Angela & Guy's Wedding

Angela and Guy got married on Saturday at the beautiful Chingford Stables. I'm just blogging a few photographs (since I'm still editing) so that they can view some with their families before they leave for a honeymoon in Thailand.

I started the day at Angela's family home, where her mum June has been busy making Angela's wedding dress. June isn't even a dress maker, she just happens to be REALLY good at it. Angela and Guy live in the UK, and came back to Dunedin not long before the wedding, so there wasn't much time to fit the dress and make adjustments before the wedding. Angela's mum June was still making the dress when I arrived to start photographing, and an hour before the wedding, Angela and her bridesmaids were still adding the finishing touches! I could not get over how calm, happy and unconcerned Angela was about this. She was truly serene.







Angela's niece and nephew were flower girl and page boy, and they were so cute.



Yey, she's in the dress and it fits perfectly!







The guys, also very happy and chilled out. I photographed them as they wandered over to watch some cricket that was happening on the other side of the gardens. Luckily I was there to photograph the men, and didn't have to subject myself to watching any cricket. Phew.



I thought the red and grey colour scheme was really classic, and it looked perfect on the day because it was overcast and misty looking (one of my favourite kinds of wedding weather), and the reds really stood out.



This was a requested shot. When I get information from my couples I ask them to tell me if there is any specific shot they would love me to capture (apart from the obvious). Angela told me she wanted a photograph of Guy's expression when he first saw her walk up to the aisle. Here it is! A delighted (and possibly slightly smug) groom.







It almost started raining towards the end of the ceremony but stayed fine. To be honest I don't think Angela or Guy would have batted an eyelid if it had started pouring down.











The stone stables building is a nice backdrop to drinks on the lawn:



Some VERY cool vintage 50s cars. In red of course.









Angela and Guy, thank you for being such easy going, lovely people to work with. I can't wait for you to see the rest of your gallery! Have a wonderful, well deserved honeymoon and speak soon xxx

A nice romantic walk on the beach.

Some images from an engagement photoshoot I did this week. Meet Amy and Bernard - they are getting married in just over two weeks. I wanted to put these on here and write about it because 1) Amy and Bernard are super cute, and 2) I want to show prospective wedding couples what the engagement photoshoot is all about. Its basically a way for me to capture you as a couple before you get married. I encourage you to wear whatever you like, and more importantly to be yourselves infront of the camera. Beforehand, a lot of people (especially boys) find it hard to imagine being relaxed whilst being photographed, so its great when after the shoot people say to me "oh that was actually quite fun! I didn't feel awkward at all". Thats the idea! It means that you have some lovely images of the two of you just being together, and also on the wedding day you feel SO much more comfortable infront of the camera.

There's my little plug! Here are the images. We shot this in the middle of all that horrible rainy weather, and the light in the evening was beautiful. I got Amy and Bernard to walk their two lovely dogs on the beach.





Look at the cute dogs! Thats Marley on the right, he's a 9 year old Blue Heeler (sp?) / Bull / Staffordshire cross and he likes to CHEW things. Aida is on the left, she's a Ridgeback puppy and she is so cute (and SO full of energy). They won't be the same size for long, Aida will soon grow up to be bigger than all of us. Well, almost.





Such a perfect evening for photographs, although a tad cold!





I love images where the boy is looking at the girl!







After the beach we went to hang out on the train tracks, which I've been eyeing up for ages as I drive to and from the beach with Nana and Nails. Plus the light was perfect for the old-rusticy feeling I was after.







I think this is my favourite - doesn't Amy look radient?



I have my first New Zealand wedding this Saturday, and a whole bunch after that too. How exciting! I can't wait to get stuck in. Its taken a while to build up the business over here, but I'm getting there. Luckily dunedin is geographically quite big, but socially quite small, so great for personal referrals!

My next post should be about the barn...

Natasha and James' Wedding!

If you wondered why I was back in the UK at all well then its these guy's fault. Infact if it wasn't for them I would probably be lying on a beach somewhere now... with a cocktail maybe... listening to the lapping of the sea upon the shore...hmmmmm... Well if Natasha and James weren't such lovely, funny, adorable people then I probably would be. I've been so excited about this wedding for aaages, and felt really honoured that James and Natasha got me home to photograph their big day. It was well worth it, they had such a gorgeous wedding, with everything carefully and creatively thought through. Natasha and James have the loveliest family and friends who made the day even better, and to top it all off it was SUNNY!!!

I started at Natasha's place:



She doesn't scrub up too badly:




By the way, when you see people in magazines looking like this its because they've been photoshopped up, the image above is straight out of the camera!! Yes I know...




Look at the fabulous wedding shoes!!



James supported by team usher:





Cooling castle barn entrance:





The ceremony felt very happy and intimate.











I could have photographed Natasha and James together all day, but I had to let them escape back to their guests at some point.





I LOVE this image. Its definitely going on my website.








Natasha's dad's speech:



Himali dishing the dirt on her sister:



James' brother and best man Andy pretended to be nervous before going on to deliver a great speech:



Which included these lovely new sporting outfits:



First dance:



Congratulations guys, and thanks again xxx

Well, thats me all done in this country then. In a couple of days I will be flying out to Delhi and then on to Bangkok to meet up with my gorgeous husband for a long awaited reunion - how exciting!! We'll be leaving shortly after that for our new place in New Zealand. I'm nervous, excited, happy, tired and a few other emotions too. We've been planning this for so long I can't believe we are going to stand on our land in Dunedin, look out on the view... and then, um, build a house.

As everyone knows, we'll miss people here loads but are definitely expecting lots of visitors - if you come early enough you can help to build the guest bedroom!