Desre & Magtellus : Sarojin Resort, Khao Lak Wedding
Julian: Desre and Magtellus traveled over 10,000 kilometers for their wedding – from Cape Town, South Africa to The Sarojin, Khao Lak, Thailand. So there was no way they were going to let a little rain dampen their wedding day. Which is good, because it’s rainy season in Thailand, and that means some serious downpours. [...]
Kat & Jason : Halong Bay wedding
Julian: I headed out to Halong Bay a few weeks to photograph the very, very intimate wedding of Kat and Jason. Their only guest was their friend Hollie, and I became their fourth wheel for the afternoon. Someone had to help create symmetry at the lunch table as Jason dined on fresh crabs and everyone [...]
Bi & Ygal : Hue engagement
Julian: Bi and Ygal are manga comic librarians in Belgium. But when night falls, they fight crime on the mean streets of Brussles…. OK, that second part isn’t true, but the first is. I didn’t know such a cool job existed – and Bi and Ygal are definitely cool. They wanted something a little different [...]
Katie & Dave : Hoi An Wedding
Julian: Katie and Dave wanted to keep things nice and simple, relaxed, casual and fun. Music to my ears…. From a cyclo processional to a stroll with a bottle of champagne in-hand through the streets of Hoi An, Katie and Dave proved that keeping things simple can be the key to actually enjoying your wedding [...]
Katie & Dave – Hoi An Wedding
Julian: Katie and Dave wanted to keep things nice and simple, relaxed, casual and fun. Music to my ears…. From a cyclo processional to a stroll with a bottle of champagne in-hand through the streets of Hoi An, Katie and Dave proved that keeping things simple can be the key to actually enjoying your wedding [...]
Joleigh & Marcus : Hoi An wedding
Julian: Joleigh and Marcus met in Vietnam a few years back, and decided to fly over from London to have their wedding in Hoi An. After all, with their families in Australia and South Africa, why not meet somewhere in the middle (kindof)? Image by Julian The ceremony was set for the fantastic Red Bridge [...]
1 week, 4 weddings, 6948 images
Julian: Last week I shot four weddings – one in Saigon (with Aidan) and three in Hoi An/Danang. They were all unique, and amazingly good fun, but at the end of it, I could barely see straight. In fact, at the last one, when I was setting up a remote strobe for the first dance, [...]
Donna & Steve : Khao Lak wedding
Julian: Last week I flew to Thailand to photograph Donna and Steve’s wedding in Khao Lak, a gorgeous beach area near Phuket that was flattened by the tsunami five years ago. I spent three weeks covering the tsunami aftermath there five years ago, and it was a bit emotional getting back there. It’s great to [...]
VWP, another year older….
It is just over a year since we photographed together as VWP, and to celebrate this we have a wedding photography exhibition at Highway4 Restaurant and Bar, 5 Hang Tre, Hanoi. Running from 7th to 28th October we are displaying hundreds of images in collages on their ground floor. Every single wedding has been a [...]
Cynthia & Michael : Saigon Wedding
Aidan: This was one of the most fun weddings we have shot, full of games and entertainment, and back to the stunning Park Hyatt Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. Julian was caught covering Typhoon Ketsana in Central Vetnam, so we called in Francois from NOI pictures to help out with the day’s coverage. We [...]
Natalia & Jaroslaw : Hanoi & Halong Bay Wedding
Aidan: Natalia and Jaroslaw loved Hanoi so much when they visited two years ago that they brought their families over from Poland to get married here. A relaxing day cruising in Halong Bay was followed by a cyclo ride to a pagoda in The Botanical Gardens for a beautiful ceremony by the lake, with dinner [...]
Aditya & Linda : Hanoi and Halong Engagement
Aidan & Justin: Aditya and Linda flew up from Indonesia to have their engagement photos shot in Hanoi and Halong Bay, just as the weather up here started to turn favorable after a winter of soggy, foggy photo sessions. Special thanks to associate snapper Justin who stepped as Julian was out the country collecting his [...]
Markus & Hanh : Luang Prabang Wedding
Julian: Markus and Hanh are an American couple who lived in Vietnam for many years before returning to the US just a few years ago. Since they still have a lot of friends in Vietnam, but wanted a wedding with a little extra flavor, they arranged their ceremony to take place in lovely Luang Prabang, [...]
Thang and Chi : The Inter Continental Hotel Hanoi
Aidan: The winter weddings continue in Hanoi, and the Interncontinental is fast becoming the most popular hotel in town for photoshoots. And for good reason – Thang and Chi absolutely loved shooting here, and had no problem getting comfortable in front of the camera in these beautiful surroundings. We’re really looking forward to the wedding [...]
Halong Bay Wedding: Thu Ha and David
Last weekend Aidan got about four hours sleep, between shooting and traveling he was working almost 40 hours to photograph a wedding in Halong Bay and an an hoi in Hanoi before capturing Vietnam’s football team making history in The Suzuki Cup. First up was David and Thu Ha’s lovely ceremony on board a junk [...]
Kenneth and Eunice : Hanoi engagement shoot
Kenneth emailed me from Hong Kong a few months ago. He and his girlfriend Eunice were planning a trip to Vietnam, and he was going to propose during the journey. He wanted to spend half a day in Hanoi taking casual, fun pictures of them touring the city. Unfortunately, we ran into some of the [...]
Eddy and Kim: Hoi An World Heritage Site
Organising a wedding even with the help of a wedding planner can still be a stressful job. Eddy and Kim didn’t just organise everything themselves, they did it from London, 9,000km away! With Julian away photographing Michael Phelps making history at the olympics in Beijing, our talented assistant, Phoung, stepped in as second photographer. Set [...]
Raise the White Lanterns
One of my favorite Vietnamese traditions is the lighting of white paper lanterns and raising them into the night sky after a wedding. Not only is it good fun for the guests (fire is always fun!), but its a beautiful moment with some rich symbolism for the newlyweds. We always recommend a lantern ceremony to [...]
