A HUMANIST WEDDING IN SURREY

When you’re invited for lunch with a soon bride-to-be and she shows you her beautiful home, you talk through her plans and quickly it feels like she’s someone you’ve always known. A captivating couple, with plans so exciting, you have an idea this might well be, a day to remember in the middle of summer, James and Marina, I salute thee.

This woodland wedding really was a highlight of my year. With all that light and a couple so in love, what more could I have asked for? This beautiful wedding is also making a debut over on the spectacular Snippet & Ink, where Marina has written a little about their day.

outdoor wedding surrey

Venue: Private estate & woodlands, Surrey // Dress: Baroque at Miss Bush Bridal // Hair & Make up: the Excellent Elbie van Eeden // Floral design: the Brilliant Bloomingayles // Detail design by the gorgeous Gal & Fellow // Officiant: Anne at the British Humanist Association // Music: The Modern Way // Catering: Sally Iddles Fabulous Food

So far this year I’ve photographed four weddings and I have another two to come this weekend. Spring is here, we’re having breakfast in the garden and the flat is full of daffodils. Life really couldn’t be better.

RECENT FEATURES

Do you remember James & Philippa’s exceptionally stylish Cotswolds wedding? Philippa poured a huge amount of time and effort into the design and styling of the day, so we were both thrilled that the ever stylish You & Your Wedding magazine wanted to feature it in their May/June issue. It even scored a two-page spread!

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A FRENCH CASTLE WEDDING

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.

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A WEDDING IN ZURICH

I am very lucky to be able to photograph weddings such as these. Sweet, intimate and so full of love and smiles. It also happened to be in Zürich, a city I had not visited until July. I think I’m in love with Switzerland.

Getting ready together, they were both the picture of calm…

…with a little edge of excitement.

Swiss civil ceremonies last just fifteen minutes, even when in French and English, which leaves plenty of time for tea and sightseeing on vintage trams…

There is something so special about grandparents. This lady reminded me of my own grandma and squeezed my hand and beamed when she caught my eye. She also had the cutest granddaughter who was not in the least bit fatigued by the blazing sunshine.

Thanh has a passion for all things culinary and gave everyone tiny kitchen utensils as gifts.

Isn’t she just the sweetest little thing?

After our trip to Switzerland, we’ve decided that one day we’ll move to Zürich and have lunch by the lake on Sundays with our new friends Thanh & Yvan. It’s a truly beautiful place; fresh and clean and content.

I still have a lot of editing to catch up on and a few more weddings and portraits to do before the year is out. I’m quite sad to see the autumn leaves on the ground but glad to have time to catch up on things through winter. It’s been a year of big changes, exciting challenges and huge rewards, but there’s a little more on all of that later.
A PRETTY RICHMOND ENGAGEMENT

I met Philippa and James a few months ago, to talk about their wedding in July. For their engagement session, they took me to the beautiful hidden gem that is Petersham Nurseries in Richmond and waited patiently for me to calm down and refocus on them-there were so many pretty things to look at!

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I cannot wait for their wedding next month-with all the details and ideas they have planned, it is guaranteed to be amazing.
A SPECTACULAR SEPTEMBER

Last month I photographed a total of seven incredible weddings. I travelled back and forth to France for five of them,and I also got the chance to photograph two beautiful British weddings back home, on those rare few days of sunshine… It’s been a really busy month, so it’s been hard keeping up with blogging as well as shooting and editing, meetings and emails, but here’s a little look at what we’ve been doing.

Nicki & John’s rather royal wedding at Ashridge…

A very private wedding in St Tropez…

Alana & Anthony’s intimate wedding at the chic Chateau de la Couronne…

Tim & Phammy’s beautiful garden wedding in St Gery…

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A ONCE WED FEATURE

I had both the lovely Emily at Once Wed and the incredibly cool Kat at RockNRollBride both write beautiful features on my most recent wedding. I will admit that I thought this would be a popular one when I spoke to Ella about Sam’s suit and pried some details from her about that dress. I didn’t know though, that she was going to look as amazing as she did, nor that there would be a surprise song during the wedding…

It’s always excellent when I have my work featured, but to have a double post between the US and the UK was really exciting. I know a lot of my ideal brides look to Once Wed for inspiration, as do I as a photographer, so it’s been great to organise meets with a whole new audience. I have an exceptionally busy next few weeks on my hands!

If you missed Ella & Sam’s posts online, you can still catch up with Once Wed and RockNRoll Bride too.

Thank you both, for your beautiful posts.

http://bit.ly/OnceWed & http://bit.ly/RockNRollBride

5 Comments

Ashlee Marie Taylor says:

02.04.2014 at 10:12 am

What a stunning wedding… simply delightful x
Anushe Low says:

02.04.2014 at 12:40 pm

Very pretty, love the woodland theme! And amazingly caught by your talented eye as always x
Victoria says:

10.04.2014 at 3:43 pm

So lovely, happy and wholesome – just how a wedding day should be!
Sam says:

25.04.2014 at 8:54 am

BEYOND gorgeous! Love how natural the details are.
zoe says:

24.11.2014 at 3:41 pm

I love love love this! I am after a woodland wedding and I live in Guildford. I was wondering if there was any way I could have the location of the venue as this looks just perfect! Thank you!

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