Laser Engraved iPad with Pre-loaded Digital Wedding Album

Last week I wrote a blog post hinting at an innovative way to present newlywed couples with photos from their wedding day.
I often ask myself, is it always worth spending upwards of £400 for a wedding album?
How long does it stay out on display for?
How many people get to see it, feel it, appreciate it?
How long before the album is stored away?

My answers lead me to think about other items, of similar monetary value, that's more practical. A solution maybe? Something more permanent?

What was the 8th most popular Christmas gift in 2011 in the UK? iPads.

Ok, so, bear with me here.

I'm thinking, ok, well iPads? That's not a brand new idea, it's not my idea either, but hey, no need to re-invent the wheel here right?

So, now we're offering iPads as an add-on for our Wedding Photography Packages.

We'll register your new iPad on your behalf and then upload all your images in neat little folders for you.

A whole new way of reliving the memories from the most important day in your life as a couple.

Right, so what's unique about having an iPad? How can we customise it slightly?

Personalise it!

I've been researching companies for a few months and then by pure accident found an absolutely fantastic company based in London, able to help me personalise each item. Yes, you can actually do the following on the back of your brand new iPad.

Have it laser engraved.

What shall we engrave onto the back I hear you ask? Well... how about:

1. A personalised message from your hubby to be? (or even from you to him?)

2. Your first dance's song lyrics

3. Your names and the date of your wedding day

4. Your favourite poem

5. Your vows

ok, ok... let's push the boat out further...

If you could have almost anything engraved onto the back of your iPad Wedding Album, why not have your favourite photo engraved on the back? Oh yes, did you know you could do that?

Or even better,

on your wedding day, we'll provide you with the template and the available space you have for printing.

Print the template onto a piece of cardboard, walk around with a permanent marker and have friends and family leave you both little messages and wedding wishes, only to then later, have us send off the scribbled template, to be scanned and then lasered onto the back of your Digital Wedding Album.

AWESOME...?

Yeah, I thought so too.

And if you already have an iPad? Send it our way after the wedding and as well as uploading your gorgeous images onto it, we'll send off the iPad to get it all personalised, then have it couriered to your home.

simples.

For more information, a price list and the different options available, ping a little e-mail to info@nadineburzler.com

Other benefits and features of owning an iPad that doubles as both a Digital Wedding Album and a Tablet Computer?

-You not only have all your images stored remotely onto the device, but it's backed up on the iCloud, so if hypothetically speaking anything had to happen the device itself, you'd have all the original images stored on a virtual platform that you can access from anywhere in the world where a wifi/internet connection is available. Meaning you will NEVER lose any of your images.

- You can carry your wedding album with you wherever you go. You don't need an internet connection to access your images either. No need to lug around a heavy hand bound leather wedding album, because you can carry the slim, lightweight tablet computer with you in your handbag and show off your images to anyone, anywhere.

-If you have a videographer film your wedding, you can do the same. Upload your footage onto the iPad, have it backed up onto the iCloud and press play to relive the entire day. No CD, DVD and bound album necessary. This way everything is stored and accessed from the same place.

-Your friends and family would like their own copies of the images from your wedding? No problem!

The iPad can also act as a portable storage device. Take it with you when you visit friends/family and then transfer the image/video files onto their computers so they can have their own copies too.

Now of course if you do prefer to have your images printed,  have an album designed and created with love, care and attention to detail. You will always have that option available, because there is still a place for beautifully printed images and coffee table books in this world. It all depends on your budget and preferences.

Whatever your lifestyle, purpose, personal taste and comforts are. We've got you covered, only now, we have a really unique and personalised digital solution available to the gadget loving brides and grooms amongst us too.

{Portrait & Lifestyle} Emily

Just over a month ago I received an e-mail from Emily with regards to getting a few portraits done here in Brighton. As wedding season is still a few months away I couldn't resist. So I said yes.

I hadn't met Emily in person before the day of the shoot and we had only communicated via e-mail, so really neither of us knew what to expect aside from what we had talked about prior to the day.

Emily came to me as a referral from a friend of hers all the way in Mexico! A big mystery which has still not been revealed. Thank you friend.. ^_^ You should know Emily is amazingly good at keeping a secret!

We met on the seafront and then walked to the Pub du Vin for a quick cuppa. I thought, hey, she's never met me, let's go grab a coffee and hopefully that will help her relax in case she's nervous.

Quickly, I learned that Emily is not really the nervous kind. In fact, she radiates confidence and positive energy. Emily was telling me about her life, the last 7 years she spent in Brighton learning English, her plans to travel to Spain in a week's time, making her way to Morocco and then eventually, finally, back home to Venezuela where Emily is from. She's hoping to take a bit of Brighton to Maracay with her, so
having professional photos done on the seafront was a well deserved treat and something Emily really wanted to do before saying goodbye to Brighton for good.

Below are a few pics from the day.

Enjoy!

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Emily,

Ai, que pena que ya te vas!
En el muy poco tiempo que te he conocido, gracias por hacerme reír y por haber compartido tanto conmigo. De verdad, eres una inspiración aunque no lo sepas tu, todavía.

Que lo pases súper bien en tus viajes y espero que el solecito salga especialmente para ti.
Toma un tragito a mi salud cuando llegas a Malaga porfis! :)

Un abrazo fuerte,

Nadine x

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{Operation 118} Earth laughs in flowers.

"You'll really like Katie", Lisa said as we drove to Shoreham to meet the lady in charge of flower arranging for Nick and Lisa's big day in May of this year. Katie's shop is in situated in Shoreham, however, most brides would also know her from The Flower Stand in Hove.

Lisa was right. We walked into the shop and Katie greeted us with a smile. Probably one of the least intimidating vendors I've ever met. Super lovely, very creative and best part for me was meeting her little dog Freddie, who is gay and has a boyfriend. Yeah, I know, I giggled too.

Together, we ooh'ed and ahh'ed over all the gorgeous flowers as Katie talked us through a couple of ideas and showed us a few potential arrangements.

"Have you seen pink gypsophila before?", Katie says and both Lisa and I started drooling as we were shown a picture of it. Needless to say, "Pile on the gyp!", was one of the most popular phrases that day.

I can't wait to see the final creations on Nick and Lisa's wedding day at Newick Park!


And as if Lisa needs another reminder, she grabs her phone excitedly and says: "Only 3 months, 13 days, 59 minutes and 16 seconds to go before the wedding!"

Soooo cute! x

As the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson would say: "Earth laughs in flowers..." so,  I couldn't help but take a few pictures to capture them as they smiled.  Have a great week ahead peeps!

Enjoy x

N

{Personal Interest} Saatchi Gallery & The Sunday Times Magazine

Every Sunday my granddad religiously buys and reads the Sunday times newspaper. He's getting old really fast and often I watch him as he struggles to read the small print, but still, he'll buy it and then keep himself out of trouble for a few hours!

My granddad, or "Oupa" as I affectionately call him, usually tears open the plastic cover and then hands me the magazines... He hunches over the paper and starts to read with one eye, whilst I sit back and read the Style magazine. It's become our little habit.

A few weeks ago, I read that the Sunday Times magazine was having it's 50th anniversary and that there'd be an exhibition of the magazine covers from the last 50 years. Some of the most incredibly talented and bravest photographers this world has ever known, have their photographs on the front pages every week and as I've only seen a small percentage of those covers in the last 12 years of living in the UK, I was hoping to get the chance to go and visit the gallery myself to appreciate all the others.

So upon my last trip to London,  I decided to stop by the Saatchi Gallery for quick little look.
(PS. Tomorrow, Saturday, 18 Feb 2012 is the last day of the exhibition. If you'd like to go see the images in person, I'd encourage you to drop by)

Once I got there, I felt compelled to wander through the entire gallery and admire the rest of the art that was on show. I have to say, not everything was my cup of tea, but hey, art, just like photography is a very personal thing. Doesn't mean it's not good.

Anyhoo, for those of you who can't make it to London, take a walk with me and I'll show you pictures of incredible pictures and art.

By the way, if you are sensitive to the world of war photography, please come back to the blog on another day. Some of these images are quite unsettling.

Let's go...