Chapter 1. The engagement
It is a real honour when clients come back to you for all the special moments in their lives. Nikki and Glenn are no exception. I first photographed the couple on their engagement in the winter of 2011 where I took them to one of my famously beautiful locations, an industrial park! It was here the journey of building up a relationship with Nikki and Glenn began.
It was wonderful to photograph Simon & Clare's autumn wedding back in October. I had had the chance to really get to know the couple after photographing two of Simon's cousins' weddings in the past and then photographing a summer engagement shoot for Simon & Clare themselves.
Simon and Clare chose to hold their wedding day at Horsley Park in Surrey. A truly stunning venue inside and out. It gave lots of opportunities for beautiful l wedding photography. I started the day at the couples home in Weybridge, Surrey, where Simon was getting ready with his best man, usher (his brother who had flown over from Antigua to share the special day) and his Dad. We had a lot of fun in the morning. Simon's brother Alex (usher) is well known for wearing shoes to weddings which are a little 'outside the box'. Simon & Clare had made it very clear to me that this time he would be wearing black shoes! So we thought it was very funny to capture this for the album so it would always be noted how happy Alex was to be conforming.
Kristie France was married to Aaron Inglethorpe on a beautiful summers day at Southend Barns. A truly stunning wedding venue in Chichester, West Sussex. Southend Barns is one of the newer barn venues in West Sussex. I had the honour of photographing the second wedding ever held there last July. On that occasion it was a typical English rainy summers day! So it was a real delight to wake up on the morning of Kristie & Aaron's wedding to glorious sunshine. The venue has so many fantastic areas to photograph & the attention to detail that owners Mariella & Will Fleming have put into the venue is outstanding. I knew I had a fabulous day of photography ahead of me.
