destination indian wedding part 1

sanjana and karan’s story intersects in beautiful istanbul as a mid destination of their love journey between california and india. this intimate, colorful, modern also full of indian traditions wedding was such a great experience for me to go through too! one of the most energetic and full of love wedding i have ever captured. started with a henna day, later with a dreamy welcome cocktail rooftop party at soho hotel with a gorgeous historic istanbul view, ended with a classic and stylish bosphorus wedding celebration party at good old astonishing çırağan palace.

below is the first part of their whole weekend celebration; the welcome dinner at soho house terrace istanbul. the colorful fun wedding will be on the part 2! enjoy the joy!

a new year a new start thankful to you all <3

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
— Annie Leibovitz

here are some of my favorite images from 2019 with loads to cherish..

it has been a very amazing year for me and none of it would have happened if i haven't got to cherish beautiful moments with you all. i am beyond thankful for all your kindness, never-ending support, and encouragement.  2019 has opened new doors for me, gave me a new home, new beginnings, amazing new clients and allowed me to reunite with my beloved previous clients, now all turned into beloved friends. 

hoping to share more of your precious moments oncoming years ahead. 
wishing you all the best and happiness.

love,
yeliz

the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in. -morrie schwartz, tuesdays with morrie

sicily catania engagement session

derya and ömer gathered all their loved ones and celebrated their love in beautiful sicily. started in the streets of historic catania, continued towards taormina.. which you can find that journey later on.. this time enjoy their first part of the journey and beautifil sicily.. 

london wedding celebration

it was one of the hottest day in london where humidity was not helping the burning sun! but this didn't stop us to celebrate meltem&evrim's big day! such a lovely couple to spend the hottest day in london with! started at hackney town hall continued on the streets of beautiful hackney and london fields ended with a lovely afternoon tea at cute wringer and mangle with the closest family and friends. 

london has always been special for me and be a part of this beautiful celebration has also added another special mile stone in this lovely city. i have not only witness the love of this beautiful couple but also gained life time friends. dearest meltem and evrim, i know you will be happy as this day til the end of your life and grown into a bigger family in this lovely city where we'll get to spend time at london fields drinking bubbles celebrating more of love each time! you guys made the hottest day bearable to everyone! you deserve the best of everything and hope years will give you what you both want! hoping to see you every year!

norwegian-turkish wedding by the bosphorus historic adile sultan palace

if you were to ask me how to describe this wedding i would say elegant, emotional and fun. i not only cried during the dinner but also had really fun at the party! on a beautiful june day; dearest anne and burak vowed each other in front of their loved ones at beautiful adile sultan palace that looks over beautiful bosphorus from the above. it has became one of the very special wedding of this past season not only because anne's norwegian roots brought the memories of the wedding of a good friend of mine back in oslo, but also i get to see 3 other couples of mine from past year and we get to enjoy this wedding all together! i really love my job cause constantly i get to witness the most beautiful moments of people's lives. also when the wedding involves touchy speeches it definitely is more sincere and this wedding had a lot of that moment. i am so honored and happy that i get to meet with great hearted anne and burak and be a part of their very special day!

as a health coach and nutritionist anne was also launching her new business natura by anne during her wedding preperations. (by the way check her products they really are good!) she also had special wedding cake made by talented we.eatlove which looked and tasted really good! green and white themed wedding styled by talented aisha weddings and events and anne's dress was from niquie. hope you'll enjoy the details and will inspire you one way or another!

july wedding in flamm, bodrum

it was the first time that i had the worst flu in the middle of the summer time but i still had great time at this wedding of defne and caglar. surrounded with lots of love, friends and family from all around, they picked july for a beach wedding. defne in her dreamy inbal dror gown was just so gorgeous. flamm was decorated in cosy beach style by la bonbonniere events with bougainvilleas and fresh fruits..  they had food station scattered around allow all the guests to enjoy open buffet. they danced and celebrated their love til the first lights of the morning..hope you'll enjoy that dreamy day as much as i did.. don't forget to show some love at the end <3

destination wedding in göcek dresort

ofcourse it was a very hot august day but it worth all the sweat that we all had to shred! i met with memnune and chris in previous winter in london and i knew that their wedding is going to be more than just fun, memorable in many ways.. göcek is one of my favorite summer places in whole world and d-resort gocek is another heaven on earth especially for destination weddings. i have always captured amazing memories there and their crew is also very easy and friendly to work with. i have suggested istisnai projeler of bodrum to mem and chris and we all were very pleased at the end to work along together. mem and chris met in singapore chris as a british mem as australian turkish, living in london; they managed to gather everyone in beautiful göcek. it was a very casual beach wedding with lots of british humor in it. it has been one of those memorable weddings for me where i am thankful to meet lovely new people and honor to be a part of this sincere wedding.