varied landscape of hills and mountains, rugged coastlines and sandy beaches, lush rice terraces and barren volcanic hillsides all providing a picturesque backdrop to its colourful, deeply spiritual and unique culture, stakes a serious claim to be paradise on earth (quoted from Wikitravel). For those that have ever experienced the hospitality of Balinese, you may agree with above.  If you have not, lets check out some of my photos to truly show the magical of this little paradise.

You can also check our pre-wedding photos taken by Wiki Lee (and his wife Ilona Lee and Marcell Gunawan from Foto Expression) in Ubud and Jimbaran, Bali.

Back to the topic, when I knew that my client finally decided to book us as their photographer (YAY!!), the first thing on my mind (apart from the wedding itself) was WHERE to celebrate our anniversary?? There are lots and lots of nice and fancy restaurants in Bali, from no star until Michelin rated. However, since this is our first year celebration, I want this to be rather special. So I searched and asked around and finally decided to celebrate at Tirtha.

Tirtha, this venue called, is located on the top of Uluwatu cliff, with panoramic views of the Indian Ocean. We held our wedding in Tirtha Luhur one year ago, on the 13^th November 2010. With the help from Andi (our wedding assistant from Tirtha Bridal) and thanks that no one actually got married in this place on that day, we were allowed to celebrate our first anniversary day here.

As soon as we stepped into the villa, we feel a magical tingle going through our body. Not to mention the luscious scent of the area go through every bit of our breath! The surroundings of the area are absolutely beautiful, and they just bring old good memories happened in this place a year ago. We were seated in the gazebo facing the Indian Ocean, next to the chapel. The decoration, the foods and the ambient were romantic. The night was so perfect (thanks God for not giving us rain on that night!) that we couldn’t ask for more. We enjoyed every minute as the time passed by. To sum up (otherwise I won’t stop!), we had a fabulous time; a memorable anniversary night in this place. We will definitely come back again!

Here are some random snapshots of Bali

If you by any chance have not watched this, you should watch our marvelous videos taken by Wiki Lee, Ilona Lee and Marcell Gunawan from Foto Expression.

Check out below video:

Ken + Celine Wedding Fusion video

Ken + Celine Same Day Edit Video “Why should Ken marry Celine?”

Ken + Celine Wedding video trailer “Sempurna”

Howdy World!

It has been a while since my last writing a while back ago and this means I got so many things pending to write up! Recent trip to Europe, my own routine PLUS laziness are causing the delay (such an excuse Ken!). But I promise to catch up the best I can!!

All right, in the middle of this very silent night (during flight back to Sydney from Indonesia), while my memory is still fresh, I’d like to blog my latest and newest wedding assignment in Bali. I still remember a while back ago when I receive inquiry from Edwin (or known as “Coco”) to shoot his wedding on the 12th November 2011.

I was so excited and could not stop smiling for two reasons: ONE, someone has appreciated my work and wants to fly me all the way to Bali. TWO, Bali is a beautiful island with full of memory for both me and my wife Celine. We married a year back ago on the 13th Nov. In other words, once I have finished with Edwin’s wedding, we can celebrate our first wedding anniversary. What a coincidence!

The day has finally came, and I had opportunity to meet Edwin and Elissa two days before their wedding. Edwin, as most of his friends say, is a warm gentle guy who knows everything. He is like a Wikipedia to me. He has something in common with me, both of us love to EAT! Needless to say, Elissa is a beautiful soul, outgoing type of girl with a very pretty smile. She has lovely voice too (Note for Elissa: I’m truly mean it – the song that you sang on that night really impressed me! No no I didn’t mean anything though

I’m blessed to shoot their intimate wedding, set in the charming Majoly Restaurant in Bali. The day was packed with so much laughter and fun, very big thanks to their friends, bridesmaids and groomsmen.

Under the heat of Bali I finally survived my first destination wedding. I really enjoyed the day (thanks to Krating Daeng – Indonesian version of energy drink and lots of Pocari Sweat). I am truly satisfied with I have done and look forward for the next Bali wedding!