weddings & elopements

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{ Sylvie & David }

Isis’ photos exceeded all our wildest expectations. Her images are honest, pure and spontaneous We didn’t have a typical wedding, and didn’t want typical wedding photos. Isis gave us a truly unique and true-to-us wedding gallery, that we will treasure forever. We couldn’t have wished for a better wedding photographer.

{ Katrien & Tanguy }

Every time we look at our wedding photos we are impressed by Isis’ unique way of seeing the world and seeing people. She makes you feel absolutely comfortable in front of her camera. We’re absolutely in love with the wonderful, rich, atmospheric photos she made of our day!

{ Shelly & Yannick }

Thank you dear Isis for the beautiful and touching moments you capture so pure and lovingly in your photos. We are so grateful that we got to know you and couldn’t be more happy to have had you with us on our wedding day. You are a beautiful person, and thanks to you we will be able to relive our wedding day again and again and again.

WEDDING & ELOPEMENT PRICING

Europe weddings & elopements

starting from

€ 2800

Italy weddings & elopements

starting from

€ 2500

Netherlands + Belgium weddings & elopements

starting from

€ 1700

What does this include?

6 hours of photography
Customised vendor and location recommendations
Help creating a timeline for an unforgettable, adventure-filled day
250+ full-resolution digital images
Mini wedding album
Private online gallery to download, share and print your images
Photographer travel and accommodation fees

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FIND YOUR FOCUS // Just a little reminder about the Find Your Focus guide that's launching tomorrow (you can enter until Sunday evening!) ⁠
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Find Your Focus is an online (instagram-based) guide to help you find a new balance in changing times, find your focus, create a "new" balance and (re)discover the things that matter to you deeply. ⁠At your own pace.⁠
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It's super hard to stay optimistic about your plans and dreams when you're facing a loss of work and income, and when there's no certainty about when everything will go back to normal. But I feel that the last thing we should do as (self-employed) creatives is to lose belief in ourselves and our businesses. ⁠
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That's why I'm determined to support all you creative humans and gentle souls to keep on dreaming, find calm and courage in your life and business. ⁠
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Dreaming isn't always easy, let alone breaking down your dreams into actionable steps, and seeing the possibilities in severely limited circumstances, but I'll be breaking it down with you!⁠
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This guide is for you if:⁠
- you're feeling overwhelmed or emotional under the drastic changes of the last few weeks and need a new balance⁠
- you want to make the most out of this period of #lockdown and #socialdistancing⁠
- you feel like you're working all the time but not feeling like you're going anywhere⁠
- you're struggling to decide what direction you want your life and work to go⁠
- you need some structure and accountability to stay productive without the external pressure of appointments and deadlines⁠
- you want to connect with, be inspired by, and support other creatives⁠
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This guide will be available to everyone on a pay-what-you-can basis.⁠
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Check out the link in my bio for more info!⁠
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FIND YOUR FOCUS // Those of you who follow my stories know this already, but for those of you who don't: in one week time I'm launching an online guide to help you find your focus, create a "new" balance and (re)discover the things that matter to you deeply. ⁠At your own pace.⁠
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It's super hard to stay optimistic about your plans and dreams when you're facing a loss of work and income, and when there's no certainty about when everything will go back to normal. But I feel that the last thing we should do as (self-employed) creatives is to lose belief in ourselves and our businesses. ⁠
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That's why I'm determined to support all you creative humans and gentle souls to keep on dreaming, find calm and courage in your life and business. ⁠
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Dreaming isn't always easy, let alone breaking down your dreams into actionable steps, and seeing the possibilities in severely limited circumstances, but I'll be breaking it down with you!⁠
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This guide is for you if:⁠
- you're feeling overwhelmed or emotional under the drastic changes of the last few weeks and need a new balance⁠
- you want to make the most out of this period of #lockdown and #socialdistancing and keep busy ⁠
- you feel like an unguided projectile, working all the time in different directions but not feeling like you're going anywhere⁠
- you're struggling to decide what direction you want your life and work to go⁠
- you need some structure and accountability to stay productive without the external pressure of appointments and deadlines⁠
- you want to connect with, be inspired by, and support other creatives⁠
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I'm doing this because I want to help, and not because I want to make money. This guide will be available to everyone on a pay-what-you-can basis.⁠
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Check out the link in my bio for more info!⁠
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#slowlivingforlife #quietinthewild #theslowdowncollective #meetthemaker #thesimpleeveryday #ofquietmoments #creativepreneur #communityovercompetition #adventerousstorytellers #unconventionaltogs #dearphotographer #wanderingphotographers⁠ #passionpassport⁠ #businessinnature #photographybrand #creativebusiness #supportsmall #wearethemakers #risingtidesociety #supportsmallbusiness #createdtocreate

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I am not one to sit still and feel defeated in a crisis, but this past weekend I felt pretty low. And I couldn't really understand why. I had plans and to-do lists and we weren't on lockdown and life was still pretty normal. This whole #coronavirus is THE time to work on your business, on the behind-the-scenes, workflows, SEO, updating your website and so on, I was telling myself. ⁠
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But then I was chatting to my dear friend @pameluke yesterday and she helped me understand that really, feeling defeated or off-balance in this situation is not surprising. The uncertainty of what the next week is going to look like, if your appointments and plans are going to be going ahead or not, the waiting for decisionmakers to make decisions, and not knowing how it's all going to impact you,... isn't an easy thing!⁠
Everything that used to be normal is no longer normal, in the span of just a few days! And every day brings more changes. All of us will need some time to figure out and get used to our "new normal". ⁠
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So if you're feeling a bit low or defeated, give yourself some time. While all the instagram posts telling you to look on the bright side of this epidemic, to put all the time you suddenly have to good use, are absolutely right ... it's also more than ok to feel shaken and off-balance by this whole thing. Give yourself time to adapt, to discover a new normal, and to dream about what you want the new normal to look like, within the limits of what is currently possible.⁠
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I hope you are all ok and in good health! How is life where you are, what are the things you are enjoying the most right now? What are the things you are missing?⁠
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Thank you @roxannedanckersphotography for these portraits <3⁠
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These are weird times and writing about weddings or elopements or travel (all those things I usually write about) feels so trivial against the background of our current daily lives. ⁠
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But yesterday evening as I fell asleep, I realised that through all of this madness I just want to keep sharing beauty, love, compassion and creativity, so that is what I am going to do, even though it might be hard at times.⁠
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Also: my heart goes out to all the couples whose wedding plans have been completely turned upside down and had to change and postpone their wedding plans. I'm thinking of you!⁠
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And for my own couples: if your wedding was planned before May 3rd, we're already talking about solutions, for those couples who are getting married or elope later in May, I'm gonna get in touch with you real soon.⁠
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In the meantime: stay safe all of you lovely people <3⁠
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WHY I LOVE ITALY // I've been unsure about writing this post for a few days, but after the Italian government announced total lock-down yesterday, it feels like the right thing to write about today, as a tribute and a love-letter to Italy.⁠
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It's not a secret that I spend a lot of time in Italy, but I don't think I've ever written about how that came to be. And I do get quite a bit of questions about it from clients, friends and colleagues. Because how does a Belgian-Dutch photographer end up in Italy so often?⁠
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Before the end of 2013 I had only been in Italy a few times for very short visits, once to Rome and once to Milan. While I certainly enjoyed both visits, there was no special spark back then. In 2013 my mother married the love of her life, Claudio, a slightly stubborn, hand-gesturing, gentle guy from Rome with a hilariously dry sense of humour. It's all thanks to Claudio that I have seen and travelled a lot of Italy, learned my first words of Italian, and learned to cook "pasta al tonno" the proper way. It's thanks to both of them that I get to experience Italy more from the perspective of a local than that of a tourist, and that I get to call it my third home. I've been to 12 out of the 20 regions of Italy, I've visited in all the different months of the year, saw all the seasons, and drove close to 5000kms on Italian soil.⁠
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Claudio passed away just about a year ago, and we still miss him every day, but I'll always have Italy. ⁠
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Beautiful Italy, I'm thinking of you today, and of my mother, who's caught in the lock-down until at least the beginning of April. I'm sending all of you you courage to get through all of this craziness. And I am looking forward to meeting you all again once this is over.⁠
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Contact

Isis Sturtewagen Photography

info@isissturtewagen.nl
+31 (0)639671627

Based in The Netherlands, Belgium and Italy

KVK 67001157

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Netherlands wedding photographer | Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Leiden, The Hague
Belgium wedding photographer | Gent, Bruges, Antwerp, Mechelen
Italy wedding photographer | Tuscany, Florence, Siena, Lazio, Rome, Umbria, Orvieto, Abruzzo
Europe wedding photographer | Scotland, Sweden, Faroe Islands, Spain, Greece, Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Slovenia, Morocco