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A wedding at the Fonteinhof in Belgium | MC & Thomas

Jennifer — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:34:27 +0000

First of all I have to admit I have a weakness for winter weddings – I just love the cozyness, I love that everything is planned rain proof and I love the colors and the atmosphere of a winter day.

This past December we had the honour to photograph the wedding of MC and Thomas at the beautiful location Het Fonteinhof in Borgloon in Belgium. When I first met MC and Thomas for their engagement session in Tervuren we walked the beautiful park of Tervuren to capture them with the proposal drawn into a tree. Seeing them now again was like walking into a wedding of friends. Their beautiful day was filled with love and joy as theiy were both absolutely in love with each other and enjoying having their family and friends around them. Though having a long day with around 350 people for the reception and shaking many many hands they were the most relaxed couple truly enjoying every second of their day and every moment they had together. We’ve stayed 16 hours on this wedding and there wasn’t one boring moment as everything was planned perfectly by their master of ceremony Valere Peeters.

MC and Thomas you guys are a beautiful couple together. It was so much fun and a true honor to photograph your engagement and of course your special wedding day in Belgium.

Location: Het Fonteinhof (www.fonteinhof.be/)

Master of Ceremony: Valere Peeters (www.valere-peeters.be/)

Church: Sint-Leonarduskerk Zoutleeuw

Wedding dress: Pronovias (www.pronovias.com)

Wedding Photography: Jennifer Hejna (www.jenniferhejna.com)

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A preview …

Jennifer — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:15:19 +0000

I hope you all enjoy the summer that finally arrived (at least) in Germany. After a weekend filled with a beautiful wedding and appointments we decided we would take Monday off to finally get groceries and just enjoy the beautiful weather. “I am just going to answer that one email,” I said to Conrad and he answered “Oh wait there is just this one letter we need to send out so that it arrives on time.” We endet up working until 5pm and the only thing I enjoyed outside was a run and preparing the post that needed to be send on the balcony. It was one of those days filled with many small things that made us realize how hard you have to fight to get a real day off and how blessed we are that we can work from home, even from the balcony and that I can schedule my running whenever I feel like it and don’t have to wait until the workday is over.

Here is a little preview of this beautiful December wedding that I can’t wait to show you. It is going to be on the blog this week so keep an eye on this blog.

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Wedding in Münster | Jasmin & Fabian

Jennifer — Wed, 29 May 2013 17:48:33 +0000

They met during high school in French class but she didn’t recognize him until they were on a school trip in France and he offered to carry her bags. It took them three months of dating to be finally a couple which means they were already together for eleven years before she proposed to him in 2010. As they are both incredibly fonds of animals they first adopted two cats and then also a young dog. Their love for animals also had a huge influence on the proposal. Jasmin invited Fabian to a day in the zoo. At the compound of the wolves she finally asked him if he wants to walk side-by-side with her for the rest of their lives.

They got married in October 2012 and of course we found a special place for their portrait session which tied to their story and love for animals. The old ruins of the zoo in Münster were of course the perfect place for their portrait session.

It has been a lovely day filled with laughs and love and beautiful autumn colors. I wish you both all the best for your little “pack” walking side-by-side for the rest of your lives.

Wedding dress: Der Rosarote Brautsalon

Hair and Make-up: Weiperfriseure

Wedding Location and mobile Bar: Maikotten

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A preview

Jennifer — Tue, 28 May 2013 15:39:19 +0000

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We came back Sunday night from a wedding where we had to drive all day to it and back home. We were tired but filled with happiness after a beautiful wedding day on a rainy Saturday in Lübeck. We sat next to each other on the couch not saying much, both thinking about all the people we met and the moments that made this day so special. I turned to Conrad and grabbed his head with my two hands. I pushed my forehead against his and he asked “What are you doing?” I breathed out and said “I am going to stop the time for us just for a moment – you just need to close your eyes and the world will stop turning around us”. We both closed our eyes just feeling each others forehead and I was sure I could feel the little bucking the earth did when it stopped turning around us.

This is a little preview of what is coming next on the blog it shows a moment just like ours where the time just stopped for a little second.

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Dreaming of Paris

Jennifer — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:13:13 +0000

I wrote down a list with personal goals for this year. Shooting in Paris was one of them. Making it happen was a total dream come true. Photographing for four days with fabulous clients and doing a styled shoot with fantastic vendors was something I never dared to imagine. Here is part one of the Paris series.

Imagine a beautiful day in Paris. It is spring and the cherry blossoms start to blow. It is sunny and the terraces are filled with people enjoying coffee or a champagne in the warm spring sun. In the middle of this scenery there a two brides excited about their special day. This styled shoot had the goal to capture the essence of Paris in combination with the idea of a bride running through Paris. A little scenery within the anonymity and all the tourists of Paris – a silent story ending with a little dinner when the sun goes down in Paris. Get enchanted by Paris and the dream of being a bride in the city of love.

Hair and Make-Up – Katie Larcombe (www.katielarcombe.com

Wedding dresses – Unielle Couture (www.uniellecouture.com)

Headpieces -SIBO design (http://www.sibodesigns.com)

Jewelry – Abrazi (www.abrazi.com)

Stationery – Hochdruckgebiet (www.hochdruckgebiet.de)

Flowers – Pink9Design (www.pink9design.com)

Models – Ilona Huynh -https://www.facebook.com/ilona.huynh.9

and Flory Timmer https://www.facebook.com/flory.timmer

Photography – Jennifer Hejna (www.jenniferhejna.com)

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Online Publications

Jennifer — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:56:36 +0000

I am super honored to see my work featured on several beautiful wedding blogs lately. Here are the most recent publications. Head over to the blogs and enjoy a full dose of inspiration !

http://www.stylemepretty.com/destination-weddings/2013/05/02/amsterdam-wedding-from-jennifer-hejna/

http://www.blovedweddings.com/mint-grey-winter-wedding-inspiration-jennifer-hejna

http://www.theperfectwedding.nl/blog/2249/bruiloft-duitsland

http://www.hochzeitswahn.de/inspirationen/orientalische-farmhochzeit-von-jennifer-hejna-photography/

http://www.theprettyblog.com/2013/04/wintery-beach-shoot-holland/

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A classic autumn wedding in Münster | Lydia & Peter

Jennifer — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:11:29 +0000

Lydia and Peter tied the knot at the end of September last years. It was one of those days where you are not sure if it is still summer or already autumn and the nature starts to turn their colors. It has been a beautiful day with a ceremony at the Lotharinger Kloster and the celebration at the Sudmühlenhof in Münster. When I first met Lydia and Peter we spent a whole evening drinking tea and chatting about photography and Münster. Being true lovers of the city of Münster they both drive by bike everywhere they go and even spend more than one hour in the train to get to work. They spend their Saturdays on the huge local food market where every true Münster lover will be found on a Saturday – no matter if it rains or the sun shines. On a Sunday you will find them together at Cafe Kleimann to enjoy the best cake of the city – so it was no surprise that their wedding cake was made by Cafe Kleimann. Even the beautiful wedding dress of Lydia was made by a local wedding dress designer “Das Brautatelier“.

Lydia and Peter thanks for being so much fun to work with it was a pleasure and honor to capture your special day.

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Mother’s day

Jennifer — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:48:48 +0000

I am a story teller and I do not only tell my own story but above all I tell love stories with my camera. I short while ago I had the pleasure to photograph Mareike, Kristina and her mother Hedwig in my little studio. It was a glamorous and fun day and I loved the interaction and love that happend between the three women.

As the love between mother and daughter is always something special I want to share with you a letter from Mareike and Kristina about their mother.

“Like for almost all children our mum is the best mum in the whole world. But what does make our mum so special and irreplaceable ? I already have 1000 things and characteristics in my mind that would describe her and why she is so special.

That thing that makes her so special is above all her warm heart and her endless love. She has an incredibly strong and sensitive character and is vibrantly enjoying the life. We see this every day in the small and big gestures, talks and happenings. Some very small things, that always make us smile and for that we sometimes forget to say “thank you”. Like a text message on a Wednesday morning telling us that half of the week is already done, or some favorite cuts for breakfast in the fridge when we come to see her in the weekend. Sometimes it is a long walk where we can unload anger or disappointment or talks where she gives us courage to find a new way or the right decision. And even if we ended up in a dead-end after a decision or something just doesn’t go as we want our mum is always understanding and pushes us back on the right path. Her strength, her compassion and her liveliness shows us again and again that it is worthy to fight for small and big dreams and that love for family and friends is the most important thing in life. Her joy of walking our dog in the woods, long trips with the bike or an afternoon in the garden is catching. This is something we can both learn a lot from to recognize how freeing and calming it can be to enjoy the small things in life. There is so much we consciously or unconsciously learned from our mum and I know we will learn a lot more from her. We are endlessly thankful for that !

If we are going to have children someday we wish we will be such a loving, strong and joyful mum to our children like our mum is to us.”

Thank you for writing these words and sharing them with my readers. Thank you also for coming to my studio and trusting me. It has been a wonderful day with you.

Mother’s Day is coming up this week if these pictures speak to you and you would love to be captured with your mum just contact me – we offer vouchers as a present to beautiful mums.

Beautiful Hair and Make-up by: Daniela Plesser

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A first time – one of my pictures on the cover of a magazine

Jennifer — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:52:40 +0000

There is a first time for everything. There are first times where you learn something, first times that make you nervous, first times that don’t make you want a second time, first times that make you want to think why it took you so long, first times that just surprise you but there is one thing you never forget – a first time.

I wont forget the afternoon my good friend Mareike wrote me a message “I am holding a wedding magazine in my hands and I could be mistaken but I think your picture is on the cover.” I was beyond excited as I just missed a parcel that day and it was impossible on a Sunday to get to the nearest magazine store to see if she was right she had to send me picture with her iphone. This was a first time that totally got me by surprise, I was beyond happy and proud and even if I know a second time can never be as exciting as this first time of having a picture on the cover of a magazine I hope it was not the last time.

*If you want to see the wedding of this beautiful bride Mieke just click here.

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A Mediteranean Wedding in Overveen | Bapke & Niels

Jennifer — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:19:19 +0000

Sometimes you can wear your winter jacket on a cold April day and still feel a Mediterranean atmosphere. It was a chilly day last Saturday but the spring sun already warmed up the beautiful Orangerie Elswout in Overveen. When I first saw that location I was totally in love with it but spending the whole day here was definitely a treat. Bapke and Niels met 10 years ago at the gym. She took the first step by inviting him to join her during a sport class. They became soon a couple but Bapke had planned to spend the summer in Greece in the house of her parents, as she does every summer. This summer had been filled with old fashioned letters, SMS and sometimes a phone call and in the end Niels came over to Greece to join her for the last weeks in the Greek sun.
Greece and the Mediteranean has been a huge influence for them. Niels even proposed in Greece after asking Bapke’s father for the hand of her daughter.

Bapke and Niels are the kind of people you can spend all day with. They are sweet, funny and have a great heart. This sunny day at this beautiful location was truly inspired by the lifestyle they like so much. Everything was relaxed, a jazz band played on the background, the huge doors of the location were wide open to the beautiful garden so the guests could mingle and enjoy the beautiful sunny day. The timetable was not filled up with a lot of activities but the whole afternoon was free for a reception with snacks and drinks and jazz music in the sun.

We are so grateful we could join you to photograph your beautiful relaxed day – see you soon !

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