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Autumn Wedding Inspiration

More Photos from Bruno that I love!

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Black & White Wedding Inspiration

Yes, it is possible to pull off a black and white wedding theme without crossing over to the ""4 weddings and a funeral" side!

Its all about incorporating that old world charm to your theme. Use the black as the accent color rather than a dominant color. Less is more with black!

The Motion Picture

In case all the wonderful photos were not enough to convince you of the amazing elements that came together over three days to blend both my Greek Culture and my husbands Indian Culture, here is a highlights video has had put together to share with family and friends.

Although we still opted to have the two hour video of each wedding, we wanted out guests to get a quick snip it of the entire event, without being bored with all the extra bits in-between. This highlights video was put together magically by Studio Memoir - Dale and his team were amazing and capture the full emotion over just 17 minutes!

Be sure to contact Dale at Studio Memoir and discuss your videography needs with him and let him put together a video package to suit your needs!

Enjoy the video!

Gina & Shalin Greek Indian Wedding South African 2012

 

Contact Dale on:
http://studiomemoir.co.za
info@studiomemoir.co.za
084 305 1933

HAPPY PLANNING :)

Inspiration to Realisation - The Wedding

The Vision Board

The Invitation

The Main Table

The Food

The Dress

Hair and Make-up

 The Shoes

 Something Blue

 The Rings

 The Tables

 The Cake

 Entertainment

 The Favours

The Crowning Moment - "the Stefana"

One of the most romantic moments in a Greek Wedding Ceremony has to be when the priest "crowns" the bride and groom.

For my wedding I wanted something a little different, so with a lot of googling and come help from my sister, I managed to have our crowns made just the way I wanted.

Now, because this is a very symbolic ceremony, I wanted to capture the essence of the "crowning" by engraving the words recited be the priest; 


"The servant of God, Shalin, is crowned unto the handmaiden of God, Gina , in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen".

I felt that by forever encapsulating these words on our crowns, which we are then required to safe keep from that moment on, would always remind us of the worthiness the Church has bestowed upon us for each other. From that moment on I would be his Queen and h
e my King - Love it :)

The Photos You Don't Get to See ;)

The best part about wedding photos have to be those candid shots that the photographer just has to take, whether you want him/her to or not!

Here are some wedding candid shots I thought I would share with you for some laughs this new year! The most famous being "The Bride Carrying Her Dress, Elegantly Of Course!"

Hope you enjoy!

The most elegant - the bride lugging her heavy dress around

Notice anything strange about this shot :)

Walking thought the street a gust of wind caught all of us off guard!

Another one of those elegant "show some leg while carrying my large dress around" shots

Inspiration ~ Realisation

For a bit of fun and to prove that with a little bit of Vision - all of your dreams can come true. I have posted some of my "Inspiration" and "Realisation" photos for you to browse through.

Hope these inspire you to find those elements that would make your event perfect, put them on a photo board, computer desk top, notebook, or anywhere really where you will look at them everyday and be inspired to turn your dreams into a reality - a little bit of Personal Mastery for events really :)

Happy planning!

THE WEDDING DRESS

 

THE BRIDESMAIDS DRESSES

THE GROOMSMEN

Flower Girls and Tutus... made with love ;)

Having had the desire from... lets say day one, to become a world famous fashion designer, I thought that my wedding would be the best opportunity to put my sewing and design skills to the test! (I had a trial run for my sister's wedding last year when I took three plain dresses and dolled them up with red rose detail on the skirts and a cute red band around the waist).

Not wanting to "bite off more than I could chew" I decided on ready made white dresses from Woolworths and then I would add cute button details to the flowers, change the plain buttons on the dresses and, oh yes, construct a tutu from scratch!

It took some time and vast amounts of research but I finally managed to put together four cute tutu's that added that touch of "fairy, princess-like glamour" that my flower girls needed. The process, though tiresome, was in the end rewarding! The moral of this post - add a touch of you to your event. For me it was fashion, my family and friends understood that there was no way any member of my bridal party would wear a thing without my say, input and of course, designer touch!