Selamat Pengantin Baru, Isa & Fatin!

I couldn’t make up my mind between the original coloured version…

And the dreamier, edited black and white version…

So I’m posting them both.

Congratulations, Isa and Fatin! May God bless your marriage for always and always and always…

Sarung cincin (photo grabbed from Ibn Hasan’s blog – I was there as a guest and didn’t feel inclined to jostle my way through the crowd of mostly male photographers to get this shot):

Special moment between mother and daughter during the akad nikah (marriage ceremony):

Last solo shot of Fatin as a Cik (‘Miss’), minutes before becoming a Puan (‘Mrs.’). Photo taken inside the opulent bridal chambers.

The lovely couple sitting on the pelamin — “sama cantik, sama padan; bagai pinang dibelah dua” (literally roughly translates to: “both good-looking, both matching; just like a betel nut split into two”, i.e. a Malay proverb that means ‘a perfect match’):