Lisa & Rory’s Olde Bell wedding

08th May 2012

One sunny weekend in summer, Lisa & Rory got married in the tiny little village of Hurley at the beautiful Olde Bell Inn. They started the weekend with a picnic and rolled out the blankets for an evening bbq for all of their guests. It was quite the occasion.

The next morning we were all up bright and early, polishing shoes and straightening ties to witness the joining of two special lives.

Thank you to you both for being a pleasure to photograph in tweed and couture, Louboutins and buffed brogues.

There were lots of fantastic people involved in organising this weekend; Lisa & Rory, planner extraordinaire Mary, The Olde Bell’s Alannah, florist Chantal and the always entertaining Say Fromage. I tip my hat to you all.

This wedding was featured over on Martha Stewart Weddings, 100 Layer Cake and shall also be making a print debut in the not too distant future too.

Last week we photographed a wedding with a horse, kidnapped a sister and took her on holiday and spent three days on a workshop. This week is just as exciting with a whole lot of editing, putting of discs in the post and a very little wedding on the Amalfi coast. La vita é bella.

 

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A chateau rigaud wedding | Jenny & Scott

04th May 2012

My lovely Emma Jane travelled to France to photograph the beautiful Bordeaux wedding of Jenny & Scott. The sun shone, the girls got ready and two individuals married under a tree. There’s not much more beautiful than a wedding under a big blue sky.

 

Venue: Chateau Rigaud, Bordeaux Photographer: The amazing Emma Jane

This wedding was also featured over in the very first ever issue of the incredibly elegant Reverie magazine.

This week has been a long one spent editing and delivering, meeting and planning, talking, thinking and sharing. New friends were made and old ones revisited, but there’s a lot more on that to come…

 

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Kat & Levi | engaged

25th April 2012

I first photographed Kat when she was a bridesmaid at a wedding I photographed two years ago. She met the very charming Levi and now I’m lucky enough to be photographing her wedding in July. I love her red hair and those pretty blue eyes and I already know that she’s going to make a most gorgeous bride.

It has not stopped raining in London for the past week, which has kept me tucked up inside editing some portraits, a gig, tea party and my first pro-bono project at UCLH. It’s already been a busy week and tomorrow the weddings begin again with a tiny little elopement of two. Umbrellas at the ready.

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Matt Corby’s Secret Garden | London

23rd April 2012

When you get a rare Saturday off, you better spend it well.

I scored myself a golden ticket to Matt Corby’s first secret garden gig in England and took my cameras along with our picnic. Sunshine, showers & singing under a London sky.


Brother was the triple J soundtrack to our Australia trip in January, so it was just amazing to meet the man himself. This kind of talent stops you in your tracks.

Thank you Matty, Gabby, Penny, Hope, Gail & Simon, Scott & Bella for an incredible evening.

Up next it’s back to business, with a private little wedding in Rome.



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Mel & Duncan’s Bangalow wedding

17th April 2012

A little while later in between some time on the beach, Melanie & Duncan held their wedding in Bangalow, surrounded by their nearest and dearest. The Valiant was there and so were we and it was truly lovely.

We miss you two but know that life in Sydney suits you so well and that long holidays in Europe are worth looking forward to.

This week is another busy one with lots of editing ahead; a portrait shoot for the lovely Georgia, finishing up a beautiful wedding at One Marylebone, shooting a party for my friend Rosie and photographing a very exciting secret garden gig for Matt Corby. There’s a lot to look forward to.

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Stephanie & Neil’s wedding at Cliveden

11th April 2012

Last year, Emma-Jane photographed this beautiful wedding at the rather lavish Cliveden in Berkshire. Stephanie & Neil kept to an elegant and relaxed style as I think you’ll see and everyone had a most excellent day.

How lucky am I to have this pretty Swede working alongside me? I think she’s the bee’s knees.

We’re having a weekend off, cleaning out the cupboards, booking up some travel and plotting an adventure to Amsterdam before a secret elopement to Primrose Hill & a tiny wedding in Marylebone. Weddings are always amazing occasions, but when we photograph small ones, we feel especially fortunate. Just the couple, their nearest and dearest and one of us with a camera. It’s the wedding equivalent of a VIP pass.

Up next is finally something from this year… A sweet little ceremony of five, in the ever-boho Byron Bay for my now Mrs Melanie Menge.

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Steven & Jamie | a walk around Paris

02nd April 2012

I was so excited to have been recommended by the most incredible photographer Michele M Waite, to photograph Jamie & Steven whilst honeymooning in Paris. Steven is a wedding-planning, dress-designing, cake-making, husband extraordinaire and Jamie is quite possibly the prettiest, sweetiest and most charming lady you could ever hope to meet.

We walked around town drinking coffee, buying sweets and taking photos. This really is my job, but it certainly doesn’t feel like work when you’re photographing these two in your very favourite city.

Thanks to you both for being such a sweet pair to hang out with and for bringing such a beautiful wardrobe along with you too.

I have another portrait session in Paris left to blog and I’ll be returning in May for an engagement session before heading south to a wedding in Provence. Perhaps we should just relocate to France indefinitely? Now wouldn’t that be nice.

Last week was a busy one with two shoots in Manchester and Brighton, photographing people and places and then a most gorgeous wedding at the radiant One Marylebone. Things are already speeding up for the summer and it’s only April. Where has this year gone..?

Up next is a wedding at the elegant Cliveden, photographed by Emma-Jane and that little wedding in Byron Bay, Australia.

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Gillian & Nicola’s wedding in Rome

29th March 2012

A few years ago I moved to Italy and fell in love with Rome. Then I met an Australian and fell in love with him, moved back to London to get married and accidentally left a little bit of me behind. Returning to Rome to photograph a wedding was fantastic, but returning to Rome to photograph a wedding atop a castle was the icing on the cake.

It is always a treat to travel for weddings, but particularly special when you go back to somewhere a little bit sentimental. Vi rigranzio, Nicola & Gillian for having me photograph your beautiful Roman wedding.

Next up is something more recent, from January of this year. A tiny wedding of five in Byron Bay Australia with a valiant, a lighthouse and a whole lot of love.

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An elopement

16th March 2012

I often get asked what my best ever wedding was to photograph. I think people expect me to say ‘the one at Westminster Abbey’ or ‘the little one in Italy’, when really my most favourite weddings, however cliché, are the ones that are all about love. Venues are chic and expensive dresses are beautiful, but give me a couple happy and in love and I couldn’t ask for anything more. These two individuals decided to elope. They chose a place where they could exchange their vows and spend the weekend, calm and content. They chose their outfits, the day for their promises and then they chose me. I really couldn’t be more grateful sharing days like these.

Venue: Le Manoir

If you have ever thought about eloping, I say just do it. Don’t they look happy that they did?  In fact I have another elopement to photograph next month, this time in London. I’m really very fortunate to have the kind of job that invites me into occasions like these and for all the beautiful people I have the opportunity to meet. I honestly couldn’t ask for a job more satisfying.

Next up is a little wedding I had the pleasure of photographing in la città eterna. A welcome return to my second home, Rome.

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Kate & Rob’s wedding in France

13th March 2012

Kate & Rob are the kind of people you would describe as salt of the earth. Embracing and endearing, Emma-Jane and I felt like we’d been friends of theirs forever and with Rob’s sharp suit and Kate’s red hair, they were a treat to photograph. Two-hundred guests travelled from England & Dubai to the French town of Pierrefonds to celebrate their wedding in a huge medieval castle. It was certainly a weekend to remember.

Venue: Chateau de Pierrefonds

Thank you as always to my talented Emma-Jane for sharing this wedding with me. You, me, France and a wedding is always a very good time.

For those of you who haven’t been reading our blog for long, Emma-Jane photographed our wedding in France three years ago and I fell a little bit in love with her. Luckily for me, she agreed to join me photographing weddings all over the place a little while after I started up. We work together on larger weddings like this one but more often than not, photograph the more intimate weddings independently. We also have some other things we do together, but we’ll share a little more about that later.

This week we are mostly reading up and learning to shoot film again… We have a very exciting addition to our camera family that goes by the name of Contax.

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Mark & Avril’s wedding in Tuscany

06th March 2012

An Italian wedding in a medieval village, friends and family from all over the world, four bridesmaids, a best woman and a beautiful mermaid dress. Mark & Avril got married in Tuscany in late summer last year and it was nothing short of bellissima.

This intimate wedding was held at the beautiful Gargonza, a quiet little hilltop village in Tuscany. Thank you Michelle, for looking after us and too for not making us eat the whole twelve courses. Thanks also to the lovely Britt Spring who kept me company along a few hours of hair-raising Italian motorway. That’s the stuff good friends are made of.

Next up is a wedding in France that Emma-Jane and I both photographed together in August. Think red hair, sharp suits and a huge medieval castle…

 

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Lucy & Rob’s wedding in Edinburgh

28th February 2012

Lucy & Rob are exceptional individuals. Funny, charming and disarmingly sweet, their wedding day back in July was well worth the trip up to Edinburgh and back. The sun was shining, the martinis flowed and at the end of the evening, we put down our cameras, picked up a glass and stayed for a dance with our two new friends.

Lennoxlove House is quite the beautiful venue, not too far outside of Edinburgh. In early July, it’s still so bright at 10pm it’s literally a photographer’s dream. At the same time this year, I’ll be in Stockholm photographing a wedding where the light stays up late and I absolutely cannot wait!

This week is proving to be a relaxing one. Emma Jane’s arrived home from Jamaica, I’ve edited an engagement, finished a mountain of admin and I also have a wedding to photograph before the week is out. We’re close to closing our bookings for 2012 now too, trying to keep things manageable so as to give them all our best and leaving a little time for holidays with husbands and weekends spent with friends. 2012 is already looking so good.

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Charlotte & Andrew | wedding in Mallorca

22nd February 2012

A laid back Australian and a sweet and pretty Brit, meet in England and fall in love. He returns home, then moves to Singapore and she soon follows. Time passes, promises are made and a ring is bought. July arrives, families travel and hands are squeezed. Hugs are shared, a husband and wife are made and Charlotte & Andrew are married in Mallorca.

Thank you so much, for trusting me to photograph your wedding. It was definitely a highlight of my year to watch your families come together and to be made to feel like I’d known you all forever.  Thank you Tracy for looking after us, to Shes for being the kind host and to the wedding venue, Can Simoneta for the beautiful backdrop. It was a privilege to have met you all.

This week has shaped up to be a busy one with an engagement in South London, an album design and one hundred and one client meetings. It’s warmer here now and already feels like spring and I for one, like it a lot.

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Isabell & Linus | A wedding in Sweden

17th February 2012

My sweet Emma-Jane is not only a talented photographer of all things lovely, but she’s also Swedish too which means she gets to travel back to the motherland to photograph beautiful weddings all year long. Isabell & Linus’s wedding in Gotland was one of those pretty days where the light is just right and the guests are just gorgeous.

Linus drove his bride back to the reception on this here beauty of a motorbike.

This week the Swedish wonder is sunning herself in Jamaica and shooting some personal work, whilst I am stuck here under London’s grey skies editing weddings, photographing engagement sessions and designing albums. Can you tell who gets to see the better side of the business..?!

Up next is one of a few weddings in Italy I photographed last year. Think outdoors, sunshine and a whole lot of limoncello.

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Nicola & Lindsay’s wedding at The Swan | London

07th February 2012

On a Saturday in  July, Nicola & Lindsay held a beautiful wedding in London. England’s weather is notoriously temperamental and so typically in the middle of summer, it rained all morning. I learnt from Nicola that when you’re getting married and you’ve come all the way from New Zealand to do so, the weather couldn’t matter any less. She beamed all day long and Lindsay just melted, a wonderful wedding commenced and the sun came out to apologise with a most beautiful sky.

The Swan at the Globe is such a beautiful venue for a wedding. With lots of light and a pretty London view, you can’t really go far wrong.

We’re off to the Swedish countryside next for a beautiful wedding photographed by the lovely Emma-Jane last summer. Think brilliantly blonde Swedes, black bow ties and a bride and groom on a motorbike.

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Avril & Mark | Maida Vale pre-wedding photos

03rd February 2012

On a warm sunny day when the sky is blue, London is just perfect for portraits. Avril & Mark suggested staying local for their pre-wedding photos and so we wandered around Maida Vale & Little Venice. Avril turned heads, I took pictures and Mark made us laugh. Everyone had a lovely morning in the sunshine.

I can’t wait to blog their pretty September wedding in Tuscany, which means I have to get a move on blogging everything else we did up until then. Up next is a pretty little London wedding at The Globe, where in true London style, it rained and shone and made for the most beautiful skyline.

We’ve crammed this weekend with client meetings, making up for all of time off over the holidays. There really is no rest for the wicked.

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Francis & Sam’s wedding in Maine, USA

31st January 2012

My ever-talented Emma-Jane had the opportunity to  jet off to Maine to photograph an intimate garden wedding, last year. Everyone sat aside a hill to watch the ceremony and Sam baked her own wedding cake the morning of the wedding. Small, sweet and breezily romantic, if you’re having a low-key wedding, this is really how it should be done.

I’m very lucky indeed to have Emma-Jane working alongside me. Her approach and naturalness never fail to inspire and I happen to know first-hand, she’s a pretty fantastic person to have photograph your wedding. Thank you again Francis & Sam for having her photograph your beautiful Maine wedding; we wish you both a lifetime of happy things.

Up next is a sweet little London engagement in Maida Vale, photographed in the sunshine along the canal. Beautiful light, a yellow dress and a pair of pins to die for…

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Miki & Tom’s French Riviera beach wedding

25th January 2012

It was a dream to photograph a wedding on the Cote d’azur and I was so lucky to have met these two lovelies and to have shared a very beautiful weekend with all of their important people. Elegant, sophisticated, a day full of friends and laughter, Miki and Tom held their wedding on the French riviera at L’Ecrin beach restaurant in Cannes. I think you’ll agree, it was a little bit gorgeous.



And suddenly it was sunset and they’d crept away from all the buzz for a quiet moment on their own. It doesn’t get much more romantic than that.

Thank you so much guys, for having me along to your wedding weekend. I think the world of you both and loved every minute spent photographing your wedding celebrations and getting to know your eccentric families, it was one of the more memorable moments of 2011! Thank you as ever to the impeccable Kerry Bracken, whose hard work planning and co-ordinating this wedding was not overlooked.

Up next week is a very special wedding in Maine photographed by the ever-talented Emma-Jane. After our four week hiatus, we’re back on the blogging bandwagon!

This weekend is a quiet one, with an intimate party of twelve for our first London wedding of the year in Marylebone and Mayfair. After a little time away travelling, it’s always lovely to be back curled cosy on our own sofas, at home in London again.

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Miki & Tom | Brunch at The Bastide, France

22nd January 2012

It’s memories like these of last summer’s weddings, that bring a smile to my face. Remembering the sunshine and smiles and feeling very grateful that my job is to photograph people enjoying themselves, laughing and joking and sharing a celebration. Miki & Tom had brunch with their friends and family at The Bastide near Cannes, France and it was rather splendid.


There were a lot of people being hurled into the pool on this roasting hot day and rumour quickly spread that I too was going in, so I quietly crept back to the tipi…

Miki & Tom were an absolute treat to photograph-just wait until you see their beautiful wedding in Cannes, up next. Both of these days were planned by my favourite French wedding planner of all time, the amazing Kerry Bracken.

2012 started off with a bang in Sydney, spent with my first bride and groom of the year. Their intimate weddings in Byron Bay and Bangalow were perfection and a beautiful reflection of their unique personalities… There’s more to come on those soon.

This year is shaping up to be quite fantastic with some lovely local weddings in London, a wedding on the Amalfi coast, some more pre-wedding photos in Paris and a couple of weddings in Provence, a weekend at an astounding wedding in Spain, the longheld dreams of a possible wedding in Paris and a wedding in Ibiza, a trip back to Stockholm for a very special Swedish wedding, a wedding in Croatia and another few weddings in France and Tuscany, all before the beginning of autumn. Passports at the ready, we’re feeling very lucky indeed.

 

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