I may have said it before but I really LOVE Jewish weddings. There is always tangible sense of tradition and the horah action is insanely energetic. 

Vrede en Lust never fails to disappoint, the light was stunning, and Hayley looked pretty damn fabulous. 

A big thank you to the lovely Mary Brown who came to second shoot with me. If you're in Ireland and need a photographer, give her a call!

Caron and I had huge fun being roomates at boarding school when we were awkward adolescents with heart-wrenching crushes on anything that vaguely resembled a male. Those were the days of rocking it out to Def Leppard, Dirty Dancing and mixed tapes, Saturday school, twinkies for Wednesday lunch time, walls smothered with Macguyver and Richard Gere, room inspections, passing notes during silent homework hour, annoying high-pitched giggles and forced 5am mid-winter jogs around the Natal Midlands.

Thankfully we've moved on since then and it was amazing to see Caron with a guy who is besotted with her and who balances her so well. They had a beautiful wedding at Green Leaves in Hartebeespoort. Which, for non-Gauties, is kind of near to Joburg. Thanks to Simon, my ama-zing hubby who was my packhorse for the day.

It's Friday afternoon, the most amazing albums have just come back from the US and Jude is happily playing in the empty box. So I've got a few minutes do a proper blog post about Khanyi and Chinezi's most fabulous wedding which took place at Allee Bleue last year. They were truly a very gorgeous couple to photograph.

It was pretty cool to see my photo of them on this month's cover of  Destiny magazine. Go check it out for more images from this beautiful day...

Nikki and Arthur got married under the trees at Constantia Uitsig followed by a beautiful dinner at the River Cafe . After having done an awesome boudoir shoot with Nikki I knew she was going to look stunning as a bride.

Fabulously fun Judy and Johnny escaped the UK mid-winter to tie the knot at one of my all-time favourite venue, Vrede en Lust in Franschhoek. Beautiful summer's day, stunning light, red socks, gobsmackingly gorgeous bride.

Julie and Matt had the most awesomely intimate picnic-style wedding at the beautiful Schoone Oordt in Swellendam. Beautiful picnic baskets, handmade quilts, bright and cheery flowers, relaxed vibe, an amazing wedding to kick off 2010!

Schoone Oordt is a stunning venue for smaller weddings and Ali organises everything to perfection. Their chocolate brownies are to die for too! I'm not even a big chocolate person.

My last wedding of 2009 was a fantastic reminder of why capturing weddings really is a priviledge.

Lesley was a few years below me at school and her mom was the art teacher. It's been quite a few years since school days and I remember Lesley as a cute kid so I was amazed at the stunning woman she's become.

I was honoured  to be part of their beautiful day which was completely everything a wedding should be. Beautiful family, amazing love and connections between people, gorgeously thought-out details (all made by amazing art teacher mom, Margie), a tangible presence of God, yummy yummy wine and food (including cupcakes with real nutella!), stunning country setting and - most importantly - a chilled out couple completely and passionately into each other.  

From a photographers point of view it didn't hurt that these guys love the camera, gave me time to play and aren't too shabby-looking either. 

Angela and Craig's wedding took place at Diemersfontein Wine Estate in Wellington, on a beautiful day in December. They told me that they wanted something arty, beautiful and abstract - what I love to hear! 

 

A chilled-out, gorgeous couple willing to brave Cape Town traffic, unique black and yellow colour scheme (very cool), SUCH cute shoes, beautiful dress made by Claire's mom, dramatic clouds - what more could you ask for as a photographer?

I'm editing my little heart out finishing weddings from 2009 so no ramblings today, just some images from Claire and Andrew's beautiful day.

Thanks to Jon and Jess for the referral.

This blog entry had to be a humdinger - it's a near-impossible task to select a few images to blog with a 'normal' wedding - but when the bride has THREE outfits, the ceremony is in a stunning Catholic church and the theme of the wedding is 'Over The Top', man it's hard! 

I'm so glad I managed to find some time to head up to Joburg in the mad December season for Swaady and Acha's amazing wedding, African weddings have such a buzz and energy and man oh man did that dance floor literally rock. (I had a serious case of rhythm envy) It goes without saying that 'Swaatcha' are an awesome couple. Thank you for flying us up for the OTT occassion. Thanks too to Busi for the referral, I'm going to have to start paying you commission :-)

Monica Dart came up to second-shoot with me and help negotiate Joburg traffic. I had forgotten how bad it is. And can someone tell me what happened to all the street signs? Non-existant. Thank goodness Joburgers are such a friendly bunch.

Anyhoo, I digress - a 'few' highlights from the day. 

Word out on the street is that the wedding of Khanyi and Chinezi is being shown on Top Billing this evening. Khanyi has asked that I not post too many images yet as there is going to be a big spread in Destiny magazine later this month. So for now, a more abstract mini-sneaky peek of this most awesome wedding at Allee Bleue in Franschhoek 2 weeks ago. Check back in a few weeks time for some more amazing images!

So going back a few weeks to this fabulous wedding at Nooitgedacht with tons of gorgeous details, people, moments, light - pretty much everything was amazing. Even the wind behaved itself. 

Carly and Henry had a very intimate wedding (just the 2 of them) at the stunning Bushmans Kloof in the Cedarberg - which apparently has been voted the top resort in the WORLD. I love intimate weddings as it's all about the couple, plus there is time to play without all the time pressure of a 'normal' wedding.

This will be my last blog entry until sometime next year so I threw my 'keeping it down' resolution out the window (again, sigh) and decided to post a a bumper blog entry!  Carly and Henry, I hope you guys have a great post-wedding party this week - at least you can show your friends something of your day...

To all my faithful blog readers who are still at work and not sunning themselves on a gorgeous beach somewhere or doing frantic last minute Christmas shopping, hope you have an amazing festive season. I feel like I've been shooting non-stop over the past 2 months and will be taking a break from my camera and computer for the next week to spend some time with my gorgeous family and get some much needed R+R.

To say that the blog has taken a bit of a backseat over the past few weeks is a bit of an understatement. It seems that every person and their dog are in Cape Town and want a shoot or to meet up..so between all sorts of cool shoots in some very cool places (does Joburg count?), 2.30am teething cuddles, horrors of Jude discovering that climbing up on ANYTHING is fun and that pens work on walls ... as well as maintaining some inking of social life (do social photographers have one of those?), the office side of things has been a bit neglected.

This week seems to be the humdinger one for nuptials in The Mother City, the Coke-drip may need to be supplemented with some Red Bull.

But for now, a preview of the fantastic Katherine and Andrew's wedding at Lanzerac a  few weeks back. Thank you to Rudi Novem for helping out on the day.

I did a superfun shoot with Christina and Richard from Wedding Concepts and their supercute dog, Sam. You can check out some images from their shoot on my other blog ...