2012 is gonna be a year of travelling for Gabriel Mendes Photography. I’m pleased to announce that the coming overseas pre-wedding sessions for this year are scheduled as follows:

2 days shoot in Paris @ SGD$6000 (inclusive of album + CDrom of all taken hi-res images + photographer’s airfare and hotel )

Bali @ SGD$3800 (inclusive of album + CDrom of all taken hi-res images + makeup artist + 7 seater car with chauffeur + photographer’s air ticket and accommodation)

Pre-nuptial or pre-wedding photos are a must have nowadays. They’re now part of every wedding planning spree because they are sometimes used for invitations and as conversation pieces during the wedding itself.

One of the best destinations for a wedding is Bali, Indonesia. In order to complete your Bali wedding experience, it would be nice to have your pre wedding photos in Bali, too. It is therefore a must that you get your Bali pre wedding photos perfect!

Get inspiration and be resourceful and unique. Your choice of style and exact locations for your Bali Pre wedding are all up to you, after all, it is your wedding. What is important is that you are just your own selves. Keep it fresh and playful.

Another way to inject uniqueness is by adding a personal touch to your photos. Incorporate things or places that you, as a couple, posses or have gone to. You will certainly have fun reminiscing those loving and happy moments with your partner. This will make your Bali pre wedding photo session truly worth it.

You want your Bali pre wedding shots to be great, so take the time to rehearse some of them, if not all. Remember that practice makes perfect. However, keep in mind that you should also look natural. Spontaneity is key, as it will still bring out the best in the two of you. This is because the photographer will be able to capture your true spirit as a couple.

A professional wedding photographer will definitely contribute to a perfect Bali pre wedding photo session. Go for someone wwho has the eye for the style that you want to project. An experienced photographer will give you sound advice and recommendations for you to be your best during the shoot.

Should you consider the above mentioned tips, your Bali pre wedding photographs would surely be the talk of the party. With proper planning, you can achieve great quality pictures and have very good memories of your wedding.

I’ve seen how pre wedding photography can make love birds walk on cloud nine. Via pre wedding photography, the couple are able to better narrate and share with the rest of the world the story of how love blossomed between them. Wedding day photography is for keeping memories of the event itself.

For those people hearing this for the first time, pre wedding photography is a pretty recent entrant into the wedding photography industry, and it started with a couple wanting to reminisce and document through photos the events that led to the the wedding day.

In pre wedding photography, memory is the operative word. It is really a walk down memory lane expressed through pictures. Or it is also a memory of what couples want to create of their last days as singles.

I’ve really enjoyed my most recent pre wedding photography projects. I got to work with couples who were just endowed with creativity and funk. One such couple conceptualised a period shot, with friends, circa 1950s. They put in a great deal of work getting a professional make up artist and designer to help them achieve the 50s look. I took care of lighting and composition and the result was fantastic.

Another pre wedding photography was done in the school location where the couples first met, and mind you, it was in a primary school.

The criticism pre wedding photography has is that people think photographers, especially neophyte ones, are exploiting it because it is less risky and less complicated. It is less risky because unlike in the actual wedding event, pre wedding photography is composed and set and not event-driven.

I argue to the contrary. Pre wedding photography should require the creative best from any photographer, no less. After all, this is history, too, the history of two separate lives before they become one.

“We chose Bali for its beauty and close proximity to Singapore,” says Philip. “I had always envisioned a destination pre-wedding in a foreign country, and I loved the idea that we can combine both travel and photoshoot together!”

Indeed, Bali is not just a perfect short getaway holiday destination but also a beautiful place for pre-wedding shoot. Bali is easily accessible from Singapore. Direct flights to Bali (2.5 hrs) are available with Singapore Airlines, Garuda, Qatar Airways, Jetstar and Air Asia on a daily basis.

There’s a lot of reason to love a Bali pre-wedding photography. I was just recently there with a handsome couple, Adrian and Yen, and the experience was awesome.

Bali has the endless oceans enveloped in its breasts. Bali is an immersion into rich history and culture. Bali welcomes you into its rustic villages, and lets you bask in the vast expanse of green fields. And a Bali pre-wedding photography has all these.

We can spend a day in Bali and cover a lot of destinations, each providing a dramatic backdrop to the kind of pre-wedding photos you desire.

A trip there is a fun nature hike as well, as what happened to us when we nearly fell into the rice field! For the beautiful natural milieu it offers, outdoorsy is the way to go in a Bali pre-wedding photography. And of course, it is also a relaxing visit to one of the world’s top tourist destinations!

So definitely, on the conventional side of things, couples can opt for a Bali pre-wedding photography on the beach sides, during the sunset, and in the many Bali villas and seafront hotels.

But in our case, we wanted to see the side trips. But anywhere you look in Bali, you find a picture-perfect backdrop. That is the perk for the photographer there. I didn’t really have a tough time composing my shots, and the creativity is unlimited, in the same way the cool Bali sea breeze soars limitless skies.

I liked it when Adrian and Yen can rough things, like sitting on high rocky formations by the mouth of the oceans and yes, standing on the grassy patch of the green fields. Donning a wedding gown and a tux, the rural background provided an exceptional contrast.

And that is just what a great Bali pre-wedding photography is all about. The poetry in irony, and a day in paradise with the one you love.

I had a great time shooting the prewedding of James and Felicia. When they told me that they wanted something unconventional, I knew this would be the photoshoot that I had been waiting for! Kudos to Ted Wu for creating the stunning outfits and three cheers for Jesslin who was busy creating new looks for the couple. I wanted smokey eyes on James… Think “Twilight”, I told Jesslin…We were ecstatic that the look turned out fantastic!