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Korean Adoptee’s Pre-Wedding Photoshoot

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When I first planned my return to the “motherland” I knew there were a few things on my bucketlist. Months prior, I had stumbled upon a blogger’s pre-wedding photoshoot she had done in S. Korea. After reading more about it, looking into studios and watching people’s videos on it I knew I wanted to do it.

Let me tell you the experience did not disappoint! Even my husband thought it was a worthwhile experience.

Now, to clarify even though they call it a “pre-wedding photoshoot” my husband and I had been married for five years already.

I will say the process was not particularly simple to book. We contacted several studios and communication was difficult with the language barrier and getting answers to our questions was not easy. (Hopefully, many of the studios have streamlined their booking process since then.)

After some frustration trying to book a session directly with a studio we found an agency called How2Marry who helped facilitate the process.

We finally settled on La Promesse Studio located in the Gangnam district of Seoul. The studio itself isn’t huge but one would never know that from the pictures. It seems every square inch of it was purposefully thought out.

The package included the following:

  • Tuxedo rental
  • Transportation to and from Tuxedo shop
  • Transportation to and from Hanbok shop
  • Makeup services (on site)
  • Hair stylist (on site)
  • Dressing assistant
  • 2 English translators
  • Videography
  • Photographer
  • Studio use
  • 5 dress changes

Here are a few more images from the shoot. (The quality had to be reduced a bit to be able to load faster.)

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10 Reasons We are Converting an Old Shed into a Tiny Home

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If you’re new here my name is Christina. I’m a Korean Adoptee living in rural New England with my husband and two young children. We are passionate about DIY and home renovation. Our newest project is converting an old unused shed on our property into an off grid tiny home.

This might sound out there for some so I wanted to share a few of our reasons why we are doing this.

  1. I’m obsessed with tiny homes and have been for the past 5+ years since I first heard about them. This would satisfy my curiosity with them.
  2. Our kids will enjoy having family sleepovers in the tiny house and when they are older even friend sleepovers.
  3. This tiny house would serve as an off grid back up to our main home should we ever need one.
  4. It will give us a taste of what designing and building a functional living space is like. It will also give us an understanding of the systems required to be off grid.
  5. It’ll serve as a guest house when more space is needed.
  6. The tiny house is a short or longer term housing option for friends and/or family members in the future.
  7. This tiny house is essentially a prototype for future tiny home endeavors we have planned on separate lots of land and properties.
  8. Creating and building this tiny house will give my husband and me a great creative outlet.
  9. This shed was totally unused and just sitting there so we figure let’s make it into something useable and beautiful!
  10. And, last but not least. The number one reason for doing this is to explore tiny living in a hands on way. We pack our essentials and stay however long we want.

In Conclusion

Making this tiny house is a fun and creative project that our family can enjoy for years to come. Thanks for reading!

-Christina