Hello everyone,
First of all, thank you to those who send in their entries for my 2012 Wedding Photography Competition. Secondly, apologies the announcement is just a little late due to emails technicalities (but it is now fixed).
This year, both of our brides- to- be are have the same first name. You will have the option to vote for either Laura & John or Laura & Roberto. So the winner will either be Laura or…. Laura. Confused much? =)
Just a quick reminder, to vote for your favourite couple, here are the steps:
- Visit my Facebook page.
- “Like” the page =) (Otherwise, your votes will not be included)
- Click “like” to vote for your favourite couple
- The couple with the most “likes” by 11.59pm 21st of February is the winner. Easy peasy right?
So vote away everyone, please provide the supports to our couple by voting right away and don’t delay (oh em gee, did that sounds so cheesy or what).
Chrissy
Laura & John
“After a romantic dinner on our 5th anniversary, John handed me a blind fold saying he wants to give me my anniversary gift. I sat in the car while John drove for what seemed like hours in anticipation of what there was to come. And then after many failures at guessing where we were going, the car stopped.
Walking hand in hand and step by step we walked along a gravel path, John sat me down on a bench, still blind folded, and told me to wait patiently for my present. He dashed off. All I could hear now was the sound of water, the whistling of the wind and some sort of lighter noise. My mind suddenly filled itself with the image of beautiful tea-light candles, flowers and my present. John came back, took my hand and we continued to walk.
“Where are we?” I asked. No answer.
“Are we almost there?”
“Yes”.
We came to a standstill.
“Take off your blind fold”.
Mind still full of images of lit candles and flowers, I took the blind fold off. I saw the river. I saw the candles and I saw John. He had taken me back to the exact same spot he has asked me out exactly 5 years ago by the river near the park. But this time, he got onto his knees and instead of asking me to date him, he asked me to marry him! The sweetest part was that he made the ring from an American dollar note. The number 1 was the centre piece and popped up like a jewel. John said you’re the only one I want to marry.
Our wedding will be personalized as much as we can. I will be making most of my decorations, bouquets, boutonnieres and gifts. I’ve always felt it more thoughtful to make something than to buy it. I’ll be making my own wedding cake!.
We’re having customized photo booth with cardboard cut outs of ourselves standing/sitting besides a vintage chaise, against a pastel pink, peach and white ribbon back drop. In the backdrop will be hundreds of paper cranes and glass bubbles with candles hanging from the ceiling.
John wants to hire out an open vintage carriage decorated with silk flowers and a hand stamped “just married” sign. He’ll be the driver of course!
I’ve designed candles for the ceremony for each of our families and a candle for us.
Each of our guests will take with them a memento of our wedding which has been personalized with an individual message in them. We have even made personalized napkin holders!
It is very important to us that our dream wedding includes the capture of the intimate and special moments throughout the day so we may cherish these photos for the rest of our live. Chrissy we know you can do this because we’ve seen how passionate and warm you have been at Jenny and Andrew’s wedding.”
Laura & Roberto
“We were in Vincentia on New Years Eve, our daughter (three months old then) Caliah’s first holiday and Roberto came back down after working all day since he hadn’t taken leave between Christmas and New Years. He was singing to Caliah while I got ready to go into Huskissons with the family and our little family. He was singing Bruno Mars’ song Marry You.
We drove down to Huskisson only to be confronted with everyone leaving after the 9pm fireworks. We were later told that there were no more fireworks for the night which left me and my sister upset and wanting to chase fireworks. We ended up going down to where everyone else was in the end and staying in Huskisson until midnight making the most of it. I was still a little upset that we didn’t get to see fireworks like I was hoping but we ended up sitting on the boardwalk near the play equipment and grass.
Once midnight had come and left just as quickly Roberto asked me to take a walk with him, we made it to the end of the boardwalk which wasn’t very long when I stated that maybe we should go back completely unaware with what Roberto and Caliah would do next.
“Look what Caliah has” He said as I said but I don’t have an anniversary present for you yet. Roberto just looked at me and told me to open the tiny box that he had Caliah carrying in her tiny hands. I opened the box to find this amazing ring inside and I started crying as Roberto asked me to Marry him. I said yes in tears of course!!
Our wedding is being personalised with the use of a theme. The theme being “The Secret Garden”. I have numerous decorations from lanterns and an abundant amount of types of flowers I’d like to use as well as the perfect venue’s for the wedding, Gardens and a big house! Did I mention the keys? I have various antique styled keys much like the ones used in the movie and the book to decorate my invitations, venues, groomsmen, groom, bridesmaids and myself!
Winning this competition would mean the world to us, making our wedding the dream secret garden wedding I would LOVE it to be.”
* Disclaimer: The photos supplied by the finalists and are not taken by myself.
by Chrissy
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