Wedding – Wendy & Mike

Posted on 03.21.10 to Photography by Joan

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I attended and photographed the blogger wedding of the year (decade or even century, perhaps). Wendy, aka Xiaxue, weds. I remember chatting with her during the initial stages of her relationship.

We were in the infant stages of the show, ‘Girls Out Loud’ then and were tweaking the concept to be presented to the station. Gi and I were suitably worried that she was flying halfway across the world to meet some strange dude and told her that she had to be careful and to make sure she came back in one piece, else we’d have no show! LOL.

It’s sweet to see two people so much in love, and we all wish them the best of luck – not that we won’t hear about the honeymoon from these blogging newlyweds! That’s the best thing, I suppose, about people who blog so regularly – you’re never going to miss any major events in their lives, and you can put your money on the fact that their wedding was one of them!

There’s a lot of history behind the couple, and for those who’ve met on blogs, World of Warcraft, or even www.partypoker.com , I’m sure the story is the same. It’s a tale of two people who wanted to be together, and damn the geographical obstacles they had to climb over in order to get there!

I’m glad that everything worked out beautifully for her. The theme of the ceremony was awesome (Italian Mafia) and all the natural light from the floor-to-ceiling windows at Forlino worked well for the photos. It was also nice to be with the Munky family again. Good ol’ times.

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Once a crackberry addict, always a crackberry addict. I totally relate.

Those shoes were insanely high!

She did her nails herself and painstakingly stuck each rhinestone on each nail.

Rozz, doing what she does best — snapping loads of photos for her blog/Facebook.

Girls Out Loud Season 2

The bride’s mother.

The media frenzy.

Having problems squeezing Mike’s ring on.

If you notice the fuzzy head at the bottom right corner, it belongs to this intern photographer with The New Paper who made me so furious when he did that, I shoved him aside and said, “EXCUSE ME”. (At least I was polite!) I hate it when photographers have no regard for other photographers at a shoot. It just reeks of unprofessionalism.