Choosing Our Pictures

by Errolyn

WOW - 300 over pictures. Shortlisted by the extremely able photographer to 270, shortlisted by the bride and groom to 123. And th.e.e.n….we're stuck. 123!!! And our package only gives us 50 poses! Howlah? The answer we told ourselves, was just to be ruthless with a capital R. So we cut and slash and chop and mutilate leaving us with 90.

We have so far taken several breaks and after 4 hours of this, Andrew takes pity on us and offers to sell us all the pictures….for the price of Ju Han's leg…..and he is a TALL guy mind you. We politely and quickly decline. He offers us another package, this time for the price of my two legs….again we politely and quickly decline lest he even fancies that we might be interested. We most definitely cannot afford to spend more on buying additional pictures than on the original package itself!!!

We try to cut some more, this time with less attention to the different series of stories we can build with the remaining pictures. Finally at 5.30pm after 5.5 hrs of whittling down the pics, we have 70 and the Able Photographer Ah Dee comes down to give us an offer we have to take. Why? We have to take it cos we can't cut it anymore, and we don't want to cut it anymore and it was a good price.

So here we are, 10 days after shooting with 70 poses and we should be able to see the layout of the albums on 7 Feb 09. Sigh….this is hard work! We also chose the pic we wanted to use for our enlargement picture, our ji mui pictures and the photos for our guest signature books as well as on the cover of our albums. We think we will let our parents choose their own pics to keep - 2 pieces of 10R that one.

I said I wasn't going to spend more money at the bridal shop but I failed….BWA….WA…Wa…..