Taiwan Wedding Photo Taking Trip - Day 4

This is the 4th day of our Wedding photo taking trip to Taiwan. After a long day before out taking photos, this is a fantastic rest day for shopping and eating!

My favourite Taiwanese dish - Lu Rou Fan 魯肉飯 (Taiwanese Pork Belly Rice)

We ate at a nearby food court near our Hotel @ Sheraton Taipei

Addy ate a dumpling!

Went down to XiMenDing 西門町

Can't miss the Ah Zhong Mien Xian there.

Look carefully at how big the bowl is compared to Addy's hands

She single-handedly wiped out the whole bowl..

My second serving of Lu Rou Fan somewhere in XiMenDing again! Yum!

Some fish cake soup thingy.

Addy at the local pharmacy shop not unlike our Guardian or Watsons.

Here we bought helluva lot of face mask - 我的美麗日記

It's like so cheap compared to Singapore - $0.80 a piece there compared to here. 

This is quite hilarious

Night Shopping at WuFenPu 五分埔

It is known for wholesale clothings!

Din know why but we were eyeing some Chinese traditional clothings for our wedding then.

Contact of the shop in case you are interested.

Walked to RaoHe Night Market 饒河街 after. Nice dumpling buns and stuff!

Succulent!

The very first night market in Taiwan!

2 friends we made there

Self sustaining gardens - don't even need water at all!

More food - noodlesss

End of day after finishing up at RaoHe night market. 

Took about 2 hours to walk through it.

Taiwan Wedding Photo Taking Trip - Day 3

*This post is long overdue... and I think this post is key in this trip!!

We woke up super duper early on the 3rd day. Think it was about 6am. This was because we needed head to the studio and do make up for Addy. 

It was a no-camera day as they forbid it (brrr...) Later we would know why they disallowed it. So hence we did not take pictures until we started photoshoot proper.
The following photos are bought from the studio.

The first place we went to for photo taking was bu pi liao 剝皮寮. It is some historical place with an old house look.
You can see the photographer directing us for one of our poses. 
It was sure funny.

Here's me changing into my white suit. With some help.

We had a taxi rented for the whole day. Do note that we have to pay for this ourselves and not included into the package. 

The makeup artist is helping Addy with her hair above.

Another of our shots at 剝皮寮

The next place was at Dajia Riverside Park

The balloons.. yes.. we have to ask them to help us buy.

A tip would be to bring as much props as you can for your own photoshoot.

A humiliating moment for the hubby?

 

nono.. this is even more humiliating.
Can't remember what I was doing but definitely, not peeing.

YangMingShan National Park is touted to be a MUST-GO place in Taiwan for wedding photoshoots.

Because of the scenery.

Walk till my legs were aching. Addy still looks so happy.

Still in the National Park but the weather became bad all of a sudden. 

It's one thing that is difficult to anticipate and bad if you are taking photos overseas as you may need to reschedule or make do with the photos you might not want.

We went to a few more places but the photos can be seen in the actual shots only.

The above is our last stop at some thematic restaurant.

And yes! Dinner! After a long day with no lunch.

Yes again, I paid...

Sleazy!

At the beach near the restaurant!

Tired ah! After a whole day. 

We reached back the hotel after 10pm..

A more detailed plan of Taipei photoshoot trip

Monday, 22/03/10

Day 1


Reach Sheraton hotel by 6pm
From (Sheraton) Shandao Temple Station, take Banaan Line
Stop is at Ximen station.

* ALTERNATIVE :

If it is still early, we can go to Jiantan Station and go to Shihlin night market first which is further away from the hotel and go to Ximending on Day 4. But better to go on Day 4, so can visit the “Taipei seaworld” at the same time since time is not so restricted.


Shop at Ximending
After finishing, take MRT to Longshan Temple Station (one stop)
Go to Huasi night market (Follow Exit 1 and walk to street. Reach first junction then turn left (Guangzhou street) Huasi is across street further down).




Tuesday, 23/03/10

Day 2

Go Bridal Studio to choose gown (don’t know how long it will take to choose gown, maybe 1 whole day? So below plans have to be postponed to Day 4)
Lunch
Take Banaan Line again
Stop at Taipei City Hall Station to go to Taipei 101.
Around Taipei 101, there is a shopping department store where we can go, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department store which is HUGE!
Go to Houshanpi MRT station (Banaan Line) where we can go to Wu Fen Pu, RaoHe and JaoHo. Ppl mention best is go on fri and less on Mon.
WuFenPu is very near to songshan railway where there is a 24 hour Watson, nearby is selling “nu ren wo zui da” stuff according to forum.



Wednesday, 24/03/10

Day 3

· Photoshoot




Thursday, 25/03/10

Day 4

· Go to Chiang Kai-Shek Mrt Station, visit the Memorial Hall (if we want a historical place?)
· Visit Dan Shui (MRT station)
· Visit the Shihlin Night Market and Taipei Sea World. Free Shuttle Bus to Miramar Park Entertainment. Look at bus sign. From Jiantan MRT stop, Right exit, there is a shuttle to go to Miramar and back to Jiantan MRT for the Shihlin NM.
· Go to Miramar Park Entertainment or can go on the last day because it is very near the airport (Neihu station) tic abt NT150 on weekday.
By MRT:1). Take Danshui Line and get off at Yuanshan Station, then transfer to bus no. Red 2, or 21.2). Take Muzha Line and get off at Zhongshan Junior High School Station, then transfer to 286 buses.3). Take Danshui Line and get off at Shihlin Station, then transfer to bus no. 620.




Friday, 26/03/10

Day 5

See the “Xiao Ren Guo” . Window on China Theme Park. People visit with Taipei 101 at the same time in itineries. Take Hsinchu Transportation Bus upon reaching Jhongli (across from Jhongli Train Station) to reach Window on China Theme Park.




Saturday, 27/03/10

Day 6:

· Going home time!

Taiwan Wedding Photo Shoot Arrangements - Email Correspondence

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

With the photoshoot looming near, we are gearing up on our preparations. The first step is to settle our travel plans first. I am still waiting for my ticket balloting before we can go ahead and buy Addy's ticket to Taipei. Heh. Once we are registered, we won't have that problem anymore.

In the meantime, we have written an email to the Taiwanese photo studio people on the themes we would like to see in our photoshoot. It's still quite hazy at the moment because we do not really know what is nice at Taiwan. But for ourselves, we have already set the kind of feel we would like to have - a more childlike, innocent and cute kind of photos. The "fun fun kind", yes.

We think it is important to know what we want before we go ahead. The below is subject to further refining later on too, after considering their inputs too.

Writing in Chinese is a chore but the below is our email to them for future referencing. Hope it paints an overarching idea of what we want. Leave comments if you could too!


*We acknowledge the photos taken from other websites for samples. Some of them are really good like Allen Hsu and Jose Paula.

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