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Weddings ~ Carla & Mark

Clarissa — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:09:43 +0000

I’ve been looking forward to blog this wedding for a while! but only just found time to sit down and put this together!

This was my last wedding of 2011 which I second shot for Bailie. It was a beautiful wedding to end the year with as I loved every detail of the day from the venue to most importantly the happy and so much in love newly weds, Carla and Mark.

Carla and Mark’s wedding was set about 1.5-2hours drive out of Sydney at Summerlees Cottage in the Southern Highlands. The venue was surrounded by paddocks, so you would hear the cows ‘moo’ every now and then to confirm that, yes you’re out of the City! It was the perfect venue for a country wedding.

Meet Andrew, the resident Peacock at Summerlees!

Loved the intricate details on Carla’s wedding dress!

Corsages for the church ushers

The bridesmaids preparing rose petals for the trail that leads guests to the reception!

I stumbled across a DIY tutorial on how to make your own rustic wooden table numbers! Love the detail of the numbers!

Carla styled the venue herself with the help of her bridal party! I think she did a great job putting it all together!

Instead of a cake, they had a dessert buffet!

All the locations you see above (excl. Church which was just 5mins drive out of the property) are located in Summerlees; and I believe there were still more beautiful spots that we didn’t get to!

Wishing you both a happy marriage, Carla & Mark!

and Thank you Bailie for asking me to second shoot for you!

x Clarissa

Weddings ~ Julia & Jonathan

Clarissa — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:09:19 +0000

I had the pleasure of second shooting Julia & Jonathan’s wedding for Bailie in early December, which was also my 2nd last wedding of 2011.

Julia & Jonathan’s wedding was the kind of wedding that I love being part of, a laid back yet intimate celebration with close family and friends where at the end of the day it felt as though I celebrated a friend’s wedding. I also found myself falling in love with the wedding styling; lots of florals and a hint of vintage. I especially loved the colour theme! Soft pinks, yellows, oranges, greens and whites appeared in the invites, menus, bouquets and floral arrangements throughout the day, which I reckon is a really fresh colour combination for a spring/summer wedding. Also not forgetting to mention how beautiful the scent was! Peonies and David Austen! lovee’em! Julia and Jonathan both had an appreciation for historic buildings and Gunners Barracks is a special place to their family, so it was the perfect ceremony and reception venue choice! Thank God for the beautiful weather!

Make Up: Christina Cleary
Flowers & Styling: Form Over Function
Bridesmaid’s dress: Mrs Press
Ceremony & Reception Venue: Gunners Barracks

I loveddd the design of their wedding invite, I’ve got a thing for floral illustrations lately – if you havent noticed from my recent logo rebranding :)

Bridesmaid dress by Mrs Press in Paddington!

(right) is Julia’s ‘something borrowed’, a crescent moon brooch that has been passed down in Julia’s family. Her mother told me about the significance of the crescent moon in back in the days; where brides were given these to symbolise an eternal marriage.

Make Up by Christina Cleary

Are those Sparkle cupcakes I see (and smell) ? I’m so in love with the use of fresh flowers to decorate wedding cakes.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself capturing your wedding day Julia & Jonathan, and I wish you both the very best!

Thank you Bailie for allowing me to meet and photograph another beautiful couple!

I have yet to put together my last wedding of 2011, coming soon to the blog!

x Clarissa

“My Girl” Styled Shoot

Clarissa — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:03:35 +0000

Sundays are fun days!

Especially when you can get together with a group of creatives + 6 kids for a photoshoot!

Lina from Chanele Rose Flowers & Events contacted me months ago about a shoot inspiration she had in mind.

“My Girl”.

“My girl (my girl, my girl), Talkin’ bout, my girl.. ” – The Temptations

Remember that 1991 classic movie with McCaulay Culkin about an unbreakable friendship between a young boy and girl? I was just a toddler when that movie came out, but remember watching it when.. well, I learned to appreciate movies! So its definitely a memorable one, and glad to have it be the inspiration behind our recent photoshoot!

Beautifully styled by Chanele Rose Flowers & Events with the help and contribution of fellow creatives (credits at the end!) We hope that this will be great inspiration for the little ones on your big day or other special occasions!

We were so fortunate to have beautiful little girl dresses from Tea Princess and stunning little boy suits from Blame the Baby! Highly recommended if you are still on the look out for your flower girl dresses / page boy suits! and course flowers by Chanele Rose Flowers & Events!

Shelby & James

My favourite shot!

Maddy & Billy

Chad & Chanele

Sweet treats for the little ones! for their great efforts! (and not misbehaving hehe)

Stationary by Little Paper Pantry

Favours by C’est La Vie

Cupcakes by Sweet Couture

Candy Buffet table by Chanele Rose Flowers Event & Styling

It was a joy being able to capture the sweet (& cheeky) moments between Shelby, James, Maddy, Billy, Chad & Chanele!

I hope you felt it too :)

Amy Nelson-Blain was the cinematographer for the day; check out the beautiful video she put together!

“My Girl” from Amy Nelson-Blain on Vimeo.

Thank you to the following people for making this shoot a success!

“My Girl” shoot Credits:
Photography - Clarzzique Photography http://clarzzique.com/
Flowers & Styling - Chanele Rose Flowers http://www.chanelerose.com.au/
Cinematography – Amy Nelson Blain www.amynelsonblain.com
Hair & Make up – Candice Lee http://www.candicelee.com.au/
Girls Dresses - Tea Princess http://www.teaprincess.com.au/
Boys suits – Blame the Baby http://www.blamethebaby.com.au/
Cupcakes & biscuits - Sweet Couture http://www.sweetcouture.com.au/
Stationary – The Little Paper Pantry - http://www.littlepaperpantry.com
Favours – C’est La vie http://clvie.com.au/
Models – Shelby, James, Billy, Maddy, Chad, Chanele

and….Thank you for letting me be part of this beautiful shoot!

x Clarissa

Weddings ~ Shirley & William

Clarissa — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:47:22 +0000

Hai guys! Just returned a few days ago from my Singapore trip and slowly getting back into ‘work’ whilst tackling cravings of fine Singaporean food. To read about my holidays; please check out my food blog www.eatmyshots.com (since it was more eating than sightseeing!) for coverage from my trip each day!

Anyhows, here’s a late post -

I had the opportunity to photograph Shirley & William’s wedding just a month ago.

I love Chinese weddings that begins the day with lots of laughs, mainly because of the fun morning festivities where boys need to please the girls! I have to say William and his boys were up for a tough one! Not only do they have to bribe the girls with money in order for them to let you in but also had to face the many obstacles and challenges they had organised.

At this particular wedding; the noteworthy games were:

1. Finding hidden clues with trivial questions written in them; must answer as much questions possible.

2. Must ‘eat’ through a coffee table of rice balls (covered in either chilli or chocolate) to find a red button in order to complete that challenge. No hands allowed. Mouths only.

3. After the above challenge; brush teeth with ‘wasabi’ toothpaste.

4. Must kiss whatever the groom pulls out at the end of the red strings (including – toilet brush, fortunately the girls weren’t all that evil and had new toilet brushes for them to kiss), Shirley is written once amongst the chances.

5. Write a poem while doing push ups. So boys, either used their mouth or one hand to hold the pen.

Make Up by Carren Lee – http://www.carrenlee.com

Ceremony took place at the beautiful Little Bay Chapel; it was my 2nd wedding ceremony there this year!

Reception at Sky Phoenix, Sydney CBD.

When the bells ring, you know what that means!

Kiss!

Was kept entertained from the day to the night with the abundance of laugh-worthy games – got my dose of laughter for the day from this!

Thank you for having us be your photographers of your special day Shirley & William! and once again, congratulations for tying the knot after 9 years!

x Clarissa

Weddings ~ Rochelle & Mitch

Clarissa — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:00:30 +0000

Hellooo friends,

Happy Friday!

Just 3 weeks ago, I had the opportunity to 2nd shoot for Bailie at a Wedding allllll the wayyyy in Coffs Harbour. Okay, it’s really not that far, just a short plane ride. But the thing is, it was my first Destination Wedding.. out of NSW anyways! (I’m still dreaming of landing more jobs out of NSW, and er yes one day…the chance to shoot a wedding in Europe or something! One can dream, right? :) )

I love, love, love the ceremony/reception choice of Rochelle & Mitch’s wedding. As you scroll down, you will understand why!

I’ve seen weddings at this very location before, so beautiful.. here we have Villa Vivante. A beautiful holiday house/function venue perched high up on the hill over looking the ocean. So you get ready in the bedrooms up stairs, ceremony downstairs by the pool, and reception indoors as well – so convenient, bad-weather proof all under one roof! Views were splendid. Weather, not so splendid that day unfortunately!

Forecasted for rain and thunderstorms, weren’t the only problems Rochelle & Mitch prepared to face that day.

Miracle happened after Miracle, the rain staying away during the ceremony; their flower bouquets were stuck in Sydney (from that Qantas strike) but their florist managed to put something else together the night before, Wedding dress needed emergency alterations that day – luckily there was a dressmaker just down the road etc.etc. All of these obstacles they overcame, very lucky!

Enough of my blabbering, photos – do your job!

“Jimmy Chooooos”

Wearing into the shoes hours before the ceremony!

How gorgeous are these custom made bridesmaid dresses?? Love the fabric, and fell in love with that colour ever since this wedding haha… now I want a dress in that colour in my wardrobe too!

‘Let’s Partayyy!’ .. too cute!

A long. tiring, but fun day!

x Clarissa

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