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After Wedding Shoot | Natalie and Hayden | Thailand

Today a super relaxed and don’t-move-only-recharge-batteries kind of vacation ends and we are on our way back to Munich. More about the fantastic time here in Thailand is coming in a separate posting. We need to show this shoot with the lovely Natalie and Hayden first.

The Australian/New Zealand couple living in Sydney has gotten our attention last week as the staff in our resort has mentioned a wedding party at the other end of the beach. We both were pretty excited to see the venue getting ready and how the stationary and reception is looking like. Frankly speaking, we were very surprised about the beautiful style the team has created here. (We learned later, that the bride has planed this very well in advanced and things she wanted were even shipped from the states ;-)

What beautiful scenery! Look at this light during sunset for the arrival of bride and groom. The guests were waiting for them and everyone was wearing white. Oh boy would we have love to shoot this wedding. Anyway, we tried not to get to close to the people but we got a nice view from where all the other guests enjoyed their sunset.

Of course, we had to take some shots from the venue and from the arrival just in case we could hand this over to the resort for their own use. But it’s coming a little different.

 

A couple of days later, we both had dinner at our resorts restaurant and there we spotted the bride and groom at another table with their family. Short before they left it was our chance to approach them and talk a little bit about there wedding and how beautiful this looked. “Haven’t you heard about the disaster?” Natalie asked us?

“What? Which? Did it rain?”

No it did not rain. In real life this is not a short story but we try cutting it down for you: 8-month planning, very early wake up call (4am) at the actual wedding day, around 7am ceremony was scheduled at emerald caves (you need to swim 4 minutes through a cave to get to this beach), everything was ready, music started to play, something was going on (from the brides point of view), bride was walking down the “aisle”, photographer did not take any photos, strangers in uniform were standing at the side, seven park rangers have crashed the wedding, NO event permit, NO photos, (even delete the ones taken already), bride and groom did not let to stop them, ceremony was held in 1 min instead of 15, groom was taken on the commander boat for about 40 min after the ceremony while all the guests were waiting on other speed boats.

OMW, we almost could not believe what the couple was telling us. What happened? The agency that was responsible for the permit and organization of the day, did not get a event permit, the only got a visitor permit. (Event permit is btw about 50 bucks)

Looks like someone was tipping this off in order to get some money out of it. For the couple and the guests this smart idea was the beginning of a disaster day. From there, of course the schedule ran totally out of plan, also everything else which was planed was not really working out anymore. Small things, and big things just went wrong. Only the part we saw that day, the reception, was still perfect.

Natalie and Hayden had booked a very talented (Thai) wedding photographer for that day but since everything was running out of schedule, he did not get the time for photos everyone would love to have with such a beautiful couple and this dreamy locations. We personally think, that he of course has tons of great photos. He also would have done a after wedding shoot with them we guess, but we have had the chance to look at his schedule and believe us if we say, that next year would be the first free day for that. His calendar was packed up until 2013.

So, here is where we come in for an after-vacation-wedding-shoot ;-)

Natalie and Hayden got our details to look up our work online. They emailed us and we met very early in the next morning for a fantastic shoot at their villa as well as a perfect beach nearby. We both were so lucky/happy to get the opportunity to do this shoot and we hope that we could give Natalie and Hayden something back after their “wedding ceremony disaster”.

Thank you both so much for your patience and the trust into us and our work. It’s been amazing to meet you and we catch up when we are down under someday (hopefully soon).

Love from Thailand

Carmen and Ingo

PS: anyone want’s to do a after wedding shoot at the beach? the winter is long, just saying ;-)

 

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22 Comments

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    Maik Dobiey
    29. November 2012 at 5:00

    Wow! Great location, great light, great couple and then through in the both of you with your cameras. The results are amazing. After going through the series I am looking very much forward to an engagement session on the beach next sunday :-)

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    Stefan
    29. November 2012 at 6:44

    Congrats for this amazing series and even for sharing this story about the disaster of the couple. I think after seeing this beautiful images it will help them to reduce their harm and so they have their special moments captured in a very beautiful way!

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    Doreen
    29. November 2012 at 7:19

    What a story! What a beautiful couple, scenery and and and…
    LUCKY YOU!!!

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    Henner
    29. November 2012 at 8:04

    Wunderschöne Bilder an einer wunderschönen Location.
    Traumhaft, da will ich jetzt auch gern sein…;-)

    Gruß
    Henner

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    Juliane
    29. November 2012 at 8:12

    Wunderschöne Aufnahmen! Tolles Licht und tolle Location. Gefällt mir sehr.
    Herzlichst Juliane

    • Clinton Stoltz
      17. September 2015 at 10:02

      Beautiful, lovely couple. Really like the daybed and boat on the beach…stunning.

  • Reply
    Lilli
    29. November 2012 at 8:13

    wow,wow,wow, was für ein Traum.

  • Reply
    Felix
    29. November 2012 at 8:29

    You both rock! Again, beautiful pictures with a good feeling for colours, feelings and love. Amazing!!!

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    Anneli Marinovich
    29. November 2012 at 9:22

    Oh I love this shoot you guys! Absolutely stunning and what a gorgeous couple too! :-)

  • Reply
    Ela Cle
    29. November 2012 at 11:02

    Urlaub verbinden mit dem Job eures Lebens. Tolle Aufnahmen!!

  • Reply
    Birgit
    29. November 2012 at 11:58

    Unbelievable story! Lucky you and LUCKY THEM!

  • Reply
    Anne
    29. November 2012 at 11:59

    Love the pics!! So amazing!

    This shows the kind of people you are. Always helpful and caring for others, even on your well-deserved vacation :-)

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    George
    29. November 2012 at 12:47

    What a horrifiying story. Unbelievable! You both did an outstanding job there with all the beauty you were surrounded by.

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    Carmen and Ingo
    30. November 2012 at 8:36

    thank you all so much for the nice comments! this means a lot to us!

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    Natalie King
    3. December 2012 at 4:06

    Wow, Thank you so much Carmen & Ingo for capture our love and the beauty of thailand. We are so happy and over the moon excited about these amazing photos you have taken… the lighting is fantastic and you certainly captured the romantic moments. Thank you for finding us, you have made the hiccups of the ceremony forgotten after seeing your photography work. Looking forward to catching up in Sydney. Thanks again Nat, Hayden & baby Mila xxx

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    daniela
    3. December 2012 at 14:40

    grossartig!!!

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    nastassja harvey
    19. December 2012 at 15:40

    gosh what you guys did for this couple is amazing!! and wow what a shoot!

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    Denis
    25. June 2013 at 13:31

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