Driving back home through Hillbrow on a Sunday morning, the city is an insomnia of smog, flickering traffic lights, purple skies, a half-formed impression of what today/tomorrow is going to bring. My ears are feeling that odd after echo that you get when you’ve been exposed to very loud music, kind of like holding a shell to your ear and listening for the sea. Except that we’re in Joburg, a million miles away from the sea, and it is that time of the morning reserved for cats, taxis driving way too fast and the odd truck lumbering down Beyers Naude. Tuks FM is playing Crash Car Burn and it seems to fit in nicely.

It has been a long day at Hazeldene Hall, Kimberley and Orlaf brought the noise to the old stately house – I think I may be a hillbilly at heart, it still makes me smile when they play Sweet Home Alabama so loud that the floorboards shake and the dancefloor fills up. My favorite moment of the day was when the deacon went to bless Orlaf’s ring and noticed that it was a skull. It was that kind of day. Rockstar.

I got to take my new vintage lens out for a spin, we got to try out our new nighttime quickie photoshoot (10 minutes between starters and main course – just to get a night time feel to some of the images), and I got to shoot some extreme low light dance photos. Did I mention that the catering was by By Word of Mouth!

Decor: By Word of Mouth
Venue: Hazeldene Hall
Catering: By Word of Mouth

As always there are more photos from Kim and Orlaf’s Hazeldene Wedding on our facebook page

As always there are more photos from Kim and Orlaf’s Hazeldene Wedding on our facebook page

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Seems that there is a perception that we don’t shoot formal group photos. We do shoot them, we also shoot the stuff you see week after week on the blog.

Big weekend for us at Hazeldene Hall, one of our coolest couples of the year and a venue that I’ve been wanting to shoot for a while – it features a view of the Hillbrow tower and is run by Word of Mouth, killer combo for me. Naturally, Saturday, Summer and Johannesburg all equal big rain and we the wedding got taken inside for a very intimate, cosy, non fussy wedding ceremony. By the time the ceremony was over the rain had stopped, Joburg was smelling fresh again, the air was cool and we had big dramatic skies. You can imagine how happy I was.

One of the coolest things about the wedding, for me anyway, were the wedding pics and portraits that Ronwyn and Bevan had framed and displayed. They looked like they spanned quite a few generations, genuine brown with age sepia, those odd frayed edges (I think that’s the right word) that they used to have somewhere in the 50s and classical poses. Couples looking solemnly at the camera (probably cause they had to stay very still back in the early 1900s). I loved them. So this weekend’s pic is a homage to those pics … kind of classical, slightly posed, black and white, timeless bohemian. Dror style, of course.

I know that I’ve only been putting up one photo per wedding for the last while and its frustrating some of our readers, but we’re trying to wrap up things before we close on the 15th. I’m going to try put a couple more wedding pics this week from some of our other weddings.

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