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How to prepare for great ‘formals’ photos

How to prepare for great ‘formals’ photos

I woke up the other night in a cold sweat from the very first nightmare about a wedding I have ever had. Had it been just any nightmare, I probably would have pulled up the duvet, tried to score an extra couples of inches of bed by nudging my wife to the right and just [...]

Hey bachelor, let’s party…

Hey bachelor, let’s party…

You ask your girlfriend to marry her, your mates ask you how you enjoyed your bachelor’s. It’s as simple as that. You’ll normally answer the question with a ‘humph,’ or a ’sjoe,’ or a low, almost inaudible whistle. Your wife-to-be will answer with a roll of her eyes and a very distinct sideways motioning of [...]

The SA Weddings Bride of the Year 2009

The SA Weddings Bride of the Year 2009

If you’ve never been to Val de Vie Polo and Wine Estate in Franschhoek, you really should go. I see a lot of venues week in and week out and believe me here, I expressed myself in some fairly eloquent language (accompanied by a low, long whistle) when I saw this place. It’s bloody outstanding. [...]

Speech!

Speech!

Okay men, here’s an article for you for a change and it’s got to do with your speech. Follow what I have to say here and you’ll have a lot of guests come up to you on your wedding day and pat you on the back. Look, like it or not, you have to make [...]

Getting ready: Here’s how to plan for great photos.

Getting ready: Here’s how to plan for great photos.

Okay, so hands up those of you who think mauve curtains and a paisley duvet cover are conducive to good wedding photographs wherever you may be getting ready. If you put your hand up, go and stand in the corner – now! Girls, no matter how beautiful the view overlooking the dam, or how breathtaking [...]

Act like a child on your wedding day!

Act like a child on your wedding day!

I’ve always marvelled at the capacities that children have. Take their capacity for innovation for instance. It’s amazing. Kids are supremely talented. They’re willing to take chances, to take risks, to live on the edge, to truly try and fly. If they don’t know how to do something, they’ll at least have a go at [...]

TRASH YOUR WEDDING DRESS BABY!

TRASH YOUR WEDDING DRESS BABY!

Your wedding day has come and gone and by all accounts it turned out a real cracker. Nice! So the next morning you hang up your wedding dress (which your new husband was having a lot of fun trying to get you out of last night before he slipped off the bed and onto his [...]

You’ve booked me as your wedding photographer, and now?

You’ve booked me as your wedding photographer, and now?

Warren writes articles for and is also the Wedding Photographer Expert on www.women24.com
Fan-bloody-tastic! You’ve booked me as your wedding photographer! You’re happy, I’m happy and everything is just hunky dory! Well almost. You see, there is a bit of red tape. Not a lot, but a bit. And it does require some thinking on both [...]

Cutting through the Click

Cutting through the Click

Warren writes articles for and is also the Wedding Photographer Expert on www.women24.com

Dear Bridal Couple

‘Thank you for considering me as your photographer. As you can see, I specialise in a traditional-photojournalistic approach that blends lashings of fashion, fine art and a dash of my own crazy creativity into the mix. The result is an [...]

Get the photographer you really want!

Get the photographer you really want!

Warren writes articles for and is also the Wedding Photographer Expert on www.women24.com
So at long last he’s plucked up the courage and proposed to you with a: ‘My little Blossom-honey-suckle, I love you (I think), now please will you marry me so that we can have two incomes, buy an enormous house and not ever [...]

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