The people that make our job worthwhile! - Part 1

There are not enough words to truly describe the awesomeness that we have seen and come to know in all of the lovely couples we have the pleasure of working with in 2010. Each couple truly unique, with their own styles, ideas, quirkiness and their own special love for each other. We have the best job of trying to capture all of that and more. We are so so thankful and grateful to all of our beautiful brides and handsome grooms who have let us share with them this part of their journey.
Here are just some of those moments that have made our hearts leap with excitement and have continued to make us so passionate for the people we have worked with.



Gorgeous Sam and Katie - Pembrokeshire wedding. Beach, balloons, dreadlocks, daffodils, green and yellow and plenty of amazing smiles! Thank you x x o&c



James and Rachel (Jim and Wigs) - Oxfordshire wedding. Truly stunning and classy. Fur, pink shoes, pearls and precious friends x Thank you. We love you very much! x x o&c



Matt and Rachel - Carmarthenshire wedding. Vintage themed glory, bunting, Edwardian dress, hydrangeas, Irregular Choice shoes, old fashioned sweet shop x Thank you x x o&c



Damian and Kate - Birmingham wedding. Uber-cool, guitars, glasses, Ben Folds, bunkers, VW camper x Thank you guys - you have become dear friends! x x o&c

Thank you lovely people for making our job so much fun. Your creativity, your style, your individualism and your pure wonderfulness makes us smile, makes are job so much fun and makes the beauty of love such a visual and tangible thing!
More 2010 weddings again soon... :D x x

Brizzle in the drizzle - Photo swap #1 {Owen}

Pho·to
[foh-toh]
–noun, plural -tos.
1.
photograph.
2.
Informal

Swap
[swop]
verb, swapped, swap·ping, noun.
1.
to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another.

Briz·zle (as the locals say)
[briz-uhl]
–noun
1.
a seaport in Avon, in SW England, on the Avon River near its confluence with the Severn estuary where me and Ca had a chance to spend a day shooting with Rosie Parsons, Juliet McKee, Shell de Mar, Dominique Bader and Antonina Mamzenko. All tip top togs I think you'd agree!

We met at the Mud Docks in the heart of Bristol and split up in to pairs. Ca and I gave a little internal "Whoop, whoop!" when we were paired up with Jules from Sugar and Spice Photography and her husband Shane. I love Jules' clean, crisp and mega sharp images and am blown away by the photos she took of us here. To say we are chuffed is an understatement almost as big as saying I'm now "slightly nervous" about blogging my images. Anyway and with out further ado here are my shots of the lovely Shane and Jules at Brizzle docks (Ca's to follow).

Sam and Katy wedding - Chester July 2010

On July 24th we photographed the wedding of Sam and Katy at All Saints Church, Hoole, Chester. We met Sam and Katy earlier on in the year at the wedding of another Sam and Katie #1 (notice Katie with an "ie"). Yes, believe me, it got very confusing! They had been bridesmaid and usher at Sam and Katies #1 wedding and had watched us like hawks throughout their wedding. By the end of the day they said they were 90% certain they wanted us as their photographers! We were excited! A week later we had an email to say they were 100% certain they wanted us. We were uber-chuffed!
We knew this would be a very creative and original day and had heard little bits and pieces about their plans. One thing that they were very excited about was their plans for decorating the reception venue, which was the church hall attached to All Saints. Have you seen the movie "The Holiday"? If so you might remember the tent scene in which Jude Laws children are having a sleepover. Well, they wanted to capture that feel. It worked perfectly! As you will see in these photos there was so much originality about the day. Hand painted canvases, a plasticine modelling competition, red shoes, spotty umbrella, scrabble letters, sunflowers and vibrant purple dresses!