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Dome Cinema wedding | Stacey & Jono
Dome cinema wedding photography So, the last wedding of 2012 and it was always going to be a special one! A cinema wedding and special because that was how Stacey and Jono had planned it. On New Year’s Eve, with a raging winter gale outside, rain lashing down and the waves pounding the beach opposite, the wedding took place ‘watched’ by Bruce Willis, Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and some Hobbits! Well….it took place at the Dome Cinema in Worthing, West Sussex. (and there were some posters!) With the legal bit having taken place a couple of weeks ago, on a…
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Hackney Town Hall wedding – Sarah & Owen
Hackney Town Hall wedding photography Yesterday was wet. As much of the west of England sank under the floods, some rain fell in London too. So a Hackney Town Hall wedding for Sarah & Owen didn’t escape the weather. It wasn’t the heaviest rain but it didn’t let up all day, as it fell from a dark sky. Of course, the days either side proved to include blue skies and sunshine, but no, Saturday was a day for umbrellas. A day to test how waterproof the Nikon cameras are too. A last-minute booking – only got the call from Sarah’s…
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Wellington College wedding – Sarah & James
Reportage wedding photography at Wellington College Wellington College in Berkshire – “one of the great national boarding schools” – was the venue for Sarah & James’s wedding on a bitterly cold late October’s day. Sarah’s old school, Wellington College was built in the 1850s by Queen Victoria to mark one of Britain’s greatest generals. The victor on the battlefield of Waterloo – ‘Old Nosey’ – The Duke of Wellington. A co-educational day and boarding school, originally, the school educated sons of deceased officers who had held commissions in the Army. Nowadays, most pupils are not from military families. Designed…
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St Etheldreda’s wedding – Kirsty-Anne & James
Reportage wedding photography at St Etheldreda’s church St Etheldreda’s Chapel and the ICA ( Institute of Contemporary Arts ) were the settings for a London wedding in October. Kirsty-Anne and James’s wedding ceremony was a relatively late one for this time of year, with a 4pm kick off time. This meant a race against the light and the rain that hung over London once the ceremony had finished. The rain did fall but it held off enough to get some portraits of Kirsty-Anne & James on The Mall, before it became too dark. Oldest Catholic church in London St Etheldreda’s…
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Old Marylebone Town Hall wedding – Jaina & Chris
Old Marylebone Town Hall wedding photography An autumn London wedding, with a ceremony at one of London’s most famous wedding venues, Old Marylebone Town Hall, on the busy London road, the A501. A grand looking building just before the road morphs into the A40 and heads towards Oxford and the Midlands. A wedding ceremony in the large Westminster Room. Although years ago, the first time I shot a wedding here, I go to the room to find the curtains in front of the large windows, looking over the busy road, closed? I asked why and was told that ‘wedding…
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OBE Chapel wedding – Sophie & Jeremy
OBE Chapel wedding photography So 48 hours after Sophie and Jeremy’s pre-wedding shoot, it was back to ‘the scene of the crime’ on Saturday – for their OBE Chapel wedding at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. I’ve started with a shot of St Paul’s Cathedral from the wedding reception venue – the Paternoster Chop House – which really is a good stone’s throw from the cathedral. No long drive across London to get to the reception. Just a short stroll after the ceremony and a refreshing glass/bottle was to be had – perfect! But first we had the morning, with Sophie,…
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Pembroke Lodge wedding – Selen & Ross
Pembroke Lodge wedding photography Pembroke Lodge suited in one of London’s Royal Parks, in Richmond Park, was the venue for the third wedding in last weekend’s trilogy. A grade II listed Georgian mansion, that was once the home to a British Prime Minister. It was also the childhood home of the philospher Bertrand Russell ( That Prime Minister’s grandson). The Lodge is first mentioned in 1754, when it was a one-roomed cottage occupied by a molecatcher. He was employed to eradicate molehills that were impeding the sport of deer hunting. Now it is part of the Crown Estate and run…
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Beaulieu Abbey Church wedding – Siobhan & Jack
Beaulieu Abbey Church wedding photography Saturday’s wedding was an Anglo-American union with guests from around the world. Siobhan and Jack’s wedding was held at Beaulieu Abbey church in the New Forest. The reception, on a warm September evening, was across Southampton Water in the Royal Victoria Country Park. Beaulieu Abbey church was originally the refectory of the thirteenth century Cistercian Beaulieu Abbey, much of which was later destroyed by Henry VIII’s vandalism. It was part of a very big complex of religious buildings that took four deacdes to build. After the ceremony a small reception in the autumnal sunshine before…