Shelley & Brian's Wedding

Here is a small selection of reportage wedding photographs of Shelley and Brian's wedding at the beautiful St. Nicholas Church in Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire.  Their reception was at one of Leicestershire's premier wedding venues, Kilworth House Hotel in North Kilworth, near Lutterworth.

Two vintage Rolls Royce's supplied by CG Wedding Cars transported the bridal party in great style, while a vintage double-decker bus from Confidence Bus Company proved a novel way of getting the guests to and from the church.  Lee Hooke of Lees Ice Dreams provided luxury ice creams to the guests, served from an old-fashioned ice-cream bike, while the guests were being serenaded by The Wigornia String Quartet.

Shelley looked stunning in an amazing dress that really had the "WOW!" factor.  I think Brian was more than a little concerned when he saw that Shelley's dress had a train as they had been going to dance classes and had rehearsed a highly-choreographed first dance that hadn't taken into account such a large dress.  After much pinning-up of the fabric, the happy couple put in a faultless performance which won rapturous applause.

N.B. This blog covers just the wedding and portrait side of my business.  Please see my Commercial / PR Photography Blog for up-to-date news about the PR, commercial, corporate editorial, architectural and aerial photography and videography side of my business.

Frankie & Darrell's Wedding

Here are a few reportage wedding photographs of Frankie and Darrell's wedding at St. Giles' Church, Exhall, Warwickshire.  Their reception was at the excellent Coventry wedding venue the Royal Court Hotel in Keresley.  The Royal Court Hotel is a Grade II listed country house which provides some great backgrounds, although we couldn't take full advantage of them on Saturday, due to the heavy showers.  I was , however, still able to photograph the happy couple and their gusts enjoying themselves indoors.  The bridal party were transported in style by two fabulous vintage cars which were provided by Paul and Gill Mackley of Cars 4 Your Wedding and the centrepiece of the wedding reception was an amazing (and very tall!) five-tier wedding cake made by Trish Clarke of T.C.Cakes.

N.B. This blog covers just the wedding and portrait side of my business.  Please see my Commercial / PR Photography Blog for up-to-date news about the PR, commercial, corporate editorial, architectural and aerial photography and videography side of my business.

Claire & Sam's Wedding

Here is a small selection of reportage wedding photographs of Claire and Sam's wedding in Rutland.  

The happy couple chose the beautiful church of St. Peter and St, Paul in Exton, near Oakham for the wedding ceremony.   The then went back to the excellent Rutland wedding venue Bansdale Lodge Hotel for a drinks reception and the wedding breakfast.  The wedding flowers were supplied by Alison of Uppingham Florist Blossom.   Claire and Sam were so lucky with the weather as rain had been forecast, but it was dry all day (if a little windy at times) with plenty of sunshine. 

 Claire had a slight wardrobe malfunction moment as her garter slid off her leg while she was walking up the church path with her dad.  It made for a very light-heated moment as it enable everyone to relax before the ceremony.

After three excellent and witty speeches and the cutting of the wedding cake using the grooms' father's naval sword, and dancing most of the first dance, Sam showed off his hidden talent by leaving Claire, only  to sit at a piano and to serenade his new bride  The  guests then joined  them to dance along to the fabulous four-piece pop/rock band Penfold (who can be booked via Function Central).  They played everything from Elvis and the Beatles right through to current chart music.  Matt Walters, the band's keyboard player is also a sound engineer (Quince Studios), which explains why the sound matched the high-quality of the musicians.

The day went with such a swing as the couple and their guests were such fun to be around that the whole day really sparkled.  I love my job on days like this!

N.B. This blog covers just the wedding and portrait side of my business.  Please see my Commercial / PR Photography Blog for up-to-date news about the PR, commercial, corporate editorial, architectural and aerial photography and videography side of my business.