Getting to Know... Letter Bird Lane

Portobello Bride Directory Member: Stationery
Letter Bird Lane | Leura, Blue Mountains, NSW | Website

What’s your favourite part of your job? 
Loving what I do. Being creative and having happy customers!

What are you reading at the moment?
The Outsider – Albert Camus

What are you lusting after at the moment?
A trip to NY

Top three songs on your play list? 
So hard to pick only three! 
Half Light II {No Celebration}- Arcade Fire;  
You’re Going Back – The Tallest Man On Earth; 
Truth – Alexander Ebert

What is your favourite moment during a wedding?
When the bride and groom kiss! Who doesn’t get a little tear in their eye!?

Who inspires you? 
Amanda Blake Soule. A mother to {almost} 5 kids and yet she manages to find time to be so creative, write books, do amazing things with her children and post lovely photos to her blog.

Favourite Cocktail?
Vodka, cranberry and grapefruit cocktail

What does it take to impress you?
Kindness, determination, humour and quick wit.

What is the best piece of advice you were ever given?
Always be positive. Life has so much to offer.

Favourite way to spend a Sunday?
A lazy morning with my little family, seeing friends, and a walk if the weather is nice.

Black Tie or Casual?
Somewhere in the middle

Your suggestion for a new name for ‘Hens party’?
A Frivolous Soiree

Your favourite hostess gift to give?
A really beautiful book or a framed print.

What’s the best gift you have ever received?
My two sons and my engagement ring!

Three words that describe you best.
Dedicated, thoughtful and happy.

Thanks so much for sharing with us Eliza. It has been lovely to get to know you better!

Portobello Bride Real Wedding - A Vintage Wedding

Today's wedding highlights the importance of choosing a wedding photographer that understands your style, and will capture the story of your wedding perfectly.  Caspix artistic documentary style of photography was the absolute perfect choice for this beautiful winter wedding. 

Not only did the couple get it right in their choice of photographer, but in every other detail too. Their theme had a real vintage glamour to it. I have lovingly named this the Pearl Harbour Wedding, as every detail, from the setting to the brides attire reminds me of the glamour, honour and pride of a time gone by. 

The gorgeous, unique setting of RAAF Base Glenbrook is the epitome of vintage elegance and the perfect choice as the groom is a RAAF Pilot. RAAF Base Glenbrook was built as a private residence in the blue mountains back in the 1930's later becoming an elegant hotel. The exterior remains unaltered and exudes the feeling of luxury from a bygone era.  

I love the simple elegance of the table settings, the table place cards, the hint of black from the taper candles compliment the brides wedding attire. No detail has been left out.  

This is why I love  Caspix so much. Casandra explains "you can feel the history in each room, so the details played a prominent part in the captures". To me the images of the venue details adds to the wedding story, and I can only imagine how happy the couple must be with their wedding album. 

These image made me teary. The bride getting ready with her family, her hand lovingly placed on her sister as she fixes her hair and the proud onlookers as she makes the final touches before heading off to be married. These little gestures are what I love being captured in wedding photos. 

I love this photo of the flower girl watching everyone arrive, waiting for the wedding to begin. The bride holding her bouquet, the warmth captured, the light, the details, it could have been captured 50 years ago. 

After the intimate ceremony, the Guard of Honour is a moving tribute to the grooms role. 

Caspix signature polaroid and holga sessions are the perfect accompaniment for their wedding portraits.

The couple included paper planes with instructions on each table and vintage postcards for guests to write messages on for the newly weds. Such simple things that would have a lasting  impact on guests. Love it!

The vintage RAAF wedding invitations- they say it all. The amount of effort and consideration that went into this otherwise simple elegant wedding is outstanding. 

I hope you enjoyed this wedding as much as I have, as usual Caspix has outdone herself yet again.