Forgot how much I used to love reading fiction, until the last couple of weeks, overwhelmed with editing and needing to somehow stop images racing through my mind I’ve been plowing my way through pages and pages of text, falling into the textures of book paper. Coffee, late nights fading into morning light and a book a night/day.

This weekend’s wedding at The Westcliff featured decor by ODJ events, a killer bee dress by David Tlale, a veil that was part architecture and part optical illusion and a vintage Mercedes Benz. Let’s just say that it was pretty damn glamorous. The entire shoot took place after dark, and we got some bad ass images as Dunjsha and Alex brought serious swagger to their day.

More pics from Dunjsha and Alex’s bad ass Westcliff wedding are on our facebook page.

More pics from Dunjsha and Alex’s bad ass Westcliff wedding are on our facebook page.

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Just wrapping up this one, from the James Bond event at Summerplace.

We’re still getting people just taking photos from the blog and using them without permission, especially venues, please note our copyright license on the right. Its also just polite to ask.

Friday night we’re at Summerplace for a 007 themed event. Bond girls, fireworks, a blackjack and a roulette table, martinis and an Aston Martin. I don’t have model releases for the evening so I can’t post pics, but I’m pretty sure I can post some images of the cool decor.

Venue: Summerplace
DJ: The mighty mighty DJ Ricky H
Event Management: Otto De Jager Events
Cake: Sugar n Ice
Catering: Taste Explosion

All it took was one person saying sachten to someone else and I was back in my childhood. Amazing how little it actually takes to kickstart that part of your brain that houses your childhood. People dancing the dabke, a rocking tent set up in an old estate house, all Gatsby in white, vintage cars and black tie … one of my favorite elements of a wedding are the way that traditions and family histories get incorporated into the day. Anyway, I’m not going to say too much, expect maybe to mention that for one night the center of the universe was relocated to Houghton.

we probably get one or two inquiries every week about this wedding and Noordhoek as a venue – the decor, location, marquee tent, coordination and setup of everything was organized by Otto De Jager, we really don’t have any details, please contact him directly

Ceremony: Rosebank Catholic
Reception: Noordhoek
Couple shoot: Glenshiel
Decor & Coordination: Otto De Jager
DJ: DJ Ricky

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If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that I don’t sleep a lot and I tend to watch a lot of late night movies … black and white stuff from Hollywood’s golden age when the whites were more of an ivory and the blacks had a tinge of blue in them. LindyAnn and John remind me a lot of those movies, don’t you think LindyAnn looks like a young Elizabeth Taylor? Summerplace with its timeless elegance was a perfect spot for this classical couple and Otto De Jager Events took care of the decor and event management.

Anyway, a quick sneak peek, and since I’ve always wanted to do a completely black and white album and never have, I’m going to settle for a completely black and white blog post. Tomorrow I’ll post some color images for the traditionalists.

My favourite moment of the day was when LindyAnn turned to John and said, “you’re cute when you’re married.”

Do you believe in happy endings? Angela and Michael do, there is even a time slot for it in their wedding program. 17h35 Happy Endings: Chinese Crackers. It was the kind of wedding that left my feet sore and me wishing that I was Portugese and somehow at the same time Chinese.
Angela looked like she had stepped out of the pages of Vogue in her Pronovias wedding gown and Jimmy Choo’s and Michael looked dashing in his Ozwald Boateng suit. Angela is a fashion designer and it showed as she transformed Oakfield from somewhere we had photographed many times before into a Chinese/Portugese version of the Great Gatsby, marquee and all – with the help of Otto De Jager. There was a Fado trio, a string quartet and a swing band. Exotic food that combined Chinese and Portugese traditions, a wish tree and a Chinese tea ceremony.
I drank my first cup of blossoming tea and ate enough Portugese olives to start a small grove of olive trees.
What a gorgeous day and place to celebrate such a beautiful couple. It was a wedding that I’m sure the staff at Oakfield will be talking about for a while. Blessings and peace on you both.
Ok, I’m going to stop bragging now. Here are some photos.

Can you believe that this is Oakfield Farm?

Angela looked stunning, of course!

How dashing does Michael look in his Ozwald Boateng suit?

The reception was held under this marquee, talk about a garden party

Things have been really busy lately and I have been neglecting the sneak peeks. This week we bring them back with Angela and Michael’s sneak peek. Thanks to all those that sent through emails requesting them back. You can find their sneak peak here.

[ Vendor prop ] – I was tempted to give this week’s vendor prop to Angela for throwing and organising such an amazing wedding, but I figured that was unfair. So I’m going to give this week’s vendor prop to two people at Oakfield. The first one goes to Felix who, if I had to guess I would say, was the co-ordinator. On time, on the ball, patient and obliging. I’ve very seldom seen a wedding run as smoothly.
The second vendor prop goes to Michael who was Michael and Angela’s personal waiter/butler/gopher type person. From ironing the clothes to fetching drinks, stepladders, to following us on the photoshoot and making sure everyone had what they needed. He was incredible and looked completely drained by the end of the day. Everyone needs a Michael in their life, or at least at their wedding. Ask for him by name if you’re getting married at Oakfield, and tip him well. We really appreciate the effort he put in.