As professional wedding photographers we get the chance to meet people from overseas and photograph their weddings in South-Africa.

Take a couple like Buford and
Tersia who are from Dubai, they got married last week just outside Alberton at a venue called Thornebirds wedding and conference centre.  I’ve only ever heard about
Thornebirds wedding and conference centre but this was my first wedding that I photographed there.  The place is quite small which just makes for a very intimate

setting in which to celebrate such a joyous ocassion.  Thornebirds has amazing well established gardens, green grass everywhere, very tall trees and even a small
riverlike water feature.

So naturally the bride and groom opted for a picnic setting for the wedding reception.  It had been raining since Saturday and the weather bureau predicted rain
throughout the day.

When I met with the couple on the Monday(2 days before the wedding) Tersia kept telling me that it wasn’t going to rain.

I remember waking up on Wednesday
(the day of the wedding) and looking outside my window just to see what the weather looked like, and believe it or not there wasn’t a drop of rain that fell that day. It wasn’t
too hot or too cold, all in all a bright summers day.

Tersia(the bride) being an unconventional

girl, went for a Marilyn

Monroe hairstyle with a piece of net covering half of her face and a hairpiece with white
feathers.

The wedding was peacock themed, so there was quite a lot of coloured feathers and the colours of a peacock involved.  It

was so totally different and really
showed you a lot of the Bride’s personality.

The bride and groom was totally comfortable with me as the bride’s mom does scrapbooking at my mom’s scrapbooking shop so I have talked to Tersia a few times, and
she’s seen a lot of my work there.

Creative freedom is one of the greatest things a bride and groom can ever give their photographer. Youre photos will be even more
striking because photography really is an art form where you the photographer gets to express how you see the world.
Someone who knows both Tersia and Buford really well told me that even though Tersia hasn’t always been dating Buford, that her heart has always belonged to him.

Throughout
the course of the day I could see that what I’ve heard couldn’t have been more true.
They really had a blast and I wish you guys all of the best!!

Riani