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Ive almost finished editing Melanie and Justins wedding, thought I would share a little sneek peek for a blog entry soon to come :)

I hope you enjoy your weekend :)

Nerida and Chris were my first couple for the season! I absolutely loved shooting their wedding, we got so many great shots of them and their family and friends :) Their ceremony and reception took place at the Quarry Amphitheatre - such a great spot!

Nerida and Chris were married on the 13th September. As we were taking photos on City Beach it started to rain so we ran into the surf life saving club house and we found some very cool places to shoot. Rain can sometimes be a good thing on a wedding day.. it can bring happy surprises :)

Penny and Ben were married in late July just before I headed off to the USA, finally home and have the photos from their beautiful day to share :)

They got married at the chapel at St Hilda’s in Mosman Park. After the ceremony we headed to UWA and Kings Park for photos before heading to Frasers for the reception. Getting married in the middle of winter is always a bit risky with the weather, but these guys were so lucky with the weather, it was a beautiful sunny day. I would highly recommend getting married in winter in Perth!

I absolutely loved Penny’s dress - it was from Samantha Wynne in Subiaco. When I first arrived at Penny’s house and saw the dress hanging up, I got extra excited cause I knew all the photos in the pine forest were going to look so beautiful :)

Penny and Ben, your wedding was awesome! We had so much fun spending the day with you guys!

xoxo

You may remember Karina and Wysun from a few weeks back when I did their engagement session with their beautiful Dalmatian at the beach. Well these two got married last weekend, and had a beautiful ceremony at UWA. Here are just a few sneek peeks :)

The beautiful Karina - her mum made her dress, it was so stunning!

We did the photo session at UWA after the ceremony.

Love this one of Karina :)

More coming later!

Jane from Queen of Theme did an absolutely fabulous job decorating Donna and Grant’s reception at the Kings Park Function Centre. I LOVE when extra furniture like couches are bought in for the night. I love photographing weddings at Fraser’s as there is so much room, so much natural light coming in through the windows and I love how the dance floor is raised and off to the side - perfect for my phoot booth! A big thanks must go to Jenn from The Original Wedding Company for keeping the day on track and being a fabulous wedding coordinator!

The book (which I posted the layout for about a fortnight ago) arrived early this week and it looks fabulous! This is going to be the guestbook for guests to sign at Donna and Grant’s wedding next weekend.

The front and back cover (it also comes with a dust jacket which looks exactly the same as the cover)

A few of my favorite layouts:

Im heading down to Albany this weekend, Claire and Peter who are getting married in December asked if I would like to come down to Denmark to do their portrait session, of course I said yes! I am very excited to be able to do a portrait session in my old stomping ground! :)

Have a fantastic weekend everyone :)

xox

Ive started to update my website with this wedding seasons photographs, out with the old and in with the new! Its a pretty time consuming process so it will take a few weeks or more. Today I added a new gallery called ‘photobooth lovin’ - as you can probably guess it features photobooth photos, which is a cool thing Ive started to do at weddings. Head over to www.sammblake.com to check it out :)

If you are interested in doing something like this at your wedding and we have not discussed it yet, give me a call or email so I can fill you in on the details :)

Happy thursday :)

One of the best things I like about weddings is the flowers. I love flowers and dont think we appreciate their beauty enough. Being in the most isolated city in the world we are pretty limited to what flowers we do get especially in so in the different seasons, but over the past wedding season I have been able to photograph some totally beautiful bouquets. Flowers always seem like a waste of money when your doing your wedding budget but they add so much atmosphere to the day. Here are a few of my favorites!

The pink flowers below were a bridesmaids at Monique and Oliver’s wedding in February. The flowers in the vase was taken at Merrin and Les’s wedding in April - this was taken at the house where Merrin was getting ready.

Shannon and Neils released butterflies during the ceremony in honor of Shannon’s father. It was a very beautiful moment to be able to photograph for them, the butterflies stayed throughout the ceremony which was very sweet. The one of the left stayed on Shannon’s dress throughout the ceremony and the photo of the right is a butterfly in one of the bridesmaids bouquets during the signing.

Monique’s bouquet:

The photo on the left was taken at Michaelia and Alwins wedding last year, i love the colours in this photo! The photo on the right was taken at Catie and Lindsays wedding in December. Each guest had one of these at their table setting.

Bouquet from Krish and Pauls March wedding. Table decoration from Megan and Craig’s January wedding.

Bouquet on the left from Catie and Linday’s December wedding. Bouquet on the right was taken in May at Katy and Evans wedding.

Finally the first of the many weddings yet to be blogged! Amie and Anthony got hitched in April on the foreshore at Matilda Bay and had their reception at Sitella’s Winery in the Swan Valley. We stopped past the old fire station in the city for photos, it was great to photograph in a new spot I had never been before! The light was extra lovely and juicy there! At the reception we had some photo booth lovin! It was indeed a fabulous day! xox

Renae and Ben could not have asked for a better day, the weather was absolutely perfect, the clouds came in and departed at all the right times. Beach weddings are generally really windy or very sunny, most the times both, but mother nature was indeed playing nice on this particular day! Renae and Ben were married on Meelup Beach down in Dunsborough. I knew the day was off to a good start when I saw the boys chosen foot attire =)

Clare is one of Renae’s bridesmaids. I photographed Clare’s wedding last November and Renae was a bridesmaid for her! It was great to catch up with Clare and Viv again =)

A very proud father of the bride, celebrating with a very large bottle of bubbly!

Clare checking out Ben’s new bling:

I love all the rocks at Meelup Beach. Its by far one of the best beaches to get married on in Western Australia.

The reception was at the beautiful Wise Winery, we ducked down for a few last photos before heading into the reception.

Renae and Ben, your day was beautiful, I was so glad to be part of it and document it for you =)