In a move that is as unorthodox as it is economical, one Singaporean couple decided to forgo the conventional Chinese wedding banquet routine when their turn came round to get married.

Instead, they opted for a photo shoot in the recently-opened Apple store (a brand the groom is a huge fan of) and a buffet lunch right at home (which also conveniently doubled up as a housewarming event for the couple's relatives and friends).

Jermyn Wee, 34, and his wife Chia Suat Huang, 31, registered their marriage in October 2016, but only held their celebrations on June 3 this year.

They forewent a traditional Chinese gatecrashing, but Wee did "pick up" his bride from her family home, and did the customary tea ceremony later in the day.

They initially had the idea to take pictures at the Tampines Round Market, before they learned that the Apple store was opening in Singapore.

"(Wee) was very resistant to the idea of a photo shoot until I proposed taking photos at unconventional places," Chia told Mothership.sg. "He's rather awkward in front of the camera in general. But when we thought about going to the Apple store, suddenly he was no longer awkward."

A risky plan

Even Wee's best man was not privy to the plan until days before Wee and Chia's celebration day. And up till half an hour before the Apple store opened at 10am that Saturday, no one in the wedding party had any certainty of being able to execute the couple's decidedly crazy idea.

In fact, Wee told us they spoke to the Apple store employees when they arrived there at 9:30, through the locked doors, to request permission to take photos inside.

Thankfully, the store's manager allowed the wedding party to enter 10 minutes before the store opened to the public, but they stayed on even after other customers entered, and even staged a walk down the aisle, where other store patrons applauded them:

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Here are some of the photos from the shoot:

So dedicated were they to the idea that Wee didn't go to the opening of the Apple store, so he could reserve his initial reactions for the shoot, Chia said. (Wee denies this, though, saying he was "busy".)

And what did their parents think?

Wee's mother was okay with the arrangement, he said — in fact, she was even happy that the couple didn't throw a typical wedding banquet.

However, Chia's parents were slightly disappointed, as it was the first wedding in her family. Despite having reservations about fitting everyone in the apartment (for a buffet lunch they organised in lieu of a banquet), they relented in the end, after insistence from the couple.

"I think they enjoyed the day," Wee said. "It helps that the food we ordered was actually pretty good!"

We would like to congratulate the couple for entering into marriage without a crushing debt, and super creatively too :)

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Top photo by Weili Yip Photography, courtesy of Jermyn Wee and Chia Suat Huang

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