Lorgie & Me Handmade Photo Albums

After your wedding day is over your most treasured possession from your day will no doubt be your wedding album. I am loving these handsome albums by the very talented and lovely Kamma Spring of Lorgie & Me.

Made from sustainable materials and design, each album and guest book can be customised to suit your requirements.

I love the idea of a Lorgie & Me album for an anniversary gift for your partner, filled with photographs and mementos from your time together.

Lorgie & Me albums, notebooks and specialty goods are starting to pop up in selective boutiques and of course on our favourite online stores, Etsy, Made It and Blue Caravan. 

Getting to Know... Chelsea Parsons Photography

Chelsea Parsons Photography | Hobart, TAS | Website | Blog

What’s your favourite part of your job?
The time with JUST the couple is my ultimate favourite part of the day.  I love being able to capture that connection between them, makes me all happy inside.

What are you reading at the moment?
A stack of old Frankie magazines!

What are you lusting after at the moment?
A holiday to Italy with no kids!

Top three songs on your play list? 
“Heart Translation” by Art of Fighting, 
“Such Great Heights” by Iron and Wine,
“Moon Pulls” by Mum

What is your favourite moment during a wedding?
Time frame wise… I do love the vows and I mostly always get a  tear… But I love when the light hits someone in the perfect spot and I jump up and down inside cause I know it going to be a goodun!

Who inspires you? 
Jonas Peterson, Clayton Austin, Red Leaf Studio and so many more amazing people…

Favourite Cocktail?
I don’t really drink them, but I do like green smoothies!

What does it take to impress you? 
A night out where I don’t have to organise anything!

What is the best piece of advice you were ever given?
Love what you love…

Favourite way to spend a Sunday?
Sleeping in, going to a park or the beach with my husband and 4 girls and the dog.

Black Tie or Casual?
Kinda inbetween… dress and boots

Your suggestion for a new name for ‘Hens party’ 
… erk, I don’t know!  They get up to some crazy stuff!

Your favourite hostess gift to give?
Candles… I love to get and to give…

What’s the best gift you have ever received?
Recently…. My best friend just moved to London and gave me the yummiest old green velvet jacket.  I treasure it…

Three words that describe you best. 
Arty. Runner. Mumma.

Thanks so much for sharing with us Chelsea! It's so wonderful to get to know you a little better!

Getting To Know… SugarLove Weddings & White Designs

SugarLove Pictures and White Designs | Woollahra, Sydney, NSW | SugarLove Website | White Designs Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook

What’s your favourite part of your job?
Working in our gorgeous showroom with a great team and hearing our clients say they have always dreamed of hiring us to cover their day. And of course giving them incredible memories after the wedding day to last forever – nothing beats that feeling after all the planning and hard work has been done to realise that you were the 2nd most important decision they made (after choosing each other of course!)

What are you reading at the moment?
I have about 5 books on the boil usually. At the moment lets see on the bedside there is; Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald), The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen & Buddhism for Mothers. Not far away is “An Affair with a House” and most of the current issues of Real Living, Inside out, Belle and Highlife. I am not a big fashion magazine fan! You tend to find mountains of interior design books or “how to” parenting guides around my desk & bookshelf on most days along with a big inspiration folder on our new renovation project.

What are you lusting after at the moment?
Counting down the weeks until our beautiful tropical getaway for my 10year wedding anniversary, lots of furniture and  fixtures for our new tree change escape, silver caviar ring by Andrea Corson and more time to snuggle up with our little boys and read some good stories. 

Top three songs on your play list?
Piano Sonata 11 (Mozart),
If I Ever Feel Better (Phoenix) and
Twinkle Twinkle (my 4year has hijacked my iphone favourites list)

What is your favourite moment during a wedding?
The I-Do kiss and the moments we capture when a couple are not aware of the camera.

Who inspires you?
My darling children and my husband (Bradley Patrick) who inspires me more than anyone to make both of our dreams come true each day. (Samples of his work appear on SugarLove Weddings & his newly updated commercial site will launch in Winter 2011)

I also love reading daily posts by A Cup Of Jo, Vicki Archer  Anna Spiro And my daily wedding fix comprises Once Wed,  Style Me Pretty and Polka Dot Bride

Favourite Cocktail?
Old fashioned girl – Baileys & Milk

What does it take to impress you?
A lot – passion, dedication, positivity, persistence, a great smile, confidence and great style.

What is the best piece of advice you were ever given?
It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice.

Favourite way to spend a Sunday?
Sleeping in (won't happen for a few years yet), hubby’s home cooked brekkie with the boys, a relaxing read of the Sunday papers, something sweet, great coffee, laughter and trips around the coast with the family.
 
Black Tie or Casual?
Casual

Your suggestion for a new name for ‘Hens party"?
– Ladies Luxury Pamper Day
 
Your favourite hostess gift to give?
Nice bottle of red wine or some interesting in season blooms.
 
What’s the best gift you have ever received?
The gorgeous wooden sleigh bed and Brett Whitely lithograph from the room we stayed in on our wedding night from my husband of course!!

Three words that describe you best. 
Focused, Passionate, Loving

Thanks so much for sharing with us today Leigh. It has been so lovely to get to know you a little more!

Getting to Know... Erin King Photographer

Erin King Photographer | Brunswick, Melbourne, VIC | Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook

What’s your favourite part of your job?
Meeting new people and getting to hear and share their stories.  I love being able to be myself and have creative freedom.

What are you reading at the moment?
I prefer to read blogs and magazines and keep in touch with what people are up to and get real life inspiration: http://greenweddingshoes.com/, http://www.jasminestarblog.com/

What are you lusting after at the moment?
Nancybird Handbags. I didn’t realise I had a handbag obsession until I found these! As well as more travel.

Top three songs on your play list?
It’s usually pop or rock, but when I’m not listening to Muse, I like to call these my power pop songs (great to work out to) includes the likes of Lady Gaga, and dare I say it…Flo-rider etc…I’m a real mixed bag when it come to music!

What is your favourite moment during a wedding?
When the groom gets overcome with emotion and can’t hold back the tears.

Who inspires you?
Yervant, Jasmine Star, and always local photographers and business people I know, respect and admire.

Favourite Cocktail?
I had a Japanese plum wine one, which was divine! Can’t remember the name unfortunately.

What does it take to impress you?
Anyone who can make me laugh has my full attention.

What is the best piece of advice you were ever given?
Trust and believe in yourself, don’t become victim to your fears.

Favourite way to spend a Sunday?
Sleep in then a lazy Sunday brunch with my partner followed by a relaxed outing with our little baby girl (aka Peanut the Chihuahua Bichon Cross)

Black Tie or Casual?
Casual, it’s not often you won’t find me wearing a pair of jeans and Chuck Taylors.

Your favourite hostess gift to give?
Something personal and fun
 
Three words that describe you best.
Bubbly, fun, always up for a laugh

Thanks so much for sharing with us today Erin! It was wonderful to get to know more about you!

Getting to Know... Smash Photography

Portobello Bride Member: Photography
Smash Photography | Elsternwick VIC | Website | Blog | Facebook

What’s your favourite part of your job?
Bren: Every wedding is unique. We never do the same thing twice.
Rom: When something unplanned, goes right.
We recently shot a wedding where every part was scripted and arranged by the bride, we had a shot list that included which photograph to take under which tree at an exact time. It was all outdoors and the heavens opened up and all the plans went to pieces. Everyone expected the bride to be devastated but instead, she shrugged her shoulders and laughed the whole day, the photographs were absolutely priceless and so were their memories.

What are you reading at the moment?
Rom: Life - by Keith Richards
Bren: You've got that book? I was going to buy it. Can I get it from you when you're done?
Rom: Yeah, everybody thought he'd forget everything during his hey day, but, he remembered it all.

What are you lusting after at the moment?
Bren: You usually lust after the thing you can't have, and if you were to get it, the initial desire fades quickly. That's the difference between lust and love, isn't it?

Top three songs on your play list?
Rom: We tend to listen to albums rather than liking individual songs that flood the market and this list changes daily!
1. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
2. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its a Blitz
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

What is your favourite moment during a wedding?
Rom: When the Bride's mother winks at me
Bren: When the groom winks at me!

Who inspires you?
Bren: Anyone who can succeed over impossible odds.
Rom: People who do whatever they do and do it well. Whether you are a rocket scientist, stamp collector or a garbage collector. "That's the 'best' damn garbage collection I've ever done!  Look at this street, it's immaculate".

Favourite Cocktail?
Rom: Grand Gold Margherita!
Bren: Yeah, the way they make them at Amigo's in Carlton.

What does it take to impress you?
Rom: A beautiful photograph
Bren: An impressive person who makes no effort to be impressive.

What is the best piece of advice you were ever given?
Bren: Don't give up your day job. My day job was photography.
Rom: Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once!

Favourite way to spend a Sunday?
Rom: Running in slow motion on a beach, especially when it's raining...cause no-one can see you cry.
Bren: Breakfast at Loco's in Elsternwick, and on a summer evening, a Grand Gold Margherita followed by a walk along the beach to see who's playing at the Espy .

Black Tie or Casual?
Bren: I'm never invited to events that require a black tie.
Rom: When we were photographing a wedding in India, we were asked to wear a traditional Kurtha. Awkward to photograph in but we did look pretty sharp!

Your suggestion for a new name for ‘Hens party’
Bren: My wife tells me a hens party is when they all sit around drinking herbal tea for the night.
Rom: Yes but when she told you that, all her friends started giggling and winking at each other.
Bren: And she always comes home from those things with her clothes all disheveled and a really bad headache.
Rom: Sounds like she comes home drunk.
Bren: From herbal tea? Yeah, right!

Your favourite hostess gift to give?
Bren: I don't even know what that means.
Rom: They mean like on a plane, dont you give your air hostess a gift. I do.
Bren: I guess that's why I never get bumped up to first class.

What’s the best gift you have ever received?
Bren: The gift of humility. And good looks.
Rom:  The 10 dollar wedding ring my wife bought me on our way to get married in Las Vegas.

Three words that describe you best.
Bren: Rom and I would have the same answer on this I think:
Driven
Dedicated
Perfectionist
We're quite similar in many ways. We've known each other so long we often finish each others...
Rom: Sandwiches!

Thanks Bren and Rom for the entertaining look into your lives!
Smash Photography is a Member of the Portobello Bride Wedding Directory.

It's Beautiful Here Special Wedding Offer

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Tonight is the longest night in the year and to celebrate Portobello Bride Directory Member It's Beautiful Here have a wonderful offer for all soon-to-be-wed couples looking to book a photographer in 2011. For all the details go to the It's Beautiful Here website or email them here. Get in quick to make sure you don't miss out!

Getting to Know... Caspix

Portobello Bride Member: Photographer
Caspix | Sydney NSW | Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook

What’s your favourite part of your job?
The opportunity to create something extraordinary out of the ordinary every time I pick up the camera.

What are you reading at the moment?

Emails! And more emails – although for fun I am reading old school Vogue magazines for some inspiration.

What are you lusting after at the moment?

Old train station wall clocks and 1950s furniture.

Top three songs on your play list?

Impossible to list as I am so fickle with my music… but I play music 24/7, can’t live without it.

What is your favourite moment during a wedding?
When the bride and groom have their first moments alone after getting married and no one from the bridal party is around – usually their portraits together.

Who inspires you? 
My husband inspires me always – and I must say that Pinterest inspires the visual me at the moment.

Favourite Cocktail

I am a wine girl.

What does it take to impress you?

True originality and someone that is comfortably not following the pack, just being themselves.

What is the best piece of advice you were ever given?
You can’t love another, until you love yourself.

Favourite way to spend a Sunday?
Not editing at the computer - Just spending time with my tribe at home.

Black Tie or Casual?
Casual all the way.

Your suggestion for a new name for ‘Hens party’
hmm didn’t know they were looking for one?

Your favourite hostess gift to give?
A photograph from the night that we just had.

What’s the best gift you have ever received?
The gift of love from my husband – corny but totally true.

Three words that describe you best.
Erghh this is hard without sounding silly –first 3 things that pop up are independent, inquisitive and impulsive!

Thanks for sharing with us today Casandra!
Caspix is a Portobello Bride Boutique Wedding Guide Member.

Portobello Bride Featured Wedding: Kiri & Mitchell by Janine Kaye Photography

They say that it is good luck if it rains on your wedding day, and as the stunning wedding of Kiri and Mitchell shows it also creates an amazing atmosphere! These images by Janine Kaye Photography are so beautiful and so special, and the rain only adds to the gorgeous mood!

Loving the 1920s inspired head piece and gown!

Happy moments despite the rain!

Beautiful!

Great photo idea!

Superb!

The white on white with mixed textures is so beautiful!

Congratulations to Kiri and Mitchell! May your lives together be full of love and good things!

A big thank you to Janine from Janine Kaye Photography for sharing her beautiful images with us today!

Lady Day and It's Beautiful Here Collaboration Photoshoot

We are excited to share a photo shoot with you today which was a collaboration between two wonderful wedding suppliers who are associated with Portobello Bride. The photography is by It's Beautiful Here, a Boutique Wedding Guide Member and the hair and make up is by Lady Day, who exhibited at the Boutique Wedding Market in Melbourne in March.

Here's what Scout of It's Beautiful Here had to say about the experience:

We kinda got our 80's on, our model eerily channeling icons she had never heard of, from Isabella Rossellini to Kate Bush!

It was a lot of fun and interesting to see the results of a shoot using available light and a homely location. bridal portraits will never be the same!

It was such a great realisation that whilst we shoot weddings in a documentary style, and we love that, its also truly possible to achieve really beautiful portraiture as well. All in the home, all with available light.

We chose the location for this shoot to be in my bedroom as the ceilings are high and the light is amazing. We ended up shooting in almost every room of the apartment and also in the lift and on the rooftop. I loved that our model was able to transform from look to look and that we were overwhelmed with ideas and options as the day progressed. The whole team were so pleased with the unexpected results of our spontaneous experiments. There are so many great, modern ways to shoot bridal and draw inspiration from sources outside the box. - Dana from Lady Day

Goddess!

Ethereal and gorgeous!

80s glam!

Dresses: Vintage and borrowed or owned by Lady Day / It's Beautiful Here.
Hair Accessories: Elysian Creations
Makeup: Dana Leviston at Lady Day
Hair: Poppy Liu at Lady Day
Photography: Scout and Cat from It's Beautiful Here

Portobello Bride Featured Wedding - International: Victoria & Graeme by Simon Fazackarley Photography

Many of us are experiencing  Royal wedding withdrawals so we thought we would share another beautiful British Wedding with you. The wedding of Victoria and Graeme was a 1920's inspired picnic style wedding full of amazing details and fun moments as captured by Photographer Simon Fazackarley. Let's take a peek:

Happy moments - this is what a wedding is all about!

Gorgeous, simple and very vintage table deco, old bottles, flowers and feathers.

Bunting, and lots of it make for a happy party. Oh and home made style cakes!

Of course at a 1920s inspired wedding one simply must dance the Charleston!

See more stunning photos of Victoria and Graeme's wedding on Simon Fazackarley's website.