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Winter Wedding Photographs at Fulham Palace

bride exits her taxi in rain as umberella breaks

The weather wasn’t terribly kind to us last Saturday but when you have two such beautiful venues to photograph, then let the meteorological gods do there worse!

Caroline and David’s marriage ceremony was held at their local church, All Saints in Fulham, and, as you can see, there was some wind and rain as the bride arrived.

best man adjusts groom's buttonhole at All Saints Fulham

bride walks up the aisle at All Saints Fulham

wedding ceremony all saints church fulham

The flowers were provided by Bunches & Pots in Putney and Caroline’s dress was from Phase 8.

marriage ceremony all saints church fulham

wedding ceremony reading at all saints church fulham

There was some interesting symmetry going on with this wedding; the bride and groom shared the same surname (Cooke) ‘before’ they were married, the bride’s mother has the same first name as the groom’s late mother, Ena and, just for good measure, Caroline has an identical twin sister, Jenny.

groom and bride walk down aisle at All Saints Fulham

After the ceremony it was a short (and soggy) walk across Bishop’s Park to Fulham Palace, the venue for the wedding reception. Once there the guests were served Champagne, canapés and ultimately a delicious wedding breakfast by caterers Bovingdons. The wedding cake, a tower of cup cakes came from Pat a Cake Pat a Cake.

wedding cup cakes

newlyweds in the doorway of fulham palace

Wedding Photographs in The Independent Newspaper

 

independent Masthead

villa miani wedding venue

Yesterday The Independent ran an eight page wedding guide which contained two of my photographs. The first, on page 3, accompanied an article on wedding planners Linda Cooper & Co. and was a photograph of the Villa Miani in Rome taken at a wedding I covered there a couple of summers ago for Linda.

wedding bouquet published in the Independent

The second image was on page 6 of the supplement and was part of a feature on florists Floral Accents who I was lucky enough to work with on a wedding at the Surrey venue, Nonsuch Mansion in December. You can see some of the photographs from that wedding here.

Thanks to both my wedding industry colleagues for selecting my photographs to use in the newspaper.

Wedding Planning Excellence 2012

WPE12 logo

For the second time in three years I have been asked to speak at the Wedding Planning Excellence seminar, an annual event organised by the United Kingdom Alliance of Wedding Planners (UKAWP).

UKAWP is the leading industry body for wedding planners in the UK and has a membership which includes some of the best planners in the country, they offer training and support for both aspiring and experienced wedding planners. Over the last 5 years or so I have been fortunate enough to photograph many of the organisations seminars and events and also to work alongside some of their members at my weddings.

WPE’12 takes place over two days at the beginning of March and this year is being held at 51 Buckingham Gate in central London. The other speakers will be experts from the wedding industry and also from the fields of business, social media and IT, hopefully providing the delegates with some insight and motivation to carry forward into their own businesses.

I’m going to be talking to the delegates about post-processing; what happens to the wedding photographs when they come out of the camera and go into the computer. As photographers know, once the wedding day is over there is still a lot of work to do before the finished wedding photographs are delivered to the bride. Starting with the ‘straight out of camera files’ I will illustrate how I adjust, crop and, occasionally, retouch to produce the final collection.

If you’re a wedding planner and you’d be interested in attending there are still a few places left. You can book online at this page on the UKAWP website.

 

Wedding Catering Part IV

summer sorbets and ice-creams in waffle cones

To finish off this series of posts about wedding food I’ve saved the (some might say) best until last. Sweet, dessert, pudding! And we start with the photograph above of assorted summer sorbest & ice-creams in waffle cones.

lemon posset shots with fresh raspberries

Here we have a line of lemon posset shots topped with a fresh raspberry

pop doughnuts

Next is a tray of pop doughnuts. If it isn’t Pop Art I don’t know what is!

vanilla pannacotta with grilled figs

Vanilla pannacotta with grilled figs. All of Bovingdons’ creations show this obsessive attention to detail which make’s photographing their work so satisfying.

assiette of champagne jelly with passionfruit marshmallow and lemon doughnut

And let’s finish with the splendidly entitled assiette of Champagne jelly with a pasionfruit marshmallow and lemon doughnut.

I’m hungry!