Niamh & Seamus – wedding photo booth

We’re happy to say that we’re just after uploading our latest video. It’s of the photo booth we did at Niamh & Seamus’ wedding. These guys really were great fun and they had a blast in front of the camera.

For those of you who don’t know, the photo booth is a little something we offer couples for their wedding. It’s a great throw in for your entourage who can pop by the booth and get a lovely picture of themselves with their loved one or with a group of their cousins they haven’t seen in ages. Sometimes people are happy just to come by and get a nice portrait of themselves and then other times they just go wild. – Like this crowd!

… Have a little look at their antics and let us know what you think! :)

You can also download it here

Niamh & Seamus – wedding photography

One of the sweetest weddings ever?

Niamh & Seamus got married on the longest (and quite possibly the hottest!) day of the year and we had the pleasure of photographing it.

They tied the knot in St. Patrick’s Church in Lucan. After the ceremony ended and the congregation flooded out into the baking sun along came an ice-cream van loaded with 99’s, slush puppies and screwballs for all! Let’s just say, it was a big hit. After everybody had their fill of frozen treats we whisked away the newly-weds to Donadea Forest Park in Kildare to do a landscape session.

After that it was straight over to the Westgrove Hotel for the reception. It being Niamh and Seamus’ wedding, there was a an abundance of laughter during the speeches (and a fair share of tears too!) Getting back to the ‘sweet’ aspect … As if the gorgeous desserts which followed the meal and the ice cream van weren’t enough along came a couple of guys from ‘Sweet Memories’ who set up a Sweet Shop just outside the reception area! So in conclusion, it is my opinion that this wedding is a contender for the sweetest wedding of them all.

At the end of the night on the dancefloor, along came a mini Michael Jackson who wowed us all with his dancing abilities. Seamus (not wanting the spotlight to stay off him too long!:) hopped in for some of the action and thrilled the whole crowd by having a dance off.

P.S.: Photo booth coming soon…

Guest post at Tinkerbelle Bride blog

Tinkerbelle writes a wonderful little wedding blog over at tinkerbellebride.blogspot.com It’s certainly one of the better wedding blogs we’ve come across this side of the Atlantic (for a change!) A short while ago she contacted us and asked us if we’d like to write a guest post for her. We duly obliged.

Have a look :   http://tinkerbellebride.blogspot.com/2010/07/photo-friday-guest-blog-from-white-tea_06.html

Anne Marie & Will – engagement

Tucked away, down in the South East corner of Ireland, we had the pleasure of photographing Anne Marie and Will. They brought us along to a lovely beach in Wexford, hidden away from the rest of the world. A place they love to spend time together.

It was a beautiful June evening and everything was bathed in a gorgeous warm light.

The two of them went ahead and did the things they love to do, whether it was skimming stones, picnicking, flying a kite or just plain ol’ goofing around :)

One thing’s for sure, they love being together. And we loved photographing it!

Sarah and Declan’s Wedding – Sixmilebridge

Sarah and Declan’s wedding brought us all the way down to Sixmilebridge in county Clare, to a little church appropriately called … ‘Little Church’. We received a very warm reception when we arrived the evening before and Sarah’s clan treated us like members of the family.

The day itself kicked off for me with photographing a hot towel shave all the lads were getting done in Limerick ’stab’ city in a cool little barbers called Figaro’s. Aga, on the other hand, went to photograph the bridal preparations, which only really got underway about five minutes before the ceremony was due to take place! The wedding was a real family effort with Sarah’s mum constructing not one, but two, floral bridal arches along with the lovely pews in the church. Sarah’s brother Johnny put together a wonderful display of lanterns in the reception area (The Dunraven Arms Hotel) and lots more besides.

It was a beautiful Spring day and the light was fantastic. After the ceremony we took off with the Bridal Party to some of the gorgeous natural locations in Clare for a little landscape session. … During which not even a muddy field (against a gorgeous white dress) or a few horses (around an allergic Best Man) could possibly have spoiled things! Taking photographs of Sarah & Declan’s family and friends was a pleasure from the word go.

Other highlights included a singing waiter and bottles of ‘Fat Bastard’ wine.

Below is a picture of Declan’s brother Brendan, being a bit of a mummy during his hot towel shave.

Top 20 Wedding Photographers 2010

We made the Wedding Journal Magazine’s list of the Top 20 Wedding Photographers in Ireland. It’s so nice to know that our photographs aren’t so bad afterall. :)

Tea that is … white!

We’d just like to make a tiny announcement:

The last blog entry was an April Fools and is not to be taken seriously. White Tea is not changing to Black Tea. We’ve had many people query us about the name change and we’d just like to reiterate; it was just a little April Fool prank :)

Black is the new White

After much debate and deliberation, we have decided to change our name.

There are several reasons for this:

1. White tea is not a very popular drink in Ireland, with only 8% of people having actually tasted it before. Other varieties such as green, black and rooibos ranked much higher. As far as the brand name is concerned all research suggests that we should adopt a name which is more familiar and therefore more attractive to people.

2. There is a suit rental business which have been operating in Finglas for the past 5 years who go by the name of White Tie. Sadly our name “sounds the bleedin’ same” as theirs according to the manager of White Tie. This has led to at least two or three phone calls to White Tie from people looking for photographic services.

3. Also, having asked numerous clients and after conducting a full survey we have come to realise that the name White Tea does not sit well with many people. Just over half of those surveyed found the name ‘a bit racist’.

In an effort to give the people what they want, quell White Tie’s frustration and to stamp out any notions of our little company being a racially intolerant business, as and from April 2nd 2010, White Tea will be known as Black Tea*.

*Please don’t hate us Niall O’Farrell!

Colin & Donna’s Photo Booth

Q. So what is the Photo Booth by White Tea? Is it a passport style photo booth which you cram yourself into to get a few mugshots?

A. Not really. The photo booth by White Tea is a nifty little addition to your wedding where we set up a mini studio somewhere near where your guests are dancing and jigging in the reception venue. We do it a little later on in the night when everybody’s let their hair down a wee bit and they’re all perfectly willing to do a Kate Moss on it in front of the camera! It’s perfect if you want to be sure of getting great, fun pictures of all your wedding guests.

At Colin and Donna’s wedding we premiered our Photo Booth. We really couldn’t have envisaged the amount of fun everyone including ourselves had with it. We had a blast from the moment the first guests made their way over to our makeshift studio. And boy did Colin and Donna’s crew know how to let loose! Don’t take my word for it though, have a quick look at the slideshow we put together for them.

And as a special little pressie; if you like the slide-show you can download it here for free!

Colin & Donna’s wedding

We have to tell you a bit about Colin and Donna’s wedding. Colin and Donna first stepped into our studio last Autumn. We had a little chat about what their wedding was going to be like and we really liked what we heard. It was going to be fun, quirky & classy and they mentioned some cool elements which really appealed to us and made their wedding quite different. More importantly they were the soundest and most fun couple you could hope to meet … this is pretty easy to see from the photographs we took of them on their big day.

They tied the knot at the tail end of January in the beautiful Corpus Christi Church on Griffith Avenue and the reception was held at Dunboyne Castle where the staff took great care of everybody.

So let us expand on these cool elements I mentioned earlier. Each of the tables at their reception was named after a sweet. They had tables christened ‘Bulls Eyes’, ‘Fried Eggs’, ‘Postman Pats’ and even ‘Flying saucers’. And of course there was a bowl of each candy at the relevant table! Another nifty addition to their reception was a caricaturist who did a damn good job at exaggerating everybody’s nicest and worst features! :)

The C Album

Here’s a few short words about the C Album. It’s a very straightforward album which isn’t one bit fussy. It’s just the way you’d expect a classic wedding album to look. It’s elegance really lies in it’s simplicity.

Competition Winners

And the grand winners to our wedding show competition are …*drum roll*… Ann Marie and Willie from County Kildare. Congratulations to the winners and we look forward to meeting up with you in the next week or two.

We would like to announce as well that we decided to extend our January Show promotion. You can get €150 off any wedding package if you book with us before 15th of February.

Thank you!

We’re just back from a very hectic weekend at the Wedding Journal Show fair in Citywest. So we’d like to say a big thank you to all of you who came to our stand! We really appreciated you taking the time to hear what we’re about and checking out our work. It was a pleasure meeting you all.

By the way, soon we will be announcing the winners of the competition we ran so stay tuned!

Wedding Journal Show

We are going to be at the Wedding Journal Show Fair this coming weekend: Friday 15th – Sunday 17th January 2010.  That’s 3 whole days of wedding fun. It’s taking place at the Citywest Hotel Convention Centre. We are going to have samples of all our albums, special offers and a welcoming smile for each of you. We hope you can make it.

By the way, I know it’s been tough the past while with the unexpected weather conditions, but we really can’t accept any excuses for non-attendance due to the snow. It is now time to come out of hibernation! Enough is enough! :)

So you know, our stand is going to be directly inside the main entrance on your right hand side.

Psssst! You can pick up the tickets at a discounted rate if you click here.

The Perfect Gift

It’s Christmas, it’s hectic, you’re inevitably going to spend hours trudging around town at the last minute getting soaked, frustrated and beaten to the checkout by forty other frantic customers in every shop you go. Of course, there will always be that one customer who’ll have gotten into town an hour earlier and who’ll have grabbed that last existing Barbie/ActionMan/iPhone/perfume just a second before you.

… Then there’s those people and you just don’t have a clue what to get them.. Don’t you love those guys? Hours spent ransacking gift shops and scouring shelves, only to end up getting them a vase or a candle set which you reluctantly hand them and run before they get a chance to tear off the giftwrap.

Let us save you the hassle. Why not get them one of our gift vouchers? The lucky person, couple, hamster or family on the receiving end of the voucher can use it for any of our services: portraits,  engagement, wedding, boudoir, you name it. We can also make them up for any amount you like.

Let me tell you, we were very fussy about making the vouchers beautiful so you really feel like you’re giving a lovely gift too.