Sherlyn contacted me from Singapore back in March enquiring about doing a short pre-wedding shoot during her visit to Seoul. She and Yao, unbeknownst to me, have been shooting a series of photographs with different teams and photographers in the lead-up to their 2016 wedding. Much of this can be seen on Sherlyn’s wedding blog. They would only be here for a short time during the busiest month of the year, but we managed to schedule in a couple of hours to work together at Yeouido Park, and then down on the Han River at Yeouido.
We’ve had some extremely fickle weather of late, but on this day, everything lined up perfectly. It was a warm day, warm enough for folk from the equatorial region to be comfortable during the shoot. Not only that, but the previous week’s clouds and rain cleared for a calm, bright afternoon. It honestly couldn’t have been better.
Earlier that day, Sherlyn and Yao had rented hanboks (Korean traditional garb) for the shoot, and that through a beautiful spin on what was already a gorgeous day for photography. Yao had practiced tieing the ribbons for Sherlyn’s hanbok quite a few times at the rental store, and got it perfect the first time. Once we were changed and ready to go, we moved through the park, finding spaces between the parks visitors to stop and shoot in the streaming sunlight.
The weeping willows around the park’s like provided a beautiful frame, and the whimsically growing pines a touch of Korea to add to the couple’s gowns.
It was hard to tear ourselves from Yeouido park, with it’s beautiful forests and gorgeous light, but we made our way down to the Yeouido Han River Park for a different aesthetic in some more modern garb. Freshly bloomed tulips, and the stark, modern architecture of Seoul provided us with a setting at odds with where we had been shooting a few minutes prior. Shooting in the golden light until the sun had dipped below the horizon, we wrapped with some geometrical frames to round out the session.
