mike & lis story

This post is specially dedicated to the people who made our wedding a dream come true.
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Photographer - Wayne Ng from Jon Keng
In prior to engaging Wayne as our photograher, I consulted another well known photograher who also adopts jounalistic style photography. (I am not mentioning name here, as this is not meant to call out on someone) The entire correspondence was communicated over email, with the first email reply to me on my inquiry on rates and packages. Unfortunately and disppointedly, this photographer had poor business manners who didn’t reply to my further questions after I had indicated that I was working on a tight budget, and need to work on the wedding fund carefully.

Despite my several emails to him, he simply ingored them. Frankly, I was almost about to engage him for our wedding, and cut back on other expenses instead, however, he lost our business due to poor attitude.

I then started to research more on the internet for other photographer, and I chanced upon Jon Keng, and started to establish contact, and was promptly attended by Wayne. We scheduled an appointment to meet, Mike and I were greatly impressed with Wayne’s presentation, and the sincere approach when attending to us. We decided with going with Wayne for photography the following day after the meeting.

The communication with Wayne had been wondefully fantastic. Wayne came to me as a very thoughtful and attentive photographer. He took note of my concern which I breifly mention once that I was going to do my own makeup, as I didn’t like elaborated bridal makeup which I had seen a little tad too often; when he was doing a wedding photography with one of his clients, he noticed a pretty cool makeup artiste whom he thought her style of makeup suited me, he then contacted me to provide the makeup artiste’s contact. (I did not take up the recommendation eventually, as I had decided to DIY my own makeup, but Wayne’s effort was greatly appreciated)

When the big day approached Wayne initiated contact with me to discuss further on the schedule for the wedding day. I suggested communication via email/sms as I was starting to get busy with the small things days before wedding, although Wayne didn’t mind to meet up before the actual day arrived.

On the special day, Wayne was unquestionably professional in his work. Throughout the event, he was very alert on the details of the people involved in the wedding. These people were like his ‘props’ in the arts of photography, without this alertness, there would be no stories, no laughter, no emotions in our wedding pictures. From his work (Yes, we had just collected the soft copy of our wedding photo, and we are more than pleased when we viewed them, be patient though, I have yet uploaded them, but I am sure you would agree with me on his works, when you see the pictures), we knew instantly he takes great pride in the work he does.

Wayne was very dedicated to his work. The only complaint I have about him would probably his dedication to his work? We really wanted him to have a proper meal on our wedding, and didn’t require him to be working without food. He simply couldn’t sit down and finish his plate of food, but always looking out for immediate action, which he sprang away from his food, and armed with the camera and started snapping away. Sigh, Wayne, we really hope you had your fill first though.

I am thankful to the photographer who has such poor business manners, and chosen to lose my business. I could not imagine what our wedding pictures would show with a man with such poor attitude behind the lens.

We are also thankful that we met Wayne, and his pleasant composition in his personality and his job attitude helped us froze moments of joy, happiness and laughter into lasting memories. Thank you, Wayne.

Caterer - Richie Ling of Lavish Dine
We met up with Richie the first time at the venue where our wedding event was to be hosted at. He was attentive, flexible, thoughtful, and pleasant to work with. The fact the he took an extra mile to custom-design our wedding packages, allowed us to work better and more effectively with the wedding fund planning.

The professional advices he provided helped us did just all the right things. His patience is to be greatly hightlighted here. The many changes I required along the way, was very pleasantly accomodated by Richie, with no complaints or any sense of dissatisfaction expressed on his part. He was always ready to change anything or propose alternatives to meet our ever-changing needs.

We had always been certain that Richie was the best caterer we could ever engaged, but this certainty was further affirmed when the guests started to feedback to us very positive comments on the food, service and buffet line set-up. By upholding such good quality in his service, Richie did us a great favor, by making us proud in front of our guests.

I have several relatives who are really strict connoisseurs of fine dining and food, were so pleasantly pleased with the food and service, they feedback positively to my parents. Ahh.. that really made my parents swell!

You won’t believe that Richie and his colleague actually helped me with the music, would you? He was always on the lookout to see if we would need any help. He was very sweet and attentive to offer me special service to pick some food from the buffet so that I could at least get something to eat, when he noticed that I was too busy to entertain the guests and had not chance for food.

One big plus point to Richie would be his understanding rendered to us. He knew that we were flying off right after the reception, he offered to accept a post-dated cheque as long as 10 days from our event, so that we wouldn’t need to rush to prepare for the fund.

I was so pleased with the continual compliments I received even after we returned from our honeymoon, I wrote him a compliment letter.

Thank you, Richie, our event wouldn’t be half successful as it did, without your warm assistance.

Dress Designer, Prisia from Dressing Room Media
Prisia is a personal acquiantance of Mike. When I first met her, I was greeted warmly with her warm personality and fun character. I liked her candidness, yet tactful with her words. The dress was made perfectly matched to what I had in mind.

She had been very patient and considerate towards a fussy customer like myself. I had requested to make alteration the first time to loosen the waistline to A-line cut, which I had decided to revert the change after the alteration was made. Mike preferred the first fitting, and she had no words of complaint, but gladly took the request.

What impressed me most of Prisia, would be her commitment to her work and towards the clients. I had worried unduly that I may only collect the dress on the eve of the event, given the very short time notice I provided to Prisia, however, she eased me off that worry, and rushed the sewing of diamonte strip for me within a day.

Thank you Prisia, for making me a very happy and satisfied bride. (I am sure I must have looked good too!)

Florist, Naserimah N. and Kelly Poh from Far East Flora
Although we had only met Nas once to discuss about our wedding floral needs, she gave very professional and sound advices and suggestions. She tried to work our needs within our budget and accomodated to provide alternatives which we could afford and still able to make the wedding a beautiful one.

Kelly on the other hand, corresponded with me frequently (whenever needed) to discuss on various details. When she spoke with me on the phone, you could literally hear her smiles. What a cheerful and friendly person! Thumbs up!

We were very pleased with their initiatives to contact us to remind us of the car decoration and flowers collection which was to be done the day before the event. Trust me, a couple ready to get wedded would be crazily busy with many things, anything, and everything just 2 days before the event. This reminder was a small act but very significantly important.

Thank you Nas and Kelly, for the relentless effort to make sure everything went smoothly for us.

I take this chance to thank Mike for his patience, consideration, and loving understanding throughout the planning of our wedding. I am thankful to his positive mindset, which sync well with mine, that we are able to enjoy every minute of the event.