This was definitely the year to have a wedding. Everyone and their dog got married this year. Which is pretty amazing considering most countries haven’t even legalized dog marriage yet. With my own wedding less than two months away, I had to stand in for my fiancée at her older brother’s wedding in Xinjiang, China. And of course in addition to being the surrogate sibling, I also took on wedding photographer duties. And as usual I was the token foreigner […]
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Joyful Wedding
Joy and Chris held more of a reception than a wedding at the Westin on Financial Street in Beijing. Their real nuptials had been held in Joy’s hometown in Guizhou a few weeks earlier, but since most of their Beijing buddies couldn’t join the actual wedding, they held another “wedding” at a nicely chosen location. Complete with bridesmaids and groomsmen to fill out the photos, the day went well and moments of merriment and frolicking were captured throughout the day […]
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I met Stephan and Christine while studying at Sichuan University in 2004. And I’d like to say I hung out with them all the time there, but they spent most of their time in and out of the classroom making out with each other and not paying much attention to the rest of us (not really). Fortunately Stephan loved soccer almost as much as Christine (ok, actually not even close, but at least he loved soccer enough to join the […]
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While visiting my fiancee in Hawaii, one of her good friend’s Li Juan also had her fiance in town visiting. Actually officially they were already married, though they hadn’t had a wedding ceremony yet, nor taken any engagement pictures together. While I couldn’t help them with the first problem, I did offer to take some engagement pictures for them. In the end they only had a couple of hours to take pictures and didn’t want to go overboard with them, […]
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