Wedding Tips

WEDDING TIPS: Communicating with your service provider I deal with many brides every week at different stages of the planning process. With all the different

It happens a lot that a wedding will start on time and the bride walking In at exactly the invite time. While it’s great for

Wedding Tips: Get as much info from the Officiant/Pastor/Minister as possible. As a seasoned professional Wedding Photographer, I have encountered many different personalities marrying couples.

Wedding TIPS: Now What? It was a good Easter weekend. Your boyfriend popped the question. Your Mom is ecstatic. Dad is grumbling something about the

Ambience created by lighting has a major impact on the mood of your wedding. An easy and stylish way to achieve this is candles. If

I have been to many 5 star guesthouses where they don’t have an aircon or fan. Parts of the year this is not a problem

  I love it when the bridal couple faces the guests. See photo. In my opinion, this is probably one of the best ways to

Wedding Tips: Group shots I talked about group shots a while back. See Wedding tips: GroupsWhere possible I also suggest using a bench. It creates

Wedding tip: Big group shot It’s always difficult to fit in 100 people on one photo. I luckily have a wide angle lens but the

Wedding tips: Grand Entrance Probably one of the few times that you will truly feel like a celebrity. It’s great when the couple does a

Cutting of the cake I find it sometimes so odd that professionals will spend days to prepare the most amazing cake just to put it

As a wedding photographer, I have the luxury of being right in the middle of all the action, but also having that outsider’s look on

I always enjoy it when the couple actually joins for a part of the pre-drinks. It is such a social and casual event and it

One of the questions I get the most on e-mail is probably: How far in advance do we need to book you? The answer: I

The obvious answer for me would be to: choose me!! ALWAYS choose me! And with me, I mean “Riekert Cloete”. But alas that is probably

Traditionally guest books were a bit of a boring part of the wedding.  You had a very formal book and people wished you well in

The Confetti part of the wedding has and always will be a great deal of fun and makes for great photos. It’s the first time

Chances are you have a found a service provider for your wedding that is REALLY good at what they do. They have been doing it

Four to five years ago “The Wedding car” was still a major issue at weddings. It was almost as important as the wedding dress. Probably

This is probably the most important planning that the photographer can help you with for your big day. The reality is that you only have

I’ve been to ceremonies in/on the following places: Churches, cellars, gardens, mountains, lawns, Living rooms, patios, forests, fields, ballrooms and even on a boat once.

This is an interesting one. I will get couples that tell me in the consultation they don’t want posed shots. No group shots. On the

People always ask me when should they be all dressed up? What time will I be there? Who else must be there? So here is