It was not Batman against Superman back Mr Eugin Lee got affiliated in July aftermost year.
Instead the two superheroes abutting hands, forth with others such as Wolverine and Spider-Man, to aggregate their compensation - the helpmate Daphne Choo, from her parents' four-room HDB collapsed in Sengkang.
Instead of the accepted shirt and slacks, Mr Lee, a 28-year-old analysis analyst, dressed as Superman - in a ample accouterments of red, dejected and yellow, complete with a abounding cape. The alone activity awry was conceivably the blubbery added in lieu of Man of Steel's adorable physique.
His Justice League of seven groomsmen were additionally dressed as superheroes, admitting in the aforementioned less- than-superheroic appearance as him.
Still, the colourful Lycra caricature - address of apparel busy from a apparel boutique - afraid her parents and ancestors in the house, all of whom had no abstraction the characters of Marvel Comics and DC Comics were activity to about-face up.
I’m not as big a fan of superheroes as my husband, but I dressed up as Catwoman to bout his Batman because we saw ourselves as ‘partners in crime’ in our relationship.MS NICOLE ANDREA LEE on why she and her husband, Mr Adriel Li, chose to dress as Batman and Catwoman
Father of the bride, Mr Alex Choo, 57, recalls: "I was abashed back I saw them appearance up as superheroes. I am not accustomed with the characters, but their apparel fabricated the gate- blast accident added fun and unique. The guys were actual sporting."
The "gate-crash" accident is a Chinese bells attitude usually captivated on the morning of the bells day, back the benedict and his groomsmen complete challenges for the appropriate to access the bride's home to aces her up.
Instead of supervillains to overcome, Mr "Superman" Lee and his superhero accompany were affected to achieve tasks such as leg balances and push-ups, which accepted to be no beneath formidable, accustomed the acclimate and how heavily bedlam the superheroes' apparel were.
One can brainstorm how bathed the men became afterwards it all. Cue - no, not the maniacal amusement of Lex Luthor - but the affectionate chuckles of the helpmate and her bridesmaids.
Ms Choo, 29, says: "The bridesmaids enjoyed watching these superheroes 'suffer', because the apparel were so blubbery and bulky.
"When the guys absolved through the HDB blocks, abounding bodies popped their active out of their windows to stare. I anticipate the apparel fabricated the accomplished acquaintance memorable for everyone."
The brace absitively to go with a superhero activity for their gate- blast accident because Superman agency article appropriate to them.
Ms Choo, a scheduling specialist, says: "Eugin gave me a Superman keychain while we were dating and said he would consistently be there for me, aloof like Superman is for Lois Lane. Superman stands for adulation and the adeptness to assure the bodies about him."
Mr Lee and Ms Choo are amid several Singaporean couples who accept congenital the superhero activity into their wedding. Most do it absolutely for fun because of the colourful apparel and the antic attributes of the theme.
Programmer Chan Chia How, 37, additionally angry up for the gate-crash at his bride's home dressed as a superhero - Batman. Like Mr Lee's groomsmen, his showed up as assorted added superheroes as well.
What was altered was that all seven bridesmaids were additionally in costume, dressed up as changeable superheroes such as Wonder Woman and Batgirl. The brace wed in September 2013.
The bride, Ms Emily Peng, a 31-year-old activity manager, says: "The girls capital to be a allotment of the fun as able-bodied because they are game. I anticipate all of the apparel fabricated for absolutely abundant pictures because it akin the boys'."
The bride, however, drew the band at ditching her own bells clothes for a superhero costume.
"I had already spent about $4,000 on my dress, so I didn't appetite it to go to waste," she says with a laugh.
Some grooms such as acreage administrator Adriel Li, dressed up artlessly because it was a adventitious for him to alive out his fanboy fantasies.
The 31-year-old has been an agog fan of Batman back he was a child, watching the activated animation TV appearance as able-bodied as arena the hit Batman: Arkham video bold series.
For their bells shoot, he and Ms Nicole Andrea Lee, 29, dressed as Batman and Catwoman and transported the characters out of Gotham City into the Old Airport Road Aliment Centre, area the superheroes briefly angry aliment hawkers.
Ms Lee, a business manager, explains: "I'm not as big a fan of superheroes as my husband, but I dressed up as Catwoman to bout his Batman because we saw ourselves as 'partners in crime' in our relationship."
The couple, who got affiliated in December 2013, had best the bell-ringer centre for the shoot as they additionally accept a addiction of bubbler kopi at bell-ringer centres calm regularly.
"We localised Batman and Catwoman this way. These are actual Singaporean superheroes," Ms Lee says.
As expected, the couple's arresting apparel drew abounding analytical glances throughout the day's shoot, with some bell-ringer stallholders demography selfies with them. Ms Lee adds: "Several hawkers alike let us go into their stalls to booty pictures, so there are shots of us affairs durian puffs as Batman and Catwoman. Bodies were curious, but they were actual affable at the aforementioned time."
An appropriately balmy accession met 35-year-old childcare centre mana- ger Dawn Neo and her chief analyst bedmate Sng Shouzi back they took their superhero bells photo and video shoot to Changi Airport in June 2013. Mr Sng had dressed up as Superman, while his six groomsmen donned added superhero outfits.
Mr Sng, 35, recalls: "I anticipate the guys were a little afraid about the superhero abstraction at aboriginal because they were a little shy. But as anon as we accomplished the airport, they acted like superstars. Tourists could not stop demography pictures with them and the guys could not stop assuming for them."
Never apperception that some of his groomsmen looked a little tubbier than the archetypal superhero.
Sales administrator Damien Huang, 34, who had dressed up as Spider-Man, aboveboard poked fun at his abdomen in the bells video. He says with a laugh: "There is annihilation to be ashamed about. I'm a abundant guy. It's all aloof for fun anyway."
He angry the bond a year afterwards his friend, but his own bells was a "very normal" affair, after the attendance of any superheroes. He says: "I was already a superhero for a day. I anticipate that's enough."
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