As time passes I often e-mail my past Brides and ask for a few of their favourite images from their special day.
Valeria sent me these. She was so beautiful and delicate.
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The gorgeous Bride
Wedding days are often months & years in the planning. When we get finally get to day for the Bride it’s an early rise n shine with the day all about getting ready.
Sounds a bit crazy I know. Though I bet you’ve heard it often muttered the question of ‘how can it take so long’ by Fathers and Grooms alike.
Those of you who are already married will know hair & make up for weddings are not the normal ‘five minutes wonder’ we produce on any given day.
So with that MUA Samantha Nicholls & myself arrived in Paihia at 6am to start getting Danielle and her five Bridesmaids ready for her wedding.
A fabulous group of girls who knew each other from University days.
Images from Nardia Buist Photography
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Make up with Samantha Nichols
Getting dressed
Gorgeous Bridesmaids
The Bride Danielle
The wedding party
The Bride and Groom
Inga came to me through Anita Murray owner of Seronera Gardens in Kerikeri. (www.countrygardernweddings.nz)
Inga & her man were travelling NZ and decided to get married here before heading back to Slavakia.
A very intimate wedding with themselves and their witnesses who they had met during their travels
Here are a couple of their images.
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What can I say, these two were just lovely to meet and work with.
I met both Yondette & June in March 2016 when they were doing a ‘meet & greet’ for their big day January 2017. They were over from Melbourne to get their wedding plans underway.
The next time we were meeting was late on a Friday night in November 2016 for Yondette’s wedding hair trial. She had seen a couple of images that looked okay but really had few ideas of what would be her best option. She had super fine hair and wanted something with volume. So I got to work prepping h
er hair and did a quick clipping scenario to see if we liked one option. Then onto the bigger job of option two.
Option two it was to be.
January rolled around with speed and it was at last their day. Samantha Nicholls – make up artist & I joined the day bright and early at The Duke of Marlborough. We were met by Yondette & photographers ‘Daisy & the Duke’, as well as ‘Twelve08studios’ videographers both from Brisbane.
Ida Birch was celebrant. Yondette’s Mum did flowers. They married on the family property & had a huge few days of celebrations.
I just loved it seeing their joy.
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Yondette’s turn
Getting dressed
The two Yondettes
Bridal party ready to go
Yondette on her way
Gorgeous girls
The Bride, So Pretty in Russell.
Yondette & June
Fireworks to end the day
I really enjoyed working with this lovely couple Valeria & Neil.
Most of the time I never meet the Groom as my work is primarily with the Bride. But when make up artist Samantha Nicholls and I arrived at Paroa Bay Winery we met Neil. He was so happy to engage with us and was clearly enjoying the beginning of his wedding day.
Valeria, a gorgeous Russian had been living in NZ for almost seven years and today was the day she married her Kiwi love.
With a lot of preparation still going on we got our Bride to settle down and get ready.
Most of the time we have met and done a trial as we had here but there was still uncertainty about the finished look. With a bit of chatting and thinking things through I came up with Valeria’s look and we had a very happy bride.
I’m adding in my photo off my phone as it shows Valeria’s hair.
The best images of course are from Dreamlife Photos & Video Auckland.
Celebrant Ida Birch.
Catering Ake Ake.
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L 🙂
My phone image
The Bride & Groom