Daryle & Whitney: Where Love Found Its Quiet Rhythm

Some love stories don’t start with fireworks. They start with ramen.

Whitney and Daryle first met under Shaw Towers in Orchard, at a small ramen shop that most people would walk past without a second glance. There were no grand gestures, no cinematic first looks—just two people, sitting across a small table, figuring each other out over steaming bowls of noodles.

Her first impression of him was "eh, he's quite quiet" and his impression of her was "wah, quite short sia". But somewhere between the first impressions, shy smiles and quiet laughter, something unspoken began.

From that moment, their story unfolded in small, honest ways. They were never the couple who chased perfection. They showed up as themselves; sometimes unhinged, sometimes calm, always real.

When they turned up at Henderson Waves for one of their dates, Whitney wore heels while Daryle came in his hiking clothes. It wasn’t planned and probably wasn't the best date in the world but that’s exactly what made it perfect. It’s the kind of contrast that defines them: calm meeting wild, structure meeting spontaneity.

Their pre-wedding shoot in Singapore wasn’t about creating picture-perfect poses. It was about tracing those unspoken parts of their story; the places that built their rhythm together. I wanted to capture that through documentary-style wedding photography, letting the day unfold instead of directing it.

As a documentary wedding photographer in Singapore, my approach has always been to let couples breathe inside their stories. To let their laughter spill naturally, their hands find each other without instruction, their eyes speak without words. With Daryle & Whitney, it was easy. They just existed in the moment and you could just tell in the photos.

One of the most powerful parts of their story happened far from home. When Daryle proposed to Whitney in front of the castle at Disneyland Paris, it wasn’t the fairytale that mattered. It was the moment after—the way he held her through a wave of panic, the way she found safety in his arms. That moment of raw, unfiltered emotion shaped how I wanted to photograph them: tender, imperfect, and honest.

During their shoot, I watched them laugh over inside jokes, tease each other in ways that made absolute no sense to anyone else, and find comfort in the silence between frames. The light that day was soft, diffused, the kind of light that feels like memory. The camera didn’t need to chase anything; it just needed to listen.

That’s what I love most about capturing couples like Daryle & Whitney. The stillness. The chaos. The little contradictions that make a love story feel alive. Whether it’s a pre-wedding shoot or an actual day wedding, the most meaningful images are never the ones you plan. They’re the ones that find you when you least expect it.

For them, home isn’t a place. It’s peace and quiet. It’s the freedom to be playful, to be messy, to be human together. And that’s exactly what we photographed. Something beautifully real.

And that’s the beauty of what I do at Of Wild Promises Photography. Capturing the untamed side of love, the moments that don’t pose for the camera but linger in memory.