Stunning Santorini Engagement

If you’re a fan of breathtaking views out on to the ocean then I think you are going to have trouble re-diverting your attention back to work today after scrolling through this truly stunning Santorini engagement session by Les Anagnou. The entire shoot is so good it nearly looks like an editorial and bride Natalie has become my latest style crush. I mean, that orange dress against that backdrop.. I’m dying here! I wasn’t overly surprised to learn that she actually owns an amazing online shop.. of which a chunk of our honeymoon fund is about to go into. Having recently returned from Greece myself, I’m a little bit cross for not thinking of organising a beautiful engagement shoot like this.. bliss.

From Natalie

“We live in California. Tim is an acquisition asset manager and I am a tax attorney/owner of www.shopsophi.com. We have been together for over 10 years now and love to travel! He proposed to me in Paris, we took our engagement photos in Santorini and will have a destination wedding in Phuket, Thailand end of this year! Tim and I knew we wanted to take our engagement photos in Santorini when we found out last minute I would be going to Europe for a work meeting. We immediately reached out to a lot of wedding photographers, but Yiota of Les Anagnou stood out the most to us as she was the most responsive and sincere. We told her we wanted to capture the beauty of Santorini yet marry it with a soft, romantic bohemian vibe. She knew exactly what we were talking about because she captured exactly that! We had two half day photoshoots and were able to experience the infamous sunset of Greece on the first day, and feel the beautiful Grecian morning sun on the second day. Yiota was so accommodating and made us feel so comfortable, as it can be awkward at times posing for the camera. She took us to hidden gems of Santorini and the end product was beautiful.”

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Flowers from Mexico ✈ Cafe au Lait Dahlias

During this busy wedding season, it was great to get out over the weekend for a stroll around our local park and an even bigger treat was stumbling across a patch of beautiful Cafe au Lait dahlias. I’m so obsessed! We are getting married next summer and of course, peonies won’t be available for our wedding in August so I feel like I’ve won a little victory this week finding the perfect substitute. Most of us will have grown up with potted dahlias in our gardens and although equally as beautiful, the button dahlias or those that take a smaller form don’t quite have the same dramatic effect as the large, often aptly referred “dinner plate” dahlias that are taking centre stage in this years wedding bouquets and centre pieces.

Image Credits: via Once Wed |  Bryan Gardner via Martha Stewart Weddings |  Jessica Burke | Judy Pak via EAD

With lovely lush petals, Cafe au Lait dahlias can grow up to 30cm in diameter! Even the addition of one flower to each bouquet or centrepiece makes quite the difference if they are large enough and surrounded by lots of trailing foliage, garden roses and smaller budded blooms, you have quite the showstopper.

Image by Jessica Burke

Availability

Dahlias are available during the summer months of June, July and September. If you are very lucky, you might come across them in October also.

Tips

If preparing your own bridal bouquet or centrepieces, it’s important that they receive the right amount of care beforehand. They need to be well hydrated so after removing them from any packaging, cut the stems at an angle under water and remove any foliage that would otherwise rest below the waterline of your vase.

Colours

Dahlias come in a host of beautiful and bright colours but the Cafe au Lait variety are more neutral shades of creams, blush, rose, peach, champagne, and light purples.

Image Credits: Ashley Kelemen | Jen Huang Photography

Their neutral tones mean that they work beautifully with any colour palette too!

Image Credit: Emily Delamater Photography

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