Sinead Jenkins Photoblog

Sinead Jenkins Photoblog http://www.sineadjenkins.com/blog/ A documentary photographer based in Dunedin, New Zealand, specialising in weddings and portraits. en Copyright 2012 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:10:12 +1300 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Sarah and James, Wedding in Arrowtown, New Zealand
Things I loved about this wedding: The strawbale house the girls got ready in (ey ey?!); the beautiful art gallery the ceremony was held in that used to be a dairy (and I mean dairy in the British sense rather than the NZ sense); the dress with cool winged back... but mainly, I loved how super super excited and happy Sarah and James were to be marrying eachother. Just look at the expressions during the ceremony and after. Honestly. Just lush.

1.30am, Woohoo! Sarah and James should be having lunch in London somewhere... I'm off to bed, goodnight!

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Everything was beautiful and stylish, but at the core of the day was a very simple, meaningful ceremony at the gorgeous little wooden church on the peninsula. Then there were drinks and canapes at Tautuku, cricket on the lawn, great food, speeches, a photobooth, cigars, music, dancing... and a very sweet couple, totally in love.

A LOT of images below, because Michelle and Jonny had to wait a bit longer for blogging than usual....

Phew, that was a biggy! I know Michelle has been eagerly anticipating her wedding on the blog. I'm kind of nervous now!

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Amy and David are two very sweet, down to earth Aussies. Except Amy is English, but she moved out to Australia as a child. They wanted a destination wedding somewhere fabulous, and chose Stoneridge, just outside Arrowtown. Such a fabulous venue, with a cute stone chapel overlooking the mountains and vineyards. A simple wedding with their closest family and friends who all flew over for the occasion. The 3 course dinner was fabulous - I know because A&D insisted Liana and I sat with their guests to eat it. Lush.

That's all for now! Here are the goods:

Lush. I'm off to bed!

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The wedding was emotional. Nick's mum sewed hundreds of sequins onto Helene's dress and it was lovely to see her reaction when she saw Helene wearing it that morning. Oh and Nick's reaction when he saw his wife to be. Actually, everyone's reaction when they saw Helene!

There were lots of tears, lots of jokes, lots of beautiful accents, lots of dancing. If you want some crazy skilled dancing at your wedding, why not invite some Latin Americans?

Helene trained as a makeup artist in a previous life, so she did everyone's makeup! One day, I am also going to look that good in my dressing gown...

Lushness. By the way, another incredible floral display from Estelle Flowers, I'll have to get some images up on facebook. And did you notice the lack of portrait/posed images? That's because there weren't any!!! I got to do my documentary thing ALL day and I loved it. Thanks guys.

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We did what we could with a couple of spots that were more sheltered. One of which was Carey's Bay at Port Chalmers, where a fire broke out just as we were shooting some portraits. We got in the paper! If you read it, ignore the quotes from me, I sound a bit dim.

Rob and May are such lovely people, and have a really sweet way with eachother. Even in all that fierce weather, you can still tell they are totally in love.

Lush. Still 3 more weddings to blog from last week. For now, I'm off to bed though, it's almost 1am.........

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Nigel and Jess were married in St Joseph's Cathedral followed by a reception in the Savoy. It was a big, beautiful, elegant wedding with lots of pretty things, lots of people, and lots of laughs. Tons of littluns to photograph too. Jess made all her table settings, favours and seating chart the week before the wedding (her and Nigel live in Singapore). They compliment eachother really well. Nigel is funny, chatty, extrovert; Jess is sweet, shy, super friendly. Oh and you may recognise Peter Chin (ex Mayor) in the photographs, he is Nigel's dad. Peter Chin and Gladys Hope sang during the signing of the register in the cathedral, which sounded amazing.

Ahhh.

I might sneak an Elmer image up as my next blog post. He is particularly cute at the moment.

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Natalie's mum made her dress (and before you think "homemade" - think again). It took a year. That was like, her job... for a year. Two weeks before the wedding she got about 5 hours sleep a night because she was finishing the dress. And she is an incredible seamstress. This wedding dress combines 3 separate patterns, an engineered bodice, a big train, hundreds of hours of hand embroidery, including their initials and wedding logo. Natalie's grandmother's dress is sewn into the detail work on the shoulder.

The dress was a complete secret. Only Natalie, her mother and the dog viewed it before the big day. The suspense was incredible because everyone knew about Liz's talent - she'd made wedding dresses in the past, for other people. This was the culmination of all her seamstress work, her piece de resistance.

The dedication and generosity and love involved in making the dress was evident in every part of this wedding. In the afternoon tea that took relatives all week to produce, every little handmade detail that has been Natalie's labour of love all year, the jams she made as favours with her bridesmaids, the rocks that were collected from West Coast beaches, the fish that was caught for dinner, the flowers her auntie arranged, and in the story of Natalie and Will's relationship.

I don't want to come over all wedding-photographer-cheesy on the blog, but what a complete honour it was to be a part of this day.

Nb: Liana is getting pretty skilled on camera number 2. Her shots on the blog will now have a little 'by Liana' watermark.

Well, I'm in the middle of WEDDING WEEK here. I've said goodbye to my husband and child, the housework and my friends, until next Sunday when normal service will resume. The house isn't going to get built for another week but needs must! I had an absolutely fabulous wedding yesterday to kick things off... if I was American I would say I'm "pumped!" I'm British though, so I'll just say I'm relatively excited.

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Bob is a builder. Yes. So the table centrepieces were cute, hand drawn characters from the television show. Jonwin works in farming, so before we arrived at the venue (Grandview Gardens), we stopped off at a cattle yard for some glamourous shots of the ladies. Jonwin purchased a brand new pair of RedBands (iconic kiwi gumboot/wellie) for her wedding. I'm not sure how many other brides out there can claim that...

Oh and Sunshine Video and Design from Queenstown filmed the day. First time I've met them - very lovely people.

Some favourites for the blog then...

So there we have it. Another wedding on it's way before the new year...............

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Oh and that includes...... holding dresses, fixing dresses, holding lenses, finding lost things (she has to do that a lot, since she's with me), holding children, doing monkey impressions (for children, and occasionally a needy adult), holding lights, testing the light, standing infront of things to see what they look like with a person infront of them, holding babies, throwing veils, testing the light again, getting me food, reassuring me that everything is okay, driving, taking photographs, sorting memory cards, carrying bags, telling people how amazing they look, arranging things so they look pretty, consoling crying babies, fixing hair, fixing veils, fixing buttonholes, location scouting, holding branches out of the way, finding lost guests, arranging people for group shots, TESTING the food, and putting up with me.

Quite a lot really.

Thanks Liana.

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Anyway, the glass arrived yesterday for the windows in the house. That means that the flooring, the windows, the walls and the ceiling are all sat here waiting to go in. If we had another 50 Stevens around I'd say the house would be finished next week.

He obtained the head bruise whilst shopping for my Christmas present.

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Often when photographing families I can divide kids into two different types. There's the kind who are shy, and take about half an hour to warm up before they become your best friend (Elmer). Then there's the kind who are best friends with you straight away, no effort required. Sam and Monty (I love the name Monty!) are the latter variety and utterly gorgeous. One of the beauties of being small is that you can dispense with boring small talk, like "Hello", and get straight into the important stuff, "Look how BIG the plants are!"

Since the garden is being dug up for drainage, there were two proper, full size diggers left at the side of the lawn for the weekend. Boy heaven. I think we spent about 80% of the photoshoot in the diggers.

What a gorgeous family. I quite like having a boy (who is into all the traditional boy stuff) because it gives me an intro into the world of little boys. Dinosaurs and diggers. I never knew how many different types of vehicle it takes to make a road for example, or who Lightning McQueen was. Just....um..... fascinating....

I have a wedding tomorrow, and then a wedding on Saturday, and then it's Christmas, and then it's 2012!!!!! And in the first nine days of 2012 I have... FIVE weddings!! I'm off to bed!

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Cute, don't you think? I'm so excited about Christmas for him, he still has no idea what it's all about really. If you explain things to Elmer he looks vaguely interested and then goes back to racing his cars around. Unless you say "Do you want to talk to Grandma and Grandad on the computer?" In which case he perks up immediately and says "Deh! Deh! Deh!". Aww.

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