I don’t even know where to start here. How do I even BEGIN to explain what a dream it was to photograph a wedding in India? Let alone the wedding of two of the most free spirited special souls I know. No matter how hard I try, my words just cannot sufficiently encapsulate the feelings which I hold when thinking back to this magical time.

India is a photographers heaven. One virtually has to point a camera and click and out comes a great photo. Besides the exoticness and the excitement of a wedding abroad, the simple fact is, it’s not the venue that makes a wedding. It’s the people. Laurie and Shane are such a beautiful couple who have followed their dreams, traveled and lived all over the world, they give the best hugs and spread laughter and love wherever they go. Everyone that came to their wedding loved them enough to trek across the world for them. Can you imagine the atmosphere? Can you imagine the love?

In a nutshell they got married on a beach in Goa and had their reception at Dreamcatchers Resort in Palolem with their closest friends and family. But there was just so much more then that …….. and here are the pictures I took. Thanks guys for picking me. I am still speechless. Love you both dearly.

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When Ronel first approached me about photographing their wedding at St Fort in Clarens she said “I love music and I love playing the piano. In Ireland last year I couldn’t travel with the piano so I bought myself a violin and taught myself to play;  my Irish roommate and I are still friends, so I  couldn’t have been that bad. I also like painting, drinking wine, growing a veggie garden and sleeping after a nightshift!” I knew then that she was my kind of bride! I also knew that the wedding would be a cracker as Clarens is just such a gorgeous place to shoot.

You may recognise Ronel’s other half Jannie Du Plessis. Jannie is a well known Springbok rugby player who currently plays for the Natal Sharks. At a glance I would have never put this arty girl together with a rugby player but they actually have so much in common. Both of them are doctors, both of them come from farming backgrounds and have a deep connection with the earth and nature, both of them are very family orientated and both of them are extremely friendly, funny and fun loving. On their wedding invites they wrote “Ons trou want ons is absoluut mal oor mekaar”, for those of you who don’t understand Afrikaans this means “We are getting married as we are absolutely mad about each other”. And that pretty much sums it all up!

Thanks guys for picking me. We loved our time with you!

PS The pics of Jannie in non wedding gear were taken on his family farm which he is very proud of. (Yes he is a rugby player, a doctor and a farmer!) As a person who tends to kill potplants I was mightily impressed with their bean plantation!

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We still have quite a bit of time on our hands before 2012 is over but I am convinced that Isa and Beyer’s Netherwood wedding will still be party of the year when 2013 rolls in! It was a fun wedding with lots of laughter and langarming!! (in case you don’t know what that is the langarm is, it’s a particular dance which is very much part of Afrikaans culture) Afrikaans boys (well at this wedding anyway) sure do know how to dance!!!!!!!!!! Love it!

The décor just blew me away too. Netherwood was filled with orchids for their big day which remind me of my late Grandpa and are very special to me. Besides the gorgeous orchids, the wedding had a rustic forest theme, incredible food, great music and wonderful vibrant guests. Beyers and Isa were just so easy to work with too. Without being a total gush … it was a photographers dream wedding to shoot. I am touching wood and feeling very lucky as all the weddings I have shot this year have been that way!

Thanks guys for picking me, we loved shooting your special day

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