Venue: Redcoats Farmhouse and Restaurant near Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Lizzie & Richard were married on a stunning day in August. Lizzie had a fabulous dress that reminded me of an outfit Ginger Rogers might wear in the traditional old musical movies from the 40’s or 50’s. I’m so glad they chose me to capture their wedding day. So much care and attention went into all the details and so it was truly lovely to photograph. Redcoats is a great location for those that want some special imagery of their wedding day. It has fantastic traditional rooms with original beams and lovely gardens. Redcoats is also surrounded by beautiful English countryside and it has an amazing barn next door which I couldn’t resist using in some of the wedding photography.

Lizzie

Nerves

Informal Formals

Thoughts

Deep Breath

Hugs

Love & Laughter

Walking the Walk.

Breezy

Horizons

Moments

Grand Entrance

First Dance

Happiness

Boogie

Sunset

Paul & Miranda were married in a beautiful church in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Their wedding reception was held in a magnificent marquee in Berkhamsted, herts also. They were such a sweet couple who were childhood sweethearts and their romance had carried on into their adult years. I shot a lot of gorgeous wedding photography on their special day. Here are a few of my favourite images.

Church Wedding

Flirty

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Church: St Helens Church, Watford, Hertfordshire.

Reception Venue: The Grove, Near Watford, Hertfordshire.

Zoe & Mark had a small intimate wedding on an incredibly sunny day it August. They spent nearly an hour with me after their wedding ceremony and I shot some fantastic wedding photography. The ambience of this day really shines through in the photographs.

Lip Gloss

The March

Vows

The Ceremony

Ends

Confetti

Bouquet

Summer Days

Moments

The King & Queen

Toes

Flare

I shot Mark & Sonja weddings photographs in London in July. They were married in a catholic church in Putney and they held their wedding reception at Putney Rowing club on the River Thames.  Sonja had a gorgeous wedding dress but I have to say her shoes were just amazing -silver Gucci sequinned  shoes with heels that went on forever. I’m a shoe girl myself and I wasn’t surprised to learn she spent more on her wedding shoes that her dress.

Mark & Sonja

The Wedding Dress

Buttons

Heels

Feet and Footsteps

Family

Sonja

The Wedding Ceremony

During

Joy

Quiet Moments

By the River Thames

Laughter

The Happy Couple

Location of Wedding: St Mary’s Parish Church, Amersham, Buckinghamshire. The wedding reception was held in a marquee on the grounds of a large farm in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.

Stuart and Louise were married on an incredible sunny day in July. The sky was so blue with lots white fluffy clouds. It made a fantastic backdrop for the wedding photographs.

Although bright sunny days are what people ideally want for their wedding day if you ask a photographer they will always prefer an overcast day as bright days are incredibly challenging exposure wise. It can be extremely difficult to achieve detail in the sky while exposing correctly for your main subject matter. A professional wedding photographer will always know how to achieve the best results whatever the conditions they find themselves shooting in even if it means taking several different exposures of the same scene. If its not possible to get all the details in the original photograph then I edit my wedding photography in my art-working process to achieve the exact image I am looking for with all the key details that ‘make’ the final image. Each wedding photograph I take goes through a strict quality control process to ensure the photographs are exactly how I want them to be and have my particular artistic style. 

The Rings

St Mary's Parish Church in Amersham Bucks

Sunset

Nerves

Wedding Ceremony

Natural Light

Confetti

St Mary's Parish Church in Amersham Bucks

The Rings

Stuart & Louise

Laughing Bride

Strolling

The Wedding Ceremony

Nerves

Speeches

First Dance

Dodgems

Wedding photography by Vicky at Sophoto

Wedding Locations: St James Church, Bushey, Hertfordshire and Watford Town & County Club, Watford, Herts.

Photograph of St James Church Bushey Herts

Steve Waits for Carey

Carey and Family Arrive for the Wedding

Carey & Steve

The Look

The Rolls

First Dance

Date: July 2008

Locations: St John The Baptist Church, Aldenham, Hertfordshire and the wedding reception was held at Aldenham Golf & Country Club, Herts.

Stuart and Sarah were married in this fantastic Church on a lovely day in July. Aldenham Golf and Country Club was a very leisurely stroll along Church Lane and everyone was soon celebrating this happy wedding.

Many Hands

Wedding Rings

Blessing

The End of the Wedding Ceremony

The Kiss

Mark & Shilpa were married at the end of May in a civil ceremony in London. They decided not to have photography at the official ceremony but opted to have a photographer at their humanist wedding ceremony held the day after. I shot the photography at The Amadeus Centre in Little Venice, North London. After the ceremony they threw a massive party.

This was such a great wedding to photograph, everything looked fantastic. Humanist ceremony’s are so interesting as their are no strict rules regarding locations and vowels. Mark and Shilpa had a really personal and moving humanist wedding ceremony and it was such a privilege to be selcted as their wedding photographer.

Mark & His Best Man

Shilpa Arrives in a White London Cab

The Aisle

Laughter

The Look

The Ceremony

Speeches at The Amadeus Centre

Mark & Shilpa

In Front of The Amadeus Centre

The wedding Breakfast

On a sunny day in March I travelled to Chenies in Buckinghamshire to photograph the wedding of Ron and Sue. They had quite an interesting story because although they had been together a number of years, this was the their second time together. After their first relationship ended they had met each other a number of years later and got together again. It was such a lovely story.

I was also surprised to see the same registrar that had conducted Lucie and Marco’s wedding. Although wedding photographers often meet the same registrars and priests etc at their regular shooting venues it is quite unusual to see them covering different geographical areas.

Ron and Sue

Together

I love the symmetry in this image and the texture of the tree bark

I shot a sequence of these tree images and they work so well together

And the third image in the sequence

Whispers

I photographed Stephanie and Rachel’s civil partnership at The Bury, Hemel Hempstead’s Register Office, Hertfordshire. I often don’t meet my couples before their wedding day and so I hadn’t met Stephanie and Rachel, but we had got to know each other very well with chats on the telephone and also via email. They both arrived together and were so excited about making their civil partnership commitment to eachother.

I mentioned in a previous post about the wedding of Lucie and Marco, that theirs was the smallest and most intimate wedding I had photographed. Stephanie and Rachel’s civil partnership also was very intimate with only two very close friends as witnesses.

The Civil Partnership

The Wall

Confetti at The Bury

Jump!