When I decide to work together with Nina few years ago she also offered me to be my personal assistant, makeup and hair do stylist. It such brilliant idea because we can do all the works together and give the all in one bundling collection to our couple. We know that if someone gonna have their destination pre wedding or wedding than they must prepare so many things before the day. Our lovely couple from Hong Kong, Billy and Dickie Ma who brought us to Maldives for pre wedding regularly send us a chat, email or video meeting just to make sure about bridal, suit, shoes, their own makeup and hair do, so when they know Nina provide both of those services bundled with my photo session that they were so happy.
Generally Nina don’t have any formal makeup and hair do education but she works so great for several couple that book our collection and as long as my couple happy than everything seems to be good. Like what she did during Billy and Dickie Ma pre wedding in Lux* South Ari Atoll Maldives. We just landed in Velana International Airport a day before and since that belong our first time in Maldives than we decide to sightseeing their capitol, the Male City and have a joy 1 night transit.
The day after we took our airport transfer to Lux* and touch down on that beautiful 2 km long island at 11 am. What I did is having a regular check in procedure, go to our room in fast to leave our luggage, and directly take a buggy to Billy’s water villa room. Generally Dickie did her makeup for her own but she need Nina’s help to finishing the hair do and that’s what Nina did during my destination pre wedding photo session.
Having a hair do on Billy and Dickie’s session was quite fast cause Nina only need 30 minutes while I sightseeing around the resort to check some locations. It’s already 12.30 and the sun shining so hard even we got our skin burn just within an hour so if you going to Maldives than always put your sun cream on your bag.
After taking some snacks and water than we start our pre wedding in Maldives at 1pm, so hot outdoor but this paradise will always blown your mind away. Lux* Maldives is so amazing even I really want to get back there over and over again, the way of all staff sway their hands once our speedboat coming is really matter to our heart, we just feel at home and have somebody who loves and waiting for us to stay there, it such 5 star hospitality.
Snaps from Billy and Dickie’s Pre Wedding in Lux* Maldives
Lux* is a 5 star resort that built on 2 km long island, all the office and beach villa are built on the main island but the most luxury room called water villa are built 2 meter above the sea level. Down here I’m gonna share to you snaps of some photos that I got during my pre wedding session for Billy and Dickie. When I shoot for destination wedding I always push my self to stay in the same hotels where my couple stay, it helps me to know more about them and make our relationship better than just professional and clients. At the end between me and Billy now become a good friend even we still meet each other while I travel to Hong Kong for winter portrait session.
I shared the wholes pre wedding images and detail story about this photo session on Billy and Dickie’s Gallery so kindly visit that links to see more and how we put our passion and heart during those dream pre wedding that Billy and Dickie waiting for 10 years.
Recommendation
I highly recommend Lux* South Ari Atoll to be your resort when visiting Maldives, their hospitality are superb and so much detail. How the staff taking care about us really great even I can sit anywhere to do my check in and the staff is coming to me. I used to book Lux* with Agoda, honestly I get better room rate comparing with other platform and you can try too.
I took Tiger Air to go to Maldives directly from Singapore and I just landed in Velana Airport within 5,5 hours with amazing experiences. Generally there are various airlines that you can book too, I also fly with Srilankan Airlines by having 6 hours transit in Colombo (they provide me 48 hours limited visa and free transit stay in a nearest nice hotel) during my second destination photo session in Maldives. You can start to browse your international flight ticket using jetradar or simply using this form below:
Last, I want to tell you things that you don’t miss while visiting Lux* Maldives:
- There are baby shark and sting ray feeding in different part of the island which you can join for FREE, it will be at 5pm even I stop my photo session and sit together with my couple to watch this attraction, always ask Lux* “humble” staff for it
- Tell Lux* even you visit there for honeymoon or just a vacation cause when you visiting Lux* for special occasion then they gonna provide you with some ‘room gift’ for FREE
- There are 2 kind of bike that you can use to sightseeing around the island, free bike will take by somebody else for sure but if you book the rent bike for few bucks than this gonna be yours for 24 hours
I hope you got an inspiration about how my wife Nina work on her makeup and hair do services during my destination pre wedding photo session. Once you interesting to my works and wanna get to know more about my photo collections in detail than you can simply drop me a message and deliver some details about date and location, it truly help me to figure out my studio’s schedule.