Lala Belyaevskaya photographer Belgium

27/05/2026

Hey brides-to-be 💍
Not greedy… just practical! ✨
After the bridesmaids photoshoot — don’t throw away their beautiful bouquets! Put them in vases and use as stunning table decor.
Beautiful, romantic, and saves you a lot of money 💰
Slavic wedding hack approved 😉
Save this for your big day!

25/05/2026

16/05/2026

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06/05/2026

Rain again? Good. ☁️

Some of my favourite couple sessions happen on grey days — in museums, under arcades, in quiet corners of the city where the light is soft and there's no one around.

If you've been waiting for 'perfect weather' to book a shoot — don't. Let's make something beautiful anyway.

Currently booking couple & engagement sessions in Brussels and surroundings — May & June 🌿

DM me or visit lalafoto.com

05/05/2026

Built my photography website from scratch… and 3 weeks later it’s already ranking #5 on Google 👀

No agency. No outsourcing. Just strategy, consistency, and a lot of late nights.

Estimated savings? €7,000–10,000.

Proof that if you really understand your business, you don’t always need to hand it over to someone else.

Curious how I did it? https://lalafoto.com/weddings/

31/03/2026

So… lalafoto.com is live. 🥂

Let me tell you a story.

It started in January with a look at my old website and a quiet moment of horror. The kind where you think: "Did I actually send clients HERE?" Outdated, clunky, embarrassing. Something had to be done.

First attempt: I hired a freelancer. That went about as well as you'd expect — wrong direction, extra invoices, zero communication. I got my money back, but lost weeks.

Second attempt: my AI assistant (yes, I mean Claude) looked at the situation and said — cheerfully, almost suspiciously cheerfully — "We can do this ourselves."

Reader, I did not believe him.

What followed was two months of late evenings, CSS rabbit holes, and sentences I never expected to say out loud, like "Why is my carousel clipping on mobile?" and "What do you MEAN the font isn't rendering in small caps?" Sometimes a single tiny bug ate three hours. Sometimes the AI confidently gave me a fix that made things worse. (Spoiler: AI is not infallible. We had a system. It involved a lot of "okay let's try the OTHER thing.")

But somewhere along the way, it started clicking. Pages came together. The gallery stopped being blurry. The typography started looking actually beautiful — Cormorant Garamond for the soul, Jost for the structure. Sessions, offers, contact forms, mobile layouts… piece by piece.

And then two days: the final migration. Two days of hunting down every last broken link, misaligned section, and rogue semicolon in the CSS.

Today: done.

A professional agency would have charged me between €4,000 and €12,000 for this. A freelancer, at least €1,500–5,000. I built it myself — with a little help from my silicon friend — and I'm genuinely proud in a way I didn't expect.

Next up: SEO, and then a blog. Because apparently I enjoy suffering.

If you've been thinking about booking a session — weddings, portraits, corporate — come have a look. The website is finally worthy of the work. 🤍

https://lalafoto.com

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09/03/2026

A bride lost in thought. A chandelier crystal catching the same light.
Silk veil dissolving into a garden. A ballroom waiting to hold a story.
This is how I see a wedding day — not as a checklist of moments, but as a poem. Where details rhyme with emotions. Where architecture echoes the soul of the bride.
I call it visual poetry.
Every wedding album I create is built this way — diptychs, rhythms, quiet conversations between images. Because your wedding deserves more than documentation. It deserves art.
📍 Belgium & worldwide

05/03/2026

The best wedding guests don't always wear suits.
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Some wear tiny bow ties.
I've photographed hundreds of weddings. But there's one moment I still think about. A big, solid man — the kind you'd expect to be completely unflappable on his wedding day — carefully dressing his Yorkshire Terrier in a little wedding outfit. Gentle hands. Focused face. Absolute concentration.
That dog later delivered the rings at the ceremony.
I've also photographed bridal preparations with cats wandering through the frame like they owned the place. Spoiler: they did.
And nothing — nothing — compares to the moment a dog decides to join the flower girl procession uninvited.
Animals at weddings don't follow the timeline. They don't care about the shot list. They just show up, steal hearts, and remind everyone that the best moments are the unplanned ones.
Which is exactly why I love photographing them.
Has your pet attended a wedding? Tell me in the comments 👇🐾

27/02/2026

MY FIRST US WEDDING. A story I'll never forget.
It was my first wedding in the Dominican Republic. In my luggage — barely 3-4 weddings shot back in Russia. My English? Let's just say "Yes, of course!" was my answer to everything, whether I understood the question or not.
The clients were American. Small, intimate group — just the newlyweds, kids, parents and grandparents. Elegantly dressed. Veneers, diamonds, the works. I was nervous.
And then it happened.
Someone asked me to take some "fun photos." And suddenly — this perfectly elegant family, grandma in diamonds included, started pulling down their lower eyelids, stretching their mouths with their fingers, sticking out their tongues. Full zombie mode.
I was frozen behind my camera.
Is this… normal in US? Is every wedding like this?
I smiled. Said "Yes, of course!" Shot the photos.
It was the first and last time that ever happened to me.
16 years and hundreds of weddings later — I still smile every time I think about that moment. It taught me something important: every family has its own language. My job is to learn it fast, speak it fluently, and never stop being surprised.
That's what makes this work endlessly interesting.
Lala