Dear friends , here are the five things, I wish i knew, when I was turning sixteen, the days when I said goodbye to toys and dolls, and said hello to make up and boys.
1. Follow your dreams, they know the way. I believe God, the dream maker have planned seeds of dreams in everyone of us. When we are young, discover your gifts and talents. The most fullfilling life if you can do what you love for the rest of your life. So you hardly cannot tell the different between working and playing.
Every night I went home from a wedding coverage, my wife would ask me, "Tell me about today's wedding!" As for Adrian and Wan Sin's wedding, the first line that came out was, "There were only 8 chairs on the Holy Ceremony. Literally! 8 chairs lining up facing the ocean. That's all!" And my wife didn't believe me until I showed her the picture.
There is something about a bride who knows her wedding inside out. She aligns everything perfectly, plans the whole event with passion, and knows everything by heart. From the wedding invitations, to the make-up, to the photographer choice ... I appreciate clients such as these, who choses her vendors based on what each of us are good at and believes in us to deliver our best work for what could be the single most important day of her life.
All the pictures in this album were taken more than five months ago, but I still remember every detail, every feeling, clearly as if it were taken just yesterday. Every trip that I go on always have a unique story of its own, a different adventure, a memorable story, and I love that. What appeals most to me is with whom I have had the privilege to journey with at the time. I've mentioned often before about how I love to hear stories of how people fall in love and how their love that withstood time and distance or even differences.
My heart skipped a beat. Maybe even two. I had found out that the travel agent we used for handling our visa applications was irresponsible and dishonest. A complete jackass. He put in my application for Schengen visa at the very last minute, thus i was not able to fly out to Germany as planned. Tania and Willy were already in Germany then. Three short days before their wedding, I had to make the difficult phone call to inform them that there is a slight chance i might not be able to come on time.
At the very end of 2012, we shot a wedding which we've been anticipating with great excitement. Simply because we've known the couple for a while and we got the opportunity to shoot his extravagant, yet sweet and romantic proposal to her. So as we got ready to turn our 2012 page to a new blank (incredibly exciting) 2013 page, Michael and Angela were also closing one chapter of their lives, and embark onto a new chapter of their lives which they will do, this time not as just indivduals, but together.
'Turning Pages' to most, is an exciting experience, and yet to some can be quite a scary one, or even both exciting and scary at the same time. If we're reading a book, every time we turn a page means we're leaving behind all the things that we've read in the previous page and getting new adventures and excitements. To newly weds like Michael and Angela, this means that they would have to leave behind their past victories and failures as individuals, and share a new adventure together as a couple.
If we're writing a book, turning pages means that we'll a blank sheet of paper ready to be filled with our new experiences, stories and adventures. For Michael and Angela, the difference is this time, they will not be writing and filling this blank piece of paper individually but as a family. So from all of us, we wish Michael and Angela that your pages would be filled with many exciting adventures and many more sweet and romantic chapters of love!
Cheers!
Yosep S.
