Promotions on Signature Weddings Magazine

Haha... I love this promotion! Its going to be fun. Inside Signature Weddings you can find this small little promotions hidding on the last page inside Jan 2012 issue. If you are a frequent cityville player, good news! Anyone that are able to franchise Dennis Yap Photography in their Cityville are able to receive a 10% off on either one package of mine~ The shop must be placed in the middle of your city.

At first Signature Wedding paused and asked why would I made a promotion like this one, I told them that my goal is to make them laugh and see me as a cheerful photographer. Well, its quite funny afteralll, say you are looking a wedding magazine with your serious eyes and you saw this promotion with wierd requirements. But believe me, I mean it LOL. Its not a joke. :p

My advertorial in Signature Weddings Magazine

All the while I have seen ads with big logo's with many pictures in order to grab the first attention. I made a quick decision and just wanted to have one image to describe everything, and added a message that describe my work the most. I love to focus on the heart in my work, I believe that most beautiful pictures are an expression not just on the picture itself but through pictures we can realize how individual feel toward each other. Which also an influence off a book I love so much, "The Little Prince". If you have read this book, there was this chapter where the little prince was searching for his flower in one of the planet while he was on the earth. He was looking around the sky filled with stars and was unable to find his planet. Just because he was unable to find his planet, all the stars became beautiful to him. That well described the beauty of the unseen and so this kind of beauty had an impact on me and I do appreciate things that are unseen, hidden, in the heart. I have collected 11 translation of this book and continue looking. :D

Asia's Top 30 Wedding Photographer

I never been a true believer of winning competitions, reason because I always think that there are simply better ways to make my customers happy by providing my hard work, giving them the most unforgetable experience in their lifetime. Therefore, over the years my focus is to gain appreciations rather than reputations, and I believe that reputations is earned, not won. Thanks to Signature Wedding Magazine for putting me under the Asia's Top 30 Wedding Photographer's umbrella, I guess I've earned it. Thanks to everyone that have supported my vision along the way, you all counts, this is not simply a reputation gained from a single beautiful picture, it is a combinations of numerous hard work and high level of service over the years. I will continue to work extra hard for everyone of you! Cheers!

A home for us - Andy & Serena Wedding Day in Tawau

Had some great fun shooting Andy & Serena's wedding day in Tawau. Just from the looks from those photos you can sort of feel how fun it is LOL, picture tells a thousand words. But one of the unfortunate thing for me was before the wedding day I found myself having dengue fever. I was almost going to call off this wedding assignment and fly some other person over to cover their wedding day, however the moment I heard Serena was quite sad to hear about my news and told me that she do not have any photographers to cover her wedding day, I decided to take my life at risk to fly over to this small little town of Sabah. Had my continual blood test over in some clinics there and surprisingly I found not many people aware about the danger of dengue fever there. Actually I had a long thought why am I putting myself in a big risk instead of admitting to hospital in KL. The price that I going to pay for the extra ticket is minimal compared to my life. However, I did not tell Serena about this but the sad thing I saw in the wedding was she did have someone to cover her wedding for her, in the groom side and he even made the slideshow for the dinner because I am incapable due to the fever. My hands and body were all red in the afternoon, lol a little shy that day. :p

Just some advice for future brides, it is indeed very important to hire 2 photographers for your wedding day, in case one fail, another one can take over in case of emergency. Even this was my first ever incident that require me to turn down the assignment (but I didn't), in certain times, things happened and we have to accept it, never put anyone's life at risk.

A night with Jazz and Laughters - Kok Hui & Cheryl Wedding Dinner 2

Finally its the 3rd day of their wedding day, I can't imagine myself doing such a big and tiring ceremony myself LOL. As for me, I just wish to have a picnic ceremony with really close ceremony. It was quite fun, glad to see many familiar faces I met while I was in the States during studies. And nice to see you again Ramesh. I used to sell bibles and education books to help me through school while I was Studying in the states, so every summer those are the gangs, we called them bookmans. LOL. 

A night with Jazz and Laughters - Kok Hui & Cheryl Wedding Dinner 1

Few days after Kok Hui and Cheryl morning gate crash and now its their wedding dinner, they actually splited the dinner into 2 different parts, one for the groom side and one for the bride side. I can imagine how hard it is to RSVP so many people lol. However, thanks to Kok Hui's charisma he managed to get his buddies to accompany him all the way. Kok Hui love to sing and so as Cheryl's family too lol. Its a day felt like back to the 80s and every one love to hang around, listen to some jazz and able to hear many laughters around.

Day like tomatoes and french fries - Kok Hui & Cheryl Wedding Day

It was quite a funny gate crashing moment, this morning Kok Hui brought over a bunch of his old friends from the states, some of them are in fact my old friends during college. And over here you can also see Cliff Choong, one of our photographer here. Cliff, like usual, love to bring his guitar along in any occasions. And the Hawaii theme had made lots of people laughed lol. It was like going to a beach. Though we all were not young already but everyone are still quite alive and kicking, enjoying every step to receive Cheryl, and because of the funny theme, everyone has the courage to be crazy for a while. 

When we are together - Melissa Friendship Portrait

One day Lai Peng called me and would like to book me for a friendship portrait session, this portrait was a memory of the long friendship together and also to celebrate the birthday of their best buddy Melissa. We spent a few hours having picnic in Titiwangsa, played some kites and shoot some funny pictures lol. It was quite an interesting portrait, finally I can create something outside of my normal wedding assignments. I guess the theme fits them well, love the shot beside the tree, which reminds me of a recent popular taiwanese movie. But surprisingly Melissa called me one day and asked what was my theme behind the colors of these pictures, then I told her that it is a reflection of something light yet heavy, meaningful and joyful. Something unique that I have used.

Moment in the Sky - Yon Hon & Shiryee Wedding Reception

In this windy morning Yon Hon and Shiryee had their wedding reception on top of the sky lounge in Sentul. The ceremony was a simple and nice one but filled with love and sweetness. All from the master mind of Yon Hon. Known this couple a while ago while covering their pre-wedding session in Putrajaya, the concept that this couple had for their wedding is quite unique. The march in was simple, table setup were quite basic, the crowd were all standing, nothing much, but the ambient and the meaning that this couple brought forward was quite awesome. Thanks to both of you, wish you all the best after moving in Hong Kong. :)

New Adventure - Sean & Cindy Wedding Day

Right after celebrated new year and its nice to start day one covering Sean and Cindy's wedding day. Shot their love portrait a while ago so they are no strangers at all. But because Cindy's house is too big, we got Kevin Tan over to assist me for the day. It was a great morning, everything happened like a fairy tale theme. During the gate crash they even had a singing session with the piano in their house in order to receive the bride. Before dinner there was a blessing ceremony in the hotel. And during their march in, they got all the kids marching in with them with their baby motorized cars, not sure how to name that transport LOL. And later on there was a group of kids dancing ballet with them. Cindy is a unique one, she doesn't want fancy songs and she had selected a list of elegant classic songs for her wedding dinner. Thats why I felt that it was like a fairy tale. 

I still remember during Sean and Cindy's speech. She gave a toast for being an aunty and it was quite unique indeed hehe. And her dad was right, he mentioned that it is tough to raise Cindy as she has a lot of her own ideas in her mind, wanted everything perfect and according to her own way. It is quite ok, in life some people gone through their life process in a very smooth manner and of course we always striving to maintain the smoothness of it and had everything well planned. Cindy had me recalled of my younger days too, but after a part of my life that got me changed my perception, where I came to a point to believe that not everything supposed to belong to me, and from that point of time, I began to live a different perception. It just need a stage in life to change that.