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📸New Zealand Multi-award winning photographer 🥇
🙌🏻 Sony Advocate- @sonynz
🎖️Photography Master - @theportraitmasters

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A pregnancy that has helped mend our broken hearts. 🤍

We’re so ready to meet you our little one.🤍

Thank you to our beautiful friend @k.joy.creative who captured these last moments for us. 🥹

And in the final photos our Marama appeared. A little reminder that even though she isn’t in our arms, she is forever with us. 🕊️🌙

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Congratulations to Gina & Mitch on their beautiful new chapter together.

Begin your journey toward the perfect bespoke piece with Dean & Dust.

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Some weddings just stay with you 🤍
We absolutely loved having these two at the Ranch, such a beautiful couple, and a day that felt every bit as special as they are.
From the little details to the big moments, their whole wedding was filled with so much love, laughter and genuine happiness. It was one of those days we wished could have lasted a little longer.
Thank you for choosing Willows Ranch to be part of your story. We loved having you, we loved your day, and we’ll always have a soft spot for this one. 🥂
Here’s to forever!

Willow & Philippa xx

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Our story is in the latest issue of New Zealand Women’s Weekly, and sharing it has made me reflect on just how much this pregnancy has carried with it.

After losing Marama, I found it hard to publicly share the joy of being pregnant again. Not because I wasn’t grateful but because I knew both how quickly everything could change and how it felt going through that.

I’ve learnt that you don’t have to choose between grief and joy. You can miss someone desperately and still be excited about what is coming. You can carry fear and hope at the same time.

And after everything we’ve been through, I’m finally allowing myself to celebrate this little person growing inside me. 🤍

Thank you to everyone who has supported us through the hard parts and now through the happy ones too.

Grief and joy can exist at the same time.

And it’s okay to share your joy with the world again. 🤍

Thank you to @newzealandwomansweekly for telling our story and giving us the space to share it & thank you @k.joy.creative for walking beside us and capturing all of our moments so beautifully. 🤍

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Fave photo from @k.joy.creative

We actually forget how rare this can be.

We R&S gals are so used to it.

Walking into a room full of women, dressed however the heck you want, and knowing not one of those women is going to side-eye you.

Just drooling on how absolutely stunning you are.

This photo gives us so many feels.
And it’s giving a touch of 1950s too… which we here for

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SHOWCASE✨

Snaps of moments

📸 Kirsty Joy

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Somewhere in the land of Sony Kando 2026 day 1 @sonyalpha.anz #sonykandotripanz2026 #sonykandotripanz

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It’s crazy how much we genuinely miss our couples once the wedding day is over 🤍
From the first messages, to hearing all your dreams and ideas, watching the plans come to life, and getting just as excited as you are, it becomes so much more than “just a wedding” to us.
One of the best parts of Willows Ranch is the people we meet along the way, and we absolutely love seeing familiar faces come back again. Whether it’s popping in for a visit, showing friends the venue, or celebrating your anniversary with a little date night where it all began… our gates are always open for our Willows couples ✨

Willow & Philippa xx

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A lace bodice with a clean, classic a-line skirt - timeless.

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🏡@willows_ranch

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In our first remote episode, Sony Digital Imaging Advocates Kirsty Halliday (@k.joy.creative) and Rachel Hadfield (@rach.hadfield) join us virtually to share their experiences building careers in a male-dominated photography industry.
From navigating challenges and turning them into an advantage, they also talk about why people and connection come before the camera.

The latest episode of The Full Frame Podcast is out on your favorite podcast platform! 🎧

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Stunning wedding morning getting ready with kya and her bridesmaids.

Hair @behindthemirrorhairsalon
Makeup @saigekelly_mua
Dress @no.10bridal
Photography of the wedding @k.joy.creative

#weddinghairandmakeup #whangareihairdresser #localbusiness

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