Sjenel Studio.

Die mooiste .fourie.104 met die mooiste oë! 🤍

Bridal glam -
Soft burgundy smoked out eye, using the sparkle dust in Peach Bliss.

I recently started capturing my brides reactions because I truly feel it’s a moment in time that you should reflect on for months to come. Every bride in my chair holds a very special place in my heart, because you chose me, you chose me to play a major role in probably one of the most important days in your life and while it’s a paid for service, it still remains an honour and a HUGE compliment.

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15-year-old me would have laughed if you told her this would be her life.

I thought I’d become a criminal profiler or lawyer one day. I was fascinated by crime, psychology, the way the human mind works. I looked up to people like Micki Pistorius and thought my future would be built around solving darkness.

But God had completely different plans for me.

Life happened. I had to start working after school. A part-time makeup job found me through friends, and slowly, unexpectedly, weddings found me too. One booking became another. One bride became hundreds. What started as a small idea during retrenchment in 2020 — wanting to launch makeup brushes — turned into a business creating wedding stationery, signage, guest favours, websites, designs… entire wedding worlds.

And now my weekends are filled with brides instead of crime scenes.

The craziest part is realizing God knew me better than I knew myself.

Because while I still find psychology and crime fascinating, I know now that I would never have survived a career built around heartbreak. I feel too deeply. I cry too easily when families hurt. I carry people’s pain with me. And maybe what I once saw as a weakness… is actually exactly why I was led here.

Instead of witnessing people’s worst days, I now get to witness some of their best.

I get to stand in rooms filled with love, prayer, nervous excitement, family, promises, new beginnings.

And that is not something I take lightly.

Sometimes God redirects your life not because He’s taking something away from you — but because He knows the kind of heart you have, and where it will flourish best.

Looking back now, I can honestly say:
thank God I didn’t get the life I thought I wanted.