Yesterday was my first wedding of the 2014 season and I had the honour of photographing the wedding of a young man I have known since he was 3. So no pressure then. Barry had spent a large number of years in South Africa with his parents before moving to the UK.
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It has now been a week since we set up the stand for the National Wedding Show in London Olympia. It’s hard to believe it was already a week ago. It was the first time I had exhibited at the show and I was quite apprehensive about the logistics.
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If I told you that we were heading to the beach for a pre wedding shoot you’d probably think it was a great idea. If I told you we would be doing it in England, in February, you’d likely think we were quite resilient and clearly up for a challenge.
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Rachel and Simon, much like those other star-crossed lovers, were destined to meet… and so they did. In Cusco, Peru. They were both taking time out to find themselves and instead found each other on the incredible Inca Trail.
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So when a friend says, I’m having a Star Wars wedding theme, what is the first thing that jumps to mind? Stormtroopers? Yeah, it did for me too. Meet Gemma and Stephen. Star Wars crazy (perhaps Gemma more so) and crazy in love.
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Notley Abbey near Thame in Oxfordshire is a beautiful country house rich in history. As an Abbey it received Henry VIII on his visits to Oxford and many hundreds of years later became the home of Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. It is perfectly suited as a wedding venue as it oozes elegance and old English charm.
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It was in early May when I made a trip up to Staffordshire for a venue visit and quick pre wedding shoot with the lovely Gemma and Steve. It had to be quick for the April showers had extended into May and we were including their very funny and ridiculously cute boys in the shoot.
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It’s the topic that some of us dream about for years, maybe even decades. Where will we meet? Where will I be asked the question? Will it be romantic? and of course… What will my ring look like??? Then you meet each other and in my case, he’s all sorts of wonderful and if you’re anything like me, you’re planning the wedding before he’s even popped the question.
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Sometimes, life trundles along at a rate of knots and things tend to happen roughly as you expect them to. Sometimes, for some rather inexplicable reasons, life does quite the opposite. A string of events that you have no control over erupt around you and within a few short months you are wondering quite how life ended up here, on this lane of sorrow and heartache.
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On the morning of Jade and Andy’s wedding I woke up in a charming little B&B in the village of Edwinstowe, a little village in the heart of Sherwood Forest. Legend has it that Robin Hood married his sweetheart, Maid Marian, at St Mary’s Church in Edwinstowe.
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