Since Skip asked me, and I replied with a PM to him, I thought it was a good idea for this new thread instead of keeping it in "Moving to China" thread.
This is part of the PM I sent him:
As to your question - The Chinese go full bore when it comes to the wedding pictures. A whole day is set aside for the pictures and sometimes, the picture taking day can be in a different month then the wedding. We got married Feb12, and the picture day was the romantic Feb 14. We had wished to register our marriage on the 14th but being a Saturday, the government was closed.
Most of the times the outfits for the pictures are supplied by the agency. You sign up with an agency and purchase a package. We purchased a package for about $440 Cdn. This included 30 pictures using 4 different outfits. We got 2 photo albums, a few framed bigger pictures and a romantic DVD. The DVD has music playing as it shows the pictures in a still frame setting. For $1000 Cdn we could have gotten 8 different outfits and 60 pictures. Some of the pictures would be outdoors. It was raining that day for us so we had all our pictures taken in the studio. I went in for make up at 11:30 am and we were done just after 6:00 pm. End of PM:
I love showing of my girl so I will take the chance to post a few samples of our wedding pictures. I had them posted to facebook before, but since we migrated to this site, I deactivated my facebook account.
So here is a small sampling - enjoy.