Category: Chinese Wedding Photographers

Traditions vary greatly between cultures. Where many European weddings are pristine white with pastel flowers many Chinese weddings are dressed in Vivid Red. This different aesthetic can produce some striking images. Capturing this requires some skill and some experience with the cultural traditions. Approached correctly, a Chinese wedding looks very impressive.

Different cultural traditions have certain ceremonial moments that must be captured. Photographs of an event such as a wedding must have merit when viewed in isolation, but they must also stand together to form a narrative. A wedding album should capture this sense of narrative, and also capture the socially significant parts of the ceremony that the guest and wedding family wish to have preserved forever.

Pre-wedding Photos

Chinese weddings often have ‘Bridal photos’ of the couple taken long before the big day with the bride and groom even hiring costumes and dressing up for the occasion. Many Young couples like to wear traditional Chinese clothes for these photos (gua qun or Cheongsam), though for the past generation it is almost common to see Western-style dress as well. If there is time some couples dress up in several different ways. These pre-wedding photos are so important that many will spend beyond their means in order to have images of the highest quality possible.

Chinese wedding ceremonies are often shorter than Western counterparts, even as receptions can be much longer. This is probably why so much emphasis is placed on the pre-wedding photos; there are far fewer photos of the ceremony itself. Yet with the quality of the images and the right album presentation, many might even envy what a foreign tradition produces. Perhaps this is why pre-wedding photos have steadily caught on in the west.