These awesome, colorful wedding albums are, just like al our photoalbums, bespoke albums made by hand in our studio. It’s a set of two matching volumes: a wedding album with images telling the story of the wedding day, and a mini-studio album, with images we took in our mini-studio during the evenening reception. But the most unique part about these albums is the material we used to create the covers: the changeant green/bleu silk is the exact same material that the bride’s dress was made of. The designer had a little piece of fabric left and it was just enough to use for the front covers of the wedding albums.

And on the photo below, a detail of the matching album box for safekeeping the albums. I use a piece of the bride’s gloves on one of the edges to make it even more personal. Amazing!

We are now finishing the last few wedding albums of 2011 – and we’ve already created quite a few gorgeous albums for our  2012 clients as well. Both for weddings and for portrait sessions. It’s one of my most favorite things to do: creating a gorgeous, bespoke photoalbum as the end result of photographing a wedding or a portrait shoot.

Ilnaz and Sasha’s wedding day was absolutely awesome. The bride and groom live in Den Bosch, but were set on getting wed in our capital, Amsterdam. And as soon as Ilnaz graduated law school, she was ready for the next big step: her wedding with love of her life, Sasha.

As Ilnaz and Sasha live ‘down south’, they each slept in a different hotel in Amsterdam, the night before the wedding. And while Marco took photos of the groom and his groomsmen, I was with Ilnaz and her bridesmaids. It was pretty hectic and a lot of fun in her beautiful Hotel L’Europe suite, in the Amsterdam city center.

Sasha and his groomsmen are ready for the Big Day – the limo arrives to take the groom to his beautiful bride.

Ilnaz gracefully walked down the stairs – the very first look of the bride and the groom on their wedding day.

Right after the bride and groom’s ‘first look’, we took the formal family photos and then the wedding photos of Ilnaz and Sasha together. Both at the Amsterdam canals and in the Hotel de l’Europe. What a gorgeous bride! And her groom looks pretty sharp, too!

We then headed to the wedding venue for their Iranian wedding ceremony at De Koning in Amsterdam Westpoort. The wedding guests were waiting for the couple to arrive and the sofreh aghd was ready for the formalities to start. Ilnaz walked down the aisle with her parents and her father gave his daughter to her groom.

The bridesmaids stood behind the wedding couple and held the Ghand cloth over their heads during the official part of the Persian wedding ceremony. They also rubbed the sugar pillars together over the heads of the bride and groom to wish them a sweet marriage.

After the wedding ceremony, with lots of room for all the guests giving the couple presents and having their photo taken with the couple, the bride and groom had their grand entrance in the ballroom downstairs. The De Koning reception room was beautifully decorated and the party started right away – with lots of music, dancing, food and drinkies.

The groom had the important task of earning back the knive from his new wife and her friends before the wedding cake could be cut!

He fortunately managed to get it back, so the bride and groom got to cut the wedding cake.

The party lasted long after midnight……

On a recent Sunday, the weather was beautiful – perfect for a loveshoot in the Bergen woods and dunes! Early that morning, we met with Joanne and Bart, and their son Thijs, to photograph their engagement pictures. And their dog, pug Rocky, was there as well. Of course he was, he’s part of the family! I’m not sharing Joanne and Bart’s engagement photos just yet, as we will be using them for their wedding invitation. But I have got to post this photo of the dog. You can’t help but smile when you see this cute little face!

On Saturday, we had our 2012 wedding season ‘kick off’ – and we couldn’t have started our year better than with this gorgeous Iranian wedding in Amsterdam: the marriage of Ilnaz and Sasha. Check back soon for more of their wedding photos!