The Wedding of Sarah and Rob

Wow where to start with this couple…. we will start at the beginning, we met Sarah and Rob in September 2015 and loved them from the start, they had only just started planning their Algarve wedding so didn’t have much booked but they knew they wanted us so booked us with a pending June 2017 date.

Sarah and Rob had a few problems with their first venue so we helped them find their perfect wedding venue, The Grande Real Santa Eualalia  Sarah started planning her Algarve Wedding all by herself, we love it when a couple do this and with the help from us and the Hotel Co ordinator’s Angela and Patricia, Sarah did an amazing job.

We met up with them a few days before and had a joint meeting with Wes and Duane from Algarve Dj Hire, Algarve Photo Booth and Algarve Wedding Letters, wasn’t really a meeting, a few beers and a chat about the wedding day, it was great for everyone to meet after all the months of group chats on whatsapp!

The Morning of their wedding started in Sarah’s Hotel room with her bridesmaids and flower girls were all getting ready, even though the room was very busy Sarah was very calm and had her make up done beautifully by Makeup by Sharon and her hair by Tracey from Talking Heads ,  Sarah’s sister Leanne helped Sarah on with her dress and we shut everyone next door so the sisters could have a moment.

We met Rob down at the ceremony, he didn’t want any prep photos and informed us he didn’t actually like having his photo taken, which is fine as we get this a lot so we caught up with him waiting for Sarah at the stunning ceremony location. Along with the Luxury all day Photography Package the couple had also booked an extended highlights video so along with myself videoing Filipe was flying the drone.

Leonard Beard conducted a lovely ceremony with Music from Leandro Russo , both good friends of ours so it was great to catch up for a beer at the cocktail hour.

Sarah’s friends and family were so friendly and we truly felt part of their Wedding day, the cocktail hour finished off with a balloon release of white, purple and turquoise balloons which were Sarah’s colours and not ones you would think about putting together BUT wow did they awesome, the balloons, flowers and decorations were all out of this world, check out the wedding video to see how amazing a balloon release can look during the day captured by the drone.

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The reception was in The Club and with the Mr & Mrs 4 ft Letters provide by Algarve Wedding Letters, the monogram provide by Algarve Dj Hire, the decorations Sarah brought over and the help of the Hotel staff we must say it looked pretty good.

The speeches started off with Sarah’s Dad, Keith, then Andrew, Robs Brother and finished off with Rob, he had a technical hitch with his iPad and ended up doing the whole speech from memory… Just as we thought the speeches had finished Sarah got up and did a special thanks to Kellie and myself for all the help we had given her over the past few years, it was very emotional and Kellie and I had to pull our sun glasses down to hide the tears, we were then given some lovely gifts including flowers, champagne and bracelet for Kellie and of course beer for me and a very personal Thank you card, we were totally stunning by this amazing gesture.

The meal was delicious and Sarah and Rob included us all in with the guests so Kellie and I were sat on a table with Filipe, Wes, Duane and Sarah’s Sister Leanne and her family and what a meal, Leanne was so lovely and as instructed by Sarah entertained us brilliantly, we just loved her.

Just before dessert we took Sarah and Rob to the beach, this was part of the day that Rob was not looking forward to, however that soon changed, the couple went for a walk along the beach so Filipe could do his stuff with the drone and then we did some one to one shots which included smoke and sparklers and Rob came back saying how much fun it was!! Result!

The evening started with their first dance and it wasn’t long before everyone was on the dance floor including a dance to Baby Shark, don’t know it? watch the end of the video :-). Wes from Algarve Dj Hire was the DJ and Duane from Algarve Photo Booth was manning the Magic Mirror which was so much fun, and later on in the evening the 4ft Mr & Mrs Letters change to S Heart R, it looked stunning.

The cutting of the cake which was provide but the Hotel was done outside with the nights sky as a back drop and with Firework Fountains you could not ask for a more special setting.

Thank you Sarah and Rob for letting us be part of you special day and for contacting us 2 years ago, we loved capturing your wedding and feel we have made firm friends for life with you both.

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