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Real Wedding | Michelle & Karien
At the heart of the Hooray Weddings ethos, is love. We don’t discriminate when it comes to this topic and therefore recognise subtle exclusions in the wedding industry. There are a lot of blogs who do...
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Dear Derryn | Bride has asked me to lose weight
Dear Derryn I’m a bridesmaid at my friend’s wedding in April. Over the past few months she has subtly asked me to lose weight by asking me to come to the gym with her, emailing me diet programs, and...
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The Hooray Christmas Party 2015
Hooray Xmas Party from The Shank Tank on Vimeo. At the beginning of December, Hooray Weddings hosted it’s very first networking party in celebration of the end of the year. We have such an awesome...
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Real Wedding | Natalie&Stephen’s night-time ceremony
Having a night time ceremony is truly something unique, and so genius!! What hadn’t we thought of it? The crisp evening air, the sounds of the night, the moody atmosphere, glowing fires and lanterns –...
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Wedding Venue | Talloula, Botha’s Hill
With “closer to home” weddings becoming more and more popular, we are so excited to have this amazing venue right on our door step. Allow us to introduce you to Talloula. Talloula, situated in...
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HOORAY STATIONERY | Valentines day desktops
And just like that, January is over and we enter into what is not only Durban’s hottest month of the year, but what is also known as the month of love! Valentines day is just around the corner and...
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Real Wedding | Engaged and married within 88 minutes
“You don’t even need to be asking me this, you have been my yes from day one” Alright Disney, here’s the script for your next fairytale. It’s a pleasure. The guests are waiting in anticipating,...
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To feed or not to feed
Dear brides Please feed us. I didn’t think that it was necessary to ask my brides if I could eat dinner at their wedding, because up until now it hasn’t been a problem. There has always been a seat and...
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HOORAY WORKSHOP 1 | Business Schmizness
Being full-time wedding photographers, we have created a lovely network of industry professional friends at home in Durban, South Africa. When we created Hooray Weddings we had already been playing...
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HOORAY STATIONARY | All you need is Love
And its here – the cheesiest weekend of the year. Restaurants are booked to capacity, roses are pretty much sold out everywhere and for one weekend – and one weekend only – chocolates are triple their...
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Real wedding | seeing double?
At first glance, you might think this is a mirror image – photoshop maybe? Well you’d be wrong. This is an image of two ladies who share such a strong bond, that they decided to share their wedding...
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Guest Writer |Copyright laws
I recently came across some of my wedding photos on a Portuguese wedding blog. The blogger was nice enough to offer credit via a link to my website, but she copied these photos from my blog and shared...
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We lost all of our wedding photos – forever!
Hearing your photographer say “I have lost your wedding photos” would be a nightmare for any new bride, but for Ché it was the beginning of an adventure. Ché is a blogger (You may have heard of...
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Styled Shoot | Toujours
Tracey from Toujours Wedding House (a Durban company stocking exquisite bridal gowns) approached us with an article for our blog. Before we get going, I realise that the terms “styled shoot’ gets...
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Real Wedding | Ian & Tammy, Montpellier, Western Cape
It is really popular for a bride and groom in lieu of wedding favours to donate an amount of money to a charity of their choice. But to ask your guests not to purchase you a wedding gift and rather...
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Hooray Workshop | Business Schmizness
On the 22nd February, we hosted our very first Hooray workshop. This might confuse you as we are a wedding blog. Why are we running workshops? Let me explain… Besides running this blog, we are both...
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REAL WEDDING | Jo and Pierre
Jacki Bruniquel is a good friend of ours. When I (Derryn) had just finished studying photography, Jacki was already working as a wedding photographer and needed an assistant for a wedding she was...
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Real Wedding | Mike & Jay’s Star Wars Wedding
“We wanted a story not a wedding album filled with pictures” were the words used by Mike and Jay when choosing their photographers Knot Just Pics. In our mind, we could not have thought of a better...
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Real Wedding | Gold and pink New Year’s Wedding
When this wedding appeared on my Facebook page shortly after New Year, I immediately contacted our friend Micaela from Micaela de Freitas Photography. We just HAD to feature this gorgeous NYE wedding...
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Styled shoot | World Down Syndrome day
Today is World Down Syndrome day and so we are celebrating a young lady who through her passion for modelling is changing society’s view of people with disabilities. This isn’t a very wordy blog post,...
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