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 the village pub, The Rose & Crown – where Toby was getting ready too, along with many wedding guests, in the pub garden. A short stroll around the corner is the thirteenth century St Peter & St Paul church. A building that like the village, has it’s origins in Anglo-Saxon times. The vintage wedding car was parked up outside already (on top of a traffic cone…). This was for later, Heidi was going to walk to the church, with her brother, mother and her bridesmaids.

Aftre the ceremony and confetti outsdie, it was off to another part of Kent and a reception in a private estate. Spring sunshine and champagne. This wedding had a ‘military-flavour’ to it to. Toby is a former British Army infantry captain, in The Royal Welch. Many of his friends and colleagues from those days came in their dress uniforms. Even some of the tables had names of conflict locations, such as Rorke’s Drift or Basra Palace. Toby was at the latter…

(Not quite conflict, but back in August 2011, I met up with Heidi and Toby at the Falcon pub next to Clapham Junction. I had arrived early and as I used to live in the area, went for a walk around – see my old haunts, my old flat, etc. But something wasn’t right. Hard to explain but there was a strange tension in the air. Toby arrived late to the pub, having had traffic problems in south London. He sensed it too. His Army training instinct, honed in Iraq, no doubt kicked in. We didn’t linger too long in the pub, just enough for them to say they were keen to book. On the train back to Sussex, passing though Croydon, the riots started to kick off.)

Here are a few images from this Kent wedding…