Melissa and Steve at The Cradle

dror — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:57:09 +0000

I remember I was photographing a wedding at The Westcliff and this person turned around to me and said “You’re going to photograph my wedding next year”, being the socially well adjusted person that I am, I replied, “Who are you?”. I tried to give my usual explanation of how we only take on a few weddings a year and … and … and … completely unphased, or maybe she just didn’t understand my accent, she said, I’ll give you a call later to sort out the details. I shot that wedding last night, it’s already tomorrow morning so I guess that makes it last night, V has given up and gone to bed a while back.

I just wanted to post a couple of images while I was still feeling the day. More images on Tuesday maybe, and the full story of Melissa and Steve’s wedding, I need to first post a couple from Thandi and Tom’s wedding before they head back to Australia.

I’m always asked for recommendations for various people, so just a couple of technical details, both the dresses Melissa wore were designed by her, amazing amazing classical, vintage, 50′s dresses – think Grace Kelly and Bardot. I got to shoot for the first time with Tanja Vogt, who was fantastic (thank you), oh and the videography was by Emily (I think her surname is Munton, I need to check that) from lighthouse films who was also very cool to hang out and shoot with. The co-ordination was by Mela Events, who I’d never worked with before but Stefan and Enelra were a real pleasure to work with and are highly recommended. Sheesh, almost forgot, Lynn (Edited: her surname is Kennedy) was the makeup artist and I adore working with her cause I never have to do any retouching on the brides (She also did the makeup for Nicky and Andrew’s wedding). I know I’m terrible with getting full names and contact details.

Ok, some quick photos before my last burst of energy is gone for the day:

Beautiful ceremony at The Cradle, down at the bottom by the thousand year old trees.

Melissa had a serious Grace Kelly thing going on. I’ve always wondered what a George Hurrell pic would look like in color. This is my interpretation.

I’m quite tempted to do the entire album as a vintage album. The kind of album that they would have had at some Hollywood glamour wedding in the 50′s.

UPDATE: Yes, it is an amazing outfit. Yes, she is very talented. Her name is Melissa Botha, her studio is called Melba, it’s in Parkhurst.

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Melissa and Steve at The Cradle