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Transport Themed East London Wedding

This East London wedding was a real treat to photograph, from Shanie’s preparations through to the amazing party at St Matthias Community Centre. I began at an apartment where Shanie and the bridesmaids were getting ready. It was pretty busy, and there was a fabulous reaction when Shanie appeared in her stunning black and red lace dress that she’d designed herself. Shanie and Pete both work for Transport for London and the transport theme began with the bridal party boarding a double decker bus for the journey to All Saint’s Church in Poplar. After the beautiful service we did some family pictures in the church grounds before joining all their guests at St Matthias Community Centre for the wedding breakfast. The former church had been transformed for the meal and party by J&J Occasions. After the wedding breakfast and speeches, the party really started to get going with some traditional Jewish dancing before everyone flooded the dance floor.

By Documentary Wedding Photographer Paul Rogers

Brighton Engagement Session with Rusha and Matt

It’s always such a pleasure to photograph a couple as full of energy and life as Rusha and Matt. Although I’m based in London they asked me if I’d head down to Brighton for the afternoon as they live there and wanted to capture places that were part of their daily lives. Their wedding, which I’m shooting in couple of weeks, is in rural Petworth in West Sussex, so these pictures also gave them an opportunity to try another location.

I always encourage couples to go somewhere completely different to their wedding for an engagement shoot so we can experiment and come up with something personal to them. Couples often say that they want to do an engagement shoot so that they feel more comfortable in front of the camera and get to know me a bit better and I can’t think of a couple where this hasn’t helped on their wedding day.

Having said that, the real benefit for them is getting a great set of pictures as most haven’t been photographed professionally before. Brighton’s one of my favourite town’s in the UK so I jumped at the chance to wander the streets with them before ending up on the beach at sunset. For once the weather in Blighty did us proud and we spent an awesome couple of hours together. I can’t wait to shoot their wedding in a couple of weeks!

I’m pleased to be back in England after a hectic summer, take a look at my website for recent work and destination weddings in France and Italy.

Fenella & Joshua’s Wedding at St Luke’s Church in Chelsea

The bride got ready at The Pelham hotel in South Kensington, where she and the bridesmaids were photographed in the drawing room before leaving for St Luke’s Church.

The rain bucked down before the weddin service but stopped and the sun came out as everyone emerged from the church.

The reception was held at Chiswick House, an elegant neo-Palladian villa where the wedding breakfast itself was in a marquee on the lawn. The band was fantastic and everyone stayed dancing until late into the night.

The weather changes throughout the day made for a great variety of photographs.

Neha & Paul’s Engagement Shoot

We always try to make engagement shoots as fun and relaxing for couples as we can. Everyone is bound to be a little nervous in front of the camera so our aim is for the couple to feel completely at ease by the end of the session. We are lucky enough to live in such a good area for shoot locations and when Paul and Neha suggested Roundhay Park we thought it was a great setting. Having done a few there before we always like to re-visit an area and do something completely different, and seeing as Rounhay Park is one of the largest in the UK, we didn’t have any trouble finding amazing new locations! We loved getting to know Paul and Neha more on the shoot and am so excited to share their wedding, which was a few weeks ago, very soon!

– Chris & Verity

Huntsham Court Wedding in Devon by Linus Moran Photography

This Huntsham Court Wedding has to be one of my favourite weddings from the last year.

A great couple, both of whom being very artistic, a Groom who is an award winning animator and music video producer. A wedding that had so many personal touches from the hand made invites, theme set up and a spectacular soundtrack to their day.

Their friend and musician Ryan Keen serenading the bride down the aisle, then later performing a short evening set for the first dance and some of the most heart warming tributes I have ever witnessed being paid at a wedding. This resulted in a very emotional Bride and Groom and some great captures being delivered from the day. All set in the grounds of an award winning Devon Country house that historically was built for a bride!