A&W Wedding: The Pre-Wedding Photo Shoot

In the beginning of our wedding planning, we've been looking at a few free-lance photographers and we really loved their work. My initial pre-wedding photo shoot plan was to rent a wedding dress & a tux and engage with one of the free-lance photographers. We even met up with a few of them and were entirely mesmerised by their work but sadly, threatened by their price.

Andrew and I both knew that if we settle for that option, it will totally cost us a big fraction of our wedding budget and we were not too sure whether it was worth splurging for.. So we had to opt for the more affordable option, to engage a bridal studio.

So from there and then, we spent most of our spare time popping by as many bridal studios as possible to be attracted with their pre-wedding photo shoot packages and mainly, to try on dresses to see which cutting suits me best, whether it be the mermaid/trumpet wedding dress, the a line wedding dress, the empire wedding dress.. gah! So much to digest!

The first wedding dress that I've tried on! It was quite ugly.. but the only thought that was running through my head was "OMG I'm in a wedding dress! :O" 

Okay.. I had to calm self and focus! Quite like the cutting of this dress, except the chest area..  At that time, I was looking for a sweetheart cut. 

Loved the sweetheart cut but I didn't like the back of the dress.

It had three awkward ribbons at the back of the dress and the employee told me it wasn't possible to remove them. Oh well.. moving on!

After three weeks of finding the perfect wedding dress to rent & to engage their pre-wedding photo shoot services, I became super demotivated cause I couldn't find "the" wedding dress for me so Andrew and I played a game we call "the wedding roulette" and we randomly picked our bridal studio. Haha.. #truestory

I would say, the packages offered by those bridal studios were almost similar and there weren't any particular reason why we engaged De Casamia for their pre-wedding photo shoot services. Their prices were reasonable and I was at a point where I couldn't care whether I could find "the" wedding dress. I was more of in a i-just-want-to-get-over-this phase. 

Here are some of the dresses I've tried:

Didn't quite fancy this dress as it make my body looked short and stumpy. 

Errr.. I wasn't digging this as well as their embroideries were a sight for sore eyes. T_T 

Haha.. I would say, the entire wedding dress hunt was quite depressing but I try not to let it get the best of me. Though I wasn't contented with our decision, I've always reminded myself to enjoy the entire wedding planning process and if the pictures turned out ugly.. well, Andrew and I have pinky promised to bury our albums and never let a single soul see it!