Vincent Lai :: vlBLOG.net http://www.vlblog.net Simple Informal Relaxed Sydney Documentary Wedding Photography :: Sydney Wedding Photographer Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:21:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Wedding at Mount Tomah Botanical Gardens | The Jungle Lodge http://www.vlblog.net/wedding-at-mount-tomah-botanical-gardens-the-jungle-lodge/ http://www.vlblog.net/wedding-at-mount-tomah-botanical-gardens-the-jungle-lodge/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:19:38 +0000 Vincent Lai http://www.vlblog.net/?p=1167 Sunday 7th March 2010 – A foggy intimate documentary wedding with an awesome couple. The couple booked me over the internet, I have never meet them until today.  I left home at 5:30am driving to Mount Tomah Botanical Gardens to capture the preparation at The Jungle Lodge.  The civil wedding ceremony was also at Mount Tomah Botanical Gardens, it was sooo foggy ! my camera gear was all wet with the misty conditions. We captured some relaxed portraits after the ceremony before it started to rain. The lunch reception was at Restaurant Tomah – The Terrace.

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The ceremony venue – love this image, you can see the chair setup

Bride checking her hair styling, 100% found not created !

The wedding bouquets is made out of paper !!!

Simple details – bride works at a zoo

Love this one :-)

Check out the heavy fog !

The ceremony venue

Bride arrives

Civil wedding ceremony

Exchange of rings

A wedding should be like this – hugs and kisses !!

Relaxed Portraits

Love the light in this one

Lolly bags for the take away lollies

Some speeches

]]> http://www.vlblog.net/wedding-at-mount-tomah-botanical-gardens-the-jungle-lodge/feed/ 5 Day 2 – Vietnamese Tea Ceremony | Cambodian Wedding Ceremony | Golden Star Palace Restaurant http://www.vlblog.net/day-2-vietnamese-tea-ceremony-cambodian-wedding-ceremony-golden-star-palace-restaurant/ http://www.vlblog.net/day-2-vietnamese-tea-ceremony-cambodian-wedding-ceremony-golden-star-palace-restaurant/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:26:28 +0000 Vincent Lai http://www.vlblog.net/?p=1158 Saturday 6th March 2010 – Day 2, A lovely Cambodian wedding ceremony. I captured their prewedding session a few months ago, you can see it here. I started at the brides house today capturing the bridal preparation and also the Vietnamese Tea Ceremony. After the tea ceremony we headed back to the grooms place for the tradition Cambodian Wedding Ceremony. We had a quick lunch before heading to a local park for some relaxed portraits. The reception dinner was at Golden Star Palace in Cabramatta. It was great working with videographer Troy @ EncoreMedia

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Traditional Vietnamese Wedding Gown

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Groom’s family and friends arriving with all the wedding gifts

Gifts for the bride

Wedding Gifts

Cambodian Wedding Ceremony

Love this image ;) time to throw some rice

Some relaxed portraits at a local park

Wedding reception entrance

Cake cutting – there was also snow !

Some crazy dancing – effect is straight out of the camera.

Sydney Documentary Wedding Photographer Vincent Lai

]]> http://www.vlblog.net/day-2-vietnamese-tea-ceremony-cambodian-wedding-ceremony-golden-star-palace-restaurant/feed/ 2 Day 1 – Garden Wedding at Nurragingy Reserve | Civil Garden Ceremony http://www.vlblog.net/garden-wedding-at-nurragingy-reserve-civil-garden-ceremony/ http://www.vlblog.net/garden-wedding-at-nurragingy-reserve-civil-garden-ceremony/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:26:38 +0000 Vincent Lai http://www.vlblog.net/?p=1154 Friday 5th March 2010 – Day 1. It is going to be a 2 day wedding. Today is the official civil garden wedding ceremony at Nurragingy Reserve located in the suburbs of  Doonside & Rooty Hill. Videography today was by Troy @ EncoreMedia.

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Groom Preparation

Simple details of the brides gown

I love this candid as the bride is putting on her bridal shoes

Simple details of the wedding bouquet

Garden wedding ceremony

Exchange of rings

Relaxed portraits – it was actually raining as we captured these

]]> http://www.vlblog.net/garden-wedding-at-nurragingy-reserve-civil-garden-ceremony/feed/ 2 Holy Name of Mary Parish Hunters Hill | Mediterranean House Five Dock http://www.vlblog.net/holy-name-of-mary-parish-hunters-hill-mediterranean-house-five-dock/ http://www.vlblog.net/holy-name-of-mary-parish-hunters-hill-mediterranean-house-five-dock/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:33:50 +0000 Vincent Lai http://www.vlblog.net/?p=1150 Saturday 27th February 2010 – A huge multicultural wedding today. I captured their prewedding session a few months ago, you can see it here. I started early today capturing the bridal preparation at Auburn. There was a Vietnamese Tea & Ancestors Ceremony before a light brunch. The Bride and Groom got changed and we headed to Holy Name of Mary Parish @ Hunters Hill for the wedding Mass. We captured some simple formals around the north side of Sydney Harbour before heading to Mediterranean House at Five Dock for the wedding reception dinner. Once again it was great working with videographer Troy @ EncoreMedia :)

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Bridal hair and makeup

I love this pic – Father of Bride – love the picture above him ;)

Simple details

Vietnamese Tea Ceremony

Church Mass

Signing the marriage certificate

Husband and Wife

Beautiful Bridesmaids & Bride, all sisters :)

Some simple portraits

Love the light in this image

Bridal dance

Speech time

Surprise gift for the bride :)

Some crazy dancing

]]> http://www.vlblog.net/holy-name-of-mary-parish-hunters-hill-mediterranean-house-five-dock/feed/ 0 Four Point Sheraton | Wedding Reception at Star Room Imax Theater http://www.vlblog.net/four-point-sheraton-wedding-reception-at-star-room-imax-theater/ http://www.vlblog.net/four-point-sheraton-wedding-reception-at-star-room-imax-theater/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:05:38 +0000 Vincent Lai http://www.vlblog.net/?p=1146 Saturday 20th February 2010 – an afternoon wedding reception at the Star Room @ IMAX Theater. The bridal hair and makeup was at Four Point by Sheraton Hotel, by the wonderful Sharon Leigh again !! ;-) The official wedding ceremony was already conducted a few months ago, so there was only a lunch time reception today at the Star Room Imax Theater. Again I apologies to all my blog followers, but I can’t show any images with faces for this wedding :-(

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I love simplicity

Hair & Makeup

Wedding reception at Star Room Imax Theater

Wedding Cake

Yummy Sushi

]]> http://www.vlblog.net/four-point-sheraton-wedding-reception-at-star-room-imax-theater/feed/ 0 Wedding at St Johns Chapel University of Sydney | WatersEdge Restaurant http://www.vlblog.net/wedding-at-st-johns-chapel-university-of-sydney-watersedge-restaurant/ http://www.vlblog.net/wedding-at-st-johns-chapel-university-of-sydney-watersedge-restaurant/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:09:21 +0000 Vincent Lai http://www.vlblog.net/?p=1143 Friday 19th February 2010 – a lovely photojournalistic wedding. I started in the morning capturing the preparation at the Rendezvous Hotel at The Rocks. The wedding ceremony was at St Johns Chapel located at the University of Sydney. The reception was the very popular WatersEdge Restaurant over looking Sydney harbour. The Slide McBride Band was awesome !

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I would love to capture a 100% B&W photojournalistic wedding !

I like :)

The boys are sooo relaxed !

Groom writing his speech

Also like this one :) mum – sister – bride – dad

Arriving at St Johns Chapel

Love the interior of the chapel

Some simple formals

The bridal party

WatersEdge wedding reception

Bridal dance

hahaaahhahehehehe :)

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Enjoy the teaser images ;)

I like :)

All images captured by Sydney Wedding Photographer Vincent Lai – www.vincentlai.com.au

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Our new home

  • woohoo will be demolishing our current home soon and building our new home, development application has been approved by council
  • we will be moving soon to a temporary home until our new home is built
  • booking quota for 2010 has been reached, any further bookings will be a bonus
  • new facebook fan page, be my fan @ www.vlfan.com
  • still very busy designing wedding books & post processing….never ending
  • all my images are capture by me and are from 100% commissioned REAL weddings !
  • here are some of the wedding venues I will be capturing at in 2010 :: Pilu at Freshwater, Star Room Imax Theater, Borrodell Vineyard Orange, Royal Automotive Club of Australia, Golden Century, Curzon Hall Marsfield, Dockside, Tearoom QVB, Kam Fook Bondi Junction, Prince Henry Community Centre Little bay, Fishermans Wharf Seafood Restaurant,  Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Rhodes Phoenix, Tumbling Waters Retreat, Mediterranean House, Watersedge, Pioneer Seafood Restaurant, The Westin Hotel, Doltone House Pyrmont, Conca Dora, Curzon Hall, Rhodes Phoenix, Oatlands House and many more….
]]> http://www.vlblog.net/random-news-6/feed/ 1 Vietnamese Tea Ceremony | St Vincent’s Catholic Church Ashfield | Rhodes Phoenix Restaurant http://www.vlblog.net/vietnamese-tea-ceremony-st-vincents-catholic-church-ashfield-rhodes-phoenix-restaurant/ http://www.vlblog.net/vietnamese-tea-ceremony-st-vincents-catholic-church-ashfield-rhodes-phoenix-restaurant/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:40:18 +0000 Vincent Lai http://www.vlblog.net/?p=1124 Saturday 30th January 2010 – Long day, Plenty of driving, heaps of over eager family and friends with mobile phones, P&S, dSLR & videocameras helping me document the day  ;)   I started early in the morning capturing the bridal hair and makeup. There was a Vietnamese tea ceremony at the brides place and then we heading from Cabramatta to Sans Souci to the grooms place for a second tea ceremony. The church wedding ceremony was at St Vincent’s Catholic Church at Ashfield, it was my first wedding there….love it. We captured some quick simple informal relaxed portraits before heading to Rhodes Phoenix Restaurant for a banquet reception.

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Bride in her traditional Vietnamese wedding gown

Groom and groomsmen – game time

Not sure what they had to drink :)

Vietnamese wedding ceremony

Tea ceremony

Bride get her wedding gown on for the church ceremony

I love photojournalistic & simplicity – simple details

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Huge church

Wedding ceremony

Captured through the glass doors when the B&G was leaving the church :)

I quickly captured this image before everyone started to come out.

Bridal party

Star jump hahahaha

Pretty bride

Loving off camera lighting – cake cutting

Some great dancing

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