GILL AND TIM'S GREAT WEDDING AT THE BOWES MUSEUM AT TEESDALE COUNTY DURHAM

What a great day I had photographing Gill and Tim's lovely wedding at The Bowes Museum and their wedding breakfast overlooking the most fantastic views of Teesdale.

They were always enthusiastic about relaxed, chilled out photography to document their great wedding celebrations, but I also managed to grab a few minutes with them at Bowes Museum to produce some stylish images.

The rest of the day allowed me to capture the fun and ambience of their wedding in a magnificent historic building and onward to an amazing marquee setting for champagne, and great food by specialist caterer Alexander MacMurray with some excellent speeches from family and friends.

The Picture Gallery in The Bowes Museum is an amazing setting for any wedding - especially so if you are looking for a different type of wedding venue. Aileen Risbey, who co-ordinated the wedding and her colleagues did a great job, while the eight magnificent floral displays by Grace Hunter of Darlington Flower Club were quite unbelievable in their scale.

Gill looked fabulous on the day and had a great time with her close friends and relatives while Tim and his brothers looked extremely smart in their top hats and tails.

If you would like me to photograph your wedding at BOWES MUSEUM, in a relaxed, professional and natural observational way, with no bother or hassle or stress, then ring me now to check your date for late 2010, 2011 or 2012.

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DIRK VAN DER WERFF

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Leave it to good old Lisa Simpson to clue us in to the true origins of April Fool's Day!??

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It was a lovely outdoor wedding at Luminarias Restaurant in Monterey Park, with a large wedding party; the groom had known these friends since elementary school!?!  The couple asked to acknowledge a deceased best friend in the ceremony text.  The best man cried many tears throughout the ceremony.  Awesome!

Congratulations, Lupe and Ke!   Not only was this Laotian - Mexican couple a dream to work with (and beautiful to look at, see below), they had hired some of the best vendors i have had the privilege of working with. 

i felt i had to mention: Frank the photographer was approachable and down-to-earth, while still being professional and extremely attentive to the goings-on...plus, he is obviously an artist, but has a sense of humour.  Believe it or not, not all photogs possess these qualities.

Photography by FRANK GIRON PHOTOGRAPHY.

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HARDWICK HALL WEDDING REVIEW UPDATE FROM NICOLA AND DAVID

I've just updated the page with additional images from the kind wedding review and testimonial from Nicola and David's Wedding at Hardwicke Hall.

The white cholcolate cake in particular has become one of the more popular images on my website - and I personally love the image of Nicola's son Josh carrying one of the bridemaids upside down!

The updated review of my wedding photography at Hardwick Hall is HERE

LATEST NEWS AND WEDDINGS ON MY BLOG ARE HERE

If you would like me to photograph your wedding capturing all the emotion and fun, naturally, then ring me on my freefone number to check if your date is FREE .. 0800 8047270

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CHRIS AND CATHERINE'S WEDDDING AT CRATHORNE HALL HOTEL NORTH YORKSHIRE 2009

UPDATED .. with PHOTOGRAPHS FROM CATHERINE'S WEDDING - SEE LINK BELOW....

I've recently been to talk with Catherine and Chris at Harrogate about their impending wedding at Crathorne Hall in North Yorkshire early next year.

They're a great couple and are intent in chilling out and having a great wedding day celebration with their closest friends and family, and they've had a few problems with selecting a wedding photographer.

Luckily, I convinced them that I'm the man to capture their day and they understand that as hard as I will work to create great images at their wedding, I want to enjoy myself too!!

So if you had 20th March 2009 in mind for your wedding - sorry, I now won't be available, I'll be at Crathorne Hall Hotel in North Yorkshire for Catherine's wedding to Chris!

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The Stewart/Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Save the Date Originals offered the sane crowd several magnets. A 3.5x2 inch magnet design, a 4.1x2.6 inch design, and even, a car magnet.

This is a good example of the non-wedding related design/printing products STDO will end up working on. In this case, a fun project! The rally goers had a good sense of humor.

These are refrigerator magnets that will surely "stick" around for a while on your fridge to remind rally goers of the day.

On the left: a woman holding this magnet at the Boise satellite rally. On the right: a car magnet.



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On October 30, 2010, thousands of people gathered in the National Mall for the "Rally to Restore Sanity" called for by Jon Stewart on his show.

While participants attended for a variety of reasons, many of them raised concerns about the deteriorating state of news media, especially the hyperbolic and hyperpartisan content of 24/7 cable news networks.

Many of those who expressed concerns nonetheless cited partisan news outlets as their primary source for news, while others cited The Daily Show, something Mr. Stewart has discouraged.

Not a single participant listed their regional newspaper as a source for news, and it was telling that the majority of the people we spoke to were unaware of the details of the elections in their congressional districts (this despite many of them having already voted.)

If an intention of the "Rally to Restore Sanity" was to dissuade people from voicing divisive and paranoid political accusations, it was not enough to deter the fringe. In lieu of the Birthers common at Tea Party events, there was a small presence of 9/11 Truthers who accused the Bush administration of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks. (Doubtless, these flimsy conspiracy theorists will infest the comment threads in needless defense.)

But for the most part, the rally represented a congenial gathering of center to center-left people who are opposed to ideological purity tests and uncompromising dogmas, and who focused their blame on the divisive media coverage of political issues.

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MELANIE AND GAVIN'S WEDDING AT NORTON CHURCH AND HALLGARTH GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB DARLINGTON

It's been a long while since Mel and Gavin met me for the first time at a wedding fair at Redworth Hall Hotel.

Nearly two years ago, and in the meantime, we have met a few times, including a pre-wedding shoot and Mel also gave birth too!

Gavin and I talked though Facebook a lot and he also kept me up to date with wedding plans every couple of weeks - all part of the service!

Finally, their wedding date appeared on the horizon and it was a beautiful day for their wedding at Norton Church on the Green near Stockton on Tees where family and friends gathered for a lovely informal service and then we headed off to Hallgarth Hotel Golf and Country Club near Darlington for their wedding breakfast and evening celebrations.

The sun stayed out most of the day, everything was cool and chilled out, with laughter aloud and Mel's choice of having a magician to entertain her guests before the wedding breakfast worked out really well!

Gavin excelled with his speech - though he confessed later that he couldn't remember any of it - and Mel's love of dragonflies was everywhere - even on her beautiful dress and cake!

I managed to grab 15 minutes before the evening guests arrived to get a few images of the happy couple together too - it was a great day for all their family and close friends - and I hope this small selection of images from the 350 final edited photographs that they will choose from for their wedding album gives you a flavour of their wedding!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO BE THE OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER AT YOUR WEDDING ANYWHERE IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND, ACROSS THE UK OR ADESTINATION WEDDING ABROAD...... PLEASE RING ME ON MY PERSONAL MOBILE NO. 0778 7150966 TO CHECK YOUR DATE

DIRK VAN DER WERFF

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My Plum Inspiration Board vs My Purple Wedding

I looked back at my first inspiration board the other day, when I picked my original color scheme of plum and powder blue.  I created this about a year before the wedding.  I still love the look and the colors, but I noticed how different the overall style is from my final vision for the wedding!

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This board contains all my final inspirational pictures for the wedding.  These are the pictures that I gave to my vendors to get a good sense of my vision, and some are the products I actually purchased.  It still has the dark purple and light blue colors, but I think the overall style is a little more casual.

Sources: Style Me Pretty, Alvina Valenta, David's Bridal, Jimmy Choo, Macy's, The Aerialist Press, Bleu De Toi, Martha Stewart Weddings sachets / petal cone, Sarah Magid in InStyle Weddings, Overstock.com bracelet / earrings, Emma Gordon London, Kate Spade for Lenox, PaperMart, A Cup of Jo

Now for the real wedding! I put together pictures of our actual wedding showing a lot of the inspiration that became reality.

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