I'm so looking forward to covering Shelley and Stephen's wedding at Langley Castle this coming weekend ....
Shelley has been texting me all week saying: 'How exciting, it's snowing ....'.
She will be disappointed on the day however, as the long range seems to suggest it will be grey, overcast and raining ...
Hmmmm. She also intends to drag me to the battlements at the top of the castle during the daylight with Stephen for some dramatic photographs too .......I hope my insurance is up to date!!
They're such a fun couple and have all sorts of personal touches throughout the day and night to make sure this is such a memorable day - and, as they're both martial arts masters - how about this for a FANTASTIC wedding invitation card for their wedding at Langley Castle ....?
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Title: North East Soiree String Quartet at Langley Castle cover of Coldplay Viva La Vida
North East Soiree String Quartet with Gordon playing the Bass instead of the normal Cello at Langley Castle playing a cover of Coldplay's "Viva La Vida".
http://www.music-north-east.com
Title: North East Soiree String Quartet (with a Double Bass instead of cello) at Langley Castle
"I Get a Kick Out of You" at a wedding in Langley Castle with North East Soiree - filmed just before xmas. http://www.music-north-east.com
This Flushmount Bridal Album was created by Abella Studios' designer for Jessica & Paul, whose Wedding Ceremony was held at Saint Theresa of Avila, Summit, NJ and the Reception at the Florentine Gardens, River Vale, NJ.
Here is what Jess & Paul had to say about Abella Studios...
Dear Alex, Mark, Ryan & Abella staff,
I hope that you are well & are having a great start to the New Year! I wanted to thank you for the great job you did on our photography & videography for our wedding last year (Memorial Day ’09)!
Carlos & Mark – Thank you so much for the amazing job on our montage/recap video! Including the wrap-up video at the end of the reception really helped to tie everything together. Not only was it great that people who missed our ceremony were able to see a few moments from our ceremony/vows, but it also helped people who were there to better hear some of the vows that we wrote for each other. Both women & men teared up during the final wrap-up & we received so many compliments on the excellent work that you did. The quality of the work you did is reflected in the fact that one of our close friends has recently booked your team for her upcoming 2010 wedding (Tara & Jose).
Alex – Thank you so much for the amazing job you did on our pictures from the wedding! The timing of your shots was impeccable – particularly the one of our groomsman George doing a straddle jump over Paul while he was doing a one-armed push-up - & the pictures you took during one of our attendants break-dancing sessions. We are so grateful to you for capturing all of the important & exciting moments so that we can remember the great times we had on our wedding day.
Ryan – Thank you so much for your guidance & advice throughout the process & for the amazing job you did on our engagement pictures in ’08 at the Castle at Skylands Manor.
Angelica – Thank you so much for the editing job/artistic work you did in working with us to create our wedding album. We are so excited to pick up the album in February!
We have sent out link to the videos & the pictures to all of our wedding guests & to our vendors, so I hope that you receive even more referrals & contacts from our event. Thanks again for all that you did for us – we are excited to now begin working on the full video & selecting our photo enlargements!
American society has so few ties to custom and ritual in this day and age. That's why it's so interesting to see how sports and athleticism is the one area where tradition is not only expected, but it is also honoured and perpetuated.
An article from the Los Angeles Times wrote about the Beef Bowl, a five decades-long tradition of serving prime rib dinners in a fine dining setting to players of both teams competing in the Rose Bowl (on separate days, of course!). The two teams are invited in to a Los Angeles establishment to communally feast on a prime rib dinner with Yorkshire pudding, potatoes, salad etc. Inevitably, the event turns into a eating competition each year. (Here's a tip for you wagerers: supposedly, the team with the most amount of meat consumed is statistically significantly shown to become the winner of the Rose Bowl game...)
[PLEASE NOTE: For the record, i have been a vegetarian for over 20 years, and do not personally approve of such overt displays of excess when it comes to something like food and hunger...but i DO enjoy tradition and so i wanted to share this story with you!]
I have to confess: I really thought finding a flower girl dress would be easy. No way! I wanted an affordable (read: $50 or less) dress that would fit in with the rest of the bridal party. I thought "How much can a dress for small child cost? It can't be near what the bridesmaid dresses cost, right?" Wrong!
I started out at David's Bridal, where we got the bridesmaid dresses. Why are the dresses for a person only 4 feet tall so expensive? Most of the dresses I saw were $80 to $130. These are a few options in our main color (purple) and ivory (my dress color).
They have lots of "mini bridal" styles to match your own wedding gown. These wierd me out a bit. No, I don't want a mini-me walking around at my wedding.
Apparently "sale" for JCrew means $125 down from $165. I feel like I could get this same simple dress in my size for even less. With a white or ivory dress, I'm concerned that the girl could never wear it again (and/or will spill grape juice on it within 5 minutes). While I'm OK with that for bridesmaids, I feel bad making the parents spend that amount of money, since the flower girl is really only involved in the wedding for about 5 minutes.
Having struck out at stores with established wedding attire, I started looking online. This is an adorable flower girl dress (just look at all that tulle!), but was a little bit above my price range. I was wary of buying the dress online, since I couldn't really tell what the quality would be of something labeled as an "affordable flower girl dress".
I struck out yet again with online stores, so I started checking department stores. Finally, success! With Easter being right before my wedding, lots of white "Easter" dresses are out in the stores at affordable prices. Plus, lots of them have some sort of color detail, making them wearable again for the girl.
These dresses are almost never labeled as a "flower girl dress". The easiest thing to do is go to each store's website, and scroll through all the dresses to find the white ones or the dresses in your wedding colors. This one's description says "for preschool or kindergarten graduation". Ummm, or for a flower girl gig?
Bonnie Jean Crepe Dress at JCPenney (sale $30, originally $50)
Cinderella Floral Dress at JCPenney (sale $40, originally $70)
This is the final dress I chose, from Dillards. The purple dots are perfect for my purple wedding! The dress was $45 in the store, but I found it for even less at Sophia's Style online ($41 including shipping). I can't wait to see a little girl walking down the aisle in this cute dress!
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Iain and Louise are fun loving people ...... they love nothing but a good laugh and knew they didn't want to be stood around posing all day during their wedding celebrations - they would rather be with their friends and relatives having a great time - ideal for my style of photography.
We had a ball at their wedding at Jesmond Dene House Hotel in Newcastle.
I first met with them and their parents at the wedding venue when they were meeting with other photographer - they were there for Sunday lunch and to interview wedding photographers - no pressure then! Luckily for me, as I had travelled from another wedding in Leeds the previous day, they already said that they loved my work - and just wanted to make sure that I was the kind of man they could get on with.
I must have impressed all of the six strong interviewing panel and Iain rang me while I was in Barcelona the following week to say that he and Louise wanted me to be their official photographer - even though it was 2 years and months away!
We kept in contact throughout, at the time Iain and louise were working in Dublin, Ireland but all their plans centred around working and living back in Newcastle when their wedding took place.
I took some lovely pre-wedding portraits of them in Jesmond Dene a few months before the wedding and it was just like meeting old friends - relaxed and enjoyable, so when their wedding date finally arrived on 19th December, I was really looking forward to it!
I popped into Jesmond Dene House Hotel a few hours before the start of the ceremony - just to say Hello to Louise before things got going and she was already made up and raring to go, if not a little nervous!
Iain on the other hand was in a local pub to settle his nerves with some of his best friends, but I knew he was nervous. I dashed back up to the hotel and started taking some photographs of Louise in her Vera Wang dress she bought in Dublin and before long the registrar was ready to go, Iain was on site and the wedding was go ..
The cermony was short and sweet but fun, in the grand hall of the old schoolhouse at this exclusive use wedding venue and although light levels in winter are always low, the ambiance of the lights and the candles and high ceilings make for a very atmospheric venue, it just takes a bit of experience to create the right images.
After, the giant Jenga, giant Connect 4 got the guests in the mood for the fun to come and gave me an opportunity to grab some relaxed family groups and 10 minutes with the bride and groom before the reception. The cake was something to behold and created by Iain's brother, Anthony who is Head Chef at the famous Pumphouse Hotel in Durham. 110 individual cakes with a biscuit base, filled with chocolate mouse and spray painted and decorated - heaven!
The fun really started with the evening reception where party games were the mainstay of the fun - from musical chairs, statues and an amazing, frantic game of space hopper races really put the fun into a great day of celebration for Iain and Louise - they had such a great day with their nearest family and friends.
I hope you enjoy a SNEAK PEAK of a few of the images from their great day. Once Louise and Iain have returned from Dublin and enjoyed their Christmas break I shall post more. For relatives and friends, Louise and Iain will send you an e-mail link to their private gallery so you can view all the images from their wedding at Jesmond Dene House Hotel
DIRK VAN DER WERFF
JESMOND DENE HOUSE HOTEL, NEWCASTLE TYNE AND WEAR, WEDDING VENUE, EXCLUSIVE USE, INTIMATE WEDDING VENUES IN NEWCASTLE, WEDDING REVIEWS AND PHOTOS AT JESMOND DENE HOUSE HOTEL
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(And of course, also to their three lovely children, Shayna, Hunter and Travis...)
i had the honour and privilege to officiate the vow renewal ceremony for this special couple. The bride had wanted this ceremony to celebrate their marriage, which, today, is "better than ever" after ten and a half years. The husband, who is on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, wore his alpha blouse /uniform, which is entirely different from the usual dress blues. The ceremony took place high atop a bluff overlooking Calafia Beach, a part of San Clemente State Beach with a small group of family and friends in attendance. Professional photography by MODERN EYE.
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Title: U.S. Armed Forces Honor President Bush For His Service With An Award.
God bless the U.S. Military, the last hope for the world.
I have a love hate political relationship with President Bush. But on the matter of national defense and the war on terror, we do not differ.
Let me say just one thing about the Iraq war. The goals of the war and the exit strategy have never changed. The goal is and has always been to create a free and independent democracy in the Middle East so as to help spread peace throughout the region. The exit strategy is and has always been, they stand up and then we stand down. Nothing has ever changed except the will of the American people to see something of great difficulty through to the end.
Jbranstetter04
Defense Leaders Laud Bush at Farewell Ceremony
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2009 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, today praised President George W. Bush as a patriot who has championed the nation's men and women in uniform while standing up to terrorists who threaten the United States.
The defense leaders paid tribute to the president during an armed forces farewell ceremony at Fort Myer, Va.
Gates called Bush a visionary who recognized before becoming president the threat terrorists and other unconventional threats posed, and that the military was still structured to confront Cold War-era conventional threats.
But even more so, Gates said, Bush had the fortitude to confront terrorists head-on when they attacked the United States just months after he took office, as he propelled a historic transformation of the U.S. military.
The result is an American military that has become more agile, lethal and prepared to deal with the full spectrum of 21st century conflict, Gates said. He noted that the military has become a force dramatically more deployable and expeditionary than when he last served in government 15 years ago.
Gates cited just a few of the historic changes that have taken place under Bushs leadership:
-- The Army carried out its most significant restructuring in more than two generations, moving from a division-based to a modular, brigade-based force.
-- The Navys Fleet Response Plan nearly doubled the number of strike carrier groups that can be surged in the first weeks of a crisis.
-- Special operations forces have seen vast increases in budget, personnel, authorities and capabilities critical to the campaign against terrorism worldwide.
-- The number of unmanned aerial vehicles has grown some 40-fold to more than 6,000.
-- The military has undergone a genuine revolution in its ability to fuse intelligence and operations.
-- Cold War-era bases in Germany, South Korea and Japan have been modernized and sized to better reflect the security requirements of this century.
-- New authorities and programs enable the military to build the capacity of allies and partners in cooperation with civilian agencies and organizations.
Gates noted that in the midst of this transformation, Bush showed strength as he led the military through two major conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and a broader struggle against terrorist networks around the globe.
He has not flinched when faced with difficult wartime decisions, including the momentous decision two years ago to send more troops into Iraq and revamp our strategy there, Gates said.
Mullen joined Gates in thanking Bush for leading the U.S. military at a critical time in the countrys history.
After this nation was attacked by a rising evil, the same evil which later murdered many others in places like London, Madrid, Islamabad and Mumbai, you quickly led us from the grip of fear to a serenity of purpose and unity of action, he said.
Mullen called that serenity well beyond our dreams on Sept. 12, [2001] when all thought further attack was not only likely, but gravely imminent.
He credited Bush for having the vision to establish a new national security strategy to reach Americas enemies overseas so they could not revisit U.S. soil.
We sent our forces to hills and caves, alongside tribesmen on horseback, to root them out and hunt them down, he said. We liberated Iraq from tyranny, now on the road to renewal. And we are shifting our focus to Afghanistan.
Through these operations, Mullen told Bush, we felt your unmatched confidence in us, which only made us better.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52561
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As Afghans wait for results from last Thursday's disputed presidential and provincial election, the Obama administration is pressing for non-military efforts that would strengthen the new government. The civilian campaign is aimed at providing social stability and economic opportunities for the Afghan people who appear to be losing faith in a government that has been increasingly challenged by the Taliban. VOA's Ravi Khanna reports the Special U.S. Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, has gathered a special team for the civilian drive.
Amy and Fraser met at university in Aberdeen and since then have travelled the world from their original family homes in Scotland and Northumberland.
Nowadays they live in Calgary in Canada, so organising a wedding from thousands of mles away was never going to be easy - but thanks to the internet and some great organisational skills - they did it - in style!
Amy had seen a wedding that I had photographed for Liz and Steve at Ellingham Hall, a beautiful exclusive use wedding venue in Northumberland last year on my BLOG and e-mailed to to ask some questions. Once I had done that she was determined, on the basis of my wedding blog and my website that she wanted me to be a small but important part of her wedding at Ellingham Hall!
Fraser and Amy visited Northumberland in September - and we met for the first time and got on really well, and I met with her mum too. We e-mailed each other a few more times, and last Saturday, finally was the date for the BIG day at Ellingham Hall.
It was a gray overcast day, drizzling rain and there was fog too on the roads as I made my way though Newcastle and then headed up the A1 past Alnwick, but once I was in the beautiful Ellingham Hall, all decked out with Christmas trees and decorations and open roaring fires, I was transported to a much nicer place!
Amy's mum came to greet me and before long I was watching and photographing all the decorations and detail pieces which come in so handy when I come to designing their wedding album - and Fraser appeard wearing his kilt but he was wandering about in his running shoes! Cool calm and collected!
Amy was tucked away on the third floor having her hair styled and all around the lovely old house, people were appearing in their wedding finery.
The service was short and sweet - with lots of laughs and immediately after the ceremony we headed straight outside as there was only about 10 minutes of daylight left and we knew we wanted to get a good group shot of everyone together.
After that was a relaxing hour or two with canapes and drinks before heading into the main hall, decked out with candles and decorations for our dinner and speeches before chilling out for a while in the reception room and the main lounge as the ceilidh band set up.
Then Fraser and Amy surprised us all by putting on their cowboy boots for their first dance and Fraser donned a wonderful stetson which made him look so handsome for their first dance!
The candles .. the music .. the ambiance and the fun stayed with me as I headed for a long drive down the A1 back home.
A great day for everyone!
I hope you enjoy a SNEAK PEAK of a few of the images from their great day. Once Amy and Fraser have returned from Paris and their visits to relatives over Christmas, I shall post more. For relatives and friends, Amy will send you an e-mail link to their private gallery so you can view all the images from their wedding at Ellingham Hall
DIRK VAN DER WERFF
KEYWORDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS POST: ELLINGHAM HALL, ALNWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND, WEDDING VENUE, EXCLUSIVE USE, INTIMATE WEDDING VENUES IN NORTHUMBERLAND, WEDDING REVIEWS AND PHOTOS AT ELLINGHAM HALL.
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