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Wasing Park Wedding – Keeley and Frankie

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:59:17 +0000

Wasing Park in Aldermaston is a beautiful place for a wedding at any time of the year and with the weather on our side today it was a great place to be to celebrate Francois and Keeley’s big day. The venue is based around and old estate farm with ceremonies taking place in the small church adjacent to the reception area. I like it because everything takes place a short distance from everything else – Wasing Park lends itself to a nice relaxed wedding day.

Frankie and Keeley both work for QVC so not surprisingly were relaxed in front of the camera. We had a great day and they had booked a photobooth in the evening which was fabulous fun. Incriminating evidence coming up below.

The complete gallery will be uploaded as soon as K and F are back from their Italian honeymoon. If you would like to know when the pictures are available for viewing clickez-vous ici.

In the meantime – a few favourites from the wedding:

Get a load of those baby blues

Shoes!

Happy bridesmaids – a good start to the day.

Best Man Mark fearlessly takes on the tricky buttonhole job.

Almost ready to go.

Jasmine and Amelia. Butter wouldn’t melt… eh?

The beautiful bride.

The FOG waits for the ceremony to start.

She’s not late, just ‘fashionable’.

On the way to church

A great ceremony with capacity crowd in St. Nicholas Church.

Peter the toastmaster, on hand with refreshments.

The brand new Mr. and Mrs.

A couple of favourites from the reception.

It’s going to end in tears.

Be proud of your bap.

Laydeez and Gennlemen – I give you….Keeley and Frankies.. PHOTOBOOTH!!

Be afraid…

Thanks again Keeley and Frankie, have a great honeymoon in Italy :)

Detail Spotlight: Shoes

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:51:23 +0000

There are many aspects to photographing a wedding – the journalistic pictures which form the bulk of the day for me, the family shots and the bride and groom pictures, ‘scene setting’ images etc. Recording the little things are also a very important part of the day for me as well. A typical preparation for the wedding day for the bride and groom (OK, mostly the bride :) ) is around a year, give or take, and a lot of that time is spent on deciding the little things that make the special day, well, special.

The small details that personalise the ceremony and the reception are often the things that take most of the time when planning the wedding. I always make sure we have plenty of detail images to choose from - this kind of image whether singly or in sequences, really bring an album to life. They often act like glue and bind storytelling sequences together. Usually I try and photograph these in a creative way, I think it’s really cool to have the details shots photographed contextually i.e. with the setting or background part of the composition. This is a really nice way of bringing the location(s) to life in the wedding album.

In this post I’d like to focus on shoes – during the bridal preparations it’s nice to have some images of the these – along with the flowers and the dress they often finish the day in a totally different condition than they were in the morning :) Here’s a few favourites from last years weddings.

Thanks for looking – comments always welcome!

Becky and Mike's Wedding

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:41:00 +0000

Wasing Park, Aldermaston was the venue today for Becky and Mike’s nuptials. Wasing Park is a beautiful location with it’s own church, bar and reception venue.

Mike serves with the Royal Signals TA and had organised a Guard of Honour at the wedding which was a nice touch.

The bride and groom are sunning themselves in the Maldives at the moment and the full gallery will be posted on their return. Drop me a line if you would like to know when that is.

Here’s a few images that caught my eye.

Springtime – at last!

I do like an arty shoe shot.

Becky gets ready to roll.

L. Becky the beautiful bride. R. I love the light in this shot

L. Mike gets his uniform on. R. Essential wedding accessories include a top hat,shades and a mini-me.

Becky, her Dad and bridesmaids on the way to church.

L. A hug for the mother-in-law. R. A self-propelled vase of flowers

I love bumping into my ex-brides and grooms at weddings. Here’s Andrea and Paul whose wedding I shot almost two years ago.

A couple of favourite images from the day.

It was so nice to be able to shoot in the beautiful spring sunshine, lovely after the last few months we’ve had.

Thanks Mike and Becky, I had a great time – see you when you get back!