Sri Lanka Weddings are Popular with Foreigners!

On the morning of a BIG wedding, I thought I’d post a small wedding at one of our favorite venues – Nisala Arana Boutique Hotel in Bentota. And when I say small, I mean only the bride and groom. I’ll blog about the BIG wedding later!

This couple came from the UK to marry in the tropical beauty of Sri Lanka; we have the jungle garden settings, the fabulous beaches, the exotic traditions, fire dancers. The weather didn’t disappoint them! Neither did our photographer, Lipton Jayawickrama; the couple loved their photos!

Enjoy the photos! And share!

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Wedding From the Sky!

We did a wedding at Nisala Arana Boutique Hotel for the third time. Our very first wedding took
place there a dozen years ago. It was a very cool event. The hotel owners went all out for it.

Lately we’ve had two more weddings at Nisala Arana and the hotel owners again went all out. I
was curious how different each wedding would be and I wasn’t disappointed – at all!

Of course, we, as the photographers and videographers, had to do something different, too. And that we did. For Alison and Rob’s still photos and video, there was an elephant, the ceremony took place at the beach, and we captured them from the air by using a drone and a GoPro. It was magic!

See for yourself.

PS—If you want to book us for your December wedding, and you refer to this blog, we will give you a 20% discount!

Check out our Sri Lankan wedding photography, travel photography, portrait photography, female
photographers, commercial photography at our website at: http://www.shadetreeSL.com

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Super Sexy Wedding at Nisala Arena in Bentota!

Lipton Jayawickrama and Pravithra De Mello (our back-up shooter when Lakna isn’t available) went down to Bentota at o’dark hundred in the morning of the 18^th of April. Right after the long hot wedding in Gampha. Shows just how determined Lipton is to make his company, ShadeTree Productions, the best and most reliable in Sri Lanka!

The couple, Zaf and Bridget, came from the UK with a heap load of friends! Little did they know they landed smack dab into one of Sri Lanka’s hot spells. Thank goodness Ben at Nisala Arena provided hand fans for everyone!

The chic boutique hotel of Nisala Arena is situated landside from Bentota, with a large, large garden that makes it perfect for weddings. In fact, we did our first Sri Lankan wedding there, so many years ago. With another couple from the UK. The bride at that wedding was a photography agent and had I known that before we did the wedding, I would have been very nervous! But after she saw the photos, she said that they were the best wedding photos she had ever seen!

It helps to have such a great environment to shoot in. And also, Zaf and Bridget, were calm, cool and collected in spite of the heat. And quite sexy, if I do say so.

Lipton finished editing their video before they headed back to London and when they saw it, they got choked up with emotion, just reliving the beautiful ceremony. They also couldn’t have thanked Lipton enough for doing such a great job and being so pleasant to work with! Yea for Lipton! (We’ll post the video trailer soon!)

For now, here are some of the photos from the day. It was hard to choose just a few!

Groom and his parents.

Father and daughter.

Family photos in the lush Nisala Arena garden.

The gang!

Beautiful ladies!

Off to the beach!

A parade of tuk-tuks!

Walking to the beach!

Here's where the couple almost fell off of the ellie!

Safely on!

Ellie and the group!

Love this.

Not only an ellie, but a doggie, too!

Cool shot!

Mother of the groom.

Wait for the video!

Check out our Sri Lankan wedding photography, travel photography, portrait photography, female photographers, commercial photography at our website at: http://www.shadetreeSL.com

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