During Carolyn and Peter’s wedding reception, we set up our lights to create our mini-studio. And while Marco was photographing people dancing and details of the wedding rings, I photographed everyone in our mini-studio. To have a fun link with Germany (Carolyn) and the Netherlands (Peter), they had brought a whole bunch of fun props for the mini-studio. I laughed so hard my cheeks hurt in the end, that’s how hilarious it was. This is a small selection of what I shot that night.

And I’m sharing this one again, just because I can. I literally laugh out loud everytime I see this image. Handsome:

Amerongen Estate has ‘tasting afternoons’ a couple times a year. Brides and grooms who are thinking about celebrating their wedding at this awesome venue are invited to come and get a taste and feel of the venue. The Amerongen Estate is one of our favorite wedding venues in the Netherlands. It’s a beautiful estate, there are gorgeous buildings to get wed in, to dine in and to party in, there are plenty of great photo spots, they have real gourmet food and best of all, their team is very professional, passionate, thoughtful and nice – they really help to make your wedding a dream wedding. We were there to photograph the event for the estate. They also had their own florist, the patissier, the sommelier and the D.J. to help make it a very pleasant afternoon for everyone!

Yesterday was my father’s 70th birthday. And that sounds like he’s elderly. Or at least a bit of an old man. And that’s weird, because if there’s anyone that’s young and very fit, it’s him. So he didn’t receive oldfashioned presents. His kids gave him a few different presents. Like an Airport Express, so he can play everything in his iTunes library over the different soundsystems in their home. And a wireless keyboard, so it’s faster for him to write emails on his iPad. A photo printer with webconnection, so he can print images on his home printer from where-ever he is. No way he’s old, on the contrary, he’s very modern. And very busy with his new carreer as a sculptor. Marco made him a website so that everyone can admire his sculptures on the internet!

And eventhough we celebrated his birthday until the wee hours of the morning, the alarm clock woke us early this morning. Marco took this gorgeous image of the sunrise.

Have a great weekend everyone!

The WIT Wedding Catwalk & Wedding Fair was held in the Lichtfabriek in Haarlem yesterday. They had fun booths: colleagues of ours promoting their wedding photography, a patissier, a videographer, wedding planners, a cocktail bar, make up artists and of course, bridal shops. The bridal shops put on two awesome catwalk shows during the wedding fair. We were there to once again cover the event for WIT Wedding. The catwalk show was opened by this beautiful dark model in a dress by Victor’s Wedding Design – a great statement to make it very clear to everyone that WIT Wedding is the non-traditional wedding magazine of the Netherlands!

This is the poster for the event, with photos we took at the WIT Wedding catwalk last year.

Sometimes, you ask a question without really expecting an honest answer. It’s more a way to start a conversation than anything. Like: “How are you doing?”. Michelle and Raymon knew each other from work. She was in England, he was in the Netherlands and they talked regularly. About business, about deals, about work. But one day, when Michelle asked Raymon how he was doing, he didn’t just say ‘Fine’, no, he told her how he was really doing. What was going on in his life. That was the beginning of many long phonecalls, which finally led to Michelle leaving England to come live with Raymon in the Netherlands.

Last winter, during the End of the Year Party of Boon Edam, where they both work, Raymon got up on stage and kneeled down to ask Michelle to ‘make him an honest man’. Michelle immediately said that she would gladly marry him. We were there, as the Boon Edam party’s photographers.

And now, a little over nine months later, we were there again: as Michelle and Raymon’s wedding photographers!

Their wedding day’s theme colors were orange and blue…

Raymon arrived to the tunes of the ‘loveboat’, sailing there very own ‘loveboat’.

Fender, Raymon’s little son, was very important during the day and he even got to see the bride before the groom did!

The bride and groom had arranged for an original, English doubledecker bus to pick up all the guests and take them to Muiden, where the ship ‘Sailboa’ was ready to take us to…. the island of Pampus!

Arrival at fortress island Pampus…

While Raymon and the guests walked to the wedding venue, the bride, her father and her sister, who was her Maid of Honor, stayed behind, so they could walk down the aisly as soon as everyone was seated.

The darkest wedding hall ever – and truly special: the Fort Pampus waterbasin!

Raymon’s last name is Wortel – and the English guests didn’t quite get why they had carrots for a ring pillow, until the registrar explained that ‘Wortel’ is the Dutch word for ‘carrot’…

More carrots…

After the wedding ceremony, the cutting of the wedding cake and the champagne toast, we had some time for the formals and for the photos of Michelle and Raymon together.

What an awesome venue for amazing wedding photos!

After the BBQ dinner, the Sailboa took us back to the mainland. We sailed to IJburg, where the doubledecker was waiting to take us back to Edam. The wedding reception was held in the Rembrandt ballroom of the pretty Damhotel.

Edam ‘by night’ – it’s a great little town.

Super cool lasershow in the ballroom.

The band, KiNK, knew how to rock the house.

The gorgeous wedding rings are by jeweler Mark Bos, a favorite of ours and our almost-neighbor. These are rings from his ‘heartbeat’ collection: Michelle’s heartbeat is engraved in Raymon’s ring and vice versa. Gorgeous!

It was an amazing day!