this is a little story of maybellene’s note. on hotel pen and paper, maybellene, huddled in the corner of the room with sebastian, using the bathroom wall as support attempted to pen down the han yu pin yin of her speech translated into chinese. having lived a couple of years in australia, her chinese was a little rusty and they had a good laugh over it. haha

thank you speeches are one of my favourite moments at weddings. you just can’t help but choke up with emotions when they share how much and why they love their family and friends. but the cutest part of this story is that during the outfit change, as maybellene and her little crowd of bridesmaids waited in the room helping her to polish up her speech with the right phrases, maybellene read out the words from her ipad and already started to shed her tears.

haha and of course, when they finally took the stage, there was much tears and much laughter too. a special time when family and friends will love and remember their love for one another as the couple walked off stage, balls of tissues in hand.

# more to come from maybellene and sebastian’s christmas day wedding!

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flowers on the floor

heading to our rooms

i didn’t know bougainvillea could grow to be trees haha

breakfast area

the view in the morning at the first hotel stop over

ma’ sista

dy chilling 

thai food lunch, i have never seen chilli padi that SMALL!!

we moved up the next day off the city of chiangmai into a smaller area called chiangdao. the nature around us was just so amazing and beautiful. couldn’t stop looking at the gorgeous mountains that painted the skies in shawdow-y greys as we drove to our destination. 

the weather at chiangdao was lovely too. a little chilly, so i could snuggle up in my winter jacket from time to time :) we had thai food which was super SPICY. tom yam soup usually has slices of chilli padi, this one had chilli padi the size of beans congregating in my tiny little bowl. haha eggs, kang kong, pork slices and stuff, all yummy! but then again, when one travels in a big group and the focus is not exactly a holiday, one just learns to eat whatever is served to you. but it was kind of fun that way too ;)

lemon wanted to mark her 18th birthday with a portrait session! and i think there’s always something so special about pausing in time and remembering who you are at that point in time. we had a lovely time and made a little “picnic” area for her too and she just looks so pretty! hope you have an amazing 18th year lemon <3

these three days are going to be packed!! today i’ve got lots of errands to run, collect my gear for tomorrow and have our weekly meeting. then tomorrow, it’s Cindy & Weeqi’s ROM :D followed by a casual photosession with cindy’s “friends” hahaha how cute! i’m so excited and happy for them!! then saturday morning it’s a family portrait session with Ginny & her family and we’re bringing the “studio” outdoors. got so many ideas :D 

yes! i’ve finally blogged my way through most of 2011 and now i’m at the beginning of the trip to chiangmai. having not flown for a good 7 years, i can’t tell you the EXCITEMENT and sheer joy i had of being able to shop inside the barricade haha

in the end i only bought a copy of British Vogue for my trip there and back but had a great time browsing the cosmetic shops, marc by marc jacobs and just chilling out in there haha

the flight was pretty thrilling, or rather the take off was, haha the amount of faith one needs to have in the unseen air pressure, physics of the plane and know-how of the pilot is crazy! i know why people freak out, i mean that a plane this size can take off and “float” in the sky is just insane!! 

we arrived at the hotel pretty late past twelve and i was ready to call it a night. but someone went to get supper and i managed to sneak a piece of chocoate banana prata bite before sleeping ;)

a whole day of visitation today and tomorrow it’s another early start to get dressed and ready haha. so i’m gonna hit the sack. i’m sleepy…:P here’s some outtakes from the CNY lookbook i did with the lovebonito team ;)

we were battling all sorts of obstacles from the tight time line, lack of time for the shoot itself, rainy weather and setting sun. but we managed to pull through! yay <3 lots of love to the team :D

# models: beatrice, zianna | styling: velda & daphne