Waipuna Lodge Auckland NZ Wedding

A lovely Autumn wedding held at the Waipuna Lodge in Auckland.

After the garden ceremony we walk along the bank of the estuary & got some great photos.

The big old oak trees were just starting to turn & the colours were awesome!

The power pylons are always a bit of an issue at Waipuna... so we thought if you can't beat them join them !! Hence we got this cool shot of the Bride & Groom standing on the base of one. :-)

Then there was the jetty, the kids playground & more trees ... fantastic & all within a 5 minute walk of the venue.

As always plenty more to see at www.afpnz.com & www.go4photos.com

Cheers for now,

Faith.

Cutest Baby

This little guy was just 3 weeks old when this was taken... we LOVE babies.

Adrian gets all clucky & is always trying to get a cuddle & I have to admit if I get to hold them it's hard to give them back!!

Luckily for us people bring us new ones all the time & they are all so gorgeous!

I have also finally figured out how FaceBook works so we now have a profile on there... feel free to add us as a friend. I will try to be more on to the posting there then I have been with my Blog!!

The photo above links through to our new baby, children & family site.

Cheers for now,

Faith.

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.

St Mary's New Plymouth

As you can see from this first photo, this was a fun wedding... once the Bridal party got used to us they were great.
It drizzled all day, but everyone was so co-operative ... they sat on the grass, climbed in a tree & of course did the best jumping which we had to have several goes at!!
When we did the second picture it was actually raining quite hard & the poor groom got quite wet, but he was such a trooper ... kept on smiling.
There is also some great video of the hotrods they had for their cars on www.afpnz.com
So... hopeless blogger should be a bit more on to it from now as we are flat out until May, so there will be lots of pictures to see.
Cheers for now,
Faith.

Sorrento Auckland NZ Wedding

This was one of those weddings where we had it all... a beautiful bride, handsome groom, large bridal party, well behaved flowergirls & pageboys, a stunning setting & the weather behaved itself for just long enough!!!
The whole thing was held at Sorrento in Auckland's Cornwall Park, which is a great venue.
Then we had the whole park to do the photos in so it was great.
I love the first one ... it seems to have a magical feel to it in black & white ... these guys were so co-operative with all the photos.
The second one with the whole Bridal party was taken just to the right of where the first one was.
It was great having so many people to play with & all the black outfits contrasted so nicely with the green surroundings & the Bride's dress.
Check out www.AFPNZ.com for a great video trailer from the day & also their very cool first dance.
So thats it for my first post of the New Year... I hope you are all having a good one.
Cheers,
Faith.

Fairytale Wedding NZ

This really was like a Fairytale wedding.

We had the beautiful princess bride, an awesome woodland setting & of course the handsome prince!

Set in the outstanding Pararie Holm Gardens south of Featherston, it was just a magical day.

I shot the first photo just before the sun set & the series turned out just the way I wanted it to, so I was stoked. The second one we went down to the lake for a few minutes with just the Bride & Groom & got some awesome photos with the old car they had.

They held their reception in an army tent under the pine trees & it was the perfect finish to a woinderful day.

I know I've been a slacker on the updating front... but normal service should resume next week!!! :-)

Cheers for now,

Faith.

Wildernness Wedding

This seemed like an unlikely place for a wedding ... it is the site of an old quarry & now is a 42 acre gardens & scuplture park.
However it was an absolutely stunning set to get married in.
The wedding had a 40's airman theme & they had taken great trouble to keep the theme going throughout the whole day.
The Bridesmaids had flapper cocktail style dresses, the boys had Biggles hats & goggles & the invitations were done in the form of airline tickets.
It was really well though out & made for a unique event.
We did all the photos at the park ... as there was plenty of room to choose from!!
They were a great couple & bridal party to work with & we even had an audience comprised entirely of cows at one stage.
They then had their reception at an airport hanger at the Hamilton airport .... which fitted in perfectly with the overall feel of the day.
A great time was had by all.
Plenty more to see & watch at www.AFPNZ.com
Cheers for now ,
Faith.

Crazy Cool Fun Wedding

This wedding was so much fun... the couple had come back from the UK to get married in thier hometown of Napier.

She was one of the funniest Brides we've ever had, between her & the bridesmaids we were in hysterics all morning... & they were all so laidback about everything.

The ceremony was the Mission Estate at Napier & I bet it's the first time they have had a Bride get into thier fountain!!!

He was really cool to, just went along with everything & kept on smiling all day. We got some great photos of him & the groomsmen prior to the service, which was a bit of a treat for us!

Then when we went to do the Bridal party photos after the service the whole lot of them got into the act. :-)

We all had a great time & meet heaps of really nice people, both their families were so nice.

Another wonderful day was had by all.

Plenty more to see at www.AFPNZ.com

Cheers,

Faith.

Sarnia Park Cambridge Wedding

This was another wedding at the beautiful Sarnia Park just outside of Cambridge.
We had a beautiful day & a fun bridal party, who were very good about walking heaps in the heat.
The first photo was one of the last ones we took before the reception started... they are stading on the wall outside the reception hall.
The Bride had the most awesome champagne coloured dress & she looked stunning.
The Bridesmaids dresses were also really cool, long & chocolate brown.
The boys went with the always popular black on black with brown ties.
The second picture is one of my favorite ring photos ... if you look closely you can see the Groom's reflection in the rings.
Well, I have plenty to update this week so check for more tomorrow.
Cheers,
Faith.

Forest Wedding

Well this was a beautiful wedding...
Held in a park next to Otorohanga's Kiwi House.
It was a great setting ... there was a bit of consternation about the weather as it started drizzling just before the bride was due to arrive, all the guests had their brollies out.
But the wet held off & the service went ahead as planned under the gaint pine trees.
Afterwards we went into the foresty part for the photoshoot & got some brilliant pictures.
The bridesmaids were so good they were freezing cold but they kept on smiling the whole way through & the Brides parents were the official brolly holders & kept up all the way through.
As for the groomsmen they were funny as a fit ... especially when we loaded them into the van on the way to the reception & I told them I only had a learner's liscence ... talk about backseat drivers!!!
All in all a great day was had by all.
Check out the video at www.afpnz.com

Elegant Auckland Wedding

Hi There,
well here are a couple of photos from Adrian's elegant & sophisticated wedding last Saturday.
They were quite a young couple, but she looked just like a 50's movie star.
The ceremony & reception were at Butterfly Creek in Auckland & then the bridal party headed off to the Botannical gardens for the portrait shoot.
The boys had a great time with the whole group & they had one of the best behaved flowergirls we've ever encountered :-)
Both of us really love this second shot ... it seems to have a Hollywood quailty about it.
All in all a great day was had by all.
Plenty more photos & the Movie Trailer to see at www.afpnz.com
The DVD has turned out absolutely superb.
Cheers for now ,
Faith.