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Buckhurst Park wedding – Zoe & Andy
Buckhurst Park wedding photography Zoe and Andy’s Buckhurst Park wedding last weekend actually had some Spring weather – it’s not been a good year for that so far. The weather was certainly different from that for their pre-wedding shoot just down the road. With the ceremony near Zoe’s mother’s home at St Denys church in Rotherfield, East Sussex, the reception was held not far away at Buckhurst Park, just south-west of Royal Tunbridge Wells and deep in the East Sussex countryside. The private home of Earl De La Warr, Buckhurst Park holds only a handful of wedding receptions each year…
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Westminster Boating Base wedding – Anna & James
Reportage wedding photography at the Westminster Boating Base Last Friday it actually felt like Spring had arrived! Coverage of Anna & James’s London wedding began in their home in Putney and ended along the river with a wedding reception at the Westminster Boating Base. The ceremony was just around the corner from St Mary’s church next to Putney Bridge. The church has been rebuilt several times over the centuries and has a unique layout – different to the traditional linear nave/aisles/pews configuration seen so often – very nice for photography – access and a bit of light. After the ceremony,…
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Compton church wedding | Sophie & Oliver
Compton Church wedding photography The second wedding last weekend with a Greek connection and also a strong Aussie flavour. Sophie and Oliver’s Surrey wedding in Compton just outside Guildford. Unfortunately, the weather was neither like what you’d expect in May Greece or Australia. It was very cold and a bit wet at times. The sun appeared for a few minutes, which we grabbed for a quick portrait (was that our summer?). Coverage starts in the nearby city of Guildford. Sophie was getting ready with her mother and her friends at the Guildford Harbour Hotel. Not that the building is near…
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Kay & Spiro | Horsham Church Wedding
Horsham church wedding photography A local wedding for me, a Horsham church wedding, a wedding in the town in which I live in Sussex. Kay and Spiro’s intimate wedding, with family and a few friends, took place on a curiously cold day in May. So much for late Spring/early summer. They opted for a reduced coverage – from arrivals at the church until everyone sat down for the wedding meal at the local golf club in Mannings Heath. This unusual cold May weather was hardly welcoming to Spiro’s Greek relatives. It felt and looked more like a bitterly cold day…
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Mayfield school wedding
mayfield school wedding So the wettest April since 1910 – not hard to believe if you were at Thea & Tom’s wedding at Mayfield school in East Sussex. Perched above The Weald, just south of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Mayfield is famous for the legend of St Dunstan – see the first photo and a detail of the village sign. ( The legend is “ the Devil disguised himself as a beautiful young woman and visited Dunstan in his forge. As a girl, he laughed and joked with the saint and used all his charms in an attempt to seduce him;…
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Humanist wedding | Julie & Ian
Humanist wedding in the garden The days before a wedding ceremony can be very stressful – the seating plan, checking the suppliers are correctly briefed, making the table decorations, watching the weather forecast (hourly) – it can be a long list of things to get anxious about. But then add to the mix perhaps the worry as to whether the groom will be able to make it? Or will the UK Border agency kick him out of the country? It can seem like an innocent question that they ask you at the immigration desk at Heathrow airport, the one about…
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Heidi & Toby | Kent Wedding Photography
Kent wedding photography April can be an unpredictable month for weather. Winter can have its last hurrah or it can feel like early summer. All last week the forecast for Saturday seemed to be set for rain, but Heidi & Toby’s Kent wedding in Shorne escaped the downpours. Despite dark clouds hanging around at times, the day was actually blessed by some sunny Spring weather. Coverage begins with Heidi getting ready in her mother’s home, only yards from the church. You can see the church from the back garden it’s that close. Also close and on the way, is…
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Ragley Hall wedding | Morag & James
Ragley Hall wedding photography Morag and James’s wedding was in Warwickshire, on chilly Saturday in April. Coverage starts in the local pub. A quick drink for the groom and friends in the Mason’s Arms, in the village of Long Marston, about 5 miles southwest of Stratford-upon-Avon. Bard country. The church where the ceremony would take place, was just a short stroll up the road for them, at St James the Great church in the village. Warwickshire wedding reception venue The church service in Long Marston was then followed by a wedding reception at Ragley Hall, just a few miles away…