Chinese wedding photographer in Auckland
Tea ceremonies, door games, the qipao change and the banquet — photographed and filmed by a team that knows the order of the day and the meaning behind it. Cantonese, Mandarin-speaking, Malaysian-Chinese and fusion weddings across Auckland.
Check your datesSuperGibo photographs and films Chinese weddings in Auckland — door games, the hair combing, the tea ceremony and the evening banquet. We know the tea ceremony order without prompting, build outfit changes into the timeline, and cover table-to-table toasts through the banquet. Cantonese, Mandarin, Malaysian-Chinese and fusion weddings.
The tea ceremony is the
heart of the day
Western wedding photography treats the ceremony and first kiss as the peak. At a Chinese wedding, some of the most important photographs of the day happen in a living room — kneeling before parents and grandparents, offering tea, receiving red envelopes and gold. Miss the emotion there and no amount of portrait coverage makes up for it.
We photograph the tea ceremony as the family heirloom it is: every pour, every pair of hands, every grandparent’s face. And because generations are in one room, we quietly make the multi-generation portraits happen while everyone is together — the photograph families treasure most ten years later.
Door games get the opposite treatment: fast, candid and close, because the groomsmen suffering is half the joy of the morning.
From door games to banquet
The morning
- Door games — the groom and groomsmen earning their way in
- The bride’s reveal and the red envelope negotiations
- Hair combing ceremony, where families hold it
- Details — the qun kwa, double happiness, gold jewellery
Tea ceremony
- Both families, in the right order, without prompting from us
- Every pour and every blessing photographed
- Red envelopes and gold, given and received
- Multi-generation family portraits while everyone is together
The banquet
- Grand entrance and the outfit changes — qipao included
- Table-to-table toasts through the ten-course banquet, covered without holding dinner up
- Speeches with clean audio on film
- Yum seng, games and the dance floor
- Photobooth or 360 booth running alongside
See a film
A sample of recent SuperGibo wedding films. Many stay private at the couple’s request — ask and we will send the ones closest to your celebration.
Gil & Gretel
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Karl & Kelsea
Wedding highlights
Chinese wedding film — Auckland
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Chinese wedding film — Auckland
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Chinese wedding film — Auckland
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Before you ask
Do you understand the tea ceremony order?
Yes — paternal side first, eldest first, both sets of parents, grandparents, then aunts, uncles and married elders. We confirm your family’s exact order at the planning call, because every family runs it slightly differently and yours is the version that matters.
Can you cover a morning tea ceremony and an evening banquet?
Yes. Chinese weddings often split across the day and sometimes across venues. We plan the coverage as one story with a break in the middle, not two separate bookings.
How do you handle the outfit changes?
We build them into the timeline — white gown, qun kwa or qipao, evening dress — so every outfit gets its portraits without stealing time from your guests.
Can family overseas watch live?
Yes — our livestream broadcasts the ceremony or banquet in full HD for family in China, Malaysia, Singapore or anywhere else.
Do you photograph the banquet toasts at every table?
Yes, and we pace it with the MC so the toasting round is covered table by table without dinner going cold. It is one of the most requested albums of the night.
What does it cost?
See packages for a starting point. A single-day wedding with tea ceremony and banquet fits most standard packages; add events and we price it as a multi-day celebration.
Planning a Chinese wedding in Auckland?
Tell us your day — door games, tea ceremony, banquet — and we will plan the coverage around it.
Check your dates