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Ockenden Manor Wedding | Sussex Wedding Photography
Ockenden Manor wedding photography Ockenden Manor, an Elizabethan manor house in Cuckfield, West Sussex and now a luxury hotel and spa – the venue for two wedding ceremonies. One inside, one outside – thanks to the weather. A matter of days after their marriage in South Korea, Phoebe ( Seunghui Chai ) and Andrew held a humanist ceremony, to mark their marriage, with family and close friends at Ockenden Manor.Grade II listed and dating from 1520 – Ockenden is how you imagine a luxury hotel, in such an old building, should be. Wood-panelled rooms, log fires, old paintings and nine…
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Tythe Barn wedding
Tythe Barn wedding A Tythe Barn wedding. The luxuriously renovated Tythe Barn near Bicester in Oxfordshire, under largely glorious blue skies. What is a Tythe or Tithe Barn? From the Middle Ages, they were where produce was stored, with a percentage going to the landlord in payment, usually The Church. This barn is part of a family farm dating back to the fourteenth century. It has been used as a home for lambing ewes in the spring, harvesting grain in the summer and as a home to cattle in the winter. Now it hosts weddings. The use of old barns…
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Inner Temple wedding – Caroline & David
Inner Temple wedding An Inner Temple wedding with a ceremony at the OBE chapel – a very English, very London wedding. As was the weather… It’s July, but somehow Mother Nature forgot this and skipped summer to offer up a more autumnal day of heavy downpours with the odd few moments of sunshine. Coverage begins (once the porter finally let me in from the heavy rain) at Inner Temple. Caroline got ready with her bridesmaids and family in the biggest bridal prep room I’ve ever seen. The rain clattered against the windows. This rain meant umbrellas and very slippery steps…
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What if it rains at your wedding?
What if it rains at your wedding, what about the photographs? English weather – there can be a hot, dry Spring…talk of drought…then crisis talks held in dark Government meeting rooms. But outside, TV reporters sheltering from torrential rain, talking about the threat of hosepipe bans as the rain clatters the microphone – someone has a sense of humour up there! So are you expecting your wedding day to be sunny? What if it rains? Does it ruin wedding photography? Everyone dreams of a warm summer wedding, beautiful light pouring across the reception lawn. The photographer in the fashion-lens-flare-nostalgia mode…
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Wedding at The Elvetham – Jane and Tony
Elvetham hotel wedding photography This first image might sum up the weather, for this Hampshire wedding. Rain was in the sky but fortunately this wedding at The Elvetham hotel dodged the any big downpour, despite the dark clouds overhead. There is a phrase about a couple ‘looking right together’, this has to apply to this bride and groom, Jane and Tony. Just look at the way they look at each other, especially during the wedding ceremony! You can only really capture that when a church lets the photographer stand at the front. Plus the church is nicely lit by daylight.…