Avenue 8

Met up with Bernard from Avenue 8 on Tues.. he showed us the photos that he has taken so far and the kind of albums that his studio provides.. flipped through his works & realised that he has done a few celebrities' weddings! Melody Chen & Randall Tan, Vernetta Lopez, just to name a few.. His associate photographer, Douglas is also the photographer for blogger, Xiaxue's solemnization..

Bernard's style of photography is the current thrend of journalistic photography.. He has also trained a few photographers who has moved on to start their own business.. Bernard is also trained by renowned wedding photographer, Andrew Choi.  On top of that, Bernard happened to be from the church we attend.. As such, he will be very familar with the church ceromany and how it goes about..

Avenue8 has their in-house videographer and they also do tie up with AlvinAdeline & Simple Motion as their videography partners.. I was really tempted to ask AH to sign up with the latter 2 as I'm really wowed by their cinematography skills.. makes the wedding look like so movie lor!  Avenue8 in house videographer is more of simple and straight forward flimming.. Researched through forum and found that they do have a videography that does simple cinematography.. will call up Bernard soon to ask him abt this guy and any additional charges.. I still prefer some video effects than straight forward videography.. AH thinks otherwise though.. as long as someone videos, he is happy with it..

The package we are getting includes:

- 10 hours AD photography + videograpy

- 20 pages standard album with 40 photos returned (top up $300 to upgrade to flush mount)

- DVD of all RAW photos (about 800-1000 shots)

- Express video highlights (same day edit)

- 2 DVD of edited video footages (1-2hrs playback)

- Pre-wedding photoshoot (studio + outdoor)

- 20 pages with 20 photos returned

- soft copies of photos selected for print

- photo montage

- additional photographer (trainee of Bernard, will in charge of all portrait photos such as table photos)

- makeup & hair services

At first we wanted to take out the pre-wedding PS since we are already having our PS in US this June.. However, its only a deduction of $700.. AH analyzed that $700 for 20 photos + album + makeup services is quite worth it la..  since Bernard is charging quite a bit for pre-wedding PS outside.. We already 90% confirm with signing up with him, just need to clarify more stuff and bargain for some top-up or upgrade.. waiting for him to email us the package that we discussed about too..

Stay tuned for more updates~