Wedding: Photo Session pictures

We had a small pre-wedding photo shoot after the City Hall Ceremony.
I wanted the theme to be Winter Fashion. We have a small preview of our photo session from Mihai Iovanov (he came with our photographer to provide lightning and to get more experience).
I am embedding the links from his blog with the pictures that I liked best. More pictures on his blog: http://www.iovanov.eu/ I think he did a great job.

 





 
 
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Wedding: City Hall Ceremony video

Because we are going to have a big wedding in July, we wanted a very small and intimate civil ceremony. We didn’t like the way so many people gather at the Romanian City Halls for a “ceremony” that resembles the “ceremony” when you get your passport or ID card. It didn’t look like anything that we wanted to celebrate with a lot of people. It was just a paper we needed to sign. No need for our close relatives to be there. So we did it very quickly with only our parents and sister attending. I liked it very much. I think we avoided the strange feeling that we would have had if we would’ve done all the rituals Romanians do.
I guess I think this way probably because I lived in Denmark for quite some time and here this is the way people think and are doing these things …
Anyway, we have a small video with the small city hall thing.

Makeup: I like Raul Flores

LiveJournal Tags: makeup,photos

I discovered him by navigating through fashion pictures on Flickr yesterday evening and I completely adore his fashion makeup.

Checkout his photostream @:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/biteandscratch/

Dance: Contemporary dance

My 2 favorite ever contemporary routines from “So you think you can dance” are these ones. The first is a routine by Mia Michaels and is my all time favorite.

And I also loved an older – also by Mia Michaels:

Wedding: Done deal

It’s almost a done deal that my civil wedding ceremony will take place on the 30th of January. It’s going to be a very very small ceremony. Only me and my fiance know about it so far. We’re going to invite our parents to a dinner outside and without them even suspecting we’re going to stop at the city hall and get married. Wearing jeans. Oh, the photographer also knows! And my sister :)

After the ceremony, we’re going to a nice restaurant and on one of the next days we plan on having a small photo shoot. And that’s all. Simple done deal. Our church ceremony and reception will take place on the 3rd of July so in about 5 months from the city hall ceremony.

Photo: I like

I like her photos. Very nice portraits although they are all black and white. I guess it works for portraits. I like more color though.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/catalina_filip/

And while I’m it here’s the results of the AAFR (Romanian Photographers Associations) 2009 competition: http://www.aafr.ro/noutati-131.htm

Glam glam!

Travelling: Cinque Terre

In the summer of 2009 we had one of our best vacations – Italy. We booked through Expedia our hotels in Rome for 5 days, then La Spezia (close to Cinque Terre) for another 5 days and finally Florence for the last 4 days. They were all 4 star hotels for which we got a pretty good deal, nice breakfast and very nice and comfortable rooms. We took into account staying in hostels and other hotels (less stars), but coming to just doing the calculations at the end of the day we were only spending about 10 eur additionally if we were to stay at the 4-star hotels for which we got the deals rather than the hostels. So, normally we went for the first choice.

It was wonderful. We had our already usual rendez-vous on the Rome airport (as I am flying from Copenhagen and he was flying from Bucharest) and then our different direction departure in Florence (me flying back to Cph and him flying back to Bucharest). Fortunately (or unfortunately?) all these rendez-vous will end this summer with our wedding when one of us will have to move.

Back to the post: Cinque Terre is so amazing. It’s a UNESCO world heritage and comprised in the Cinque Terre National Park. Everything there is untouched, unmodernized and the 5 villages are so colorful and bright. They are all on the coastline of the Italian Riviera on hills overseeing directly the Mediterranean sea. The 5 villages are: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernassa and Monte Rosso. All of them are interconnected through walking trails (which of course we walked through our stay there) and a regional train which mostly runs through tunnels. We ate at some very nice and cozy restaurants which serve very good and fresh seafood. We love their anchovies. Wine is also very good as there are plenty of vineyards on the hills surrounding the villages.

Here are some of our pictures.

 

Us on the trails walks between the villages.

Riomaggiore

 

 

 

 

  

 

Via del Amore which connects Riomaggiore and Manarola.

Us replicating the Via del amore lovers.

I am halting here this post and I will continue the story in a next one.

Glam glam!