Speakers
Sandra Åberg is a destination wedding and fashion photographer based in Copenhagen & Southern Sweden. She started out in the fashion world in Milan, Italy where she worked and learned from some of the industry’s greatest talents. After getting married herself she fell in love with shooting weddings; the real emotions and the pressure to create stunning images with little time. Sandra specializes in shooting bridal couture – her love for the dreamy and ethereal wedding universe has allowed her to work with some of the industry’s best designers. Combining natural light and strobes has given her the signature look that is sought after by both designers and wedding couples in Europe and around the world. Her work has been published in numerous publications including Vogue Japan, Vogue Australia, Vogue Noiva Brazil, Cosmopolitan Bride, Brides Magazine, U Bridal and many more.
Currently based in Miami and California, KT Merry is a fine art wedding photographer with a background in fashion and she specializes in shooting destination weddings worldwide. Schooled at the Hallmark Institute of Photography in Massachusetts and later by the fashion photographers she had the pleasure to work with, KT has over ten years experience in the business. With an artful and film based approach to documenting weddings, KT strives to tell a story and create timeless and romantic images. Her images have been published in countless publications including Martha Stewart Weddings, The Knot, BRIDES, Weddings Unveiled, Southern Weddings, Destination Weddings & Honeymoons and more. KT works together with her wonderful husband, Chad {who is also her second shooter and business partner} and loves natural light, beautiful locations, and capturing love on film. “I am an animal lover and equestrian whose daydreams are filled with French landscapes and beautiful light captured on film.”
Joy Proctor is a highly sought after stylist, designer and wedding planner based in Santa Barbara, California. As owner and creative director of Joy de Vivre Event Design Boutique, Joy has worked alongside the top wedding photographers in the world, including Jose Villa and KT Merry. Her design work has been featured in magazines such as Brides, C Weddings, Reverie, Flutter and UK Flowers, and on blogs like Style Me Pretty and Once Wed. She is also the stylist of the prestigious cover for Style Me Pretty’s one and only book. Her approach to design is simple but refined, with her own personal aesthetic being a combination of organic elegance and turn of the century romance. Joy has planned and designed over 400 weddings. She loves aged wood, barely pink peonies, sushi, Africa, beer, good people, live music & life.
Pearl & Godiva are world-renowned wedding planners, event designers and wedding stylists who nurture and bring to life the most beauteous and meaningful events. Based in Ireland and with beauty as their muse, they cultivate weddings which are timelessly chic, rhapsodic and oozing originality, creating treasured memories which will last a lifetime.Pearl Collins, a master and model stylist, is one of this industry’s rare breed of unique image-makers. Her sweet sapidity of stylishness lead her into the styling industry via modelling, featuring her first shoot in The Face magazine in 2003. For 7 years Pearl worked as a freelance advertising and editorial stylist in London. She also consulted on interiors, venues, shows and collections. Despite great success, she craved for a change of career that would allow her to solely balance simple beauty with an eye for detail.
A wedding blog for the stylish bride, Wedding Sparrow is a multi award winning premier wedding resource and inspirational website for brides all over the world and we specialise in featuring film photography and fine art weddings. We champion high quality vendors and artisans and love being involved in the wedding community. We believe in the tangible, beautiful, authentic and the inspirational. Filling a gap in the wedding blog industry (Wedding Sparrow is the world’s only all film fine art wedding blog!) Sara knew that her passion for fine art and love for all things tangible and film should be out there via pretty pictures. In just 12 short months, Wedding Sparrow has grown from a tiny one-person blog based in the UK to a multi-award winning international team of fine art lovers and she couldn’t be more proud. Sara loves how passionate readers and vendors are for quality products and services and hopes this shines through in the blog. Sara is the world’s biggest wedding obsessive and is usually knee deep in wedding pretty at Wedding Sparrow HQ. You’ll find Sara blogging away, attending events, and styling shoots.
