It's your wedding day — often referred to as the best day of a couple's lives, it's natural to want everything to be as perfect as possible.

But again, as every married couple knows, you can plan everything and every detail to the second, but you can expect that pretty much nothing goes according to plan.

Like the weather, for instance, for all the couples getting married this month:

Of course, the photos from their special day aren't gonna turn out ideally — particularly if they were hoping for scenic backdrops to their pictures.

But hey, what better than to make lemonade from life's lemons, right? Part-time wedding photographer Timothy Sim, who shot two of these weddings on a Saturday, and the following Thursday (Hari Raya Haji, by the way, when the PSI shot up to more than 300), decided to take some "haze-themed" wedding pictures for his two couples:

1. James Chia and Ng Sze Ern

"Seeing how I had two weddings coinciding with the haze, I felt that it was very apt to remember the moment of their wedding with masks. The PSI that day was between 100-200 for both weddings," said Sim in an interview with us. "When I gave the idea to don the masks for the shoot, (James and Sze Ern) were all for it! It also helps that Sze Ern has experience as a nurse and had a box of N95s in her house. I just needed to bring my famous gas 2013 mask out and we were all set."

(Random trivia moment, by the way: A photo of him wearing this same gas mask (hence "famous") appeared in this Buzzfeed article in 2013, at the height of our haze.)

The 27-year-old is by day a picture editor at global wire news agency Reuters, and only shoots weddings for friends, relatives or people recommended by friends. Sometimes, he takes photos for Reuters as well — this year, for instance, he shot the SEA Games, the passing of LKY and Singapore Fashion Week too.

He shared how the above shots took place:

"The pier (at Woodlands Waterfront) was a nice lengthy spot to spread out the bridesmaids and groomsmen. Both the bride and groom were aware of what I was going to do, but the bridesmaids and groomsmen had no clue. Once I took out the box and gave out the masks to them, it was a matter of coming to terms with the fact that they were all going to be a part of this and they were very sporting. We did a few straight up poses and then did a throw-the-masks-and-jump shot."

2. Kevin Tan and Dionne De Souza

One for the haze. Definitely the wackiest wedding I've shot ever, hands-down. To the adventures of Kevin and Dionne, three cheers! Picture taken with the #nikonD3 #wedding #explorecapturecreate #royalsnappingartists #yoursingapore #artofvisuals #sg50 #sgbrides #sghaze #justmarried #NikonSG #mynikonlife

A photo posted by Timothy Sim (@timothysimwj) on Sep 20, 2015 at 10:19pm PDT

For these two adventurous folks, their concern was not so much the haze, but the ongoing Grand Prix — that day (Saturday, September 19) was the qualifying race, and the couple's hotel (Parkroyal on Beach Road) was in the vicinity of the track.

Sim said he had planned with the couple to bring their masks along for their wedding day, having anticipated the haze:

"Dionne's wedding was already super cool because she was wearing a hood (Assasin's Creed style) for a veil and it added to the mystery of the night. With the day really busy, we planned to get a shot in before their night banquet and did it once I found a nice corridor with leading lines."

And yes, all that said, he and the brides, as well as their bridesmaids, knew they were wearing/holding the N95 masks wrongly.

"I allowed them to hold it to their faces so as not to mess up their hair in the process. The bridesmaids were already quite reluctant to hold it there for long as the grey padding in the n95s were already leaving marks on their nose bridges!"

Interestingly, he feels hazy conditions are good for wedding photos:

"In a good way, it shrouds unwanted background buildings and gives me a nice clean background. It also is a value-add since it's once a year (thank you to the Indonesian VP for 11 months of clean air, and 1 month of unique pictures!). The bad side is we can't be out too long as I would be more concerned for the health of the bride. Those are just some of the factors I have to consider with the haze."

Must've been a pretty memorable day for both couples, who will forever have one-of-a-kind wedding day photographs to keep.

*By the way, Sim's still looking for more couples who are getting married during this period to take haze-themed photographs — it's grown into a mini project of his. If you're a soon-to-be-married couple who is interested to participate, drop him an email at [email protected].

Top photo by Timothy Sim.

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