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Kerry and Glenn were one of our couples that we photographed in 2008. We had a ball with these guys and of course were delighted to hear that they had had a beautiful baby girl named Hannah. Kerry & Glenn wanted to have some portraits done with Hannah so Nicole headed out to their house for some informal family portraits. Hannah is a little cutie!

Melanie & Pete were one of my favourite weddings from 2009. Melanie was so keen to have us photograph her wedding that she changed he wedding date in order to make sure she could have her favourite venue, photographer and celebrant. Melanie planned the most perfect day, I have never seen someone have so much attention to detail with their wedding.

What made it even more exciting for us is that we got to work with so many of our favourite wedding vendors.
Melanie’s beautiful makeup was done by Danielle Robinson. Their Celebrant, Anne Campbell is absolutely amazing! Then of course their wedding cake (photo below) was made by Sarah-jane from Cake That! mmmmmmmm hehehe. Now you can’t go past the stunning grand ballroom at the Stamford Plaza, just beautiful and Melanie had the room decorated just perfect!

There were so many photos I wanted to share from this wedding but I need to keep it down to a minimum so here are just a few of my favourites.

Melanie also has a new website called Brides in Brisbane

Brides in Brisbane is a fantastic new wedding website focusing on Brisbane and the surrounding areas. Their aim is to satisfy all the planning needs of a bride to be by offering them everything they need on one comprehensive site!

Some of the features of their website include;

A Wedding Directory for local wedding suppliers – from cakes suppliers, florists, celebrants, bands and DJs to photographers and reception venues and more;

A Brides Guide – offering tons of information for brides to be on all aspects of a wedding including the roles and responsibilities of the bridal party, the big day itself, honeymoon planning advice, ceremony readings, planning tips for hens parties and much more;

A Forum for users to share their thoughts and experiences on their big day;

Wedding Planning Tools including a budget planner, seating planner, to do list and guest list planner;

Wedding profiles of real life brides who share their photos and stories of their special day; and

Galleries of wedding flowers, hair styles, wedding cakes and more to inspire brides in their choices for their own wedding as well as articles on many different wedding topics.

If you are a soon to be bride who needs some help planning your big day or even just a few ideas – visit the site and take a look around!

Some of you may know Adam from around the traps. Adam is also known as DJ Coxy and plays in a few of the bigger brisbane night clubs. Adam is now moving to Sydney to play down there and needed to update his portfolio for promoting the gigs he will be playing down there……this is the outcome.

Luen had worked with xsight previously for some portfolio images and came to us to update her portfolio. We always have alot of fun working with Luen and this day was no exception.

Make up – Hayley Walke

Stylist – Rebecca Williams

Photography – Ben & Justine Rugers

Each time I think that i am catching up on blog posts i realise that i am only up to October last year.  I will get there,  i have so many shoots to show everyone i just haven’t had a chance to blog them all.

Josh and Sarah will always be a special couple for me and we have a fab day with an awesome bridal party.  They have become quite good freinds since we shot the wedding nearly 5 months ago.  We covered the full day including the reception at Rydges at Southbank which just made a beautiful back drop for an amazing wedding.

Josh and Sarah came to the last expo that we had at the sofitel and told all of the potential bride and grooms about their experience with XSiGHT shooting their wedding.  And then they stayed around and helped me pack our whole stand up,  what a legend!!    Josh is an awesome photographer himself and has come out on a few weddings with me since his wedding and getting some awesome stuff.

As always we had an awesome day with lots of laughs,  the album that has been designed looks awesome and I cant wait to see it all come together.

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Kimberly and Michael said that they wanted something a little bit different and pretty much left the day up to me for locations, style and everything.  So what i did is go to 3 locations that I have never gone before but have been itching to get there for ages.

Oh and I nearly forgot,  Michael shot himself with a nail gun or some heavy piece of equipment 3 days before the wedding!!  minor scaring but he will be fine.  Kimberly and Michael were a capital A for awesome!!

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Jo and Ash are an amazing couple and it was an absolute plesure to photograph them and be part of their special day at Mt Tamborine. Here is a few images from their day

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Thought I would share a little bit of our Christmas day with you. This was shot with my 5D Mark II and edited with the simplest video editing program in the world imovie on the macbook pro.

I hope that everyone had a fabulous christmas and that your new years is just awesome!

Here is one of our awesome couples engagement shoots from earlier this year.

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Jacqueline and Brenton are a beautiful couple that we had the please of photographing and also doing the video for back in August.  We had an awesome time with these guys.  I must say that the family was probably one of the most fun families that we had the privilege to photograph and we had a ball all day.

.Jacqulines family has been photographed by XSight about 3 times now with lots of different weddings in Brisbane and in Melbourne.  we cant wait for the next one guys

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