The Wedding of Mona and Andrew.

Just yesterday Juanita and I had the privelidge to photograph Mona and Andrew's wedding. They are such a lovely couple and so much in Love, they just can't keep their hands of each other. They are going to Europe for their honeymoon tomorrow and wanted to see their pictures before they left so Juanita edited the images during the reception and the lab we use Campsi Digital Prolab was able to print our proofs this morning and we were able to design their album for our meeting today at 1pm. Now even if I do say so myself that is pretty good actually that is fantastic customer service, wedding on Sunday, proofs on Monday, album designed by Monday afternoon. Their wedding was held at the church in the market place in Bondi Junction, we went to McKell park in Darling Point for the location shoot and the reception was held at the lovely Star Room in Darling Harbour. I have to say that Sally there looked after myself and Juanita so well and the steak I had for main course was awesome. the best I have had for a long time. Mona and Andrew's wedding was such a pleasure to photograph, we had so much fun, the couple were so much in love, every one at the wedding was friendly and enthusiastic and the way the sun came out at just the right time it seemed there may have been divine intervention. Thanks again for choosing Taylor Made Photography to record your special day.

Earlier Weddings

Since we have only had this blogg for a few weeks I thought it would be a good idea to post some images from weddings we have shot earlier on in the year. Congratulations again and Thank you for letting Taylor-made Photography be a special part of your day.

Mix 106FM Expo winners. part two

Here is how Kelly and Alex won the wedding competition;

Hi Darren,

Well basically we had just been engaged a few weeks and a mate forwards me this link to the Mix 106.5 web site for the Bridal Expo competition. There were 3 questions and I liked the look of them. Or more that I already knew what my answers would be straight away and wanted to fill them in because I like to tell other people about Kelly and myself. The trouble was getting it down to 25 words or less for each, but in the end it only took about 10 minutes. This is what I ended up with (paraphrasing because I lost the actual answers when I submitted them…)

1. How did you meet and how did you know they were the one?

At a friend's punk rock fancy dress party. I had blue hair and she was the only one not dressed punk. How antiestablishment is that.

2. What's the most romantic thing they've ever done for you?

Drove to the mountain's to get my favorite childhood cake from the only baker in the state that knew how to make it.

3. What's your idea of the perfect day together?

Walking hand in hand through the streets of Paris. Coffee at a cafe. Dinner watching the sunset and a night of passion.

Then another couple of weeks went by and it was the very day before I was due to go in to hospital for surgery when I get a call at work in the morning from Bogart Torelli. I wasn’t sure who that was since I don’t often listen to the radio but I understood when she asked if they could call back at around 10am so they could chat to me on air. Anyway, sweating bullets for a couple of hours and then they called. I can’t remember what I said exactly. I was sure I sounded like a goober but Kelly was listening at her work and said I didn’t babble on too bad.

They told us that we were one of 27 finalists and that they would announce the winner at the Bridal Expo in a couple of weeks. I was determined to make it out of hospital in time but, because of a couple of complications, didn’t get there and so Kel had to go up on stage alone. I was listening in on the mobile as you can see in the picture I’ve attached of Kelly accepting the prize from Dave Wright. It was the most surreal thing being in this quiet hospital room alone after Kel hung up the phone.

Anyway, it’s been an awesome ride and we’ve had over a year’s worth of prizes to keep us smiling. Not the least of which was the album from you guys.

Not bad for 10 minutes answering questions that I would have answered for fun anyway J

Regards

Alex Engelhardt

Mix 106FM Expo winners.

We received another lovely Thank you note this week.

How are you doing? Firstly, thank you again for the amazing photography on Kelly and my wedding day way back in April. We sincerely hope that Darren passed on how absolutely rapt we were with the result and found it really hard to stop adding in sides to the album J Kelly and Alex mix Sydney bridal expo winners.

they were lucky enough to win the 2005 Mix 106 Dream wedding competition of which we supplied the photography. Their wedding was held in April this year at the Garrison church the Rocks with the reception at the Pavilon on the Park. Trudi had a great time with these guys on their day, they were so relaxed and so in Love. Kelly had wanted a late afternoon wedding so as to not to keep her guests waiting to long while the Bridal party went of for photos. She was a little worried because another well known photographer had commented to her that having her ceremony so late will mean she would not get nice photos and that even if they paid him $10,000 he would not shoot their wedding because of how it was sheduled. Needless to say kelly and Alex were over the moon with the results that Trudi achieved.

Photo Awards

A few months ago i entered the Australian institute of professional photography awards and won some awards with a few of my prints. We had just got them back from the framers so Juanita thought it would be a good idea to get some pics of me with the awards that i won with. I have been entering these awards since I started taking pictures professionally and have now amased a fair few. Some have been for portraits but most have been for weddings. I must say that I am very proud each time I win and what makes it a specially pleasing for me is that each image that I have won with has not been overly manipulated in photo shop.

Sydney Belle wedding cars

I wanted to post this image from Renate and Micheals wedding.Their album is in production currently and is looking fantastic. Every one likes reflection shots there seems to be a bit of mystic with them and this one is great because it shows the lovely couple, the surroundings of the church, the cars and Danny one of the owners of Sydney Belle wedding cars. Its kind of like a promo shot. Danny and his family are fantastic people, down to earth, friendly and family oriented.We have photographed the weddings of his sister Melissa and brother Terry and also the family portraits of his other brother Darren.( he is so lucky because he has four boys and a lovely wife Nicky).Their cars are 1940s Buicks really comfortable to ride in, have air conditioning and I love photographing them because of the lovely lines, the elegant windows, you can do so much with them and the brides dress is a good contrast with the black of the cars. I will post more car shots later in the week.

Dillons picture from camp

I just wanted to post this picture I found on Dillon's camera she is our 10 year old daughter. It just amazes me that she could at such a young age take such a great shot. I think she would like to become a photographer like Mum and Dad and judging by this image I think she has what it takes.

Dinner with Friends

Tonight we had dinner with our good friends Isabella and Nick. Trudi photographed their wedding in 1992 and we a have been good friends ever since. Isabella is one of Australia's leading makeup artists and we refer clients to her when ever we can. Just a few weeks ago they were both working on an assignment for Blinde Sunglasses at Avoca beach. They had a lot of together, she makes the girls look awesome and so makes us look good too. Nick is marketing manager for Napolean cosemetics and always has good ideas about branding and creating interest in our business. Isabella is starting up a makeup school for busy female executives to teach themselves how to apply the right make so they can look their best. We wish her all the best for the future enterprise.

Another pic of the new studio

New studio

Our new studio in Concord is starting to take shape now. I needed to get some measurements for the work stations so I thought I would post some pics as well. There is still a lot to do before we move in but we are hoping to be working from this new space before the end of September.
Trudi has the challenge of designing the interior as we are going for a real urban warehouse feel. It will have exposed concrete ceilings and polished concrete floors. I wont give away to much at this time but keep coming back to our blogg for more updates and photos as we progress.

Melissa and Mark

Melissa and Mark picked up their finished album a couple of weeks ago and were lovely enough to send us a Thank you note. Getting a Thank you message is really wonderful because we try our best for each and every couple and it feels great to be appreciated. The stretch limo had a bit of trouble getting out of the church grounds and broke a water pipe, we did not have a lot of time left for the location shoot so I suggested that Melissa and Mark come in my car so we could get the shoot started and that would give the hire company time to send another car for the bridal party and we could still get the images we needed. It all turned out great, as it always does. We got some cool shots around the harbour and Melissa was awesome she did'nt hesitate when I asked her to get up on that wall. If I remember when I get back to work I will post the image that I got, it is fantastic. Thanks again Guys for letting TaylorMade be a part of your wedding.

Dear Darren and Juanita,

Mark and I would like to say a BIG thank you for being our photographers on our wedding day, Saturday 4^th March 2006.? You made our day run smoothly and you both made us feel extremely relaxed working with you.? Most importantly though, Mark and I had so much fun we wished we could do it all over again!!

We were also very happy with the style and creativity of pictures that you shot and we love the layout that you designed for our album.? (Mark?s pre-wedding scrap book of magazine pictures must have been the key :-) !!)

Once again thank you for making our day memorable and we will definitely be recommending Taylor-Made Photography to others who are in need for professional photography.? Let us know if our pictures ever make it up in lights one day.

Kindest Regards,

Melissa and Mark Anderson

PS: Attached are some picture that will sure to make you laugh!!

Our Wollongong Wedding

Juanita and I had such a great time photographing Raquel and Damien's wedding on Sunday. They are such a cool couple. The ceremony was held in Wollongong about an hours drive from Sydney at the Glennifer Brae Manor House and the reception was held at the lovely city beach function centre. Great views and great food. These guys like to do things a bit differently and they had bit of a corpse bride theme at the reception. Brad the best man made all the invitations and place cards and Damien's mum Terry made the awesome cake. I would say it was the best themed cake I have ever seen, the detail is amazing. It was truely a pleasure to photograph your wedding and I am not sure how I am going to choose my favourite photo I like them all!!
Thanks again for choosing Taylor-Made Photography

Lyndells Birthday Bash

Trudi and I had a great time at Lyndells Birthday on Saturday night. Trudi and Lyndell have known each other since Kindergarden so that is more than 30 years. Lyndell is married to Andrew, he is such a great guy he organised this party at the flavours of India restuarant in Glebe and the food was wonderful and the service was great too. Lyndell is the girl on the left, we were away when she got married but we photographed Sue (in the middle) and Ivans wedding in 1996 and an other girl Chrissy who was at the party but not in the photo in 1995 so ofcourse a few wedding stories were told.