I remember the first time I shot a wedding in Italy, and it was 13 years ago to this day. The feelings are all still too apparent – excited, as it was my first wedding in Europe; anxious, because I was shooting all by myself; and proud – I was fresh from resigning from my job to become a full-time photographer, and yet there I was stepping out the plane at the Venice International Airport, smelling the air and taking it all in just like Napoleon did when he conquered much of the world.

A lot of time has passed since, and while I want to say that the rest is history, it really isn’t. This wedding feature today of Shen and Macky says that many beautiful things and places are still to be photographed and pages of history still to be written – we’re just turning the corner in this continued journey of documenting love in all corners of the world.

As you step into this wedding of Shen and Macky, this dream of a world, may we all be reminded of all the roads we’ve taken to where we are now. Every client, every opportunity – both taken and missed, every moment. They are the measure of satisfaction with all we have now and the inspiration for everything that we still have to aspire to and work for.

Therein lies the thing they call legacy and herein lies one of the most beautiful weddings we have photographed.