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Wedding photos, Suzhou

There's a wedding photo industry in China, with company vans decorated with logos carrying couples to various sights around the country for their engagement and wedding photos. At Tien Chi, I saw three couples at the same spot, two waiting for their turns as one stood up and posed against the alpine scenery.

My friends opted not to subscribe to one of these services. I thought it would have been fun for them, but it's surprisingly expensive. And apparently the companies spend a lot of time upselling clients on various other services or add-ons once the process starts. They opted to hire someone from Vietnam who then had visa problems. Fortunately a number of photographers were invited to the wedding so they asked one of their friends who shoots weddings to shoot theirs.

I took the above photo in Suzhou last year. We were wandering some of the back streets along a stream when we stumbled upon this shoot. The locals went about their business as the photographer posed his subject. They walked right in front of the bride if they needed to without pause, which helped give me ideas for the wedding photos I might want taken if the time ever arrives. The photographer was on the bridge shooting. I took this shot from the banks of the stream shooting back up at the bridge.