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For those of you who know about ‘The 5 Love Languages’ (See Here!), you would have most probably tried to find out what’s yours.

Well, Goli thinks that with what Zhenyuan & Rachael have shared with us, ‘Acts of Service’ & ‘Receiving Gifts’ should speak quite well about the relationship they share together.

In all their time together, one thing that has kept them going (through school, National Service & life in general) has been love shared through one-of-a-kind, hand-made cards from Zhenyuan.

As Rachael tells, “There is one thing I know I have in my relationship, which makes me very proud of Yuan, is his efforts in making cards for me. He inspired me and made me realize how much true love could do.“

Many times love is really just about the simple things in life. And knowing how to look for and treasure those things is one great way to keep reminding ourselves how great we have it!

“Our love proves that you don’t need expensive dates at restaurants, or lots of branded bags or watches to be happy.”

We know that what keeps us together is different with every couple. Like they say, one man’s medicine may be another man’s poison. That’s because we’re all wonderfully unique, no two are the same!

So, have you found that one special thing that you share with your significant other that keeps you going through good times & bad? If it’s not yet, we hope Zhenyuan & Rachel’s story has encouraged you just like it has for us.

“The world is ever-changing. But one thing never changed; our laughter, our sense of humor, our commitment, and most importantly our love.”

Cheers & with lots of love!

As an expression of our gratitude for their lovely & uplifting story, Goli presents Zhenyuan & Rachael with a very special portrait session.
Goli’s gift to you as we celebrate our 5^th anniversary as Goli.

Everyone deserves their true love.
For some, it happens in an instant.
For some, it’s a mountainous journey.
However we reach there, and when we do,
We know it’s all worth the journey,
Because we’ll find that 2 is better than 1.

Join us as we share some love to encourage everyone who is on their journey.
No story will be exactly the same because we are all unique and special.
So what we can all do is have hope that one day our dreams will come true and enjoy the journey.

Cheers!
Goli

So last we were here, we said we want you to share with us (and everyone) a story about inspirational love.

We’ve been blessed to capture so many stories of love these past 5 years and we hope to pay it forward and inspire as many hearts as we can, like how every unique love we’ve witnessed has inspired us.
This is why we would like you to share your story with us. Your story of a love that has melted your heart, moved you to tears, most importantly, inspired you to love with that same kind of love.

From today till Christmas, our special mailbox will be open to receive your stories of inspirational love.
We’ll then be sharing excerpts of your beautiful stories on our social media outlets (facebook, blog & twitter) so that hearts out there may be encouraged.

It’s going to be a little different each month so that as many different stories as possible can be shared, so get ready to tell your story of love as a couple, family or the best of friends. No story is too small.

Since October is the month when we got together to become what you know as Marbles, we want start off with all you lovebirds! If you’re a couple in the midst of dating, engagement, or marriage, we would like you to tell us about that special & unique love that has brought you to where you are now.

It may be about that love that makes you feel like the most beautiful girl in the world.
Or the love that lets you know that you were just made for each other.

If it’s a kind of love that you want others to know that it’s possible to have, start typing and TellGoli@photosbymarbles.com (yes, that’s our special email address for your entries!). Melt our hearts!

We’ve got some surprises for these stories that inspire! We can’t tell you everything, else it won’t be a surprise. But what we can tell you is that at the end of the month, there will be at least 1 early Christmas pressie from us!

We look forward to reading all your stories!

P.S. Some guidelines…
Tell Goli your story only at TellGoli@photosbymarbles.com
Tell Goli in no more than 200 words.
Feel free to show Goli a photo of the both of you.
Leave Goli your real name (and pseudo name if you’re shy to have your real name published).
Check your email in case Goli has some questions for you.
Keep a lookout to see if Goli publishes an excerpt of your story!

When pure emotion takes the moment, We take the chance. Turn up the quiet, Love wants to dance ~Love Dance, George Benson

It’s October! And it means many things for us here at PhotosByMarbles.

For one, it means that PhotosByMarbles will be turning 5 just before Halloween! And what an adventure it’s been! With Gene’s 1^st foray into weddings being just a little over 5 years ago and Oli’s 1^st little tip-toe into the big, deep blue sea of weddings almost 15 years before, we’ve really come a long way.

We’re really thankful to all of our couples, families & friends who have blessed us in so many ways and we thank God everyday for allowing us to be part of so many beautiful & joyous celebrations, bearing witness so many unique stories of love.

Which brings us to what else this particular October means to us…

We didn’t want to have this celebration to just be between the 2 of us, and since October starts off the last quarter of the year, leading us to the season of giving, we thought of sharing the love with everyone out there.

If you remember, we brought up the topic of ‘Inspirational Love’ a few weeks ago on our facebook page.

Today, we’ll let the cat’s head out of the bag! (but no, not the whole body).

We’re looking for stories of inspirational love. We’ve seen so many different stories of love and as unique as each one has been, they have all been really inspirational to us.

So we want you to not just be inspired like us but to inspire others as well. We want you to share with us and everyone out there a story of such inspirational love that it may well touch someone else, giving them hope and encouragement that there is such love out there.

Well… we hope that’s piqued your interest!

We’ll be releasing details in our next post so stay tuned & spread the word ‘cos it’s a case of the more the merrier!!!