Renae & Luke ~ Bunbury Engagement Portrait

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Tomorrow we have the absolute pleasure of capturing Renae and Luke's Big Day in Busselton, so to get the celebrations started we wanted to share some of the lovely moments we captured at their engagement portrait here in Bunbury a few months back. 

Bring on tomorrow - can't wait! :-D

Xx

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Did you know we can use the moments we capture in your engagement portrait to add beautifully personal touches to your wedding day?

We can create unique products just for you from Save The Date Cards to guest books and signing frames, all you need to do is add an engagement portrait to your wedding package:

http://www.thephotographyboutique.com.au/weddings

 

February at the Studio

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We don’t think there is such a thing as a quiet month in the world of CDPD. We get asked “So are you busy?’ OH MY GOD ARE WE BUSY!!  (which is great because we LOVE what we do J)Here’s a little look at what we got up to in February at the studio…

February Weddings

We had the privilege of photographing two fabulous weddings this month. A little quieter than past Februarys, but we are grateful for that as March is going to be a dooooooooozy.

Our first was the stunning wedding of Tabitha and Lance down in Pemberton on the 2nd of February. We love Pemberton and Clare would move there in a heartbeat if she was a closet millionaire and didn’t need to be in Margaret River or Busselton every weekend. The green lushness of the forests just makes her heart sing, as they did Tabitha and Lance and their wedding guests. Lance had great fun driving his antique red truck as the wedding car, and it made for pretty awesome wedding photos with the background of trees and ancient train tracks.

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On the 8th of February we joined Laura and David at the fabulous Watershed Winery in Margaret River. It was a heartfelt late afternoon ceremony followed by a fun and joyful reception with family and friends in the restaurant. The surrounds of the winery are just beautiful and made the perfect backdrop for the bridal party images.

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February Portraits

This month we celebrated three engagements with our fabulous E-Sessions.

Diona and Ryan started a VERY windy session with Clare and Jo at Back Beach before finishing up finding shelter at Maidens Reserve (it’s always great to have a backup plan!) Clare took Sophie and Jesse, along with their adorable puppies, to a special loved up Valentines session on the Australind Foreshore, and Josh and Sarah got up nice and early to hang out in Dalyellup with Clare one Saturday morning!

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It’s fabulous to get to know our clients so well leading up to their wedding days, it makes The Big Event even more exciting and enjoyable, our couples (especially the boys) get to find out it’s not as scary as it seems – and we get to make awesome things like Guest Books and Save the Dates!! We created amazing Save the Date cards for Larissa and Byron this month for their wedding in Tassie. Fully custom designed, printed on gorgeous textured art paper. We are currently designing some for Sophie and Jesse too!

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But it’s not all just about our couples, we love hanging out with families here at the studio too. We got to hang out with two extended families this month, the Godsell’s and the Bonser families. That special occasion is the perfect reason to drag all those family members back home for a weekend and get all the kids together - all the cousins get to say HI, and Mum finally achieves that special family portrait she has been wanting for years.

Good planning is essential with larger groups, enabling excellent colour combinations and the perfect location to complement nicely. We always have planning sessions without portrait clients and with larger groups it’s even more essential so that everyone co-ordinates nicely to achieve that perfectly designed portrait image.

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We also got to spend time with baby Annie and her family for a studio session to complete a set of wall art that mum and dad wanted to create for each of their kids.

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 BIG EVENTS!

While Clare was out frolicking at Tabitha and Lance’s wedding Jo stayed closer to home to show face at the annual Lord Forrest Wedding Expo. It was a super busy day that was put together well by the team at the Lord Forrest, and Jo had lots of fun chatting to different people, from couples who had their Big Day all planned out to those just starting out and even some ladies who were so super organized their other halves hadn’t even popped the question yet – they just wanted to be prepared for when the special day came!!!

February Behind the Scenes

Behind the scenes we've been BUSY BUSY BUSY!! After our favourite camera and lens combo went swimming last month, it visited the Canon hospital for a few weeks and is now back in rotation along with our fabulous new equipment, two new cameras, four new lenses, a snazzy new tripod with video head, and various other bits and bobs.

We have met with many new wedding clients and have booked lots of new weddings for the coming year, and met with many of our up and coming wedding couples to plan their Big Day.

We have also been busy bees researching new products and are gearing up to launch some very exciting new wedding albums very soon. Our GORGEOUS new line of albums by New Zealand company Queensberry are benchmark AWESOME in the world of Wedding Albums, and we are looking forward to receiving our first sample album in the coming weeks.

We are introducing a new service this month too…Fusion Wedding Videos!! Our first ones will be shot in March and we are super excited to create some fabulous moving art for our very lucky clients.

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Both Clare and Jo celebrated their BIRTHDAYS this month - Jo’s on the 17th and Clare’s on the 18th! More proof that we are really carbon copies of each other (although Clare is actually about 20 years older than Jo... well maybe only 5). We celebrated with a few glasses of bubbles at the Bull and Bush Tavern with our families and friends.

In our own families…. Clare’s hubby John has started his Dip Ed in Maths and Media Education up in Perth, so travels up and back every week to go to ECU in Joondalup, leaving Clare and Sam to be awesome at home. This will be one very busy and full on year for him and Clare, but will mean excellent future prospects for everyone. Sam the Man is 16 months old (OMG), running everywhere, full of beans and a total joy. His current favorite word is MUM (YAY!!!!)

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True to form Jo took advantage of her birthday and stretched out celebrations for most of the month, so she’s looking pretty tired but she had a great time and still has a permanent smile on her face J

March is already shaping up to be the busiest one ever, so we look forward to sharing the joy with you all and we’ll let you know what we got up to when it’s all over!

Busselton Engagement Portrait ~ Laura and Josh

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When we plan an Engagement Session, we find out what makes our couples tick, what makes them special, what makes them THEM!Laura and Josh love to feed the ducks together, and love to hang out in Busselton....so lets go find some ducks in Busselton!! YAY!

Great choice in Bling too. Love a good Engagement Ring shot!

Newborn lifestyle Portrait ~ Baby Xavier

One of my most favorite things is meeting the new additions to my past clients families. Elizabeth and Stephen were married not so long ago, actually they were the last wedding I shot before I popped out my own little bundle in 2012.Little Xavier didnt want to sleep for us, so we captured lots of cuddles and smiles and awesome baby fabulousness!

Courtney, Anthony, Benjamin and BUMP!

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I love it when we get to know a secret...something super special that's just between a few selected awesome people, and us, just for a short time....I got to spend an afternoon with Courtney and Anthony, recording their pregnancy announcement!! YAY! I knew before their family did! (not the grandparents...but the rest of them...)

One Facebook Post later, along with our amazing images, and the world was told...

We also got to have fun with Super Pup  Benjamin...their first baby - around the grounds of Thomas Little Hall in Dardanup, and Courtney's family farm a little further south.

Happy New Year!

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed spending time with your loved ones :-)The studio has now reopened after a well earned two week Christmas break, and we are hard at work catching up with all our enquiries and gearing up for a very busy upcoming wedding season.

Thank you so much to everyone who came to see us at Bunbury Centrepoint in December to have their photo taken with Santa. You all helped make it a truly enjoyable venture and we hope you enjoyed the experience as much as we did!

We hope to see you there again next year and we will be sending out a quick feedback survey very soon, so join our mailing list for your chance to have your say and make sure that next year's Santa Photo experience is even bigger and better than ever!

Here at the studio we have made some important New Year resolutions, and top of our list is to dedicate ourselves to making Clare Day Photographic Design the very best it can be, spoiling our clients, and of course spending quality time with our own families.

The studio will now be closed on Mondays, and open for business 9-5 Tuesday to Friday each week. We are also available on weekends by appointment.

Whether you are getting married, celebrating a new milestone, or simply want to take time out to enjoy yourselves, get in touch. We can create some beautiful memories for you that you will treasure forever.

Here's to a fabulous 2014 - we look forward to sharing it with you!

 

 

Engagement Photography ~ Renae and Dion

We love to have Engagement Sessions with our clients, for a number of reasons.

It helps us to get to know each otherIt makes our clients more comfortable in front of the camera, making for better images on their wedding daywe get to create amazing natural images of two people in LOVE and can produce beautiful artwork to decorate their new home together

We can produce awesome Guest Books for their upcoming wedding!

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Check out our new studio!

We realise things have been pretty quiet in blog town lately here at Clare Day but it's not because we haven't been hard at work. In fact it's because we have been soooo hard at work that we just haven't had time!

So many exciting things have been happening that it's hard to even know where to start. But let's try starting here......

INTRODUCING OUR FABULOUS NEW BUNBURY STUDIO!!!

Business is going so well and we love our clients so much that we decided you deserve a beautiful space to come and visit when you come to see us.

And we deserve it too ;-)

Our studio is a classy space full of beautiful smiling faces (on the walls and in the office!) where you can come to see our latest and greatest work, catch up with us, and make big beautiful plans to create amazing memories - from weddings and milestones to all the moments in between.

Of course with such a lovely space at our disposal we thought it would be a shameful waste if we didn't make the very most of it, so stay tuned for our next post...when we'll be introducing you to our awesomely talented new studio photographer Jo!

Our new studio is at 3 Zoe Street, Bunbury - next to Harley Davidson (brrrrmmmmmm.....)

We just love visitors so drop in and see us any time :-)

Bunbury Engagement Session ~ Alyce and Michael

Alyce and Michael's Margaret River Wedding is THIS SATURDAY!! YAY!!! We shot their gorgeous Engagement Session a couple of months ago and made the most stunning Guest Book out of them. I cant wait to show it off, but for now we can just go oooooh at the pretty images...