welovebooks

We love books.
New books. Dusty books. Books on the shelf. Linen-covered books. Cooking Books. Penguin Books. Old books. Interesting Books. Boring Books. Picture Books. Books that belong to the library. Books books books.



Conventional wedding albums just don’t cut it anymore and don’t get us started on the substandard “designer albums” and “story-books” that every weekend photographer under the hot African sun is peddling to unsuspecting couples.

We have searched for some of the finest local vendors to help us produce books that we are very proud of. Only the best quality digital printing available in South Africa is used on the finest imported Italian Acid-Free Art papers. All the books are hand-stitched & finally, bound in beautiful canvas or linens. Our books are personally designed with you in mind and always maintain a simple elegant layout that is great for show-casing the best pictures from your awesome wedding day.

The books come as a set of 3 of 100 pages each. One 10inch x 10inch for you and two 5inch x 5inch books, exact copies of the larger book, as gifts for your parents.

Pretty nifty. We think so too.

Spring Love Shoot

It feels like we went straight from Winter into Summer this year. We did a Spring Love Shoot with these two beautiful people, Beyers and Jolinidie, only a few weeks ago in the soft blooms and lovely Spring breeze of Irene Farm. Now it's 34 degrees outside. And these two guys are married! Sneak Peek of their gorgeous wedding coming up!

100 layer cake loves us!

Ooooooh WOW-EEEEE! Our awesome friend Julie from In Good Company just told us she spotted our picture over on 100 Layer Cake! This is just about the sweetest, loveliest and greatest thing since our own wedding! Yay for Tarien for looking so damn gorgeous that she even caught the eye of international bloggers! And thank you to our lovely friends from 100 Layer Cake!

Pierre & Tarien

Pierre & Tarien,
18 June 2010,
River Meadow Estate, Irene

Oh wow. This wedding is way overdue! We've been so caught up in our own wedding, these poor guys had to chill in the backseat for quite a while! Sorry friends!

Remember we did an awesome warm-up shoot with these two beautiful people as well as designed their invite. Check it out here.

Pierre & Tarien got married in the dead of winter - which on this side of the world means it's warm enough for the bride to still wear a beautiful soft pink dress but cold enough to need to be kept warm by her new husband. And what a celebration of abundant joy, big laughs and above all, His love.

Thanks so much for letting us be part of this awesome celebration - what a joy!

Maike's blog in the Beeld!

Friends, be sure to get your copy of today's Beeld or go check out Maike's blog and see what she has to say about love made me do it and all things lovely!

Sneak Peak: Rad socks & gorgeous wedding shoes

Boy oh boy are we excited to show these guys off, but only with a sneak peak for now. Tiaan and Este were married last weekend at Watercrest Garden Estate, just a wee bit out of Pretoria and did it in rad socks and gorgeous wedding shoes.

When we met with them more than 6 months ago they asked us if we could suggest anything rad they could add to their wedding, to which we both shouted " Stripey Socks". They make for great pictures.

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// Sailor Wedding on the Sarie Bruid COVER!

We are super excited to share this with you today - especially since it involves our awesome sailor friends Richard & Casey! When we got the call from Lindi from Sarie Bruid, telling us that super talented Christine Meintjies had referred us, we were bouncing off the walls with excitement. And when she told us they'd be interested in using it for the cover image, we thought it appropriate to do a happy dance around the studio. Wow. Blessings abound. Thank you so much Christine, for sharing the love and thank you Richard and Casey, for just being your damn beautiful & awesome selves!



Be sure to get your copy, available at most CNA's and major book stores country wide. There is a detailed feature of Richard and Casey's wedding plus a feature on our super talented Chef friend Sasha from [PS] Prep'd by Sasha. We photographed her wedding a bit more than a year ago and she did a great job with the food at her wedding, which led us to use her for our wedding (pssst... mouth watering talent!). But more of that later! Be sure to check it out! It's a real treat!