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The Romantic Moment of Amel & Jack in Their Pre Wedding Photo Shoot
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The Romantic Moment of Amel & Jack in Their Pre Wedding Photo Shoot

Even though they dated for six years, Amel and Jack had to undergo LDR for five years because they both worked in different countries. Jack is originally from Hong Kong and has a career in there, has to fight for his love to Indonesia because Amel is originally from Jakarta. The struggle was not in vain, the seriousness of two of them in their relationship led Amel and Jack to this pre-wedding photo shoot.

Together with the BPSO team, the photo shoot was done in two favorite locations in Bali, which are Tegalalang rice terrace and Melasti beach. Like most couples on vacation in Bali, Amel and Jack wanted pre-wedding photos in some locations that really showed the identity of Bali island.

Anyway, they have very different characters. Jack is a bit quiet person, while Amel is a more cheerful. These differences in character actually unite them when interacting together. As results, the photos looks very natural, so the moments were created organically and not made up. “I am always interested when paying attention to the interactions between them. They smile and laugh spontaneously, especially when Amel made Jack smile by asked Jack to kiss her forehead”.

Amel and Jack are not only made the atmosphere warm for themselves, but gave positive energy to the BPSO photography team. As the photographer, I enjoyed their happy moments together. Their expressions showed that marriage is about the two of them, something simple, yet warm ”.

8 Best Resort for Honeymoon Photo Shoot in Bali
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8 Best Resort for Honeymoon Photo Shoot in Bali

The Westin Resort & Spa Ubud Bali

The Westin Resort & Spa Ubud Bali is set amidst lush rice fields and at the bottom of a hill. If you and your partner want to “heal” yourself from a stressful rhythm, then this resort is one perfect choice. You will be presented with views of lush trees and a very large swimming pool. You will also feel the pleasure of doing body treatments at the Wellness Pavilion which is located by the river. After doing the treatment, you can immediately eat healthy but also delicious food because the food recipes that are served to you come from ancient, legendary recipes.

Photo source: https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dpswr-the-westin-resort-and-spa-ubud-bali/

The Royal Pita Maha

Here, you will find luxury resort with distinctive and very artistic Balinese cultural designs. Located in the beautiful countryside of Ubud, your honeymoon will be very impressive because of the peaceful and calming atmosphere.

Photo Source: https://www.royalpitamaha-bali.com

The Lokha Ubud Resort, Villas & Spa

The location of The Lokha Ubud Resort, Villas & Spa is very charming because it is located in the middle of the village of Keliki which is still very traditional. The environment is definitely very beautiful in rural area but with luxurious service. From The Lokha, you can go directly to the bank of the Wos River which directly overlooks the beautiful Bukit Cinta. For you and your partner who want to be away from the hustle and bustle of the city and want to return to nature, here is the place.

Photo Source: https://www.thelokhaubud.com

The Sakaye Luxury Villas & Spa

The Sakaye Luxury Villas & Spa consists of 20 villas which is surrounded by a beautiful and very private garden so you can feel the serenity. This luxury villa is also facilitated by a bar and restaurant, spa, fitness center and swimming pool. The buildings, which are in the form of traditional Balinese houses, also give a homey impression with a combination of modern touch. The hospitality of The Sakaye Luxury Villas & Spa will also improve the quality of your stay.

Six Sense Uluwatu Bali

Six Sense Uluwatu is located on the southernmost cliff of Bali. Here you will find an amazing view directly facing the high seas which are very charming. The resort is really close to Uluwatu temple, which is considered to be one of the spiritual pillars in Bali. Besides its beautiful scenery and luxurious facilities, the culinary choices are also fantastic.

Photo Source: https://www.sixsenses.com

The Anvaya Beach Resort Bali

Even though it is located in the city center, The Anvaya Beach Resort Bali still offers an elegant and charming atmosphere. Here, you will see Balinese hospitality, tropical landscapes, stunning private beach and luxurious facilities. The building is equally elegant with a combination of ancient Balinese, Balinese Hindu and modern Balinese.

Kamandalu Ubud

Kamandalu Ubud has a traditional concept with a mixture of luxury and natural purity of Bali. Here you will find beautiful rice fields. In fact, you will get the comfort of staying here because every guest who comes will be served like a family.

Movenpick Resort & Spa Jimbaran Bali

Its strategic location makes this resort a favorite of many couples who want to honeymoon. You only need 5 minutes walk from Jimbaran Beach to get here. You can relax in the hammock next to the swimming pool, you can also feel a Balinese massage. Unmitigated, you can eat Peruvian and Japanese specialties while looking at the beauty of a peaceful sea view.

A Perfect Example of Micro Wedding: Isaac & Melanie
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A Perfect Example of Micro Wedding: Isaac & Melanie

Not being able to invite many friends might be one of the most peeve things experienced by most of bride and groom this year. The situation is not conducive since COVID-19 is still declared as a global pandemic and many couples forced to change their wedding plan. Reducing the scale of the ceremony or also called micro wedding is one solution that has been chosen in this new normal.

Microwedding is known as intimate-scale marriage, and even less capacity where the invited guests are no more than 50. Microwedding focuses on the moment of validating sacred vows before God instead of holding a big party with fancy food and entertainment for few hours. Therefore, the duration of microwedding is also shorter than a massive concept wedding.

Helding a micro wedding as your new normal wedding concept means pressing the number of invitations. By simply only inviting your closest family and the closest circle of friends, your marriage will definitely be very warm, intimate, and personal. You and your partner will not suffer from prolonged fatigue because you have to greet many guests. Instead, you can really spend time in a special atmosphere with those closest to you.

The wedding of Isaac and Melanie is one example of a micro wedding that has been held in a backyard of a hotel in Jimbaran. Although it was held just before the pandemic began around January, this wedding is an example of a perfect micro wedding and ends with full of happiness. The invited guests were only a few close friends and parents of brides and grooms of no more than 30 people.

After the ceremony, the bride can focus with close friends and family while having some foods and drinks, does not need to greet hundreds of invited guests which is of course very tiring. Here are some shots of their happiness.

Wedding Photoshoot Jimbaran Bali

Wedding in ‘New Normal’
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Wedding in ‘New Normal’

Unexpectedly, the pandemic is able to change human lifestyles or often called the new normal. This will also affected on how people holding a wedding. Here are some things to be considered:

Ceremony in an open space

Open space has better air quality than in a closed room. Being in a closed room for a period of time will cause air pollution inside the room. You must maintain vigilance against the virus after this pandemic. Therefore, it is better to maintain and be vigilant because we do not know whether some of the guests still have the virus or not.

Keep doing social and physical distancing

Even if you get married outdoor, social and physical distancing is a must in order to reduce the risk of virus transmition. You must maintain a minimum distance of 1-2 meters from other people. The seats also have to be distanced.

Avoid Buffet Menu

Change the way your food is served. As much as possible, you have determined the portion of food that can be directly taken by each guest without making direct contact with other guests. In addition,the guests must be able to keep a distance when waiting in line when taking food.

Improve the standar of hygiene

Everything must be considered, starting from the entrance and exit by providing disinfectants and hand sanitizers. You also have to keep food hygienic and avoid exposure to the virus.

Adapt to after-pandemic habits

You must be able to adapt to all good habits related to Covid-19. For example, frequent hand washing, keeping your body away from anything, keeping a distance, not touching the face and so forth, and also wearing a mask. All these good habits must be maintained to avoid the risk of corona virus exposure.

Pre Wedding Video: Things to be Considered
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Pre Wedding Video: Things to be Considered

In addition of pre wedding photo, cinematic video of your love story is also nice to have before the wedding. With a romantic song and story telling cinematic style clips, this video will be one of the most important show on the wedding reception.

Here are some things to be considered if you want to make a cinematic pre wedding video:

1. Theme is one of the main value to make an unique pre wedding video that also can be entertaining. For example, if you like fairytale things, you can make a concept of Alice in Wonderland, or if you like a humorous one, you can involve close friends and relatives.

2. Property must be very considered. Small things can be a great impact in the video. For example baloons, flowers, or a classic car.

3. Technical Meeting. This is also very important to do, the exchange of information between you and the videographer is a key. Therefore, arrange at least 2 meetings so that your video shoot will go according to plan and desire.

4. Be friendly with your videographer, because it will make the shooting process so much fun. Capture the story of your meeting and show it on the wedding day, all the guest must be really happy to watch it.

The Pros of Doing Pre Wedding Photo Shoot in Studio
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The Pros of Doing Pre Wedding Photo Shoot in Studio

The variety of pre wedding photo shoot locations certainly give you many choices, but sometimes time and distance make it hard to find the right schedule. Therefore, a studio can be a good idea and is highly sought after, especially if you and your partner are always busy. Here are the pros of using studio for pre wedding photo shoot.

Saving time

Schedule adjustment with the photographer become a major obstacle for busy couple. Meanwhile, shooting in the studio allows you to be more flexible, a session that approximately takes 2-4 hours (depending on the number of dresses) will save a lot of time since we can do it anytime no matter day or night, good weather or bad weather.

Dresses

Dresses that you want to wear for pre wedding photo shoot certainly have to be matched with the concept itself. Weather and dresses certainly must be considered when you do outdoor shooting, while in the studio, almost all the clothes you can use without worrying about any weather.

Makeup

Looks beautiful with make up and hair-do is one of the key holders of your appearance on the day of the photo shoot. Oily face and sweat are enemies of the make up when we do the photo shoot outdoor on sunny day. But it won’t be a problem if we do photo shoot in an air conditioned studio.

Lighting

Erratic weather becomes an obstacle if you are shooting outside, photographer need good sunlight to get the best photos. Photo studio has lighting equipment that can be adjusted so that the results will always be stable and in accordance with what we want.

How to Make Groomsmen and Bridemaids More Intimate During a Wedding
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How to Make Groomsmen and Bridemaids More Intimate During a Wedding

Groomsmen and bridesmaid actually have an important role to assist the bride and groom. In addition, they also play an important role in a variety of excitement in a wedding. Before creating excitement, bridesmaid and groomsmen must be unified. Here’s how:

Participate in taking care of the wedding preparations. Groomsmen and bridesmaids take part in a variety of wedding preparations for the bride and groom, such as accompanying the bride and groom to choose their wedding suits and gowns, holding a bachelor party and helping them to choose things for the wedding.

Group Photo

Usually a group photo will make the atmosphere runny. People who are usually shy will look different when they are in front of the camera and they will getting familliar within each other.

Working together to help the bride and groom on the D-day

The bride and groom will usually be overwhelmed on the D-Day. Therefore, the bridesmaid and groomsmans must be prepared to help the bride and groom, for example to protect their belongings such as cell phones, wallets and other personal items at the wedding venue. In addition, you also need to make sure they don’t starve at the reception since they must be really busy greeting the guests.

Playing games

The series of weddings is indeed a lot, one of the shows is to play some games to enliven the wedding atmosphere with the groomsmens and bridemaids. Moreover, they are the closest people to the bride and groom, the awkward feeling may be gone.

Preparing bridal shower

This is a special party from the bridemaids for the bride itself. The event that is prepared together can make them more intimate. The same thing can be done by the groomsmen when making a bachelorette party for the groom.

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Best Selling Hybrid Cameras 2020

There are many camera choices in the market, but not all of them are in demand. Nowadays, many people are looking for a hybrid camera that\’s good for both photo and video. Here are some of the most high selling hybrid cameras in 2020.

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Canon EOS M100
Canon always has an attractive choice at an economical price, such as Canon M100 which been immediately in demand by many people because of its small size, easy to use, and good performance. This camera is nice for travel, vlogging and street photography, especially when combined with a 22mm f2 lens. With price range around IDR5mill – IDR6mill, the EOS M100 is still in demand even though it doesn\’t have a viewfinder or flash hot shoe.

Canon EOS M50
If you like the EOS M100 but want a viewfinder and love a high resolution screen that can be rotated, and need a mic input, then the Canon M50 is the top choice for those who like to make video content including 4K video, with selling prices range at 7- 9 millions. Apart from that, the M50 actually has a lot in common with the M100, such as the 24 MP APS-C sensor, Dual Pixel AF and the same shooting speed.

FujiFilm X-T100
FujiFilm X-T series is the best-selling Fuji compared to other series such as X-A, X-E or X-H. Of all the products in the X-T line, Fuji X-T100 is at the bottom line of X-T series with a selling price under IDR10 million. The Fuji X-T100 has a flip screen, viewfinder and hot shoe but does not use X-Trans sensor as in other Fuji\’s which are more expensive.

Lumix G7
Panasonic has a bestselling product that is quite old but is still in high demand, the Lumix G7. In the begining of its presence, the G7 became popular because it was able to record 4K video, has a flip touch screen and viewfinder, very suitable for creating photo and video content. Along with the presence of the successor, the G85, the price of G7 continues to fall and is currently sold in the range of IDR6 million.

Lumix G85
The successor of Lumix G7 has again won the enthusiasm of many people by providing a shift stabilizer sensor and a weathersealed body design. So for those who love to record video handheld without gimbal, the IBIS in Lumix G85 can still get a video that is quite stable.

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Sony A6400
Sony A6400 is one of the best-selling Sony Alpha APS-C products thanks to providing gamma S-log for content creator that needs color grading when editing video. After all, now the A6400 has a screen that can eventually be flipped forward for flogging, something that can\’t be done by A6000, 6300 or 6500.

Fuji X-T30
In the Fuji X-T group, Fuji X-T30 could be good selling in 2020 due to its increased auto focus and video features compared to the X-T20, especially its 10 bit video, with prices around IDR13 million. In addition, Fuji color enthusiasts will be happy with the many film simulation in X-T30, although unfortunately this X-T30 has not been weathersealed so it needs to be more careful when used in rain or dust.

Lumix GH5
When talking about the most sought after hybrid camera, then Lumix GH5 is one of the champion. This successor of GH4 successfully attained the attention of many professional videographers because the specifications and quality of the GH5 video exceeded the average of other cameras. GH5 is also the first camera that can record 4K 10 bit 4:2:2 video directly to the memory card.

Sony A7 III
For more professional photos and video needs, the best-selling camera that is difficult to compete is Sony A7 III. With a price range around IDR27 million, it has a full frame sensor, dual slot memory cards, IBIS, exellent battery life, and amazing auto focus.

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Wedding Venue: Stone House by Tirtha Bridal

Who is doesn\’t love the amazing scenery of Bali? This lovely tropical island is one of the most favorite \’destination wedding\’ area around the world and home of most iconic wedding venues. Tirtha Bridal is one of the best. Situated around Uluwatu area, this resort provide an unforgettable romantic sensation of a wedding, more precisely in Stone House. Its location is very close to Tirtha Uluwatu, Stone House is surrounded by beautiful tropical gardens and its architecture is thick with Balinese characteristics.

Stone House consist of villas and suites that directly facing the sea with rooms that can accommodate up to 28 people. This accommodation is the perfect place for wedding couple with their big family.

There is an open pavilion called ‘Wantilan’ in the middle of a lush garden that can be operated as dining or lounge which can accommodate up to 80 people. This spot is perfect for a welcome dinner before your wedding day.

Meanwhile, main garden of the Stone House is the prime location for the wedding ceremony. Beside of the beautiful scenery, this place is also well known by its amazing services during your stay.

Here are some snapshots of the resort.

 

Destination Wedding: Some Things to be Considered
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Destination Wedding: Some Things to be Considered

Are you planning to have a destination wedding? Then surely it must be a lot of things to be prepared in the destination itself. However, don’t worry because it’s been done by many couples so you must also be able to do it. Here are some tips that might could help you.

Bali destination wedding

Use a professional wedding planner

The wedding planner will help you handle everything from concept to finding the right vendors. By getting the best planner, you don’t need to worry anymore to do destination wedding.

If you are still confused about choosing the right wedding planner, you can ask your friend who has experience doing destination weddings in your desired country. In addition, you can also see some reviews from couples who have used the service provider on social media.

Check how they work

Because you cannot immediately see your wedding preparations that are in different location, then you must let them taking care of everything. However, you can’t 100% trust them without monitoring. You have to check and make sure everything is as good as what you want.

Select the right moment

Destination wedding has its pros and cons. The advantage, you can feel a different sensation by getting married in a place that has been dreamed of for a long time. While, one of the con is finding the right time.

If you and your partner are both busy, then it need little effort to determine the date of the wedding. You must first planning a long day off and match it to your partner’s schedule. I you don’t spare a long day off then you have to think twice to do a wedding overseas otherwise both of you will not enjoy the wedding in rush.

Who will be invited?

The best and one of the most important thing of a wedding is to see your friends and families coming for the ceremony and reception. But if you do your wedding overseas, you can’t invite all of your friends and families.

Destination wedding is an intimate concept. So, the invited guests are only those closest to the bride and groom, such close friends and families. You are also have to greet all of your guests warmly, because they are willing to spend time and even money to come to your wedding. As a form of gratitude, don’t forget to give souvenirs or hampers that will be remembered forever. For example, you can give them a hallmark of the city, region or country where you hold your wedding.

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