I asked them to write a wee something about themselves, and this is what they said.
"My name is Taka and my lovely wife named Tara. We both from Malaysia and migrated to New Zealand since last year. We both are positive thinker and happy couple. We overcome many troubles and obstacles together in past 10 years. This year 2013 March 2, we finally upgraded our status - from "single" to "Just Married"! We received a lot of lovely wishes and very blessed surrounded with a lot of great people."
Our day together tells their story better than I ever could; they wore matching clothes and he drives her pretty coloured vw beatle. They flew me up to Auckland to a little place she found while searching, 'forest auckland'. I've followed their facebook since we met to remind myself how love can look when there is no pressure and just simple acceptance. I almost cried when he sent me an email after our shoot without his wife knowing, and asked if I could make her arms a little smaller because he knew it would make her happy. Her arms are beautiful so I didn't but I liked that because I learnt how beautiful thoughtfulness can be.
"The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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