Products and Albums available in LK Photography packages

LK Photography offers many different packages customised to your needs and budget. As such there are a range of album sizes and types to choose from. You can rest assured that everything LK Photography offers in their packages are of the highest quality made to last long after your family has grown up and long after your wedding day is over.

Prints
All prints are professionally calibrated art prints with a UV framed life span of 100 years. Canvas, Acrylic and Metallic Prints and Metallic Acrylics are of an equally high calibre ensuring your memories will last a lifetime. Prints are now sold individually with a minimum purchase amount or in discounted packages.


DVD Case
Stylish black buckram DVD folio.


Gift Vouchers
Great as presents.  Give a photography session to someone you would love to have photos of or you can contribute towards purchasing an album or enlargements for newlyweds.  If you are planning a wedding, suggest gift vouchers to your guests.


Small Matted Albums
Book bound black matted albums holding included prints of your choice. Great as thank you gifts for parents and bridal party. Available in a 2 sizes and 2 amounts of prints that they can hold.


Matted Album
Book bound leatherette matted album with 20 sides of a mixture of 5 different black Mat openings including prints and a sturdy storage box. Lovely and luxurious 4.2kg.


Coffee Table Albums
30 sides of magazine style pages in 170gsm or 250gsm in a range of covers with a dust jacket. A storage box included for larger sizes. Choose from horizontal, vertical or square in a range of sizes to suit portrait sessions or weddings. Modern and highly customisable. Extra sides available.


Premium Crystal Fusion Albums
20 sides combining 8 flush to edge digital print pages, 6 matted print pages, and a 6 side luxurious flip page. The pages open absolutely flat and you have options to upgrade to supergloss/metallic/canvas-paper prints. This album is covered in designed metallic print under a layer of extremely clear and reflective crystal fusion acrylic all presented in a leather wrap or a hand stitched leather presentation box depending on your size of album. Other covers available. Choose from horizontal, vertical or square and you can add pages if you require. Fabulous quality. Smaller sizes are ideal as parent albums or cute mini-replicas. You won't have seen a more beautiful album with such impact.


To request a pricelist please contact Laura on 0413144603 or fill in the form on the contact details page of the LK Photography website.

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What is a MUST for a wedding?

Ok, update on my 6 year engagement to the man of my dreams.  You may have read our love story I posted in the example for how to enter your Love Story 2 Win Wedding Photography competition I am running.   Since then, although it never really dawned on me, I thought..hmmm, maybe we should actually get married.   Granted I read ALOT of wedding info to keep up to date with the latest for my clients, but I can't say its ever really made me want a wedding.  I'm a low-key kind of gal so I would only want a low-key kind of wedding...if we ever did get around to it.  Like alot of my clients, we have a mortgage, credit cards, family overseas and interstate, and a precious child so throwing a party isn't going to be high on our agenda.

So...I was thinking numbers the other night (don't ask me why) and I say to my guy, "Honey, don't freak out but next year it will be 7 years (my lucky number) we will be together, and around Easter (when we got together) there is a 13th (his lucky number) on a weekend, what do you say we try get married once and for all?"  (Romantic, huh?)  Then a pause of silence and of course I know what he is thinking (money).  I say "We'll try and do it the way we want (immediate family only, ceremony down the road at the lake, fabulous photographer, vintage style decorations and clothing, luxurious dining table outdoors under a marquee, with a cool jazzy-type band, fabulous food like lobster and such and an amazing weekend up in the Hunter Valley as our honeymoon) but if we can't, we do it anyway".  He says with conviction in his voice, "Yep, lets do it.'

Of course I find myself 2 hours later like a mini-bridezilla already doing the sums.  Hmmm.  Let's just say it's going to be very very low key.  I started making a list then (I'm big on lists) of what, to me, is an absolute must.  Celebrant, Rings, Dress, Alcohol ...then it hit me.  How do I find a photographer that I am going to be happy with (read perfectionist) for a few measly bucks?  Do I forgo a photographer all together?  Nope.  Do I try shoot my own wedding?  Crazy.  I'm stuck.  I even considered whether we could just do a commitment ceremony instead to save money to have a decent photographer, but then I think what's the point, we are already committed big time.

Anway, please let me know your thoughts on what is a must to you, while I try figure it out and actually commit to the date, and tell the family (yes I'm telling you before them as they would want to help out and I'm not into them paying for it, or having them commit to a date I haven't yet committed to).

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Love Story 2 Win Wedding Photography Competition

I have a big mooshy heart.  Yep, I'm not ashamed to say it.  I cry at all the weddings I photograph. I cry  when I watch the love of my life and my son hugging and saying that they love each other.  I cry when I see or hear that someone deserving receives a gift they really need.  It is in this spirit of love, mooshiness and generosity that I am launching the biggest competition LK Photography (Australia) has ever done.  Everyone will be a winner and one deserving couple will have all their photography costs covered for their wedding.  With the help of some fellow mooshy sponsors, this Love Story 2 Win Wedding Photography Competition is launched on Valentine's Day February 14th 2010.  Entry details are below so go and win yourself some wedding photography or tell someone you know that they should enter.  If you are a fellow mooshy too, remember to subscribe to the LK Photography Blog to get your dose of regular mooshy love stories as they are published.  Good luck!

All Entrants receive:

From LK Photography (value $100)

• 1hr Pre-Wedding or Post-Wedding photography session with DVD of high resolution images

Winner receives:

From LK Photography (value $2800)

• Up to 12 hours Wedding day photography with DVD of high resolution images
• 1hr Pre-Wedding or Post-Wedding photography session with DVD of high resolution images
• Consultation and Viewing session in the comfort of your home
• Online viewing and ordering for family and friends
• Black and white, Sepia, Spot-colouring or other Special effect for prints ordered
• Album design and assembly

From The Edge Photo Imaging (value $650)

• World class digital prints for your albums included in this photography prize package
• Prints for your walls in 3(8"x12") and 1(20"x32") 
• Postage

From The Photo Store (value $350)

• Say Bella Matboard Album with 20 sides
• Drawstring Bag for album
• Storage Box for album 
• Gloves for handling album 
• 2 x Glamour Folio Albums that hold 20(5"x7") prints

From Prior Engagement (value $160)

• 100 Mini Photo Frames with Easel Backs in Silver Wedding Favours

From DigiGifts - Personalised Gifts (value $43)

• Custom Tote Photo Bag  in bucket style with any photo on bag, zipper and multiple interior pockets
• Postage 

from My WED (value $50)

• My WED Organiser  is everything you need to plan your wedding with checklists, helpful wedding hints and reminders.  Cut and paste ideas that you see in magazines, make notes, diairise appointments, record useful websites, keep your contracts, business cards and wedding information all in one place, move pages and customise it to suit your needs AND you have a special spot to place a photo of your special person to keep you motivated! Your organise will have a stylish green stripe.
• The My WED Benefits Card is included with participating wedding suppliers offering incentives upon presentation of your card.
• Postage

Total Winner Prizes Value Over $4000

How to Enter

• Subscribe to the LK Photography Blog by email
• You must remain a subscriber continuously from the day you enter the competition until at least 8/8/10.
• Email laura@lkphotography.com.au with (a) description of your love story detailing how you met or finally came to be together with your fiancé in 200 words or less and (b) include a photo you and your partner, no smaller than 400px on the longest side and (c) your full name, postal address, email address and 2 contact phone numbers.
• Your entry will be placed on this blog post within 24 hours.
• At the end of your competition month, you will be notified via email when you can ask family and friends to vote for you via a voting form that will be placed on this blog page.  Voting is open for the whole of the following competition month.
• The entrant in each competition month with the most valid votes goes on to be the finalist for their competition month.
• After all 4 competition months, the sponsor judges will choose the finalist that most touches their hearts.

Terms and Conditions

• By entering this competition you agree that you have read, understood and agree with all the Terms and Conditions.
• Competition entry is between 14/2/10 - 30/6/10.
  
• Entrants of all ages, gender, nationalities, cultural background, religion and location are encouraged to enter this competition.
• Voters can are allowed one vote per day.
• If the judges’ first choice has not entered the competition correctly or has not completed all the competition requirements, or if they cannot be contacted within 3 days, then the 2^nd best entry will win the prizes.
• The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into.
• Entrants can only enter in one competition month.
• Travel fees as listed on the LK Photography Pricelist apply outside the areas of Sydney, Central Coast, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Maitland and the Hunter Valley, in NSW AUSTRALIA.
• Prizes are not transferable or redeemable for cash.
• LK Photography reserves the right to cancel the competition in the unlikely situation of an extreme or unforeseen event.
• If a prize sponsor is no longer trading at the time of the wedding, there will be no substitute prize.
• Entrants must be 18 years or over at the time of entering the competition.
• Entries will not be accepted by any sponsor employee, their immediate family (parents, siblings, children etc) or their spouses-to-be.
• First names only of the entrants shall be made public but all other contact details shall remain private.
• Contact details of entrants shall not be given to any third party.
• Entrants agree they may be contacted by LK Photography regarding the possibility of booking LK Photography as their wedding photographer.
• Entrants must not have already booked a wedding photographer.
• Winner must choose a wedding date within the specified time period where LK Photography is available or they forfeit the LK Photography part of the prize.
• Winner agrees to sign a model release allowing LK Photography to use photos from their wedding for advertising purposes as well as sign a photography agreement.
• A selection of the winner’s wedding photos and prizes as well as wedding day details will be published on the LK Photography Blog once completed.
• Winner must adhere to the following dates.
  

Competition Dates

14/2/10 - 31/3/10        Entries accepted for Competition Month 1

1/4/10 – 30/4/10          Votes accepted for Competition Month 1

Entries accepted for Competition Month 2

1/5/10 – 31/5/10          Votes accepted for Competition Month 2

                                    Entries accepted for Competition Month 3

1/6/10 – 30/6/10          Votes accepted for Competition Month 3

                                    Entries accepted for Competition Month 4

1/7/10 – 31/7/10          Votes accepted for Competition Month 4

1/8/10 – 3/8/10            Judges make their decision

4/8/10 – 6/8/10            Winner is advised

7/8/10                          Winner is published on LK Photography Blog

8/8/10 – 13/2/11          Wedding held and photography prize performed

31/5/11                        All other prizes must have been used

Ok, since no-one seems brave enough to win $4000 worth of photography prizes, I'll show you how its done. Of course, my entry doesn't count as I'm running this comp!

Laura and Rik

After 3 years of a mutual friend trying to introduce us saying "you'd be great for each other" and us trying to avoid being blindly set up, the stars aligned and we met at a party.

He says he knew I was the woman he had tattooed on his chest many years before he met me, so he was perspiring so much he can't believe I didn't notice.

I realised by how attracted I was to him, that I preferred to be by myself than settle for a 'safe' relationship ever again.

A month or two went by till we met again. By this stage I was single and he was meant to move to another state in 3 days.

We were on holiday by the seaside and we talked for about 48 hours straight before we finally kissed under a big full moon.

That kiss took my breath away and he had to hold me while my knees buckled under me.

When we touched fingers to hold hands, there were literally sparks.

The rest just fell into place.

COMPETITION MONTH 1 ENTRANTS

Danielle and Chris

I was well on my way home from work, having put my ferry ticket through the turnstile and all, when a friend called and suggested I come along to an event. I was feeling grumpy and almost didn’t – but at the last minute, I had one of those fateful moments and jumped back off the ferry and went along. I am quite a crazy dancer, and so later on the dance floor in mid shimmy and flailing limbs, I bumped into a stranger standing behind me. We both turned around and it was like greeting an old friend. Chris was from out of town and was just there for the night, so had I not jumped off the ferry that day, we may never have met. Three years later, and after a surf, massage and tapas on Valentine’s Day, I came home to a house full of candles and specially made egg-free cupcakes (I’m vegetarian), each with a letter in the icing which read together, spelt out ‘ W-I-L-L Y-O-U M-A-R-R-Y M-E-?’ and Chris was down on his knee. Life is not a fairytale, but it can be magical nonetheless, and needless to say, I said yes. 

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Wedding Locations in Sydney, the Central Coast, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Hunter Valley and Maitland

Choosing where to get married is often a very personal choice.  For some couples, it may be obvious where to get married right from when 'Yes' is said to a diamond... but for others, choosing a place can be more difficult as there are quite a few things to consider.  Let's go through them some questions that may help you decide.

Sentiment

Is there somewhere special where you were proposed to?

Where have you had some fun memories together?

What do you both most enjoy doing? eg. fine dining, dancing or the beach

Where did you first kiss?

Where was your first holiday together?

Is there a place you feel closer to someone dear who has passed away?

Budget

Will you have none, 50 or 200 guests at your wedding?

Is it important to you to have an intimate occassion a or fabulously huge party?

Is your wedding to be casual or formal?

Are you willing to pay for the ceremony location to have it somewhere special?

Do you want a wedding theme that would suit a particular location?

Travel

Will you have a driver to take you from one location to another on your wedding day?

Are cars a big part of your wedding?

Where will you be spending your first wedded night together?

Where are you going on your honeymoon?

Where will most of your guests be travelling from?

Is there sufficient accomodation at your reception venue?

Will there be travel organised to hotels from the reception for your guests?

How many guests will you have needing to stay overnight?

What accomodation or travel expenses can your guests afford or are you paying?

Since moving up to Lake Macquarie from Sydney, I've gotten to know so much more of this beautiful region north of Sydney that covers the Central Coast, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, the Hunter Valley and Maitland.  Often clients don't have their wedding near to their homes for the reasons we have already outlined above and so in the past 2 years I have visited them in their homes at Allawah, North Ryde, Engadine, Narraween, Bossley Park, Warrawee, Beaumont Hills, Greenvalley, Liverpool, Sylvania, Marsfield, Chipping Norton, Wattlegrove, Glenfield, Lurnea, Bow Bowing, Prestons, Edensor Park, Prairiewood, San Remo, Watanobbi, Blue Haven, Killarney Vale, Mardi, Gosford, Ourimbah, Gorokan, Kanwal, Bateau Bay, Shelly Beach, Tarro, Umina Beach, Kariong, Kangy Angy, Buttaba, Carey Bay, Acardia Vale, Morisset, Blackalls Park, Windemere Park, Cardiff, Valentine, Whitebridge, Mirrabooka, Wyee Point, Bonnells Bay, Eleebana, Swansea, Coorangbong, Dora Creek, Mt Hutton, Boolaroo, Mayfield, Corlette, Adamstown Heights, Tighes Hill, Kotara, Glendale, Edgeworth, Gillieston Heights, North Lambton, Aberdare, Muswellbrook, Milbrodale, Ellalong, Raymond Terrace, Branxton and Maitland.

After listing these suburbs and remembering my solo trip when I travelled to many little towns on all the East Coast of Australia, I feel like singing "I've been everywhere man, I've been everywhere...".

"How does all this relate to me?" you ask yourself.  To help you along in making your choice, I've compiled a list of some spots where I have recently had the honour of photographing weddings which you can use as a starting point as possible locations for your own ceremony, photos or reception.

Sydney

Sydney city

All Saints Church Liverpool

Skyview Reception Liverpool

Auburn Botanical Gardens

Roslyn Gardens Reception Peakhurst

St Nicholas Antioch Orthodox Church Punchbowl

Holroyd Centre Reception

Conca D'oro Reception Riverwood

Villa Rosa Reception Leichhardt

Central Coast

The Entrance

Terrigal

Wyong Golf Club

Hamlyn Terrace

Fishermans Wharf

The Haven

Erina Leagues Club

Lake Haven

North Entrance Surf Club

Forresters Beach Resort

Blue Water Resort

Norah Head Lighthouse

Soldiers Point Beach

Sensory Gardens

Pelican's Wharf Restaurant

The Willows Reception

Tuggerah Lakes Motel

Wallarah Recreation Club

Camp Breakaway San Remo

Cliff Street Reserve Norah Head

Lake Macquarie

Wangi Workers Club

Wangi RSL

Dobell Park, Wangi

Catalina Bay, Rathmines

Blacksmiths Beach

Marmong Point Jetty

Awaba House

Speers Point Rotunda

Bonnells Bay

Shingle Splitters

Murrays Beach

Sugar Bay

Wyee Point

Swansea Beach

Swansea Surf Club

Swansea RSL

Swansea Lake

Warners Bay

Burwood Colliery Rotunda

Wangi Queen Showboat

Toronto Foreshore

Belmont

Lake Macquarie Yacht Club Belmont

Club Macquarie Argenton

Royal Motor Yacht Club Toronto

Squids Ink Hotel

Newcastle

Blacksmith

St Lukes Wallsend

Civic Park

New Lambton

Newcastle city

Jesmond Park

North Lambton

Noahs on the Beach

Crowne Plaza

Newcastle Baths

Dixon Park

St Johns Church Cooks Hill

Merewether

Bar Beach

King Edward Park

Jesmond Uniting Church

Wallsend Diggers

Linton Gardens

Rankin Park

Edgeworth

The Esplanade

Town Hall

The Madison Hotel Adamstown Heights

Wests Leagues Club New Lambton

Wests Leagues Club Mayfield

Sheperds Hill

Stockton Surf Club

Stockton Beach

Hunter Wetlands

Hunter Valley

Hunter Valley Gardens

Pokolbin

Broke

Willow Tree Estate

Maitland

Rutherford

East Maitland

Woodville

Nelson Bay

Maitland

Botanic Gardens Heatherbrae

Raymond Terrace Bowling Club

If you would like more helpful resources in finding a location visit the LK Photography website which has a Photography Locations page and a Venues for Weddings and Special Events page.

No matter what location you choose, you can be sure that LK Photography has been there or knows the region.  Call Laura on 0413144603 for a no-obligation wedding photography consultation in the comfort of your home.

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My first 'Real Weddings' guest blog on Lake Macquarie Weddings

I'm giggling like a school girl to see my first 'Real Weddings' guest blog over on the new and much needed Lake Macquarie Weddings Website - Lake Macquarie's 1st and only dedicated Wedding Directory. Here's a taste.

Real Weddings – Tamara and Mark

January 31st, 2010 | Author: admin

"Guest Blogger and local Lake Macquarie Photographer ~ LK Photography
When I think of a wedding which took advantage of the variety Lake Macquarie has to offer, it would be Tamara & Mark’s. They also happen to be the couple showcase the new Lake Macquarie Weddings Website.  This lovely wedding ... " (To read the rest, visit the blog on Lake Macquarie Weddings website. )

Mark & Tamara

Rotunda at Whitebridge

Family & Friends share an awesome view

The Romance

Tamara & Mark

Modern Love

Lake Macquaire is a gorgeous back drop

Fun Love

Lake Macquaire's King & Queen of Love for the day All aboard for a wedding on Lake Macquaire

"Guest Blogger: Laura Zavaroni from LK Photography, A Local Lake Macquarie Wedding Photographer."

Thanks so much to Lake Macquarie Weddings website for supporting this local photographer, me!

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