Johnnydick & Manmeet's Wedding in Kuala Penyu.

Here is a selection of some of the wedding photos from Johnnydick & Manmeet's wedding shot on the 26 Sept in Kuala Penyu (Turtle Bay), Sabah at the local Catholic church with the brides reception on the same day at her residence and the groom reception the week after (3rd October) at his dad's residence.

Its one of my first outstation assignments so it was a pretty interesting one for me at least.
The groom is my cousin's brother in law and I was hired to shoot for the grooms side. There was another photographer that the bride's side hired from Penampang for their side and to top it all up it was a double wedding in the church with another couple also being married at the same time as well.
Suffice to say there was more than your average number of camera-men & video-men running around that church that day..

Anyway one interesting element of the Kadazan Dusun Kuala Penyu style of wedding is the custom of the bride/groom offering relatives & guests a drink of local rice spirits (similar to the Chinese tea ceremony) at some point during the reception. This is where the bride and groom sit in circle with and MC and trade toasts with their parents relatives and guests.

Calum's Church Wedding Photos

Here are some of the pics I did from Calum Mogindol's Church Wedding at Mary Immaculate Church at Bukit Padang. His mom is related to mine so you could say it was sort of a relatives wedding shoot..Shot as a second shooter with my Nikon D40/D90 gear.
I just love to shoot church weddings especially when in 'fly on the wall mode'..while the wedding photographer was mainly shooting formals I had the opportunity to do more candids.
It also helps add up to my wedding shoot experience and portfolio.^-^

A Kadazan wedding at KDCA

Wooah been some time since the last update..been busy of sorts lately..
Anyway I'd try to update this blog 1-2 times a week at least to keep it fresh..ok on to this weeks story..

I attended a wedding reception( Brian & Adrina) yesterday with my family at KDCA it was a usual Kadazan Penampang style wedding with all the stage singing and band, sumazau & traditional dances plus lotsa food and drinks except this one had a little something extra..

well seeing as harvest fest just only was over..the bride and groom were wearing traditional Kadazan costume along with quite a number of the entourage as well and later on the highlight of the event was the traditional marriage ceremony- where the bride and groom fed each other rice and lihing chicken soup(I think) and pour rice wine for their respective parents/in laws kinda like the Chinese tea ceremony.

Then came the cake cutting and the usual yam-seng toasts.
For me it was a clicky opportunity with my camera..getting to know the dewan conditions etc bla bla..
Well I'll guess I'll shut up now and let the pics do the talking then..