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Little Theatre Cinema wedding | Rachel & Ashley
Little Theatre Cinema reportage wedding photography A very early start, on a Monday morning, to get from Sussex to Bath – for a small wedding at the Little Theatre cinema in the centre of the city. A small 1930s, two-screen cinema. This was just a few hours coverage – prep, ceremony, drinks, speeches – for Rachel and Ashley’s intimate wedding day. Why a wedding photographer all the way from Sussex? They had seen my work a couple of years ago, at the wedding of their close friends, Lillian and Ian. A wedding at Buxted Park in East Sussex. Nice to…
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Oak Barn wedding | Chloe & Nick
An end-of-summer wedding at Oak Barn in Kent Oak Barn, at Frame Farm in Kent, is a relatively new wedding venue. You can tell, it’s immaculate. The owners, Tim and Deana, have invested a lot of money, thought, care and effort into renovating a collection of old barns (see here), to create a very neat and effective venue. Grouped around a traditional farmyard, just outside the village of Benenden, in The Weald countryside, it’s a venue that can only grow in charm. Chloe and Nick chose this new wedding venue, a place to get married and celebrate with family and…
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Dairy at Waddesdon | Leanne & Nick
Reportage wedding photography at The Dairy at Waddesdon It’s been a few years since I’ve been to Waddesdon, near Aylesbury. The last time was on assignment for The Times newspaper. I think it was a story about the restoration of the gardens at the French chateau-like manor house, built by the Rothschilds. But that was some time ago… (see the end of this blog post) But Leanne & Nicks’ wedding was at the Old Dairy, on the estate at Waddesdon. Now a wedding venue. Most of my wedding bookings come from google searches, for reportage wedding photography and from word…
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A wedding in Clayton | Connie & Hermes
A Sussex village, a part of Brazil… A summer wedding in the tiny village of Clayton, in East Sussex, for Connie and Hermes – with a large dose of Brazil and a bit of Ancient Greece too… An English summer wedding, so, of course, you are watching the sky, refreshing the weather forecast app….would the rain come? Would a garden wedding be washed away? Would the tents in the neighbouring field be too? Connie had said – it could be a ‘wellies and umbrellas’ wedding? As it was the high humidity of previous days, dissipated during the day. The sun…
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Plush Manor wedding | Sophie & Panu
Plush Manor summer wedding A mid-June wedding at Plush manor in Dorset. Don’t be fooled by the blue skies, only a few hours before it had been torrential rain. It looked set like that for the day, but the forecast promised a break in the low cloud cover – sure enough, the forecast proved right. But still, with so much rain, the wedding plans had changed. Handy when there is a deconsecrated church in the grounds. The planned outdoor ceremony, in front of the portico that you can see in the first picture, was abandoned. The ceremony switched to the…
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Family Barn wedding | Antonia & John
A wedding at home, in the country A barn wedding. Antonia married John at her parents’ house, in West Sussex. Actually, the legal bit had already happened, a few weeks before, but this was the real wedding day – with family and friends. A couple of things about the day. How lucky they were with the weather. Summer finally arrived for the day. With a relatively late ceremony, this was a wedding that needed a sunny, warm evening, to accommodate the drinks on the lawn, amidst the lengthening shadows. The weather duly obliged. Summer switched off again a couple of…
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Wild Garden wedding | Gabrielle & Jamie
Wild Garden wedding photography England and Australia, in a small patch of West Sussex. Gabrielle and Jamie got married on a typical English Spring day, of sunshine and showers – although it was a tad cold later in the day. An area key to Jamie’s family – in particular, the church they got married in. The same church as his grandparent’s wedding. But first off, coverage begins at Stonedelph cottage, a rental on a private country estate in West Sussex. (An estate formerly owned by the owner of Wolverhampton Wanderers football club) Here, Gabrielle got ready with her bridesmaids and…
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Astor Wing wedding | Tammy & Adrien
Astor Wing wedding at Hever Castle Anglo-french wedding at Hever Castle Weddings at Hever Castle in Kent, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, take place in the Astor Wing, attached to the old castle. Joined by a covered bridge, crossing over the moat, the Astor Wing is an Edwardian extension, built in the Tudor style, using traditional tools from the period. Commissioned by the, castle owner, America’s richest man at the time, William Waldorf Astor. It looks smart and old, lots of beams, old fireplaces, wood panels, portraits of monarchs, etc. But I can’t see you getting planning permission to…