Wow, wow, wow !!!!!!

We had such a great time photographing the wedding of Emma and Michael on Saturday 20th November 2010.

Our day started out with a warm welcome from Emma’s parents when we arrived at their stunning Woolstore apartment over at Teneriffe. Emma and the girls were running a little behind schedule with their hair and makeup (can’t rush these things!) so Emma’s Mum and Dad gladly let us get cracking on photographing the dress etc while we waited for the girls to arrive. It wasn’t long before a very nervous Emma arrived with her girls and cracked out a bottle of bubbly to calm those wedding day jitters.

After we’d finalised the prep images of the lovely ladies, we headed over to St Johns Cathedral to meet up with Michael and the boys. We usually find the Groom is a bundle of nerves when we arrive (us photographers usually mean that the Bride isn’t far away) however Michael appeared to be cool, calm and collected.

For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of peaking inside St Johns Cathedral, you are missing out. This Cathedral is incredible! What an amazing location to get married.

Once Emma and Michael had been announced as husband and wife and the day’s formalities were completed, it was time to head off and capture some location photos of the happy couple.

Now Emma was a very organised bride (we’re sure Michael helped too) and gave us a list of the some fantastic photo spots around Teneriffe. We were super excited after seeing the location ideas that Emma gave us and we seriously could not have been happier with the results.

We also stayed on to photograph Emma and Michael’s reception at Eve’s on the River. Everyone had fantastic time helping Emma and Michael celebrate their wedding day and I have to say, Michael’s brother gave poor old Michael a bit of a ribbing during his speech – which of course was hilarious.

We managed to also surprise Emma and Michael with a quick slideshow of the images from their special day and we certainly received some wonderful feedback. One of their guests was even screaming out “oh my god” at every image that came up and said she was going to cry. How’s that for feedback!

Emma and Michael – we truly can’t express how happy we were to have been part of your special day. You were both fantastic and its people like you guys that make our job so much fun. We’d like to wish you every happiness for the future and we look forward to catching up with you again soon.

We hope you all enjoy the sneak peak below.
Check out those dance moves!!!

 

We are lucky enough to meet many wonderful couples every year and occasionally we are able to catch up with them again. Sometimes it may be passing in the street, at your local shopping centre or if you are Emma and Dan, shooting some pregnancy photos. We were lucky enough to shoot Emma and Dan’s wedding near 18 months ago and now have the opportunity to photograph the lucky couple again just before they become their own little family.

Best of luck with everything guys and keep in touch.

Here are a few from the shoot.

Tina and I recently received some great feedback from Emma and Dan so we thought we’d add it to our blog.

We often tell people how much we love being wedding photographers and I guess the following feedback says it all.  Hope you enjoy the read.

Within 5 minutes of first meeting Nigel and Tina, we knew that we could trust them to capture our special day in photos. We felt instantly at ease with them, they were extremely easy to get along with yet professional. They were interested in getting to know us as a couple, so that they could clarify our vision for our wedding. They asked questions and helped bring together our hopes and dreams for our wedding day. They gave us great suggestions on how to achieve all the shots and styling that we wanted, got us organised for the day in thinking about who we wanted photographed and where we wanted our shots taken.

In the lead up to the wedding, we were put at ease by Nigel and Tina’s prompt responses to our queries, their ability to solve problems which invariably will arise during wedding planning and they always conducted themselves with integrity and excellence. I can say that deciding to engage NKN to do our wedding photos was one of the best decisions we made in planning our wedding as it totally eradicated the stress and difficulties in that area and let us concentrate on organising other aspects of our wedding, like relatives!

On the day of the wedding, Nigel and Tina worked in seamlessly with myself and the bridesmaids and were a joy to have in amongst us whilst getting ready. They worked around my messy apartment and from the pictures they took, you would never know that I was getting ready in a half furnished run down apartment. I felt glamorous and at my best.

At the wedding I hardly even noticed that they were there snapping away as they weren’t intrusive or obvious at all, yet they managed to get really great photos of the ceremony, capturing the emotions, our guests and all the special parts of the service.

The location shoot that we planned in between the ceremony and the reception had to be one of my favourite times of the day. It was so relaxing and enjoyable and felt like my new husband & I got a chance to spend some time together, despite the fact that we were all the time being photographed! All of our wedding party commented on how much fun it was getting the group photographs done at the various locations we had selected before hand. It also helped greatly that Tina and Nigel were really well organised and had checked out the various sites prior to the wedding day. They knew what time sunset was and the best angles/lights etc. They also gave us handy hints for poses and things to help us look our best that didn’t feel forced or awkward. In fact from the photos, you can see that we looked really natural and vibrant.

We can’t recommend enough, having NKN stay around for your reception. We absolutely love the candid pictures taken of us and our guests during speeches, dancing, and dinner. Also, we set up a photo booth and our guests were able to go and get their photo taken with their partner or family members complete with props and dress ups. The results were fabulous.

Our album shows the story of our day and captures all the special people in our life. We look amazing and the shots are both artistic and descriptive of us as a couple. I could go on and on, about all the brilliant post wedding editing and contact we had with Nigel and Tina, but mostly Dan & I would just like to thankyou both for going above and beyond our expectations and continuing to impress us throughout the entire experience. We would not hesitate in commending you to anyone to photograph their wedding or other special occasion. It is evidence enough that everyone who we have shown our wedding album to has raved about how ours are the best wedding photos they have ever seen. We couldn’t agree more.

Thank you and God bless,
Emma & Dan Willmann.

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Emma and Dan tied the knot at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Woongoolba on the 28th March 2009. Locations photographs were taken from various locations throughout the Jacobs Well area from a quiet little beach to a broken down shack. It made for interesting photos. Once the location photos were done it was time for the party to begin. As we were requested to photograph the wedding reception, I decided to take some studio strobes along and setup a photo booth. It wasn’t long until there was a lineup for photos. Check out some of the antics below.

Thank-you to Emma and Dan for a great day. We had an absolute ball.

Enjoy your honeymoon.

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