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Jan

Louise & Josh – Blickling Church Wedding

It has been an awfully long time since I updated this blog. Blame lack of time and a hectic schedule! Anyway to make amends I’m going to try & get things up to date and add some of my favourite weddings from last year. To kick off we have the lovely Josh & Louise who got married at Blicking church and then headed back home to Oulton for their reception.

I love bridal preparations. There’s normally a lovely calm before the storm feeling about the proceedings but it gives us the opportunity and the time to really observe and capture those fleeting moments of the day that are normally not given a moment’s notice and would otherwise be forgotten.

May

Lucy & Archie – A Suffolk Wedding at Home

Lucy’s parents live in an absolutely fabulous house in deepest Suffolk with a moat and history that dates back several hundred years (including connections with Henry VIII). Needless to say it was the perfect venue for Lucy and Archie’s wedding with the house being used for bridal preparations and the main garden for drinks, canapés, speeches and general socialising whilst at the end of the garden a huge marquee had been set up for the wedding breakfast. The wedding ceremony was held just down the road in the lovely St Andrews church in Cotton.

Here are some of my favourite images of their big day.

Wedding photography Cotton, Suffolk

Mar

Anna & Sammy – A wedding on the Norfolk Coast

Anna and Sammy both live and work in Barcelona but their wedding was held at Anna’s family home in the beautiful village of Brancaster, right on the North Norfolk coast. The wedding ceremony was in Brancaster church just a short walk from the house although on the way back they took advantage of a wonderful vintage van courtesy of Sammy’s family business. Time was a little tight with a late wedding ceremony but I’m pleased to say Sammy’s excellent planning paid off and everything ran like clockwork. Without further ado, here are some of the highlights of their fabulous day.

North Norfolk wedding photography

Feb

Ben & Em – The Keeper & the Dell

The Keeper & The Dell Wedding

The Keeper & The Dell is a fairly new wedding venue just down the road from Ringland, North of Norwich. The venue is very rustic, quite bohemian and gorgeous in the summer with large grounds and a marquee at one end of the site, sunk down into a natural dip in the land and nestled amongst the trees. To personalise things Ben and Em spent days and days preparing and decorating the site and the marquee for their wedding including painting nearly 100 chairs so that they all matched and covering lots of polystyrene balls on sticks with wool for decoration. The place looked fantastic and fortunately the weather was really kind to them (especially fortunate as there wasn’t much in the way of a wet-weather plan!).

Wedding Photography Norfolk

Dec

Will & Jo – Chaucer Barn Wedding

Chaucer Barn wedding

Here we go with another wedding from back in the latter half of the summer at the wonderful Chaucer Barn just outside Holt. I’ve photographed lots of weddings at Chaucer Barn and each time the ceremony has either been at a church or indoors in the barn, but Will and Jo decided to go for a duo ceremony where the bulk of the marriage ceremony is held outside in front of friends and family and the legal bit (saying the vows and signing the marriage register) is held inside (for legal reasons in the UK marriages must be conducted inside under a permanent structure – seems a crazy law to me but who am I to argue).

A huge teepee had been erected on the main lawn at Chaucer Barn that served both as a backdrop to the wedding ceremony and also where the reception was held (along with some cake judging and some magic/ritual humiliation of Tats the Best Man)

Chaucer Barn wedding Norfolk

Nov

Penelope & Alex – Glemham Hall Wedding

Glemham Hall Wedding

I’m getting seriously behind on my blogging – blame it on being too busy & the days getting shorter! Looking at these pictures makes me realise how quickly the summer came and went this year – it was all a bit of a blur, especially August when I shot something like 9 weddings. Anyway down to business. Today it’s the turn of Alex and Penelope who chose the fabulous Glemham Hall in Suffolk for their wedding. It’s was the first time I’d photographed a wedding there and it was wonderful! It’s essentially an old stately home with some superb rooms with lovely dark panelling (great for skin tones!) and some beautiful gardens offering a host of photo opportunities.

Penelope was definitely completely relaxed for the entire day whilst the boys were initially running around like headless chickens as they tried to get everything ready (although once the ceremony was over and they could enjoy a few well earned beers they were distinctly more relaxed).

Glemham Hall wedding

Oct

Charlotte & James – Brasteds, Norfolk

Here’s another wedding from back in the summer when the nights were long and the days were warm – ah, happy times 🙂

The venue was the wonderful Brasteds with their legendary levels of service and fabulous food and the couple were Charlotte and James, possibly the nicest couple I’ve ever worked with. A big statement I know as I’m very lucky to always work with clients who are considerate, relaxed, generous and thoughtful but Charlotte and James just completely put themselves in my hands and let me do pretty much whatever I thought would work best whilst all the time maintaining the most wonderful positive, happy and carefree attitude for their entire wedding (which always makes for a happy day and beautiful pictures).

Brasteds wedding photography

Oct

Stephanie & Tom

Back in the now dim and distant summer when the temperatures hit 30 degrees it was the turn of Stephanie and Tom to get married at St Mary’s church in Brent Eleigh before heading back to the family house a short drive away to continue the festivities. The weather during the week leading up to the wedding had been pretty ropey with lots of rain and strong winds but come Saturday morning the sun made an appearance and the temperature soared. Whilst the heat in the daytime was pretty intense it did at least mean that in the evening once the sun had begun to go down, we were treated to the most incredible sunset.

Stephanie has two horses that she adores and the evening sunlight, beautiful bride and impressive horses made for some wonderful pictures. So here we go …

Suffolk wedding photography

Sep

Sian & Clint – Bayfield Hall, Norfolk

I can’t believe how long it’s been since I last posted – slap wrists all round but in my defence I’ve been crazily shooting weddings like they’ve been going out of fashion recently. Lots of lovely pics to follow soon(ish!). Back in mid-July when summer was still in full blast, it was the turn of Sian and Clint to get hitched at St Margarets church in Suffield Common before heading back to the wonderful Bayfield Hall near Holt to carry on the festivities. I’d not shot at Bayfield Hall before but it’s a great venue set in huge grounds with a nice flat lawn next to the river. The marquee was set up amongst the oak trees making for an idilic setting.

Love this first picture – someone clearly didn’t appreciate the fact that you’re meant to throw the confetti out of the cone, not just bung the whole thing at the couple 🙂

Wedding photography Norfolk

Sep

A Nautical Wedding – Mark & Lena

Both Lena (who’s from Belgium) and Mark are extremely ‘nautical’ people who have been sailing for years (Mark is also a sailing instructor). Given that the church where they were getting married at Irstead is right on the river and the reception was also a short cruise away down the Broads from the church it seemed obvious that both Lena and Mark (and most of their guests) should make the trip to and from the church by boat – definitely a first for me. The reception was held in a marquee at Mark’s parent’s house a short walk from the river and we were treated to the most incredible evening sunset across the Norfolk Broads. The long grasses in the meadow backlit by the evening sunshine made for some wonderful pictures.

Norfolk wedding photography

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