Bryan Morris – Aruba’s Premier Wedding Photographer

The daunting but very important task of selecting wedding songs during your wedding preparation has now just become a little less stressful.

The almighty Google or any other search engine came to the rescue.

Upon placing a search in google I came up with what seems to be the biggest wedding song resource. Our Wedding Songs.

There are however quite a few websites with this information so if you don’t find anything you like here, (which I doubt, a lot) just Google “wedding songs” and you will come up with alternative sites. Making a proper selection of wedding songs.

Having the right music sets the mood to your event and allows you to express yourself through music.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

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The best way out is always through – Robert Frost

Many times we find us in situations that we just cry out within ourselves hoping that we could just be plucked out of it, completely unaware that if we ride out the storm we will come out wiser, stronger and more experienced.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

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I’m not feeling well today and don’t have the energy to really formulate a post. I however have something to share.

Enjoy,

Bryan Morris

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Yet another restaurant review.

I just can’t help it, I love good food and Aruba certainly is the place for this.

I’ve had lunch at Matilde.

I’ve separated myself and was trying to formulate the experience, but because of my finite vocabulary, I was at lost for words. So, I’ll just say it as ghetto as I can; Man they’re great!

I’ll be totally honest, I’m not paid for these reviews, this is my blog and I can do what I want.

Upon entering, the greeting lacked. My wife glanced at me as stating; “this might not be a nice experience.” I however totally understand that everyday is not your day so I gave the lady that greeted us at the door the benefit of the doubt.

Her second approach was improved a hundred fold, so I’ll say that a) She then found out who we were b) She realized that she was not in good spirits at the greeting and adjusted or c) It was just our imagination that the greeting wasn’t too nice, which I doubt!

Service 4 7/8 of a star, because of the first impression. First impressions do count.

Ambience 5 stars

Food 5 stars

The ambience was great, we sat in a little cozy/romantic corner. The restaurant went through a major renovation. The decor is very modern, trendy……..

I will use their own words to describe the restaurant.

“Chez Mathilde once again reinvents itself.
 After extensive renovations Matilde offers an entirely new “Caribbean Chic” but relaxing atmosphere under the same original owners and management.
 A more buttoned-down experience yet maintaining the same standards of excellence and world class cuisine we have always been known for.

Now you can be chic, trendy or both… only at Matilde.“

This could not have  been described better.

The food?

Tony the Tiger would say, “Grrrrrrrreeeeeaaaaaaaaat!”

Portions are not big but they are just right. Upon leaving the place you don’t feel stuffed, you feel like you’ve just had some good food.

Of course I have images of the food I ate……

Strawberry champagne was brought to our table as soon as we were seated. I’m not a fanatic of strawberries but the longer you let this sit in the champagne, the better it tastes.

This is the Crab Cappuccino, we both had this as appetizer, very good.

Matilde Burger, this is a real homemade hamburger covered in cheese. Shayenne couldn’t stop raving about this burger.

This is the Caribbean Grouper Filet.

Self Portrait of Shayenne.

Her second attempt at a self portrait.

Shayenne’s Dessert; Oven Baked Apple Tart. Yummo!

My dessert; Pumpkin Cake. Se magnifique

 Cappuccino to complete the lunch!

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

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I wish you a blessed  Sunday!

As promised here’s another view through my eyes. This is another view of the lighthouse.

Enjoy,

Bryan Morris

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I’m often asked by brides if I could convert a few images in B&W and I always respond positively. There are however so many looks to B& W.

Last week shooting a few portraits of my wife in some crazy lighting I’ve decided that these would be great to transform to B&W to portray a few of the different ways I could go.

After dinner we walked out on the hotel strip. With camera still in hand I decided to shoot a couple portraits of Shayenne. The light was even crazier than in the restaurant. I’ve then decided that these would be great to transform to B&W to portray a few different possibilities with B&W.

I just like to push myself to be creative and come up with something cool. This is the way you learn. You have to practice in real life scenarios so when you get yourself in a situation like this you would know how to handle it. As a photographer you should be able to do the job under any circumstance, providing you have the right tools.

I just love shooting with available light, I use flash whenever it’s a real must or I want a different look.

Here are a couple of shots that were created under crazy light and transformed to B&W, different shades of black & white. Enjoy.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

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Check Yourself!

You must constantly ask yourself these questions;

Who am I around? What are they doing to me?

What have they got me reading? What have they

got me saying? Where do they have me going?

What do they have me thinking? And most

important, what do they have me becoming?

Then ask yourself the big question: Is that OK? - Jim Rohn

I won’t say much, except for that it might be time for a clean up!

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

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WOW!

Don’t carve this in stone yet as I’m not done going through the close to 400 restaurants on the island hwever, Aruba has great restaurants.

I’m yet to find one that does not make the mark. Sometimes I wonder if I get the service because they know that I’m VIP (another post, another time) but most times they don’t know until the end of the night and I rather keep it that way.

Service at the Sunset Grill Restaurant is great, I’ve had 5 different people stopped at my table on different occasions over the course of the evening to ask me if everything was OK, if I needed anything else. The restaurants manager was one of the many pacing the floors making sure the dining experience was excellent.

Service 5 stars

Ambience 5 stars

Food 5 stars

They have a saxophone player “El Prove” playing at Miramar Bar all week from 7-11 and he swings by the restaurant during the course of the night. That certainly adds to the dining experience. My wife is all breath taken about music played by saxophone and I like music in general so it’s a definite plus.

This is the way the bread is displayed. They bring you a variety of bread!

Maryland Lump Crabcake and grilled Diver Scallops for moi.

Escargots in Garlic Butter for Shayenne.

Chilean Sea Bass, I’ve never had this before. All I can say is Ooh La La…..

Porter House Steak Bone in for Shayenne. I like when she orders big like this. This came with a choice of sides. See these on the website.

Yours truly, I don’t get the chance to be much on this side of the camera but I must confess, it does feel strange. However, Shayenne seems to be getting the hang of the camera. The lighting was tricky, though.

Shayenne wrestling with her 22 oz of steak.

Chocolate Souflé, this is to be ordered with the main course. It takes 25 minutes to prepare this, even if you decide on this after dinner, it is worth the wait.

My desert was the Bananas Foster White Chocolate and Dark Rum Bread Pudding, now that was the bomb!

And now you’re asking where is the image of my dessert, right. I ashamedly have to agree that I was in a intense conversation with my wife when my dessert came and I ate it before getting the shot. The best part of it is that I’ve remembered that I did not take a shot of my dessert after we left the restaurant. It was good but to forget like that I came to the conclusion that it was heavenly.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

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“Aruba Ta Hot”

I would like to remind you about the “Aruba Ta Hot” campaign.

What is the “Aruba Ta Hot” campaign?

Since I’ve started I try and give back to the community that I so feel a part of. Annually I document at least one wedding for a less fortunate couple absolutely free of charge.

Why do I do this? I simply believe in the law of reciprocity. I just dawned on me one day after reading a few (auto) biographies of some well established business men and it was confirmed biblically, I then realized that this is the thing to do. Many people do it for the sake of taxes, I don’t, but nevertheless it does something in your business when you give back.

Because, this year we’re celebrating our 5th year of business and our 5th wedding anniversary I’ve chosen to do it like this, shooting whichever couple that dares to load up there video on Youtube letting me know why I should shoot their wedding for free. I would choose the response video that appeals to me most.

All you have to do is create your video (Be as creative as you can), load it up to Youtube and send me an email with the link to the video.

Newsletter

I don’t know if you’ve remembered this post. I’ve been having some problems with the newsletter since I’ve made an upgrade in my blogging platform. I’ve since fixed it so now you can go ahead and subscribe to the newsletter of which I will be sending the first issue out soon with great information.

Comments

My dear secret stalkers, you know who you are. Leave me some comments every now and again. It really help me to know that I’m not talking to myself. I know I’m not but it just gives you the fuzzies inside to know that we’re dialoging.

Still to come.

I have 2 more restaurant reviews for you (Sunset Grill & Chez Mathilde). One is almost done and the other I still have to work on their images. OMW! Aruba has some good food!

I also have a post on wedding dances. Where to get your music, the new trend of wedding dances etc I also have a post on romantic proposals ideas and tips so there’s a whole lot on the horizon.

Anything else in particular you would like me to post about, I’m just a comment or an email away.

I’m looking forward to those emails/comments gushing in.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

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This is a new section/challenge that I’ve embarked upon. “Aruba through my eyes”

I’m twisting my own arm behind my back in order to get out and shoot for myself, well now not so true anymore as I’ll be doing it to display for you and have fun while doing it.

For those of you that know Aruba have seen images of the many landmarks but I’ll be displaying the landmarks but from a different perspective. I’ll start out with one from the lighthouse as I have quite a few different perspectives of this landmark

Every Sunday, look out for “Aruba, through my eyes”

Enjoy,

Bryan Morris

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