Announcing the Winner of the 2021 Wedding Photo of the Year

August 3, 2021/in News & Events, Wedding

Announcing the Winner of the 2021 Wedding Photo of the Year

Once again, my annual wedding photo of the year contest has come to a close and once again the record number of votes cast has been smashed with no fewer than 649 votes being cast!

Due to the international nature of some of the weddings I covered in 2020 – despite COVID restrictions – a record number of international votes weree also recorded, with only 417 of the votes originating in Australia!

I run my annual photo of the year contest as a bit of a thankyou to all of the wedding couples that had chosen me as their wedding photographer in the past year, and it also allows me to learn a little bit about what my past couples see as their best photo from their wedding photography collection. their selection is always interesting to me as it may not have been my personal favourite from their wedding day – but it really isn’t my choice that matters!

Winner of the 2021 Wedding Photo of the Year

Jayne Pete

Jayne and Pete held their wedding at the wonderful Paxton Winery in Mclaren vale right at the beginning of all the COVID nonsense that has rocked the world. In fact i seem to remember that COVID restrictions in SA were put in place within days of their wedding – possibly the very next day – I’m not sure.

With a strong overseas contingent in their guest list, I had heard stories of everyone making a mad dash back home a bit sooner than expected!

Jayne and Pete were super lucky to have hosted possibly the last ‘normal’ wedding of 2020, and now they – with the help of their friends and family’s votes – have won a $500 gift voucher to spend on whatever they like in my online shop!

Contest winners

1 place

Jayne Pete

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206

2 place

Tahlia Alex

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109

3 place

Paula Andrew

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94

Winner of the Voter’s prize

As a bit of encouragement for people to cast their vote for the winner of the 2021 wedding photo of the year, I offer a AUD$100 cash prize to a randomly drawn name that cast their vote. The winner of this prize goes to –

Emily S.

Congratulations to Emily S. I will be getting in contact with you soon using the email you used to vast your vote.

Discount code for all who voted

As a bit of a surprise too for all voters I’m offering a 21% discount on gift certificates now available in my online store! Because it’s 2021!

I know many of you cast your vote in order to help your chosen couple win a nice big print of their favourite photos – here’s your chance to make it easier on them! 😀

I’ve sent out an email that contains a special discount code to each of you that ticked the little ‘subscribe’ button. If you would like to recieve the coupon code – feel free to contact me and I’ll send it out to all those who voted.

Gift Card
$20.00 – $550.00
Purchase a gift card to give to family and friends! These gift cards are redeemable for the face value of the gift card on products and services provided by SvenStudios After payment has been recieved, I will be emailing you to confirm the recipient and the purpose of the gift and send it to them! Or, if you prefer to give it to them youself, a PDF you can print. Photoshoot gift cards include both the photoshoot and high resolution images - redeemable for either Newborn, Family or a couple's shoot

I’d like to thank all those couples who took part in this year’s edition of the SvenStudios wedding photo of the year! It’s always a bit of fun to see how people react to their photography, and even more interesting to see how much people want to vote in the background!

Rest assured those of you who managed to bypass my anti-cheating system and managed to vote more than once were caught 😉 Shows great passion behind trying to help out their family member or friend! Got to keep things fair though!

Be sure to make use of the 21% off discount code for those of you who voted! It expires at the end of August!

Announcing the Winner of the 2021 Wedding Photo of the Year

August 3, 2021/in News & Events, Wedding

Announcing the Winner of the 2021 Wedding Photo of the Year

Once again, my annual wedding photo of the year contest has come to a close and once again the record number of votes cast has been smashed with no fewer than 649 votes being cast!

Due to the international nature of some of the weddings I covered in 2020 – despite COVID restrictions – a record number of international votes weree also recorded, with only 417 of the votes originating in Australia!

I run my annual photo of the year contest as a bit of a thankyou to all of the wedding couples that had chosen me as their wedding photographer in the past year, and it also allows me to learn a little bit about what my past couples see as their best photo from their wedding photography collection. their selection is always interesting to me as it may not have been my personal favourite from their wedding day – but it really isn’t my choice that matters!

Winner of the 2021 Wedding Photo of the Year

Jayne Pete

Jayne and Pete held their wedding at the wonderful Paxton Winery in Mclaren vale right at the beginning of all the COVID nonsense that has rocked the world. In fact i seem to remember that COVID restrictions in SA were put in place within days of their wedding – possibly the very next day – I’m not sure.

With a strong overseas contingent in their guest list, I had heard stories of everyone making a mad dash back home a bit sooner than expected!

Jayne and Pete were super lucky to have hosted possibly the last ‘normal’ wedding of 2020, and now they – with the help of their friends and family’s votes – have won a $500 gift voucher to spend on whatever they like in my online shop!

Contest winners

1 place

Jayne Pete

View Full Wedding

206

2 place

Tahlia Alex

View Full Wedding

109

3 place

Paula Andrew

View Full Wedding

94

Winner of the Voter’s prize

As a bit of encouragement for people to cast their vote for the winner of the 2021 wedding photo of the year, I offer a AUD$100 cash prize to a randomly drawn name that cast their vote. The winner of this prize goes to –

Emily S.

Congratulations to Emily S. I will be getting in contact with you soon using the email you used to vast your vote.

Discount code for all who voted

As a bit of a surprise too for all voters I’m offering a 21% discount on gift certificates now available in my online store! Because it’s 2021!

I know many of you cast your vote in order to help your chosen couple win a nice big print of their favourite photos – here’s your chance to make it easier on them! 😀

I’ve sent out an email that contains a special discount code to each of you that ticked the little ‘subscribe’ button. If you would like to recieve the coupon code – feel free to contact me and I’ll send it out to all those who voted.

Gift Card
$20.00 – $550.00
Purchase a gift card to give to family and friends! These gift cards are redeemable for the face value of the gift card on products and services provided by SvenStudios After payment has been recieved, I will be emailing you to confirm the recipient and the purpose of the gift and send it to them! Or, if you prefer to give it to them youself, a PDF you can print. Photoshoot gift cards include both the photoshoot and high resolution images - redeemable for either Newborn, Family or a couple's shoot

I’d like to thank all those couples who took part in this year’s edition of the SvenStudios wedding photo of the year! It’s always a bit of fun to see how people react to their photography, and even more interesting to see how much people want to vote in the background!

Rest assured those of you who managed to bypass my anti-cheating system and managed to vote more than once were caught 😉 Shows great passion behind trying to help out their family member or friend! Got to keep things fair though!

Be sure to make use of the 21% off discount code for those of you who voted! It expires at the end of August!

Announcing the 2022 Wedding Photo of the Year winner!

May 3, 2022/in Interesting, News & Events, Wedding

Announcing the 2022 Wedding Photo of the Year winner!

Each year I run my wedding photo of the year contest as a bit of a thankyou to all my newly wed couples from the previous year – in this case all the images in the contest were taken during 2021 weddings and the images were chosen by the couple themselves as their favourite from their entire album.

It’s very interesting to see what people choose as their favourite image from their day as often – but not always – very different to what I would have chosen myself!

The 2022 Wedding Photo of the Year winner!

Another little contest has come to an end and I’m happy to announce the 2022 Wedding Photo of the Year winner!

Congratulations to Belinda and Andrew on gaining the most votes to fend off the others and win a $500 print voucher! Check your emails to make use of your amazing prize!

BelindaAndrew

Contest winners

1 place

Belinda + Andrew

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57

2 place

Georgia + Matt

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32

3 place

Jemma + Jordan

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27

Winner of the $100 Vote prize!

I also give out $100 cash each year to a voter at random who made this contest possible – so if you have the following name, be sure to check your emails!

M. Verrier

I’d also like to send out a thankyou to all those who entered and signed up to my email list – I’m offering all those who voted $100 off a photoshoot! Also All those couples who entered have recieved a 25% off coupon in their print store – if your wedding has not been uploaded to my print store due to having been shot at the beginning of 2021, let me know and I can put it up!

Thanks everyone!

Vote for the 2020 Wedding Photo of the year!

March 7, 2020/in News & Events, Awards, Wedding

Vote Now!
2020 Wedding Photo of the year contest

I’m very excited to announce that if you’re reading this that means that you are now able to vote for the 2020 wedding photo of the year! Each year I run the SvenStudios photo of the year contest as a thankyou for all of my previous year’s wedded couples by asking them which out of all the photos I took on their big day was their favourite and I put them all together for a vote online. The couple’s photo with the most votes by the end of the contest period will win a large framed print of either their favourite photo, or another of their choosing if they have already had it printed.

Vote for the 2020 Wedding Photo of the year!

Voting is now open from the 7th of March through to the 11th of April 2020 with the winning image being that which has the most votes by midnight April 11th. Voting is now closed though and you can see the winners here! The winner of the voter prize of $100 will be drawn randomly from all eligible votes and emailed about accepting their prize. All voters are limited to a single vote throughout the voting period. I’ve put in place a lot of anti cheating procedures so that duplicate votes are recorded and removed from the tally in a number of different ways.

See who won!

It’s always interesting to me what others see in my photography, which is one reason why I run this little contest. The photos that have been chosen by my couples do not necessarily represent my own choices as my favourite photos from my weddings. To represent that I usually put together a little video about what I feel are the best 🙂 That said however I dont shoot for myself! It’s all about what my couples see and value in my work!

Of the 37 weddings I covered in 2019, I’ve had 20 couples get back to me with their favourite photos for this contest. If you’re reading this and you are one of the couples that have not got back to me, or know of a couple that I have photographed and arent in the draw, get in contact wth me and I’ll add your favourite photo to the vote – Just as long as it’s before the end date of the 11th of April.

Get on it and vote! Well you can’t now as the conest is over 🙁 It only takes a few seconds and you could come away with $100 cash! Even though you only have a single vote to give you are still able to help the photo you voted for win by using the sharing buttons to share your photo on your social media in order to get others to vote too! Although it’s not needed to win, the majority of the winning photos in previous contests have also had the most shares, so share it to your facebook and twitter!