Tauranga NZ Wedding

Once again we got one of those perfect days, where everything is just how it should be for a dream wedding.

We had a stunning Bride, a hot Groom, they had chosen our favorite Tauranga venue(the outstanding Olive Tree Cottage) & they had their photos done at the beach. Magic!!!

Added to that the Bridal Party were all so helpful & totally concerned that everything went right on the day.

End result... we got some fabulous pictures & video footage.

Plenty more to see including the webclip from this wedding at www.afpnz.com

Cheers,

Faith.

Winstones Cove Auckland NZ Wedding

This was a truly international wedding.... the Groom is from Switzerland & the Bride from South Africa, their baby is a Kiwi!!

Held at a private beach at Winstones Cove Auckland it was their dream wedding.

They had an absolutely beautiful day & the setting was fantastic.

A smaller wedding with just family & close friends made for a very intimate occasion.

After the wedding ceremony & some photos, they also had a naming ceremony for thier new baby.

A lovely couple all round.

Check out the links to see their awesome French style wedding cake!

Plenty more to see including video from this wedding at www.afpnz.com

Cheers for now,

Faith.

Windy Ridge Ohaupo NZ Wedding

This was a fun wedding we did back in April.

The Bride is the second of 3 sisters whose weddings we are covering... Adrian & I are starting to feel like part of the family :-)

Although the options for photos were a bit limited at the venue, we had a lot of fun with the Bridal Party & they were great about doing some crazy things.

I just love the one of the Bride in front of the fence with the Groom looking over...

Windy Ridge has the most beautiful tree in their garden so we made the most of it.

We are just so excited about the fact that the family likes our work so much that we are covering all their weddings. It makes us feel that we are doing something right :-)

You can check out their video here

Also more photos here

With any luck I will get round to another post tomorrow.

In the mean time plenty more to see at www.afpnz.com

Cheers,

Faith.

Auckland NZ Winter Wedding

Right, I'm baaack!!!

My mid-year resolution is to be a better blogger :-)

These 3 photos are some of my favorites from a great wedding we covered a couple of weeks ago in Auckland.

It was a wet miserable day & the poor Bride had the flu & was such a great sport for the whole day.

Lickily for everyone involved half way through the photoshoot it stopped raining & we got some absolutely beautiful light.

The first photo is under one of the trees outside Sorrento in Cornwall park where the reception was being held... this was where we had the stuning light.

The second one was in front of the monument at the top of One Tree Hill, the rain clouds made for some very dramatic photos.

And the third is obviously a picture of the rings... I have a thing about the rings, I love taking photos of them & try to get something different for every wedding incorporating a theme that is unique to that couple.

In all we got some great photos & video & the so-so kind of a day turned out to be in our advantage after all.

Plenty to see at www.go4photos.com & also www.afpnz.com

More photos & words of wisdom tomorrow... I'm going to retrofit all the weddings I have neglected since March :-)

Cheers,

Faith.

Wellington NZ Wedding

Way behind on upudating the blog as usual! :-(
This was a wedding we did in Wellington last month.
They had their service at Old St Paul's in the city & then we went to several inner city locations for photos.
At sunset we took them out to the lookout by the Skyline restaurant at the top of the cable car for more photos & these came out great!
Also on the way to the cable car we shot the second photo in the middle of Lambton Quay... we were all so stoked with that one.
AFPNZ now has a Facebook page ...
don't laugh at it I have only just started it & am trying to figure it all out.
Here is the link http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cambridge/AFPNZ-A-F-Productions/63766596693#

Please feel free to add us as a friend.... I'm not sure yet how it works so bear with us!! :-)
Cheers for now,
Faith.

Castaways Beach Wedding NZ

Held at the wonderful Castaways at the beach 10 mins out of Waiuku, this was a lovely wedding.

They had the most stunning day for it, fortunately it was a late afternoon start or everyone would have fried!

As you can see from the photos we went to the beach for the Bridal Party shoot. It was the groomsmen that stole the show on this one, they were such posers!!

Adrian has a video trailer on his blog here & as always there is plenty more to see on our recently updated websites www.afpnz.com for video & www.go4photos.com for photos.

Cheers for now,

Faith.

Fairytale Hamilton Gardens Wedding by AFPNZ

Held at the Hamilton Gardens in the Italian Garden, this truly was a fairytale wedding.
It was one of those rare times where everything goes the way it should :-)
After the service we moved to the Indian Garden for the family photos & then back to the Italian one for the Bridal party photos.
We got sidetracked for quite sometime by the awesome archways at the top of the Italian Garden... just magical!
The Just Married photo was taken just before we left for the reception, Brett from Hudson Hire has the suitcase in his car & it makes such a cute touch :-)
The other photo is one of my all time favorites now ...
To me it is just magical & romantic ... exactly what this wedding was all about.
Check out the video trailer on Adrian's blog
http://www.afpnz.blogspot.com/

Plenty more video trailers to see at www.afpnz.com
We have just revamped our main site ... so check it out.
And of course more wedding photos than you could shake a stick at on www.go4photos.com

Cheers for now,
Faith :-)

Pukekohe NZ Wedding

This was another visual feast of a wedding...

The Bride had put months of time & effort into getting the gardens looking just right & colour coordinated for the wedding.

They were such an awesome couple & talk about laugh... I don't think we got a single serious photo all day.

It would have to have been one of the most fun weddings with an absolutely fantastic atmosphere.

And everyone got chocolate with their name print on it as favours... what more could you want as a guest :-)

The girls at the table next to us were trying to steal as many as they could!

Plenty more to see at www.afpnz.com

Cheers for now,

Faith.

Taranaki NZ Wedding

New Plymouth has one of the most beautiful gardens we have ever been to ... the Tupare Gardens on the way to Inglewood.

The ceremony for this couple was held there & it was so lovely, the girls walked down a very long steep path to the service area, being admired by the guests fo most of the way down.

Afterwards we did a lot of the group photos there & then headed to the beach ... where the fun really began!!

It was one of those weddings where everyone got into the spirit of the day & we all had a great time.

It was our 3rd weekend in a row at New Plymouth & we are kind of missing it now!!

Plenty more to see at www.AFPNZ.com on video & photos at www.go4photos.com

Lots more to come in the next couple of months.

Cheers for now,

Faith.

Inglewood Wedding

Here are 2 of my favorites from this great wedding in Taranaki NZ last weekend.
I had so many it was hard to choose ....
Although you can't see it in this picture the Bride's dress was the most beautiful off-white pink ... just stunning & with the fascinator looked so stylish & elegant.
After the church service we went to various locations around New Plymouth & finished up at the beach where the second photo was taken.
This would have to be one of my favorites of the year so far... I try at every wedding to get a new favorite...
I think in this one it was just one of those wonderful times where everything came together just perfectly.
The light, the cloud formations, the couple, the scenery.
In all we had a fabulous day with these guys & their family & guests.

My tip for the day is to stress once again if you are planning your wedding add an hour to whatever time frame your hairdresser & make-up lady gives you !!
I don't know why but they ALWAYS run late.
Then if you strike it lucky & they are finished early you have extra time to hang out with the girls & have some pictures before you leave.
Cheers for now,
Faith.