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Christelle Rall
Christelle has been shooting weddings and elopements for more than a decade and covered 600+ weddings as the main shooter. Her style is creative, unique and innovative. Her images portray unscripted emotions that shows the wedding day as it happens with all the in-between moments and memories.
She studied Broadcasting Media and graduated with an Honours degree, but the start of 2006 saw her interest in photography taking a new turn through her involvement in Film, TV and Video production. The transition to full-time professional photography was made in 2011 and she has never looked back since. As a leading Western Cape Wedding Photographer, she has covered weddings in all areas across the region in the most beautiful and diverse settings.
Christelle remains humble and believes that one is 'just as good as your last job'. Her objective is always to provide her clients with powerful, creative and storytelling images - beautiful photos with the clients' personalities and emotions shining through. She also focuses on creative portraits that show the client's personalities as well as their unique love and location.
29 Diamond Awards for Engagement Portraits
True Love Captured Awards from Real Weddings - TLC
1 'At Work' Photos
The following photos are of Christelle Rall at work.
8 Client Letters
The following letters are from the clients of Christelle Rall.
Married: 1 year ago
Jeán & Stephanie
We are absolutely in awe of your skill, professionalism and ability to capture images in a way that not only conveys the emotion, but also makes us feel as if we were clearly reliving the memory through the photo. Nothing felt staged (from both our engagement shoot to our wedding day) and we so enjoyed how you let us absolutely be ourselves and worked the magic in and around that. Christelle, we don't have enough words to say thank you, but thank you indeed!
Married: 2 years ago
Fanie & Lindie
Thank you so much for the beautiful photos, we are so happy with them and I received plenty of compliments on face book! You really provided us with professional & creative service. Feeling at ease in front of the camera although I hate it was no problem. I really don’t think we could have asked for anything better than this! Thank you again!
Married: 2 years ago
Stephlin & Liz
Armand & I just want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for these STUNNING photos. This is really something truly exquisite that we will treasure forever. You made us feel so comfortable and special and we would like to thank you sincerely for this. The photos are absolutely beyond our expectations and made us laugh and experience moments we never knew about!
Married: 2 years ago
Dyllan & Michelle
Christelle, one of my bridesmaids who is a wedding planner in London said she'd never seen wedding photographs as lovely as the one's you took. Here's what she wrote me in an email: “I think they really captured the feel of the wedding and the venue and you guys as a couple! I'm sure you must be really happy with them because every one I saw looked like it should go in a frame on a mantelpiece!! It must be so hard to look through them and choose because they really were all unbelievable! Save her contacts for my wedding please!” I'm definitely going to recommend you guys to anyone I know who's planning a wedding!
Married: 2 years ago
Gert & Malinda
Christelle as you know, we are a very camera shy couple and hates having our photos taken. We dreaded the photo shoot to such an extent that we did not even want a photographer at our wedding at first, but you have managed to turn the most dreaded part of our wedding day into the highlight of our day with so much fun and laughter! You did wonders and thank you very much for these fantastic memories! There is no one better than you!
Married: 3 years ago
Pieter & Jeanine
Christelle, these photos are stunning! Thank you so, so much! We are so proud of them and can really show it to all our friends with pride! You really provided us with professional & creative service. Feeling at ease in front of the camera although I hate having my photo taken - it was no problem, I felt completely at ease and even had fun!! Thank you so much for the awesome pictures and just for being awesome yourself! Again, we just want to thank you for the incredibly stunning photos and for all the trouble and extra’s you did for us. We really appreciate it sincerely.
Married: 3 years ago
Arno & Nadia
Christelle, you captured our "Fairytale" wedding so perfectly! Each and every photo holds wonderful memories, and this is all thanks to you! We can look at our wedding pics with great pride! We also want to thank you for your professionalism and friendliness on our wedding day, our guests noticed it and we were immensely proud to have had you as part of our most special day! I’m still getting wonderful compliments and it makes my heart bubble with pride and joy all over again! We could not have asked for a better photographer! Our album is fantastic, and we will definitely recommend you with the greatest confidence. Again… thank you so much!
Married: 3 years ago
Kevin & Lindsay
Thank you for your calming, well prepared and creative approach to our wedding. I greatly appreciate that you made an effort to meet with us beforehand and to deliver exactly what we wanted – natural, beautiful and creative photos! I want to say a huge thank you again! We are just getting so much wonderful feedback when we show people our pics here in New Zealand...thank you again for making our special day magical! - Thank you!
Wedding Elopement Multiple Picture Galleries (10)
Christelle Rall chronicles small weddings and elopements from beginning to end. In this sense, it is no different from any other wedding day. The emphasis is on documenting key moments, capturing spontaneous displays of emotion, and telling the real story behind the elopement day. Below are wedding elopement story awards for Christelle Rall.
WPJA contest judges have been recognized by their industry peers, winning top awards as staff picture editors, staff photojournalists, and newsroom mentors while working for these and other leading publications and journalism organizations.
