And then I realised it’s actually been like this for the whole month of August! What with weddings, pre-wedding shoots, wedding consultations, viewings at the studio, newborn baby portraits (& families of course), my husbands family visiting and a few friends having birthdays, babies and goodness knows what else I only 3 full days at my desk! So it’s been very sparse on the blog front I’m afraid but hopefully (fingers crossed) this month I will be able to be a little more forthcoming with updates and pictures.
I’m having a late finish tonight as I prepare for Lindsey & Vicky’s wedding in St Mawes on Saturday – cleaning lenses, charging batteries, clearing memory cards, printing off directions, packing a change of clothes and getting some all important snacks ready. It never fails to amaze me how much ’stuff’ one wedding photographer needs to take with her!
Here are a couple of images from Lindsey & Vicky’s pre-wedding shoot to get you in the seaside mood. They were so fun and relaxed at the shoot I can’t wait to shoot their wedding day!
Venetia xx
Vicki just looks like a natural here….I can’t wait to see her in her wedding dress…
I love this image of her; beautiful and elegant but so simple.
And Lindsay doesn’t look bad either!
A lovely sea-view to end with.
I love unsual places to shoot. I always try and find somewhere that is a little different to the norm often to the random ‘you want to shoot my wedding photographs THERE?!’ look from many a bewildered bride and groom. In fact at Rich & James’s wedding (as I asked them to stand in front of the most battered, old shed I could find) he said ‘we love it, we just knew you’d ask us to stand there…..it’s just so….random!’. But often the most random places are the best and means that your wedding photographs are not just the same as everyone elses.
Kirsty & Peter were at Jude & Jon’s wedding last year and called me a few months later when they got engaged. It was lovely to have such a fantastic recommendation and it’s been even lovelier to get to know them too. This weekend we met up in Shrewsbury for their pre-wedding shoot and definitely went ‘off-piste’!
After looking round the gorgoeus venue they have chosen for their wedding reception we headed back across town to have a nosey round the church (which is just so beautiful and old it looks like it has been there since time began!) and then off for a very civilised spot of lunch and a chat through all their plans. I had to chuckle to myself as Peter & Kirsty were just like my husband and I on the lead up to our wedding – Kirsty has organised everything meticulously and now, right at the last moment, Peter is popping in with ‘do you think we ought to do ‘x’, maybe we should have ‘y’ on the tables’!! It’s so sweet and you can see that both of them are really excited about their big day. (Peter – I have to say, I’m definitey with you on the tank idea, that would be soooo coool!!).
After lunch we headed out to find some good places for our pre-wedding shoot. After photographing a few shots in and around the ground of the pub and the church we had a little wander to find some more spots and I’m so glad we did. We found a gorgeous bridge, an amazing cornfield, a stunning bench and a beautiful ‘pebble beach’ that looked over the church they were getting married in. The fact we had to slide down a steep muddy bank in girly shoes, walk through mini-puddles and nearly swim back across the river was totally irrelevant. Not only did we get some fantastic shots but we had fun….job done!
Kirsty & Peter – thank you so much for being so amazing and going along with all my ideas (although I think it was technically Peter that suggested going down that muddy bank!). Don’t worry I can photoshop the mud off your heels Kirsty and then Peter will clean them for you! I am so glad you decided to book me to photograph your wedding and I can’t wait to see you both again in September….so excited.
Venetia xx
Here’s a sneaky peek of one of the photographs from our shoot. Kirsty had her hair done for the shoot….if she looks this amazing now I can’t wait to see her at the wedding!
Last weekend was such a busy weekend with a location portrait in Eastbourne, Rich & James’s civil partnership in Maidstone and then to top it all off a pre-wedding shoot in Hungerford! I clocked up nearly 16 hours in the car (dont ask…..the traffic was terrible!) and spent nearly 17 hours with a camera in my hand!
I love working on recommendation as I get asked to travel all over the country and discover some gorgeous wedding venues I didn’t even know existed! One of those such venues is Littlecote House Hotel near Hungerford wher Nick & Kimberley are getting married. Littlecote House is a gorgeous 16th Century mansion with a story that spans thousands of years. King Henry VIII was introduced to Jane Seymour there, Guy Fawkes was tried there and in 1943 the US 101st Airborne Division was based there and took off from there on D-Day for the invasion on Normandy. It really is a photographers dream with not only amazing outside space but an inside ‘to die for’ too….I’m not going to be short of places to shoot on their wedding day!
Kim & Nick seemed a little apprehensive when I first met them and I was worried they might be concerned about the pre-wedding shoot. Wow…..I needn’t have been worried though as they were so relaxed and at ease in front of the camera it was great. They are clearly so in love, so at ease with each other and were total naturals in front of the camera. They knew exactly what to do and despite Nick being slightly jadded from an impromptu stag night the night before(!) we got some great shots.
Kim & Nick – thank you for being so fabulous at your pre-wedding shoot. With your model-like tendancies, your ease around each other and the amazing venue you have chosen we are going to get some fabulous wedding photographs for you! Look forward to seeing you later this month.
Venetia xx
