The big day marks a couple’s beginning to a happy ever after but who says happy ever after can’t start even before the wedding day? Pre-wedding shoots reflect the personality of both you and your partner as a couple.
It’s a fun way to get some time for play and to be completely silly. Be free; pretend to be royalty for a day or main characters in your favourite romance novel and have a hoot collecting fantastic memories of your lives together.
Even if you are already happily married, a photoshoot could be a great way to commemorate your anniversary and to chart your life as a couple over the years. This is a romantic gesture that would be sure to melt all hearts.
These are some suggestions for fantastic locations for your pre-wedding shoots. Whether you are a hippy couple, a sophisticated one or a bunch of nature lovers crazy in love, read on to find out the perfect spot for your shoot.
1. Raffles Marina
Chart the course of your own destiny at Raffles Marina if you both have strong nautical sensibilities and a taste for luxury. With expansive blue skies flanked by swanky yachts in the marina, it’ll make any picture perfect.
2. Seletar Airbase
Indulge in lush greenery and voluminous natural surroundings.
For a couple that loves adventure and travel, take pictures against the old barrack houses, a different world to the Singaporean heartland. If you are so inclined towards a hippy lifestyle, have a picnic inspired shoot complete with shiny bicycles and balloons to reflect the inner psychedelic child within you.
3. Rider’s Café
A rare treat in urban Singapore, Rider’s café offers rolling pastures with horses at your disposal.
Pretend at being an Elizabeth Bennett-type heroine in a lace couture gown with your very own handsome Mr Darcy in tow. Nothing says romance like a British romance novel reference.
4. Your own schools
Relive nostalgic school moments.
Immortalise memories of courtship of passing illicit love notes during Math class or being the cheerleader to your other half, the school soccer hero. Whether you fell in love on the football field or during assembly, this could be a meaningful shoot especially for secondary school sweethearts.
5. Sentosa
Enjoy a day in paradise soaking in the sun, sand and sea. Get swept off your feet in a romantic setting while the sun beautifully sets on shoreline. An idyllic setting perfect for lovers of nature and fans of island life especially if you both share a love for the great outdoors.
6. Hort Park – Southern Ridges
Futuristic, sleek sophistication are just some of the words to describe this place.
A garden fused with futuristic architectural elements and with beautiful bridges such as the Henderson wave as a backdrop, nothing paints a more modernistic portrait.
7. Arab St
Imagine a love story ala P Ramlee finding his Saloma played out on a trishaw.
With a backdrop of restored shop-houses in the background, your nostalgic trip down memory lane to an era when courtship was coy and singing under trees was considered romantic would be a tongue-in-cheek nod to the Jalan Ampas silver screen greats.
8. Singapore Art Museum
The romantic vintage architecture with cylindrical columns and chandeliers harkens to a rich colonial gothic past.
The charming chapel and charming stucco corridors provide a magical backdrop for an elegant fairytale-inspired shoot or for couples with a great love of the vampire novels.
9. Dempsey Hill
Be captivated by the lush greenery and old world charm of Dempsey Hill. Formerly known as the British army barracks where conservational buildings still stand proudly.
If you like the quirky world of Alice in Wonderland, plan a shoot inspired by the Mad Hatter’s tea party with spaces like House or White Rabbit at your disposal.
10. Gardens by the Bay
Savour the vibrant utopia of colours and magic, at the whimsical Graden by the Bay.
Here, play up your wild side and revel in the variety of flora and fauna that surrounds you. The vastness of the park also offers variety where you can photograph against the cityscape of the Singapore River for an urban contemporary look.
Who says Singapore is a boring city?
Hopefully these suggestions were helpful as an inspiration for your pre-wedding shoot. For a fantastic shoot, have fun, play and revel in each other’s company. ☺
