Bron & Dave

 So, this was quite a dreamy wedding... it involved travelling across the country and getting a ferry with five of my friends over to Inisbofin island, I've wanted to visit this island for years and when Bron & Dave emailed me it seemed like the perfect offer!

Their wedding was so unique - with over 40 aussies flying over, they had a 3 day festival of events on the island where Daves family live, and where he and Bron first met. The wedding ceremony was on the beach in the bright but misty afternoon, and the reception in gorgeous big tents beside the beach that they decorated with flowers from the island. We stayed up dancing with them untill about 6am, when the sun rose and the island just looked amazing

The ceremony was pagan, with little rituals about finding your best friend and life partner, and blessing things like the earth they walk on and the air they breathe, and it ended with their hands being tied together!

So, despite the cold, we took to the fields with the wedding party and took some group photos in the mist! 

Bron said from the beginning she wanted a 'levitating' wedding photo!

The speeches were hilarious too, it's a funny thing being present at someones wedding when you don't know them that well - you get such a great picture of their lives and their adventures...

Since we were on an island and I was staying in a lovely little house there, we stayed for the whole night, dancing and chatting till morning and just generally having way too much fun for a 'job' ...

Bron & Daves first dance was a surprise for all the guests - they had taken Irish Dancing lessons!

 

Fingers firmly crossed that I get to shoot another wedding as amazing as this!! 

So, got to say a few thanks - first to Daves friend Eamonn who reccomended me for this wedding! Also my friends Declan, James, Andy, Tina and Carl who came over to Bofin for the week as well, and most importantly - to photographer Kyle Tunney for being my second-shooter for this wedding - he came all the way over to Inisbofin and he's just great to work with - I know I can trust him and he gets brilliant shots! So check out his work here !!

Sharon & Gary

Here's a little look at Sharon & Garys wedding from the 11th of June!

Kyrstin Healy came with me as second-shooter, check out her work- HERE! We had such a good day together, and she was so patient and calming when I got flustered!

 

lots of giggles throughout the ceremony...

especially when Conor interrupted the vows!

What happened next was amazing - Gary had been working on an old car when Sharon secretly had the garage pretend to him that it couldnt be fixed in time for the wedding, while really she had it fixed behind his back! We were all outside the church when the loudest noise of this little white car screeched around the church - Sharon had told me to make sure I caught Garys reaction - it was so incredibly sweet I nearly forgot to keep taking photos! He was completely overwhelmed and just kept hugging her and kissing her - it was amazing! 

 

Then I went with the wedding party to the beach where Gary had proposed to Sharon, it was really sunny but so windy! This is where we took the formal group photos, which I havent included - but I couldnt resist including the funny windy outtakes!

 

 

Thanks so much for having me you guys!!

Bron & Dave

(I removed the video from here because I couldnt get it not to play automatically! But you can see it here - http://vimeo.com/26322108 )

So, I'm about to leave for Barcelona & Berlin in a few hours, and I've spent the last week hurriedly editing two weddings to make sure theyre all finished before I go (and back to the couples under a month after the day). So it feels great to have everything finished, though I didnt leave enough time to blog them!

So, as a placeholder untill I make a proper post about each wedding, heres a slideshow of some highlights throughout the day of Bron & Daves wedding.

It was an amazing day - I went to Inisbofin for the week and just loved every second of it! Bron is from Austrailia so 40 aussies descended onto the little Irish island where Dave grew up, and they had a 3 day wedding festival! The ceremony took place on the beach in the sun and the fog, and then the guests dined and danced in these amazing teepees just beside the beach untill the next morning - it was incredile!

Huge thanks to Bron & Dave for asking me to photograph their wedding - it was such a dream! Travelling over to a gorgeous island and then dancing into the night with all their lovely friends & family - did not feel like work!

Also big thanks to Kyle Tunney who came with me as assistant/second-shooter extraordinaire! (& Andy James & Deccie for coming out too!)

Just started this blog!

I've made this little corner of the internet to have as a portfolio of my Wedding photography!

I've just started this year getting into wedding photography and I absolutely love it. I began assisting other photographers and just loved the experience - the day is just mental; so much to do & remember, it's like a triathalon of every kind of photography there is, it's about the right gear, the right angles, the right exposures... but it's also just about people in love. Mums & daughters, sisters, friends, grandparents, the whole day just beams with love and excitement and it's unlike anything else to get to be there and try and capture it all.

I want to tell a story with the weddings I've photograph. Being in the brides house as early as she'll let me - catching all the gigles, tears, jewellry adjustments as they naturally happen, to the more frantic way groomsmen can cheekily throw themselves together! Catching toasts and hyper kids running about, to the guests milling around and seeing people they havent met for years, then all the special little moments in the ceremony - I can duck around without you noticing and freeze the memories because theyll probably fly past you! For the rest of the day, I can catch smiles and winks and hugs, then all the cringes & shocked faces during the speeches! And the first dance, and the second third forth fifth!

I'd descibe my style of wedding photography as very natural and relaxed, the buzzwords of 'candid' & 'reportage'/'documentary' style obviously fit this style as well, but I like to think of it as quite intimate as well. My goal would be for the photographs to reflect exactly how the day really felt for you & your family. I use natural light to really give the feel of genuine memories - so you don't remember me ever asking you to pose that way - in fact you mightnt notice all the the things I caught till you see the photos!

My other area of photography would be fine-art & fashion portraiture, where I like to create surreal scenes and conceptual pieces - this element I like to bring into the bride&groom portraits. For these, we need some time together after or before the ceremony, and I can direct you for some unique, romantic portraits of the two of you that are exactly your taste & style! Since I'm just beginning, I have so many ideas I want to try - and can run some past you in our consultation & plan some especially for you!

Taking Bookings for 2012!


To see my other non-wedding photography:

www.flickr.com/photos/shutr
www/lucynuzumphotography.com
www.facebook.com/lucynuzumphotography