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.

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.

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.

Laidback Raglan Beach Wedding

Well this was one of the most casual weddings I ever been to.... it was all about being relaxed & enjoying time with their family & friends for these guys.

The bride was so lovely & was just so happy to be getting married that she wasn't going to let anything bother her.

They had planned on an outdoor hilltop ceemony, but the weather was a little diffident so they settled for the verandha of the surf club, which worked out just fine.

After we went down to the beach for the bridal party photos, lovely walk down the hill.... bit of a struggle on the way back with all the gear. :-)

Everyone was having a fantastic time the whole day.... which is what a wedding should be coming together with your family & friends to CELEBRATE one of the most important milestones in your life.

OK... rant over ... tomorrow will be Adrian's elegant, sophisticated wedding.

Cheers for now,

Faith.

More Favorites

Ok... so more favorites today :-) The first one I just love ... it was one of those things where everything was just right... I have also done it in Black & White & have it as a big canvas ... awesome!!!
This second one ... well this young lady was such a beautiful Bride & as a couple they were just fabulous. In this picture it was one of the first times I have tried getting the girls to do more fashion model poses & this just worked for her.
Number 3 ... we had a great venue with lots of different options & I saw this bridge & thought "Got to be a good one here" & this is what I got. Again just a fabulous couple, she is an aircraft engineer, so being all dressed up & having her make-up & hair done was a real treat for her.
Last one ... animals & weddings always unpredictable .... the usually well trained horse got stage fright & was VERY reluctant to co-operate. However before it all went pearshaped we got this one & a couple of others that were also what the Bride had in mind. They liked this one so much that they had a huge canvas done of it.
We have also had weddings with dog ringbearers, dog flowergirls, several horse & carts etc
This is what I love about wedding photography you just never know what you are going to get!
Well that's me for today ... I think there may be more favorites tomorrow ... I still have lots :-)
Cheers for now,
Faith.

February Wedding 2

This was a very stylish elegant wedding... they held it at Vaughan Homestead Long Bay on Auckland's North Shore.
The bridesmaids were as usual the life of the party... the head bridesmaid gave the funniest speech...
We were so lucky with the location as we had the beach & some bush to work with & then at sunset we were even more spoilt with a stunning sunset over the beach.
It really was a fantastic day.
To view their slideshow click here

To see the Movie trailer here

As always plenty more to see at www.afpnz.com or www.afpnz.co.nz

Last January Wedding

This was such a cool wedding... we did the photos & video of the couple & the bridal party first before the ceremony, which is a great idea as everyone's hair still looks great & the girls make-up is still good.
They were an awesome couple to work with ... they went with all our ideas & because they were quite cool & with it we were able to do some more funky poses etc than we can do at a more conventional wedding.
It was another Scots themed wedding complete with bagpipers etc & there is a funny photo in the slideshow of everyone that wore a kilt on the day.
To view slideshow go here


As always more to see at www.afpnz.co.nz or www.afpnz.com
To see Movie Trailer go here

January Wedding 2

This wedding was the most fun.... between the whole Pink & Black theme & all the guests wearing pink & black also it was great.

The Sand Ceremony in the thumbnail looked great with the pink & black sand.

Then when it came to family photos they had props & did all sorts of different things... so very different all round.

They had hired a school camp for the weekend & everyone was staying there ... when we got there it felt like a big family holiday, which was so cool.

There was even a paddling pool for the kids, which got hijacked to put ice & all the beer in !!!

To see slideshow go here


As always lots more to see at http://www.afpnz.com/

A March Wedding

I know this is all out of order.... But, this was such a great wedding & we received the following e-mail from them yesterday & I thought "well this just has to go on the blog right now!!:-)"

Dearest Adrian, Faith and Hamish,
Where to start on behalf of Mike and myself the wedding party and family and friends I would like to thankyou for your amazing job that you did on our wedding day. The DVD gets a great deal of workout as Mike watches it once a week as it captures everything about our day!
Faith thank you so much for all of your help, input and leading up to our fabulous day...I know that I had some weird requests of information for people that you knew of that might be able to help us out with service that would suit our wedding style in the area.From the moment you arrived I was relaxed and so happy that you and the family were so easy to get along with....you got straight to work and started getting footage of the girls and I getting ourselves organised.
Heading to the beach and getting some nice photos and video of the girls down there before the ceremony was awesome we felt like movie stars when we walked around the corner and you were all up there waiting to get shots of us walking down towards you our own paparazzi.
The video of the ceremony is lovely capturing the true feeling of the day with Mikes singing (he forgot that he had the mic on) through to the background noise of the matron of honours little screaming for mummy...and showing her dropping her tissues she had stuffed down her dress for later...all these little things make the day real...when everything gets edited out I feel like things feel fake and I love that our day was beautiful as it was.
The family shots are great and love to look at them and see my Dad so proud and Frank holding my hand so tight that I know that I am accepted as a daughter to him.
The group shots what can I say you captured our fun side so well and I love that the girls and boys got to show off their personalities.
Our time together when we had our couple shots was very nice and the pictures are very romantic.
I loved that you took the time to get shots on your way out of the reception to capture my cousin and his two hour old baby girl as they were also leaving. There stop on the way home from the hospital to show us there beautiful little girl that was born ten mins after our ceremony finished this was very special.
From a couple of the bridesmaids they have said you were brilliant some have been married others have been in up to five weddings as bridesmaids and have said they will look at having you do there weddings when they get married as you are the best crew they have ever worked with a you can balance the fun and the professionalism.
We had the most amazing day it was so much fun and so relaxed that we could be ourselves and not feel stupid doing the crazy things we love to do!!
Thank you so much, Michelle and Michael

To see their slideshow go here

Here is their Movie Trailer

As always lots more at www.AFPNZ.com

December Wedding 4

This has to be my favourite wedding photo from the last season... I also turned it into black & white & had it made into a huge canvas .... AWESOME!!!

The whole wedding was great, the Groom & the boys arrived by helicopter on the beach & then we had quite a hike up aVERY steep hill to the clifftop ceremony.

The Bride was absolutely stunning & it was a beautiful day.

The black sand beach in Taranaki provided an awesome backdrop for the Bridal photos & showed off the bridal party beautifully.

To see more photos of this wedding

View slideshow here

To see the Boys spectacular helicopter entrance on video

Click here