Culture Shock: Wedding Dress Shooting
A great wedding dress is a dream for every little girl—even after she grows up and remains unmarried. In the U.S., we usually do not don our most adorable wedding gown except in our wedding ceremonies, but in China, it is sort of a tradition that to-be-brides would wear several outfits of wholesale wedding dresses with her fiance for a wedding dress shooting before they hold their wedding ceremonies.
Many Chinese to-be-couples would shoot the album just as a way to create a romantic memory. Certainly, not each to-be-couple observe the tradition—it is common, but not compulsory. Currently, a lot of expat tourists to the country are also attracted to have a special wedding dress shoot there as a way to memorize their wedding. When you go to the popular scenic places like in the parks, for example, of Guangzhou, you may witness a shooting for wedding dresses for either foreign or Chinese couples.
Usually, wedding gown shooting agencies provide wedding dress album shooting packages consisting of doing fittings, make-up, hair fixing, choosing outfits and of course, photo shooting. Western-styled wedding gowns are indispensible for almost every wedding dress album shoot. Based on different costs and the shooting packages you pick, there are different numbers of wedding gowns to opt from. Most are Western-styled, but wedding dresses in other styles like minority costumes and traditional Chinese Cheongsam are also commonly seen in wedding gowns shoots. Likewise, to meet with different backgrounds and wedding gowns, staff from wedding gown shooting shops may design different hair styles and make-ups for the couples-to-be. Usually, there are 2 or 3 or more service staff fussing around you helping you select wedding dresses, make up, fix hair styles, and fit the shooting backgrounds and your poses. Besides, a wedding gown shoot is normally composed of indoor shooting and outdoor shooting, requiring at least an entire day to complete the album shooting. Tiresome enough, but also very interesting!
Wedding dress shooting is popular in China for multiple reasons. From my point of view, three major reasons may explain the popularity of the tradition. First, many Chinese young people take Western wedding gowns as more trendy and more romantic outfits for the loving moment. And couples wish to keep the wonderful memory with exquisite and sweet wedding gown album. It is exciting to turn over the album to recall the beautiful days of their passion! Second, taking a wedding dress shoot is one means to extend the happiness of the to-be-couples among their friends and relatives. Newlyweds, especially new brides, love to show their wedding dress albums to those whom they are willing to share with their happiness. Third, as the globe’s biggest clothing manufacturing base, wedding gowns in various standards of fabrics and styles enjoy a relatively remarkable pricing. They can be afforeded even by those who are low-paid people in China. Likewise, prices on wedding dress album shooting services differ from various options according to the different standards of packages you want. On the average, a wedding gown album shoot would cost you from 1,000 RMB to 10,000 RMB.
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