A Little Taste Of What Is To Come

It's been a very busy year but we realised, looking at our blog, that you wouldn't necessarily think so. We have had to hold back on so many amazing weddings because editing them and getting them...

The Light. It's Always About The Light

Zilwa Attitude Hotel, Mauritius | Pre Launch | Lifestyle

I recently spent a little time in Mauritius working with the Attitude Hotel Group on a project to promote their latest hotel, Zilwa Attitude (Island Attitude), which is launching towards the end of...

Open Studio Night | The Woodstock Exchange | April 4th | 6:30PM

On April 4th fifty studios and stores are opening their doors for all to come and explore what they do, sell or make at the recently completed Woodstock Exchange building in Woodstock, Cape Town....

Bird Ballet

I wonder if the birds know how beautiful we find this? :) A bird ballet | Music Video from Neels CASTILLON on Vimeo.

A Carnival Wedding At Halfaampieskraal I Liebe and Arnold

We've been so busy shooting beautiful weddings and we just can't seem to find the time to blog them all. But Liebe and Arnold's wonderful Carnival-inspired wedding was just too amazing not to blog....

We Love Fine Art Paper

There came a time recently where we realised that , besides our books, we had basically stopped printing. We don't know how it happened? Blame digital, blame us, who knows but all we knew is that...

Life is...

A Wedding In The Gardens Of Babylon | Babylonstoren | Janina and Lean

It's getting harder and harder to sum up a wedding in a paragraph or two and it has become impossible to do it in less than one hundred pictures. We would so love to describe every spectacular...

Corné and Lara I Love Shoot I Newlands, Cape Town

Friends! Meet the very sweet Corné and Lara - an Australian-based husband & wife photography team. They got in touch while planning a trip to Cape Town for the holidays and wanted to have some...

Great Couples Make Great Pictures

We've said it so many times before and Janina & Lean have proved us right again -Great couples really do make great pictures. During genuine moments like this the photographers role is reduced to...

Intimate International Wedding In The Hidden Valley | Stellenbosch | Manar and Hussain

We can't be sure but Manar and Hussain's wedding at Hidden Valley Wine Estate must certainly be one of the most international weddings we have ever covered. Guests from Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania,...

A weekend wedding in the bush I Malelane Bush Lodge, Malelane, Mpumalanga I Cheska and Human

Cheska and Human got married on their beautiful family farm just outside the little farming town of Malelane, Mpumalanga a mere 80km from the Mozambican border. Her Uncle and his family live in the...

A weekend Wedding In The Country I Old Mac Daddy, Elgin Valley I Casper and Carin Part Two

…continued from Part One, the previous post. Casper joined the guests on the deck as The Dixie Swingers began to play the Wedding March, which is a completely different tune when played by...

A Weekend Wedding In The Country I Old Mac Daddy, Elgin Valley I Casper and Carin - Part One

Okay, so it seems as though multiple posts are becoming the norm on our blog, well at least for the last few weddings anyway. Either we need to learn to be more brutal with image selection or we...

The Pedersen Family I Woodstock, Cape Town

Our friends, Luke and Jen, are expecting their first baby. We love photographing families. Especially when it means documenting a joyful season of expectation like a pregnancy. I (Maike) went to...

Molenvliet Wine Estate I Elsa and Bernhard I Part Two

As promised, friends! Here is Part Two of Elsa and Bernhard's Wedding! Enjoy :) love, welovepictures

Molenvliet Wine Estate I Elsa & Bernhard's Wedding I Part One

Elsa and Bernhard's wedding was one of those weddings that is impossible to describe in only a few short paragraphs. We've written and ctrl+alt deleted our attempts three times. Their wedding was...

Hout Bay Manor I Pierré & Kathrin Wedding

We loved the easy-going and relaxed attitudes Pierré and Kath had towards their wedding day and the way they just enjoyed every moment as it was, without trying to control what was happening. These...

Craig and Karin - engaged!

Meet our amazing friends, Craig and Karin.We recently spent a weekend with them in Betty's Bay at Karin's family holiday home, running around with cameras on the beach and through the fynbos...

Sneak Peek: Craig and Karin

These very special two people got engaged the other day.And we haven't been able to stop smiling. Craig and Karin have become our closest friends in Cape Town and they are both ridiculously...

This thing called "The Wedding".

After seeing a recent wedding on the Love Made Visible blog we were again reminded of a topic which we often discuss but have never found the time to write about. It's not a serious topic but it is...

Just Beautiful...

One of Maike's pictures of Kath, a recent bride, during her preparation for her wedding ceremony. A beautiful little contemplative moment. Caught unaware. All natural. Just beautiful...

welovepictures TWO year wedding anniversary I The Marine Hotel I Hermanus, Western Cape

We recently celebrated our TWO year wedding anniversary :) Two years is a big deal :) And we were lucky enough to cash in on the prize that we recently won from the Wedding Concepts TOP TEN images...

Oh boy...

We just had to share this special picture from Stephan and Lucinda's wedding celebration, our first of this season, and one we plan to blog very soon. It was an unusual start to a season but one...

Humming Wolf Forrest Wedding | Beloftebos, Stanford | John Savage and Jane Breetzke

We've covered a hand-full of weddings recently with so many wonderfully unique aspects to them which, in a world where weddings trends spread fast and quickly become the norm, that it becomes very...

An African Bush Wedding I A Pomegranate farm somewhere in the middle of nowhere I Marcel and Noelle

Marcel and Noelle tied the knot on a beautiful Pomegranate farm out in the Mpumalanga High Veld, which to us felt like it was in the middle of nowhere :)Oh what a joy it was to get out of the...

Intimate West Coast Beach Wedding I Willem and Irma I ClypsoBeach, Langebaan, West Coast

Willem and Irma had a small, intimate wedding on the most beautiful stretch of unspoilt beach in Langebaan, surrounded by fresh air, Cape Fynbos, a few happy sea gulls and their closest family and...

A Country Love Feast I Rockhaven Farm, Elgin Valley I Dylan and Genevieve

We met Dylan and Gen for the first time at Hello Sailor Bistro (a Cape Town good food institution and our local three-times-a-week eatery) to discuss their wedding.We immediately loved them. This...

Classic Polo Club Wedding I Val De Vie I Rob and Xan

Rob and Xans wedding was held at two incredible locations in Franschhoek, in The Cape Winelands. The ceremony took place on Xans familys wine farm Lynx, one of Franschhoeks smaller but by no means...