Weddings — Comments Off
14
May 12

Beki and Carlos at the Spinnaker Tower Portsmouth

Beki and Carlos

The Blessing of Beki and Carlos

Until last weekend I’d never covered a wedding or in this case, a blessing at the Spinnaker Tower but what an excellent place to have one.

Beki and Carlos were blessed at St Ann’s Church which is in the HM Dockyard at Portsmouth. Quite a large church by all accounts and where the Revd Keith Robus greeted me.

They live in Spain but have lots of family and friends in the UK. They flew over specifically to have their blessing here amongst all those who couldn’t make their wedding.

After the blessing we headed to the tower. Inside it’s huge, much bigger than I remembered it from a visit earlier in the year and even with 80 guests inside there was plenty of room to swing several cats.
Before dinner canapes and drinks were served on the 2nd floor with dinner served shortly thereafter. Spinnaker Tower is an excellent venue and somewhere I’m considering for my wedding, the view is just outstanding and a perfect backdrop for any event there.

The Spinnaker Tower Portsmouth

Panoramic shot of the inside of Spinnaker Tower

short wedding dress hanging from a chandalier

Beki's dress

Blessing Invite with the Spinnaker Tower on the front of it

The invites

The Brides Father at St Ann's HM Dockyard Portsmouth

Bibles laid out at St Ann's Church Portsmouth

Revd Keith Robus - a very nice chap to work alongside

The groom looking at the camera during a blessing at St Anns Church

Carlos

The inside of St Anns Church HM Dockyard Portsmouth

The inside of St Anns Church at the HM Dockyard Portsmouth

Couple kissing in front of a large garage with big blue doors

Couple sitting on a window ledge outside St Anns Church Portsmouth

The ceiling lights at the Spinnaker Tower

Couple looking out to see from level 2 of the Spinnaker tower

The views are great up there

The glass floor

The view from the glass floor at the Spinnaker Tower

The view from the top of the Spinnaker Tower at night

Bride giving a speech at the Spinnaker Tower

Beki gave a speech too

Tweet This Post

Weddings — Comments Off
06
May 12

Lauren and Darren’s Wedding at Buxted Park Hotel

Buxted Park Wedding Photography of a Bride and Groom in April

Lauren and Darren

April the 21st was Lauren and Darren’s wedding day at Buxted Park Hotel.

It was an awesome day with a rocky theme running right through it. A table plan made from old concert tickets, a skull cake with purple roses from Choccywoccydoodah, kilts (not so rocky) and 8 wrestlers chanting YES! YES! YES! YES! at random stages during the whole day made up just some of the pieces that brought everything together so well.

Choccywoccy Doo Dah Skull cake with purple glitter roses

First time I've seen this cake from ChoccywoccyDooDah

So we started at Lauren’s parents for her hair and makeup, some detail shots and then I headed off in advance to Buxted Park Hotel in order to grab shots of the flowers and the coat of arms room where the ceremony was taking place.

I like Buxted Park, it’s well proportioned, airy and light in decor and quite spacious. The weather was pretty good too, when the sun went in though we really felt it!

Everything went without a hitch, in part due to Marc Dessaux and his awesome people skills and also because of the wonderful atmosphere on the day.

Fancy putting that there.

A large engagement rings on some red berries

Laurens bouquet (from Ashdown Flowers - www.ashdownevents.co.uk)

Shooooses....

Lauren

Father when he first sees his daughter dressed as a bride

Marc Desseaux - Food and Beverages Manager at Buxted - Awesome chap.

Lauren and her Dad making their way to the wedding

Lauren with her Father

Wedding at the Coat of Arms room in Buxted Park

The wedding was held in the Coat of Arms room.

Don't look!

The best place to throw confetti at Buxted Park

The ideal place for a large group shot at Buxted Park

This is pretty much the best place to have the group shot in the grounds of Buxted

Formals at Buxted Park of the bride and groom with grandparents

I absolutely love this, formal and informal all at once.

See, I do do formals.

Father of the groom during a receiving line

Darrens dad

The whole wedding had a rocky feel to it. Didn't mind that one bit.

bride and groom kissing amongst the beige pillars at Buxted Park

Lauren and Darren

The chandalier inside the main dining area of Buxted Park

Tweet This Post

Weddings — Comments Off
29
Apr 12

Highfield Park Wedding – Vikki and Karl

Highfield Park Wedding

Highfield Park Wedding – Vikki and Karl

A couple of weeks ago I covered Vikki and Karl’s wedding at St Michael’s Church Heckfield and Highfield Park.

Both venues are very close to each other, literally a 60 second walk away so Vikki started to get ready at Highfield Park itself and then walked over to the church.

The ceremony itself was lovely, the Vicar was a dream to work with (she had lots of humorous things to say to the guests) and despite my walking around the church in my socks and using the 5D3 with it’s new and amazing silent shutter my bag still managed to fall onto the floor undoing all my good work! The timing was ironic too as the Vicar was telling everyone the importance of saying sorry, it was slightly embarrassing but admittedly it did provide even more humour to an already buoyant atmosphere.

After the ceremony we had an accidental receiving line which went down well and after the confetti we walked around the church the long way to Highfield park. This was because access to the reception was easier at the back and even more importantly we used the open space for formals.

Because it was late Spring and the sun sits lower in the sky I had to backlight everyone (make sure the sun is on their backs). This is the right way of doing things although I was staring straight into the sun.

Highfield Park

After the formals I went off with Vikki and Karl to other areas of Highfield Park for formals and afterwards I went and freelanced amongst the guests.

Dinner and the evening reception followed. The DJ was great and with the first dance was pretty special as both Vikki and Karl are dancers.

It was a great day made even better by the excellent staff supporting the Church and Venue. This was my first Highfield Park Wedding and it was pretty awesome.