MY NEW BLOG IS NOW LIVE! - Farewell to my trusty faithful Blogger Blog and Hello to Wordpress!

Times move on and things on the web improve so it was finally time to retire my old Blog I have been using since 2008 which you have arrived at here and switch to a new much funkier New Blog. From now on all  my latest work and posts will be posted onto my new Wordpress blog but this old one will remain active so you can search my older posts.

My new blog is now live. Please bookmark the site and I hope you enjoy the many new features and most importantly the larger images I can now use. The web address is http://thebridalphotographer.co.uk/blog

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Hope you like it.

Latest Magazine Front Cover - latest issue of Your Berks & Bucks Wedding

My first Your Bucks & Berks magazine front cover… thanks to Rowena and the gang… called all you Bucks and Berks Brides go buy a copy!  www.countyweddingmagazines.com available at W.H.Smiths etc in the Berks & Bucks area.

The issue also features a lovely Real Wedding from the couple Ria & Nim featured here on the cover that I shot over at Latimer Place Buckinghamshire last September. Glorious wedding with a mix of English and Sri Lankan traditions and amazing colours!


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Couple of Sneaky Peaks for the Lusan Mandongus Bridalwear Fashion shoot

Shot some stunning images for the new 2011 Lusan Mandongus Collection on a scorching hot spring day at beautiful Poundon House. With many thanks to Ellie Sanderson, Poundon House, Mira Parmar our Make Up Artist and stunning model Chloe.
Many more to come once they are retouched and we have some stunning images for Ellie's website but for now here are a couple of sneaky peaks.

Sarah & Matt Pre-Wedding Shoot, The Queens Eyot Island, Bray, Berkshire

Sarah and Matt are geting married in May in a beautiful church in Windsor then onto a proper Island in the middle of the Thames in Bray for their wedding reception. Literally the only way on and off is by boat!!
Queen's Eyot is a secluded four acre island on the Thames, a few miles upstream from Windsor. The island is accessed by its own private ferry so it is a perfect and unusual venue for both corporate and private hire.The island has been owned by Eton College since 1923, and has a beautiful clubhouse built in a classical style from cedar and pine, decorated throughout with memorabilia from the College's illustrious rowing history. The word Eyot (pronounced 'eight') is old English and means 'a small island' and is used almost exclusively to describe islands on the Thames.The clubhouse is surrounded by extensive, well tended lawns and mature trees and has views of passing boats and wildlife on the river.
Despite a minor hurricane on the day we got some lovely shots over on the island and I'm really looking forward to shooting their wedding in a few weeks there. Here are a few of my picks from the shoot we did.

Wedding of Kylie & Elliot, 5th February 2011 at The Olde Bell Hotel, Hurley

My second wedding of the year was back at a familiar venue just south of Henley Upon Thames in the beautiful village of Hurley. The Olde Bell Inn in Berkshire. It is a beautiful old hotel with a fantastic barn which is used for ceremonies and wedding receptions just opposite and where I have been lucky enough to photograph some of my Berkshire weddings in blistering sunshine in the height of summer and also in thick snow in the depths of winter!
Kylie bought her beautiful gown Anoushka by the wedding dress designer Stephanie Allin from my wife's boutique Ellie Sanderson in Beaconsfield along with her fab Rachel Simpson boots so I had no concerns she would look stunning and she certainly did. The gown is very distinctive with a huge black bow on the side and this black and ivory theme extended through to the whole wedding with black organza ribbons on the chairs in the ceremony and even on the cup cakes wedding cake. Kylie also changed into a gorgeous Magpie Vintage bespoke necklace for the evening party which you can see at the end of this sequence of images.
I managed to get some beautiful natural light shots in the room where Kylie got ready before doing the shots with the guys in a side road just near the venue. Despite threatening rain all day the weather was kind and we managed to get all of the shots of the couple outside before we all headed inside to the wedding breakfast.
The first shot in this sequence is just lovely Kylie looks amazing (she has the most beautiful hazel brown eyes) with her mum out of focus in the background of the shot.
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