Attending a Family Wedding
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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looks like a beautiful wedding
Reply to this commentYes! And a beautiful couple! Their kids are going to be adorable. Congrats! *=)
Reply to this commentLOL I am sure if and when they have kids, John might post it as well.
Reply to this commenti don’t see john there anyway
Reply to this commentHe’s taking the pictures.
Reply to this commentCongratulations! It looked like a beautiful wedding.
Reply to this comment- Raymond (MONEY BLUE BOOK)
They both look young, hopefully it works out. Also, amazing quality on those pics John. Sally looks like she wants some shade lol.
Reply to this commentThey look young because they’re Asian. We all look young!
Reply to this commentThats true, asians seem never to get old. But what i most like of asians is the black and shiny hair.
Congrats for your niece Mr. Babysitter
Reply to this commentWhat happened to you
, kidding.
Simon
Reply to this commentEvil money making takes its toll!
Reply to this commentLMAO
Reply to this commentLOL
Reply to this commentYeah and Black don’t crack, babe!
Reply to this commentlol to that John.
Reply to this commentVery nice and bif family… looks everyone was happy there
Reply to this commentThe family and friends look great. Beautiful work on the pictures.
Reply to this commentHopefully they don’t put the professional photographer to shame too much!
Reply to this commentgreat wedding, this is called the “The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul”
hope i one day get married 2 some1, this gal thingy is real tough for a geek like me. 
Reply to this commentThat 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
Reply to this commentYour cousin is absolutely beautiful. I am jealous.
Reply to this commentGreat 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.
Reply to this commentStunning Photos. The bride is beautiful and the groom looks like he may have his act together.
You look handsome all dressed up as well
Reply to this commentJohn, did you take those pictures? If you did, you just found yourself a job after retiring from blogging. Those pictures look professional.
Reply to this commentI took those pics with my Canon S3 compact camera. Imagine what I can do with a DSLR?
Reply to this commentGreat quality. Was it an expensive piece of eqipment?
Reply to this commentProbably not that much since it’s not a dslr. I’m just assuming though since I have a dslr and it was a lot of money.
Great pictures though, I was going to ask the same question.
Reply to this commentCongrats
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Reply to this commentAFAIK the S3 isn’t available anymore, it was replaced by the PowerShot S5. This camera can be found for about $365.
With earnings at August figures it won’t be long before a DSLR arrives I reckon!
Reply to this commentMaybe John can get one for free from a sponsor or something to do a review on the product itself (and then keep it for personal use lol).
Reply to this commentYeah nothing wrong with the photos at all
Reply to this commentI agree. Don’t see any glares.
Reply to this commentThey look like a really cute couple.
Reply to this commentWhat type of camera do you have? I love the quality of those photos!
Well I guess I spoke too soon.
You’ve got a really good camera.
Reply to this commentLooked 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.
Reply to this commentI 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.
Reply to this commentHaha, 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.
Reply to this commentWell, 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.
Reply to this commentHow was the after party?
Reply to this commentYeah, where’s all the pictures for that.
Reply to this commentAnd we want to see pictures of the food too - although no more disturbing lobster clips please.
Reply to this commentGreat pics
I’ve got a Canon S2 myself and it rocks!
Reply to this commentcongratulations to the couple. bride looks absolutely stunning!
Reply to this commentThey look great
Congratulations
Reply to this commentThe photos look really great..
Canon S3 compact is a great camera..
Reply to this commentFrom the looks of it, yeah… My shitty Canon Powershot SD700 sucks
Reply to this commentGreat looking pictures.
Long live this new wedding, both of them were looking great and very happy. Congratulations.
Reply to this commentI also think the pictures look great
Reply to this commentAwww that’s so sweet and lovely! Your pics are great
They look like stills from a movie 
Reply to this commentPhoto 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.
Reply to this commentaww she is very beautiful
Reply to this commentCongratulations! Looks like it was a great day with great weather. The bride and groom make a very nice couple.
Reply to this commentMe love you long time??
Reply to this commentI think you have to pay John the $5 first LOL
Reply to this commentLike 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.
Reply to this commentAnd so much for the bad light - you’re right, the pictures are fantastic.
Reply to this commentShe is very attractive lady.
Lucky man marrying her.
Reply to this commentFrancesco
nice shoot actually..love to heard it from you.
Reply to this commentCongratulations, The pictures look good - much better than what I could take
Reply to this commentCongratulations to the couple.
Reply to this commentDid you get to speak and tell them how to make money online? Jk
Reply to this commentOh man, I wondering if John is a celebrity amongst his family members too
Reply to this commentMaybe you bought them a website as a wedding present?!?
Reply to this commentLOL, that would be wrong in so many ways haha
Reply to this commentI realize this has probably been said a hundred times, but that is a beautiful couple.
Are you sure you’re related?
Just kidding.
Reply to this commentGot any other hot ’single’ cousins you’d like to let us know about John
Reply to this commentThe 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.
Reply to this commentI noticed that everyone is giving compliments on how hot the bride is but none of the girls on here seem to compliment just the groom =]
Reply to this commentIt’s always the way! The girls take the limelite - the men just pay the bill!
Reply to this commentHAHAHAHAHA, that’s so true it’s not even funny (yet it’s laughable - if that makes any sense)
Reply to this commentCongrats to the Bride and Groom. The photos are great, you have a good eye.
Reply to this commentYeah 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!
Reply to this commentCongrats to the Bride and Groom.
Reply to this commentDid you make a dot com mogul speech afterwards John - giving advice to the newlyweds on how to achieve the best rates for advertising??
Reply to this commentNo videos?! You should post one, knowing you, I am sure you probably did make a short video somewhere along the way.
Reply to this commentGratz to the couple. They both looks very nice. (She is nicer of course
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Reply to this commentgreat pics, did all your family understand how did you make a living through the internet?
Reply to this commentThis isn’t the first year he’s made his living through the internet, I am sure everyone should of known by now.
Reply to this commentgreat pictures
Reply to this commentNice shot on the wedding
Reply to this commentI 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).
Reply to this commentThe autofocus of the S3 isn’t very fast or precise, but you did good.
Reply to this commentAwesome pictures… the bride is really gorgeous and the groom looks really smart. The group photographs are also very nice (specially the bridesmaid
All the very best to the couple.
Reply to this commentJohn, you took some AMAZING pictures! Do send please!
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