The only thing better on a wedding day than the romantic low-lit spaces inside Church Road Winery is a splash of blue sky over the bright green vines in the hills above this Hawkes Bay wedding venue.
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When is it sexy for a Kiwi bloke to cry? When he sees his future wife walk around the corner in a sunlit garden, on the arm of her father and about to say 'I do'. Tanya and Mal showed me and their guests what love is supposed to be at their Te Awa wedding on a bright spring afternoon. And I didn't even have to resort to my usual stack of questionable jokes to get the crew laughing during our wedding party shoot.
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A truly autumnal wedding filled with low light, deep colours, and two people in love...and laughter. Rob and Caroline Herbert were married at The Old Church in Meeanee, Hawkes Bay.
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Love is a little like a maze...sometimes you take a few wrong turns to find the right path. Long-term soul mates Rose and Jeremy Jones are one of those lucky couples who went right past all the dead-ends to lucky-in-love right from the start.
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When tiny blonde pocket rocket Melissa turned up at my studio with a grin and told me to think 'Big Fat Gypsy Weddings' when I imagined her dress, I had mixed feelings. Would she be lost amid a haze of tulle and tiaras? Would she even fit in the car? None of my fears came true, but a fairy tale did, starting with 'that' dress.
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Weddings are fast. They are unrepeatable, hugely significant and filled with unexpected things happening at lightening speed. Even though one awesome photographer can anticipate a lot of this, the simple physics of it are that they can't be in two places at once, or in one place covering two different angles.
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Weddings are a serious business. Yeah right. In reality, the best weddings are full of laughter, and the bride and groom just can't stop grinning because they're so damned happy. That pretty much summed up the vibe and the look for Mr. & Mrs. Honeyfield when they tied the knot at one of Hawkes Bays most lovely wedding venues, The Old Church in Meeanee, near Napier
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What's better than one extremely hot blonde bride? Well, two of course. After photographing Nicole's identical twin sister's wedding two years ago, I did a massive happy dance when I got the opportunity to be a big part of another big day for the Lambert family, this time at Hawkes Bay wedding venue, Clifton Cafe.
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Like all good love affairs, my one with Andrew and Nikki Mills' wedding day started in the bedroom. Laid out on on the blood red brocade of the Old Church Villa's 'red' bed was a treasure trove of loveliness to photograph; sparkling diamonds, soft rose petals in muted hues, satin gowns and (sigh)...Badgely Mischka heels. Yes, it was love at first sight
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While the rest of New Zealand was in a fizz about the imminent arrival of Cyclone Lusi, this Hawkes Bay wedding photographer was feeling pretty relaxed. For a start...we just don't do cyclones in this part of the world. Added to that, we had one of the most glorious wet weather wedding venues up our sleeve. Church Road winery in Taradale
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Whoever said 'weddings are all about the bride' had never met Craig Jones. We love the relationships we build up with our brides over the months of planning and of course all the excitement on the day and after, but often it's easy to feel like the groom just came along for the ride. Not this guy.
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Alice and Simon are country folk and this is as gorgeous as a Hawkes Bay country wedding gets. After being in the family for over 100 years, it's hard to believe this was the first big white wedding for the Beamish family Homestead. It was an unimissable opportunity for Alice's creative mum, Pen, to recruit the talents of her flower-arranging friends from across the district to add to the splendor of this remarkable setting
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Weddings are about two people and about family. For Kate and Logan, this was especially true as they exchanged vows 'at home' in the country setting of Kate's parents' property in Pakowhai, Hawke's Bay.
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You almost have to be careful what you wish for when planning a Hawkes Bay wedding. Blue skies and sunshine is perfect...but along with 35-degree temperatures, perhaps a bit too perfect! Beautiful shady and cool cloud cover arrived with Ryan as he made his way through the vines for his first look at wife-to-be Jenna, who waited outside Rush Cottage at Black Barn Winery for her Mr. Right.
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Sometimes the stars align and a wedding day leaps right out of a bride and groom's fairytale imagination and into real life in front of my lens. Pete Spall & Emma Carter chose the family farm at Kereru (and nearby Gallery Cottage) as the backdrop for their Hawkes Bay country wedding, and it was one of those magical days when it feels like a spell has been cast over the day
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