Raymond folded one thousand cranes before he proposed to Ancilla. One thousand times almost 30 folds in pieces of colored paper. One thousand times happiness and health. In the Japanese tradition, the crane symbolizes happiness and health, and he who folds a thousand cranes shall know happiness and health for ever. And that was certainly true for this bride and groom on their wedding day!

The cranes made appearances all throughout the day. The couple’s home was decorated with them.

In the morning, Marco went to the groom while I photographed the bride getting ready.

The flowers on the car:

When there’s time to photograph the bride’s shoes, I always like to shoot them somewhere special. This is on the bride and groom’s fun wineholder.

The ‘finishing touches’ for the bride’s hairdo.

Raymond arrives in their nice wedding car. They bought the heartshaped umbrella for their wedding day.

The house’s hallway is pretty dark and a bit small, while the living room and garden are spacious and light, so Ancilla decided to have a change from the traditional ‘bride-walks-down-the-stairs-while-groom-waits-downstairs’ scene. Raymond stood in the garden, with his back towards the living room, with the wedding guests outside. Ancilla walked towards her groom through the living room. That was great, as the wedding guests could see the bride before the groom could see her… you could almost feel his tension!

We went to The Hague for the photoshoot with the bride and groom for beautiful portraits of the two of them in several different spots.

The wedding ceremony took place in Hofwijck Castle in Voorburg, a beautiful old little castle built in the seventeenth century by Constantijn Huygens.

The wedding officiant had Raymond fold a crane during the ceremony. Raymond obviously had no problem with that!

Ancilla and her best friend and witness had a little chat during the signing of the marriage certificate.

After the wedding ceremony, we had a bit of time for photo’s on the Hofwijck Castle stairs. And even though it didn’t rain, the couple wanted a few shots with their nice heartshaped umbrella.

The day continued with a nice boatride from Voorburg to The Hague.

Serenade on the boat.

A delicious dinner was served at Restaurant M in The Hague.

And in between canape’s and dinner we took some more images with friends and family. I love this photo of the bride and her girls!

Meanwhile, Marco photographed the great wedding rings, made by jeweler Mark Bos who designs the most amazing jewels.

After dinner a classic French city bus took us to country estate Te Werve in Rijswijk, where the evening guests awaited the bride and groom.

And the first dance, beautifully lit by the DJ’s lights!

At this moment, we are processing Ancilla and Raymond’s wedding pictures. When we have captured a wedding day and drive home, are working isn’t done. Oh no, not by far! As soon as we get home, we make sure the memory cards are read and the images are saved. We then have to select, postprocess, blog, and so on. And, very importantly, design the wedding album! I will soon write a longer blogpost about Ancilla and Raymond’s wedding day in Voorburg, but I just had to share this one image we took during the photosession in The Hague!

On her wedding day, Ancilla basically walked around with a huge smile on her face all day, which made her a beautiful bride. But when we asked he to look more intense, she was just as gorgeous!

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We proudly present to you: Beautiful Flora van Jo-Jo de la Haye!

Exactly a week ago today, we brought this beautiful papillon puppy home. And since Beautiful Flora van Jo-Jo de la Haye is a bit long to call your dog, we call her: Flo. The first photo is of the first afternoon with us – a bit shy still. Well, that’s history already. She has claimed our whole studio as her playground. Daisy isn’t totally amused by the new jumpy doggy, but I’m sure she’ll be fine.

And since Flo would rather run and play and sniff and jump than pose, it was pretty hard to photograph her outside but we managed to capture a couple nice portraits of our beautiful new butterfly dog:

We often get to photograph people from different countries and cultures. I love that about our job, as it makes it so much more fun and diverse. These brothers, Pasha and Evren, are part of the most international family we’ve ever photographed I think! With Russian/Canadian/Turkish/American parents and one son born in Canada and one son born in the Netherlands, they are true global citizens!

Pasha, the older brother, speaks both Dutch and English, which is great to see. He really enjoyed being photographed in our studio and we created a fun series of portrais of him. His little brother Evren was a bit more intimidated by the flashes and the camera’s but we got quite a few great shots of him as well!