Best of South African Hindu Weddings

Best of South African Hindu Weddings

A while ago a young photographer confided in me that when she gets a wedding enquiry from a person with an obvious Indian name she turns down the wedding immediately by saying she is already booked. I was shocked and my mind jumped to conclusions. Then she told me that she had shot a few Hindu weddings and that these clients wanted mainly posed formal pictures, which she felt wasn’t her style. It is true that there are many Hindu clients that require loads and LOADS of posed pics, in fact I have heard of a wedding where the newly wed couple stood and posed for a photo with each of the 600 guests that attended the wedding! This old school style of wedding photography is not very documentary driven and perhaps not very creative. There are many people who still want that but there are many who don’t!

I absolutely love shooting Hindu weddings and I have been lucky to find some pretty darn awesome clients who have chosen me because my style of shooting resonates with them. They chose me because they wanted me to capture the spirit, atmosphere and emotion of the day. All of them respected the fact that I was not that photographer who was going to take a photo of them with each guest and the fact is that they had hired me to do a different job. My job was to record the way the wedding felt so that in years to come they could be transported back to those moments and relive the day!

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Best of Netherwood Weddings

Best of Netherwood Weddings

You will find Netherwood wedding venue in the Natal midlands on the way to Nottingham road, which is just a couple of hours away from Durban in South Africa. It’s an changing farm which is painted by the seasons every few months, vermillion green in the summer, and brown, amber and crispy in the winter. Netherwood is a working farm with a herd of Nguni cattle and a few other interesting animals like Zebras and Alpaca’s, but it also homes one of the loveliest places to say I do in KZN! Every time I go there I find something that I haven’t seen before, a new angle or an orchard of spring blossoms and a field of maize. Beautiful, open places inspire me and so I find Netherwood to be a very inspiring place!

So far as wedding venues go, the reception venue is a very clever design with the bar right in the middle of the dance floor and this makes for cracker parties! It’s a neutral space, which means it‘s  a blank canvas for you to decorate. It also has cottages and a huge big farmhouse with loads of bedrooms in it, so it’s a great venue for a weekend wedding. The chapel looks over the valley and on a clear day you can see the mountains way off in the distance.

I’ve shot so many weddings at Netherwood and every single one of them has been special. From the rainy, muddy and misty, to the bone chilling icy cold, to the mild and temperate they have all been an experience to remember. I’ve seen some crazy moves on that dance floor and so many tears and happy smiles at the chapel. My main reason for loving my Netherwood wedding memories however, is because I have just loved all the couples I have photographed there!

Oh and the blueberry café on the property definitely worth a visit!

Here’s some of my Best of Netherwood wedding pics!

 

Click here for Netherwoods contact details https://www.netherwoodfarm.com/contact/

 

If you are looking for top notch wedding planing and decor suppliers from the midlands try

Adore wedding and Events

Natural Nostalgia

The Wedding Co

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Best Wedding Pics of 2016

Best Wedding Pics of 2016

2016 sure has thrown some challenges at me but there have also been some wonderful moments and blessings to celebrate!

First off is that I have had a couple of very big affirmations from the international wedding photography community. This year I was placed on the Fearless Photographers top 100 photographers of all time. The calibre of photographers on this list is astounding so this really was an incredible piece of news. Next up was being placed on the SLR top 150 international wedding photographers of 2016 and lastly but certainly not least was winning the Admired in Africa top wedding photographer of 2016! The prize with this feather in my cap was a camera I have been lusting for! I won a Fuji XT2 mirrorless which I am absolutely delighted with. Golly I feel very lucky and this certainly makes all the hard work and long hours worth it.

One of the biggest blessings of 2016 however is the fact that I have had such a wonderful bunch of clients over the past year. Wedding photography has taken me all over the country and in fact the world, but the thing that keeps me keeping on is that I am constantly meeting dynamic and interesting people who inspire me to tell their stories. Huge thanks to all of my clients for entrusting me with your memories and for looking after us so well.

I must also thank all the other wedding suppliers who we have worked alongside this year. We have had alot of laughs over this big bad crazy 2016th of a year! Thank you for all your help and friendship!

Lastly I am extending a huge thank you to my assistant Liz. She has been there for me through thick and thin this year and there are no words to adequately describe how deeply I appreciate all her hard work, loyalty and boundless energy! Liz you rock and I am so lucky to have you in my life.

Here’s to a 2017 full of abundance, joy, experience, beauty and peace.

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