New Zealand scenes sought on Chinese couple’s honeymoon | Stuff …

Married for five months Jialu Chen of China sits in the Timaru Royal Arcade before having photos taken at St Mary’s church on Tuesday. It is one of many scenic sites she and her husband Xiaofeng will pose for photos in wedding attire to show family and friends on their return home in two weeks.

A photographer and make up artist are on a Chinese couple’s honeymoon around New Zealand to capture them in wedding attire at scenic spots five months after they married.

A stop off in Timaru was made by the couple and their entourage on Tuesday to get photos at St Mary’s Anglican Church.

Hundreds of photos would be taken daily over their two week trip and shown to their family members and friends on facebook and on their return to Shanghai.

Ran Yuan of Colour City Studio in Auckland ensures Jialu’s make up is looking perfect for her photo shoot in Timaru.

Jialu and Xiaofeng Chen married on November 6, 2015 in their homeland. They arrived in Auckland on March 12 and picked up wedding attire, the photographer and make up artist all from Colour City Studio.

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The point of the trip here was to take photos and to honeymoon, Jialu said.

The group was making its way from Queenstown to Christchurch via Tekapo and Timaru.

Photographer Kevin Wang said he had taken between 150 and 180 photos each day.

“They will show their friends and family,” he said.

Some couples wanted to have photos taken with backdrops of beautiful landscapes and architecture such as in New Zealand, Wang said.

A colour City Studio spokeswoman said it was quite common for Chinese to travel New Zealand in such a way.

She would not reveal how much it would cost the couple.

“It is up to them if they have enough money and time.”

A favourite location was around the Church of the Good Shepherd on the shore of Lake Tekapo.

Tekapo Co-operating Parish committee member and resident Graeme Murray said though they came all year round. In summer he saw on average one couple a day dressed in wedding clothes taking photos around the church or the lake.

He was unsure if they were already married or were going to get married but they had not married at the church in Tekapo.

“Some of them are here on the coldest mornings or frosty evenings. They come particularly early or late probably to miss the crowds.”

Some of the tourists tried to take photos of themselves, Murray said.

“They are here in the strangest of circumstances when it’s raining and blowing.”

He thought they must not feel the cold in their light wedding clothes as the ones he had seen in bad weather seemed determined to get the perfect shots in spite of the weather.

 – Stuff

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