our Birthday Boy + Girl

The venue was at bungalow 8, and was the second time James has been there. It is a great place! The last visit was the shooting for Zoey’s (one of James’ friends) 21st. However, unlike last time, Pooileng had booked the whole venue, so there was no random public attendance that came in (“total chaos” was the summarative description).

The drinks were “buy one get the other one free”.  And everyone had a great time, although it got a bit messy towards then end as you can see…

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The ceremony venue was well decorated along the isle by some very hard working staff!

The time frame planned was quite tight, so everyone rushed to the Domain after some quick congratulatory handshakes and heres some of what ensued!

After the rush back, it was lots of fingerfoods, speeches, and unexpectedly, some partying! Check out some crazy pictures here!

It would seem every wedding has a story, and this was no exception. James and Danny were touched to have been part of this occasion and are definitely looking to be part of more.

The venue was a pretty awesome place as it had the chapel, reception dinner and lots of scenery for post ceremony photos, all in the compound!

The main ceremony took place in the chapel then onto the fun post-ceremony photos! Heres what it all looked like!

The dinner was nice too! Check out the selection! Lets not forget about the ham that was available!

The night wasn’t complete without some dancing and of course the imperitive bouquet toss.

The job pretty much finished around 9pm and they immediately went home to check out the selection ready for futher editing later on!

Being the 75th Anniversary of the association, there was also a special dinner to celebrate. Lots of yummy chinese food and an invited guest. See if you can recognize the Honoured guest of the night!

After the dinner round about 10pm, there was some socialising until about 3am in the morning which did not hold well for Danny in the next day of big discussion. Anyhow, here are some of the scenes from the Library Bar in Wellington. It was decorated like an actual library in most places!

The next day, after 5 hours of sleep, and having slept only 5 hours the night before, the conference came to a close with many things of improvement for the association to consider. One of them was to improve the media coverage, and hopefully Danny can get Photoessence involved! James was definitely keen on the idea!

The warm up gig of the night was a nice little solo effort from quite a talented star! Here he is in great form, very smooth and crisp guitar playing!

After that, a short interval before the main gig that James and Danny were there for, and they wanted to “Kick @$$!” according to the lead guitarist and singer. In fact it was supposed to be twice as hard as their previous gig! Check this out!

Being a rock band, it was quite a loud performance and it was rockin in there!

They weren’t the last performance but they had to go as the night was getting late, and they just managed to get the intro to Cash Cult. Definitely looking forward to the next music gig!

Arriving at Bethells Beach in the early afternoon, out west of the main city, the rain had stopped shortly before arrival. The beach was beautiful, covered in wet black sand reflecting rainbow coloured lights that sparkled like diamonds as they walked across.

The beach was also very wide and although there were 30 in the group, they were  just scattered all over the place! All that was seen shortly after arrival were different foot prints pointing toward different directions.

When sunset approached, everyone of them found their own positions to capture the golden moment!

Meanwhile James enjoyed his own world in the middle of nowhere…..surrounded by giant cliffs…

Here is what he saw!

Just after sunset, all the members gathered again and left for home. It was very surprising that there was not a single drop of rain despite that the forecast indicated there would be thunder storms that day…. luckily the situation was as such and the day ended pretty much with the gorgeous scene below!

We then departed for Auckland Domain for some outdoor photos, the weather was great! Blue skies, bright sunlight and a little bit of cloud made all the flowers seems very fresh and colourful. We began with some formal looking group portraits.

Then we tried different things…Here was an idea of getting them to march along the way in a line, the end result seems rather interesting!!

Now all the attention is on James’ girlfriend…

From left to right, Commerce – Orange,  Law – Blue,  Arts – Pink, Pharmarcy – Light Blue, Science – Dark Blue.

After sunset, everyone was hungry so we found a nice  Japanese restaurant in Newmarket called Don Don Rikka. The food was very nice with unique names like , Ninja, Sumo, Sakura Chicken etc.  It also came with nice dessert and all the food were served with this funny ground sesame which James  spent half of the time grinding the seeds.

…the Sakura Chicken Dish with big portion of rice underneath!!

…and the  sesame seeds that were fun to grind!! The expression tells it all!

Another eventful day to be remembered!

The models were pretty awesome! Unlike traditional fashion catwalk models, they were great dancers too, jumping all over the the runway.

The whole event lasted from 6:30 – 9:30 and right before the second section at 7:45 there was a BELTING session by one of NZ’s well known presenters! See if you know who it is!

The second section began at 8pm featuring garmets from more mature stores such as James & August, Andrea Biani, TimberLand etc.  Check out the bag made of Real Flowers!

It was definitely a night of fun as this was just a little spontaneous event that was completely unplanned the day before!  James and Danny definitely had some fun with this one! Not to mention there was a small section with some lingere lines!

It started with food stall in front of street – there were cakes, tea leaf eggs (a chinese specialty which tastes awesome! look it up!), the usual noodles and salads and a standard sausage BBQ!

Then they had a female speaker talking about womens’ health and how it affects not just the women but also men, whether it be the men in women’s lives due to their relationship with them, or even just breast cancer of the male themselves!

There was also a male speaker who went in quite some depth about the heart and how it is one of the most important organs in your body! So much in depth he ran out of time and only covered less than half what he wanted! He was definitely a specialist and made it very clear that the topics of the heart could almost go on forever! (lucky he was limited by time as some of the participants were getting rather impatient he seemed to drag on! Danny however was most keen…).

The event ended with a prize draw that everyone was most greatful for, a treat to end a seemingly endless speech session! Needless to say, the winners were pretty happy!

Once again, it was another enjoyable event!

Bride and Groom exchanged vows after the usual dedicated speech from the pastor. A long awaited moment for everyone!

The first kiss! It was a bit awkward to get so in their faces but that was what they wanted James and Danny to get!

This was followed by a beautiful dance performance by the Bride’s dance group that she normally participates in…

The ceremony was concluded by the release of some white doves. A sign of peace, and just a beautiful event in itself!

There were many delicious foods and desserts and this was James’ favourite dish!

Their first dance - a very happy moment for the couple… from their expressions, they must have been joking about something…

Even though the bridal party were so busy, we managed to get hold of them for a walk along the beach after the reception for some private shooting just before the sun went down.  This pic was done as a fun representation of a classic boy vs. girl idea! What a fun photo that turned out to be! Everyone in the photo loved the idea and enjoyed taking it!

All in all it was such an awesome outcome! It was a fantastic wedding to recap!