Attention: SouthBound Brides! It’s that time of year when we recruit a couple of special ladies to share their wedding journey with the world – could it be you?

You’ll need to:

• be planning a wedding to take place in South Africa (although you can be from or based anywhere, of course!)
• have a wedding date between January-May 2014
• be committed to writing ten blog posts to an agreed schedule over the next few months
• have agreed with your photographer that your engagement and wedding will be featured FIRST on SouthBound Bride ahead of any other blogs or magazinesRead More

Well, lovelies, it’s almost time for me to say goodbye for a little while, kind of (because just LOOK at a sneak peek of what’s coming – you won’t even know I’m gone!). I know things have been quiet this week, as I have been packing up my house, but the ironic thing is that the reason I hadn’t got round to it before is that for the last six weeks I have been working non-stop on August’s content. A lot of late nights y’all. Because I’m a total sucker for punishment (and I love my readers), I didn’t just want to give you a month of archive and stand-in posts, but the best darn two-posts-a-day brand new awesome content I could find. I am pretty excited about it, actually. It’s all lined up and ready to go (assuming tech gremlins don’t take it out, but I have some help making sure that doesn’t happen – thanks Louise!). I hope you love it. I hope you have a WONDERFUL August. And I hope you don’t email me, because I am going to be 100% off the grid, and I won’t answer you. Sorry. Don’t take it personally. I’ll be somewhere on a vineyard in Tuscany, getting dirt under my fingernails and poetry back into my soul. I really, really need a break. And by the time I’m back I’ll be aching to bring you all kinds of new loveliness and get cracking on some projects I have in mind for when I am in South Africa. Can’t wait.

So! Wish me luck, and I’ll see you in a month. :)

xox

 

Before this Sunday comes to an end (although on this side of the equator with the sun still out, it feels like it might be endless), I wanted to share some recent press that SouthBound Bride has been delighted to have. I only do a select number of photoshoots every year, so I’m always really thrilled when they get featured in print and online, and especially so when they get picked up way beyond what we’d initially hoped!

WEDDING FLOWERS

First up is a gorgeous shoot I did with Anneli Marinovich late last year, which you’ll be seeing more of soon. It has been featured in the May/June issue of Wedding Flowers, which both Anneli and I are delighted by. There were SUCH gorgeous details on this shoot (even if we had to battle some wind to shoot them!) so if you’re in the UK make sure you pick up a copy while you still have a chance, as it’s almost time for the new issue.Read More

By now you’ll probably know all about The Editorial Wedding (especially if you’re a photographer – at least I HOPE you’ll know all about it by now!). Behind the scenes, we’re planning up a storm to make our first workshop amazing, and I can’t wait! But Anneli and I also really believe in supporting small businesses, so we’re really excited about today’s announcement.

We’re giving away a scholarship to attend our EdWed workshop on 9 April at the beautiful Cannizaro House in Wimbledon. Lunch and refreshments, a full day of teaching, and the most gosh-darn-gorgeous styled shoot will all be included, as well as a take-home guide to blogs and mags – worth £325. It’s everything you need to know about shooting and submitting for publication, and to get you fired up and in the editorial mindset. It’s a brilliant opportunity for a photographer who has the technical expertise, but maybe not the cash to make it happen right now.

SO. Here’s how it works. If you would like to enter, just head over to the Editorial Wedding facebook page and leave us a comment telling us about your business, and how winning the scholarship will help and inspire you. We’ll announce a winner early next week.

And if you want to make sure of your place, drop us a mail at [email protected] to book as places are still available.

If you’ve been following along here, you’ll know that it’s not long now until SBB together with Anneli Marinovich will be hosting our very first workshop – The Editorial Wedding. It’s all about getting your photography published, and I have so much exciting stuff to share on the day. One of these (the most exciting, in fact) is the styled shoot being put together by the lovely Louise of b.loved with a crack team of suppliers. When we started planning EdWed, I asked Louise to put together a shoot that would get her excited, and get photographers excited, full of details and gorgeousness and the things we wedding people dream of pretty much all day and all night. A week later, we had the following conversation.

Gaby: “Hey Louise, so what sort of look do you think we’ll be going for?”

Louise: “It’s kind of Kate Spade meets Elizabeth Messina.”

Then she said a lot of other things about colour and pattern and table arrangements and ceremony areas, but I’d kind of stopped listening.

Gaby: “Dude, you had me at Kate Spade and Elizabeth Messina.”

So that’s all I’m going to say to you too. And if you’re anything like me, that’s all you’ll need. What I will say is that everytime I get one of Louise’s style boards, or when we sat last week discussing details over champers at Cannizaro House (our fantastic workshop venue), I want to make a lot of happy squealing noises. And also, I’m seriously considering finding a husband in the next three weeks, just so I can get married in Louise’s setup. It’s going to be gorgeous. Photographers: you should be there.

To get you excited, we’re sharing a few pins from Louise’s super secret Pinterest board this week (head over to b.loved and the EdWed facebook page for more, and Anneli will be sharing one soon too). Here’s mine :)

Image source: Danielle Capito Photography via 100 Layer Cake

The Editorial Wedding will be held on 9 April 2013 at Cannizaro House. Cost is £325 including lunch and a takeaway guide to UK and international publications – for full details please see our website. Not much time now, so if you’re interested please drop us a line at [email protected].