Coralee & Alex - Photographers

Adventures in Santorini – August 2012

admin — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 06:28:07 +0000

Alex and I are getting very excited for our next big European adventure coming up in mid July… (so flippen excited!!!) We will mainly be cruising around Germany and Switzerland this time, and photographing weddings along the way. Oh yeah, stay tuned as I’m sure we will be blogging about our adventures! In anticipation for this trip I started the long tedious task of organising our personal travel photos from last year! Man we took a lot of photos!! I found myself getting lost in all our amazing memories, and Santorini was definitely one of our favourite places we visited. Seriously, it’s a dream. The place actually looks exactly the same as the post cards!! Anyway, I thought you might like to see some of my snaps. Enjoy C x

Introducing Tamryn & Matt – Kumeu Valley Estate Wedding, Auckland

admin — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:41:32 +0000

Alex and I had such an AMAZING day photographing these two last Friday. I’m so excited to share the whole wedding, but until then here are some sneak peeks for y’all. Congratulations Tam & Matt! C&A xx

Jacki & Rogan’s Summer BBQ, Kiwi Bach Wedding – Waihi

admin — Mon, 27 May 2013 01:28:30 +0000

Aah, Summer! Take us back! What a delight it was to photograph Jacki and Rogan recently! Their wedding was held at a super-cute little family bach in Waihi Beach. Coralee went to high school with Jacki, so it was also a fun-filled day of re-unions for her too! It was a perfectly relaxed summer afair. The ceremony took place on the front lawn and afterwards guests enjoyed picnicking on the lawn as we headed across the road to the beach for a few bridal party shots. Just around the back of the bach was an incredible marque where Jacki, Rogan and their wonderful friends and family ate, partied and danced the night away. It was an epic day, with an amazing couple in the most stunning location. Congrats Jacki and Rogan! We love you guys! C&A xx

Olivia & Travis’ Rustic Farm Wedding – Karaka, Auckland

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:12:18 +0000

Where do we start with Olivia and Travis?! We had such a wonderful day filled with smiles, love and laughter! A serious highlight for us this summer. Liv and Trav and their incredible friends and family just had the most warm, friendly, loving vibe at this wedding. I suppose it’s pretty much just a reflection of them both as a couple! Liv lights up a room when she walks in, and Trav was looking dapper in that suit could melt any heart! Of course, the ties (and many other things for that matter) were lovingly handmade by Liv! These guys have such an eye for detail and everything came together so perfectly- from the light blue kombi van, to the table centre pieces, beautiful flowers, bunting and hay bales to the family farm in Karaka it was held!…this wedding was perfectly rustic. Perfect in every way! I think we might just have died and gone to photographer’s heaven for the day :-)

A few images from this wedding were featured in Issue Two of Magnolia Rouge Magazine – The Rustic Issue. But we couldn’t resist sharing a whole heap more here for you to enjoy! Liv and Trav’s wedding was one that we can’t really do justice with just words…..so check it out below!

C&A x

Dear to my heart

admin — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:43:08 +0000

This is a post dear to my heart. A few weeks back I photographed my older sister and her beautiful family. This should have been done months ago, but with the birth of her twin boys finding the time is hard! Doesn’t she look amazing for having recently had twins?!

Now, I am by no means a family portrait photographer! Children really are such a challenge to photograph… so unpredictable! I photographed, while Alex provided entertainment for the kids with toys! We also had Spencer (our wee dog) with us, which helped too- oh how they love Spencer!

Coralee x

Introducing Katie & Hadyn – Samoa Wedding

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:15:01 +0000

Just yesterday we returned to the cold, damp shores of Aotearoa following an incredible few days spent in Samoa. We’re actually still just in that stage where it all kind of feels like it was one big dream. One big, unreal, sunny, warm, pool-bar, tropical fruit-filled dream! We were lucky enough to be there to celebrate with Katie & Hadyn for their wedding ceremony on Wednesday at Aggie Grey’s Resort. Because we can’t really find the words to express how grateful we are that they invited us to come photograph them – and because we really just can’t hold off sharing a few frames from the day any longer – here’s a wee peek into Wednesday’s tropical celebration….Notice that epic golden Samoan sunset glow on their faces in the last photograph!? Oh!, take us back!

Introducing Shereen & Reuben

admin — Mon, 06 May 2013 02:08:10 +0000

These guys were married last Saturday. It did not stop raining all day!

You can’t control the weather but you can control what you make of the day! These guys didn’t let a few rain drops spoil their moods!

Jana and Phil’s incredible English fête meets fiesta party extravaganza Opoutere Beach wedding day…

admin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:12:15 +0000

Jana and Phil…the Badger and the Beer…two of our most favourite people in the whole wide world! We first met Jana in a quiet little Onehunga cafe almost a year before her wedding. She explained to us the plan for her wedding – an english fete meets mexican fiesta party extravaganza. She was to be married in the pine forest at Opoutere. We were excited…who wouldn’t be!?…fete!…pine forest! But I’m not sure we truly understood exactly the scale of what she meant until the we arrived on wedding day itself. It was incredible! Breathtaking! A celebration of epic proportions! Jana and Phil”s family had come from far and wide to join them in Opoutere and the good old Coromandel had most certainly turned it on for them. All the bridal party prepared in the same house as guests slowly arrived and joined in the celebrations on the lawn. There was coconut shy, skittles, sombreros, piñatas, a live band playing Beatles covers and candy-floss too! There was actually too many cute details to even begin to list.

After a couple of hours enjoying the sun, everyone began the short walk down into the forest where the ceremony would take place. We were in photograper’s heaven! The low afternoon light streamed in amongst the trees and we witnessed one of the most awesomely intimate and unique ceremonies that we’ve ever been lucky enough to be a part of. Compared to the bunting and colours and festivities of the fete…there was not a trace in the forest before we arrived indicating the spot the ceremony would take place…all that encompassed us as we gathered around awaiting Jana was the pine trees which formed the most epic of altars. Just the forest and us. Twenty minutes later, any passersby would be non-the-wiser that a wedding ceremony had just taken place. I loved that. So beautiful and simple. So NZ. It’s also worth mentioning that Jana had changed from her fete atire into the most amazing vintage gown!

After the ceremony all the guests took a short walk again – to Opoutere Beach – where everyone enjoyed a glass of champagne and cooled their toes in the ocean. Then it was off to a marque festooned in fairy lights for dinner. It was simply the perfect day spent with wonderful people. It reminds us of summer when we look back at these images. Take us back! Jana, Phil….we adore you both and look forward to catching up with you again soon! Until then we might have to just keep looking and looking again at this post!

C&A xx

Olivia and Travis – Magnolia Rouge Magazine

admin — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:55:00 +0000

Olivia and Travis… where do we begin with these two? It was SUCH an honor to photograph their special day. They are such a warm, big hearted couple who are so madly, deeply in love! And boy did they know how to throw a shindig! Every little detail was perfect and thought out, from the table centre pieces to the little names stitched on every groomsman tie. These two really set a bench mark and we were so thrilled to be there and to capture the events of the day unfold. Thank you, Olivia and Trav.

We knew the world would want to be inspired by their amazing taste so we were ecstatic when their beautiful wedding was featured in the latest issue of Magnolia Rouge Magazine! Below are the published pages from the magazine, but be sure to check out the magazine in it’s stunning entirety. It is chocka full of all things beautiful to inspire future brides and grooms! Thank you Kate for the feature.

We most definitely will be blogging all the images from this wedding in the future! Stay tuned!

C&A xx

Remember your special day – Wedding Album

admin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:22:36 +0000

Alex and I received this beautiful leather bound wedding album by courrier the other day, all ready to give to our wonderful clients Megan and Ed. We are very proud to use Kiss Books as our album supplier as we just LOVE the chic, simple yet sexy make of the albums! Not to mention the impecable printing and colours of the photos within. Megan and Ed opted for a black leather cover and added a number of extra pages to make this baby nice and fat!

I don’t think there is anything better than seeing the wedding images we created for them in a finished form. And I hope Megan and Ed will cherish this album for the rest of their lives!

C&A xx