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Attending a Family Wedding

written by John Chow on September 2nd, 2007

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Yesterday I saw my cousin, who I used to babysit when she was just 4 years old, get married. It was a beautiful ceremony held at Queen Elizabeth Park. I love family weddings because it brings people together. Family members flew in from Toronto, New York, Hong Kong and China to attend.

The weather could not have been better. However, I have to admit, wearing a suit in the dead of summer isn’t my idea of fun. Sally had a great time with all the attention showered on her by out of town family members seeing her for the first time.

Irene, the bride, is the first child of my uncle’s family to get married. She is the oldest of four siblings. The ceremony lasted about an hour and was attended by 100 friends and family. There was another hour of taking pictures in the park. Then we went home to get ready for the evening reception, which would be attended by 320 people.

Here are some photos from the wedding. It was really hard to get good pictures because the sun was behind the bride and groom. I really need to take a photography course.

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  1. looks like a beautiful wedding :smile:

  2. They both look young, hopefully it works out. Also, amazing quality on those pics John. Sally looks like she wants some shade lol.

  3. Very nice and bif family… looks everyone was happy there :smile:

  4. The family and friends look great. Beautiful work on the pictures. :smile:

  5. great wedding, this is called the “The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul” :oops: :oops: :oops: hope i one day get married 2 some1, this gal thingy is real tough for a geek like me. :oops: :oops:

    • That reminds me, if you’re bad at photography and this is the quality of your pictures John, you can take pictures at my wedding when I have mine anyday. Just make sure you bring your new camera :twisted:

  6. Your cousin is absolutely beautiful. I am jealous.

  7. Great pictures! The bride looks stunning and when it comes to weddings that seems to be the main thing. Hope you managed to cool down at the night do and have a few beers.

  8. Stunning Photos. The bride is beautiful and the groom looks like he may have his act together.

    You look handsome all dressed up as well :oops:

  9. Tony

    John, did you take those pictures? If you did, you just found yourself a job after retiring from blogging. Those pictures look professional.

  10. They look like a really cute couple.
    What type of camera do you have? I love the quality of those photos!

  11. Looked like it was a beautiful cerimony. How does your family feel about posting pics like that on your blog? Do they care? I sometimes wonder if mine would.

    • I would imagine if I post bad pictures or the comments were very negative, they would care. But that’s not the case here so I think they will like it. I will show them these post later.

      • Haha, you don’t have to. I’d expect that with any camera, no matter how good it is, would produce some bad pictures at times.

        • Well, a simple trick I learnt for these kind of lighting situations would be to turn on the flash. It would be even better if your camera has a “flash-assist” function. It would light the fore-ground, so that their sillouhettes don’t appear instead.

  12. Great pics :) I’ve got a Canon S2 myself and it rocks!

  13. congratulations to the couple. bride looks absolutely stunning!

  14. They look great :)

    Congratulations

  15. The photos look really great..

    Canon S3 compact is a great camera..

  16. Great looking pictures.

    Long live this new wedding, both of them were looking great and very happy. Congratulations.

  17. I also think the pictures look great

  18. Awww that’s so sweet and lovely! Your pics are great :) They look like stills from a movie :)

  19. Photo quality is pretty, hope you had a nice day and enjoy seeing all your family for this special occasion. Wedding can be a lot of fun and they indeed look like a very young couple. Good luck to them and all the best for the years to come.

  20. aww she is very beautiful

  21. Congratulations! Looks like it was a great day with great weather. The bride and groom make a very nice couple.

  22. Rex

    Me love you long time??

  23. Like everyone else has said, the photos looked awesome and I would never have guessed they came from a point-and-shoot camera upon first glance. It looks like it was a wonderful occasion and you got some great pictures.

  24. She is very attractive lady.
    Lucky man marrying her.

    :D
    Francesco

  25. nice shoot actually..love to heard it from you. :)

  26. Congratulations, The pictures look good – much better than what I could take

  27. Congratulations to the couple.

  28. Did you get to speak and tell them how to make money online? Jk :lol:

  29. I realize this has probably been said a hundred times, but that is a beautiful couple.

    Are you sure you’re related? :-P Just kidding.

  30. The bride is so beautiful, I’m falling in love and now falling out, too bad I don’t have a chance since she’s married now.

  31. Congrats to the Bride and Groom. The photos are great, you have a good eye.

    • Yeah it makes you sick doesn’t it!

      Not only is John an evil money making genius but he’s also a great photographer – there’s got to be something he’s not good at! :lol:

  32. Congrats to the Bride and Groom.

  33. Did you make a dot com mogul speech afterwards John – giving advice to the newlyweds on how to achieve the best rates for advertising??

  34. No videos?! You should post one, knowing you, I am sure you probably did make a short video somewhere along the way.

  35. Gratz to the couple. They both looks very nice. (She is nicer of course :wink: )

  36. great pics, did all your family understand how did you make a living through the internet? :shock:

  37. Nice shot on the wedding

  38. Asians only

    I guess my comment is too late for anyone to notice, but:

    Have anyone else noticed how there’s amost always only asians in events like these? Even the priest is asian.

    It makes me wonder if it is intentional or not (since this is by far the first example of such segregation on john chow).

  39. The autofocus of the S3 isn’t very fast or precise, but you did good.

  40. Awesome pictures… the bride is really gorgeous and the groom looks really smart. The group photographs are also very nice (specially the bridesmaid :wink:

    All the very best to the couple. :smile:

  41. Dora

    John, you took some AMAZING pictures! Do send please!

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