This was a proper village affair as Bob & Rachel are one of the most popular couples I have ever had the pleasure to photograph. And, when you realise that their wedding fell on the same day as the Haddenham Real Ale Festival – an event of such magnitude that it typically results in the village and outlying area taking on the appearance of an apocryphal film where every man, woman and child has mysteriously and simultaneously disappeared, then it becomes clear just how popular they are! The crowd was huge!

I do love it when we get to work a proper local wedding – and this was almost the definition of such a term – as we know most of the guests which always makes it good fun! This was also a wonderfully family-orientated wedding with kids everywhere. We had to laugh as we spotted a crowd of small boys attempting – with a degree of success I believe – to break into a small, locked ornamental cage containing bags of sweets! I dunno. Kids these days huh?

Let us know what you think,

Cheers
P.

The first wedding proper of this year’s busy season and it was an absolutely stellar day! I still find it hugely flattering that we have a client list that is just full of people who are genuinely a pleasure to work with – and this couldn’t be more true of Debbie and Kit. And their wedding was to be everything you’d wish for out of the most romantic day of your life!

The way we approach our wedding packages is so that we can always cover the whole of the day, right through the build up and then into the ceremony itself and completing with the celebrations afterwards. This makes for a fantastic wedding album full of interesting moments and surprises. Admittedly, this particular day did kick off with the groom’s party not being, well, exactly where myself and Kelly, my ever patient assistant, had anticipated them to be (we eventually tracked them down in our regular haunt, The Little Italy Coffee Shop, for an impressive breakfast of caffeine ‘n’ carbs!) However, once this slight glitch had been ironed out – and the lads had been united with their wedding suits – we were on a roll.

After a very emotional (and very musical) ceremony, the celebrations moved to The Barn At Chilton which is one of those venues that simply takes your breath away – possibly quite literally during the winter months as its perched right on the top of the hills overlooking wide open expanses of Buckinghamshire countryside leaving it just a tad exposed. However, this day was as perfectly still and as calm as any August morning and the location was everything you could wish for (and the staff up there are fantastic which always makes our life so much easier!)

We stopped off on the way to photograph the bride and groom in Kit’s stylish… er…. van. Yup, once a surfer always a surfer (even Debbie’s shiny new surfboard was temporarily re-purposed as a somewhat unusual seating plan!) Kit had arranged for a red carpet for the bride though! Anyway, this all just addedto the really relaxed atmosphere – I did half expect to Debbie to dig out her ever-near acoustic guitar and we’d sit around and sing a song or two, but this didn’t happen until a little later! And the photos we captured are beautiful!

Finally, just as I thought the day couldn’t get any better, it quite simply did with the appearance of possibly the best wedding band I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to – awesome!

Cheers
P.