Bentley Projects | Riette and Jason
Riette happens to be one of the funniest people I know. The first time we met was when I was shooting this wedding and I thought to myself, who is this funny girl. Well sometime later I found myself shooting Riette’s engagement session with her new fiancé Jason. I loved working with them at their engagement session, so I knew I’d love their wedding, and I wasn’t disappointed. It was fantastic!
I loved Riette’s dress. It was so fun yet simple and I loved that it didn’t have a train, definitely a change and so nice to work with in photos! I also loved the bright colors her girls were in and the matching ties, suspenders and socks for the men. My two other favorite things were that Jason surprised Riette with a new HUGE ring during the ceremony. The other is that Riette is from South Africa and in a nod to tradition he brought in a steer to act as a dowry. Then he told her parents they really couldn’t keep the steer, but that he’d purchased a huge freezer full of meat to stand in it’s place. It was a cute and endearing gesture topped off with a gift of a cowbell as a remembrance.
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Huge shout out to
Cicely Rocha Miller of Life Design Event Planning
Kristin Sanches of Atlasta Catering
Jennifer Hoffman of Encore Creative
Sean Barry at Tugston DJ
and of course Riette’s staff at Bentley Projects!
Riette and Jason say:
I work in the wedding industry and thereby I work with a lot of different photographers. Choosing your photographer is almost the most important vendor, it is the only item you take with you after the wedding.
Your only physical memory. There are truly a lot of talented photographers out there, but if I had to make the decision again I would have chosen Darby again for my own wedding. The key thing that made me choose her was at our first meeting she brought 2 albums the genuinely looked like 2 different photographers had done the work. This told me that she did not have a particular look, but that she created a method and look around the brides personal taste and personality. And both albums were absolutely AMAZING.
Darby has also shot 2 of my clients weddings and the brides could not have been more different in personality but the photos matched each couple BEAUTIFULLY! Honestly I cannot say enough wonderful things about her, she will be amazing to work with I guarantee it, she will give you photographs that will make you tear up!
My dad who is not impressed by much could not get over how amazing her work is! I wish I had better stronger words to convince you how amazing she is and that you should hire her but I cannot think of any, I just know this will be a decision that you will never regret!
