It seems to be getting darker earlier and earlier these days, even earlier than the official sunset. Add to that the fact that we seem to be getting a lot of rain rather late in the season and I was kind of grateful that Neil and Yvette decided to have their photoshoot before the ceremony. About half an hour into the ceremony the skies started to darken, and emit the kind of ominous sounds that have photographers anxiously looking out of the chapel windows. I wasn’t worried, I already had some killer bee images safely in the memory cards, Yvette and Neil bringing the rockstar swagger to their big skies open veld shoot.

We’d found a bit of veld with a view that seemed to stretch forever, the sky had those badass clouds that we love so much, V had made sure that I was well caffeinated and we had two of the coolest people to photograph. My fav moment of the day was when we had set up Neil with his back to the bridal suite for the first look and Yvette tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around and his face was just classic, I think he mumbled something like, I can’t believe you’re mine, but he didn’t have to say anything, the look on his face was enough.

A small bit of business before I show you the pics. I’m a firm believer that you can’t plagiarize an image, but this weekend this belief was kind of stretched to it’s limits. You see I’d walked into the Moon and Sixpence office and right there was an image that was almost an exact duplicate of an image on my blog. Taken at the same spot, same bridal party positions, same post production, different couple, for a second I thought I’d slipped into a parallel dimension – it really did look like someone had stood with the photo in front of them and posed the seven people in the bridal party in exactly the same positions. I’ve been thinking about it since then, and well, my first thought was that I guess I’m flattered and my second thought was, time for something new. Anyway, more pics from Yvette and Neil’s Moon & Sixpence Wedding can be seen on our facebook page.

More pics from Yvette and Neil’s Moon & Sixpence Wedding can be seen on our facebook page.

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I’m more than just a little bit shy about seeing myself in photos, and even more shy on video. So I haven’t posted this – its a promo that the inimitable Dave at DVI (our videographers of choice) shot for us to use for a workshop that we are supposed to be doing in the Ukraine. After watching it I think I should always walk in slow motion.

I’m almost caught up on my editing, just wrapping up this one from the moon and sixpence, and going over the material for the RE.INVENT workshop on Tuesday. Why is it that flower girls are always camera shy?

This one kind of reminded me of True Romance (the Quintin Tarantino movie not the overused sentiment) … smooth suits, killer moves, great story line, loads of fun. A perfect day. It would have been a perfect movie as well if they hadn’t cast Val Kilmer as Elvis (Val Kilmer as Elvis!?). Anyway, many many killer bee images, super cool relaxed couple, the weather played nice and I probably spent as much time chatting and cracking jokes as photographing – always a sign that the photographer is getting seriously cool images and isn’t stressed. Thank you both for making it so easy.

Ok, ok, some suppliers, cause I remembered to ask.
Carriage and horses by Chris Beyers from Terrouges Equestre – the horses looked well looked after and groomed and they were called Jazz and Blues! The carriage was an actual antique from the 1800s.
Killer Bee dress by Biji Couture
Suit by – I have no idea but as soon as I find out I’m getting one.
Venue – Moon and Sixpence

before you email to let me know that I’ve already posted the Son of Preacher Man photo, I think it makes a cool bookend to the one of the flower girl hence the repost.

dressed by biji couture, 

more later … and yes I know, it was that kind of wedding.

October is the busiest month of the year for us, besides the usual workload we’re trying to organise a couple of destination weddings that include New Zealand, Zanzibar, Mauritius, and even some in Europe (amazing/nerve wracking for someone who is terrified of flying). We’re also trying to work out the logistics of heading out to Kiev next year to do some workshops out that way, and we also have our Untitled (a workshop) series of workshops currently on the go. V is writing exams. Its busy, so busy that we haven’t had a chance to post our own promo video.

Which neatly brings me to Tamzin and Emile who graciously starred in our promo. These two rocked out at their wedding, from singing along during the service to a rock track whose name is on the tip of my tongue – but doesn’t seem to get further than that – to Emile getting down on one knee in the chapel and playing a song on his guitar, add to that; Tamzin’s killer bee smile, the loudest music we’d ever heard at a wedding and a very cool circle of friends. Nice.

I know it’s been a while since your wedding day, so this isn’t so much a sneak peek as a thank you. I still smile when I think of that kid Aidan walking around blocking his ears while everyone danced around him.

I was recently asked “do you really like all your couples? cause you’re always complimentary on the blog”. I kind of stammered some sort of smart ass reply, but I’ve been thinking about it and we do actually really like all of our couples. I think it has to do with the nature of our photography, we bring a lot of our personality into what we do, and the kind of people who are attracted to it, the kind that retain our services, are the kind of people who share our aesthetic and to some extent our worldview. Which is really a long way of saying, we tend to get along with our clients and often stay in contact with them years after their weddings are over.

PS: Tamzin has finally put me out of my misery, the song is “There is no one like You” by the David Crowder Band.

dror eyal tamzin, 

Almost 3am, I’ve just backed up almost 4000 images from tonight’s wedding. I’m three weddings behind on the blog … I have serious writer’s block. My goal tomorrow is to post all three weddings, no more hitting that backspace key.

At tonight’s wedding V’s place card read V.Eyal – it was a nice touch and made me smile.