There are a ton in the market with prices varying depending on budget - and also a variety of styles. We wanted something journalistic, one that hopefully tells a story and captures the raw emotions. I sound like I want the heavens and the stars already. Baring the belly was not my idea of tasteful, somewhat - neither do posy studio shoots appeal.

I fell in love with Samuel Goh's eye for detail - though he specialised in weddings, I thought it would be great for this special chapter. A couple of emails and there we had our maternity photographer settled at 11 weeks. Whoops, too early maybe? But then again I learnt that nothing is too early to book.  

A visit at his studio and a conversation that dragged for hours, we found our photographer.

We decided to keep things simple for those 2 hours and traveled around our favourite neighbourhood.

Murals

We stumbled upon two wall murals in the vicinity - we are becoming a mini Penang here!

One Olive

This secret garden needs no further mention, though hardly resembling any other florist in town.

Plain Vanilla

My favourite cupcakery in town - I wish we got ourselves cupcakes too but this was the final location for the shoot.


We prayed for good weather and was given more than good weather, sunny skies, white fluffy clouds and heat. The Hubba was soaked through within 30 minutes and by the end of the shoot, we were both thankful that we are over and done with pre-wedding shoots.



My getup - who'd have thought chiffon could be equally hot too!? At 33 weeks, the bump was definitely becoming a permanent barrel!


Samuel was a joy to work with, he had a flair for details most definitely and a knack of digging deep into our inner selves through the things he asked us to do - whisper into each other ear's a song that we would sing to the little boy and others...at some point it got emotional for me, recounting our journey as a couple. Perhaps he should be a counsellor too!



Here's just one as a preview, the rest of the photos probably won't arrive till almost my due date!