Let’s start off by wishing all of you a very happy new year – may it be nothing short of spectacular! I ended 2011 on a real bang, kicking the wedding season into gear with an chocker November before shooting my first wedding in the US over December… even made a quick stop in Vegas! But more on that in a later post. That working holiday came and went in the blink of an eye. Before I knew it the long awaited trip was something of the past and I was back in the fair Cape licking my wounds after a veritable traveling marathon, which included no less than 11 flights and a 46hour journey home – complete with 12 hour layover in Paris. YAY for awesome travel agents… The meek might well inherit the earth, but they certainly won’t spend much time traveling back and forth between SA and the States.

Sadly, I hardly had any time to feel properly sorry for myself whilst Mr. Jetlag was giving me a good old going over – what with a Kilimanjaro rivaling pile of editing staring me in the face! No rest for the wicked and all that. I had spent the weeks leading up to my trip doing much shooting and rather little editing! As any photographer will tell you, that sort of thing is bound to catch up with you… So 2012 hadn’t even had the time to put on its pants and there I was, already playing catch-up… come to think of it, 2012 might not have required pants for what it had in mind for me! Be that as it may, despite the rogering and many late nights spent in front of the small screen, I am glad to report that I’m making short work of the backlog and I’m well and truly back in the saddle. To prove it, I shall now blog a wedding! ta-ddaaaaaaa!.. and then for my next trick…

So before I left our sunny shores for the land of the brave and home of the not so well versed in international current affairs I shot the wedding of Ruth and Des, who I first met whilst covering another wedding – that of their very good friends, Adel and Marnus… and let me just say that, as I enter my third year as wedding photographer, it’s brilliant to now have the privilege of covering the weddings of friends and family of my former clients – who are all AWESOME! None more so than Adel and Marnus… if I close my eyes I can still taste the Namibian biltong they presented me with that evening of their wedding. A whole bag full! hmmmm… biltong… WAIT! what was I saying? O yes, Des and Ruth – the latest addition to a growing list of AWESOME couples I’ve had the pleasure of working with!

Now I’ve given this quite a bit of thought and I have decided to award Ruth the title of Most Relaxed Bride In The World… Ever! I’m looking into having a badge made… or maybe a floating trophy. Anyhoo, if Ruth was ever – for even a second – anything other than chilled like a mousse, I didn’t notice. I’m pretty sure you’ll pick up on that in the pics too. All smiles and laughs. In fact both Ruth and Des seemed to just breeze through the formalities of the day, almost effortlessly. No faff, no stress.. they seemed to just take it all in whilst thoroughly enjoying every moment. As you can imagine, this makes my job pretty darn easy.

As the night unfolded, there was also a fair bit of dancing taking place… much of it done with great fervor and zeal by Ruth’s two sisters! I am looking into having another badge (or possibly a trophy) made as an award for their singularly stellar performances on the dance floor. I’m not entirely sure what the award will be called just yet, but I do think it should be the subject of an extensive facebook post and dedicated album. If ever someone was to ask “who ROCKED the dance floor at Des and Ruth’s wedding?”… let it be known – they did!

So without any more yammering and messing about – here are the pretty pics! Enjoy… and if you did enjoy them, please leave a comment or like our facebook page here!

Toodles