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8
Jun 12

An Outdoor Wedding at Buxted Park Hotel – Elissa and Luke

Wedding formal of a couple a Buxted Park Hotel in Uckfield late in the afternoon in Summer

Elissa and Luke

Buxted Park Hotel Wedding – Elissa and Luke

A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be the Wedding Photographer at Elissa and Luke’s wedding at the Buxted Park Hotel in Uckfield. I was also lucky enough to be present at their first outdoor ceremony and the weather couldn’t of been better for it. The only cloud in the sky was miles off!

This was a day filled with love and laughter from a couple totally at one with each other.

Academy Room 1

This wedding was full of firsts for me, other than the first outdoor wedding at Buxted, we had an ice cream man (Matt Benecci) and a Lionel Richie Tribute (Moni Tivony).

All of which were awesome.

This was the first outdoor wedding at Buxted Park

This was an all day wedding for me, usually I cover the prep upstairs in the bridal suite but this time I was downstairs in Academy Room 1. Photographically wise both are great. With the Academy Room I could shoot from outside through a window and also walk straight out onto the lawn for the detailed shots of things like the shoes:

Elissa’s chief Bridesmaid Yasmin Fakhrhosseini did the bridal hair and makeup with Elaine from Hall Hair Design for the Bridesmaids. The ceremony was beautiful with a couple of readings. Ian from Disco Fever provided the music during the ceremony, the background during the wedding breakfast and was the dj for the evening. You can find him here: Disco Fever

Such a lovely couple

Luke and Elissa had laid on a close up magician Matt Wainwright who did an awesome job wowing the guests.

Elissa chose to have different coloured bridesmaids dresses from Ebony Rose which looked stunning and her dress was from Mia Mia Bridal.

Elissa’s wedding dress was from Mia Mia Bridal

Pollen did a wonderful job as always with their flowers, they just consistently deliver a high standard, always.

Other things, well we had some fun and games with Luke and the boys and also took advantage of the different light in the evening with some shots of Elissa and Luke with their daughter:

Bride, groom and daughter posing in the lawn at sunset

It was great to be there at Buxted Park and I felt really lucky to be a part of their day.

Here are some more photos from the day:

The Bridesmaids dresses were by Ebony Rose

Laura covered the guys prep

The flowers were by Pollen

Luke

Elissa

Pollen supplied a lot of the small details

Father and daughter walking through buxted park to the ceremony outside

There’s that cloud I was telling you about

It was a lovely sunny day for them

Cadbury's flakes in a tin with a union jack on

These were out of my reach…. and a good thing too!

The Close up Magician was Matt Wainwright

Confetti on the steps of a mansion house

Multi coloured flowers and bridesmaids dresses

Guest listening to a speech whilst quietly contemplating what is being said

They were so clean and tidy about 5 hours ago….

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4
Jun 12

A Firle Place Wedding complete with Wedding Olympics

Ruth and Matts Navy Wedding at Firle Place

Ruth and Matt at Firle Place

A Firle Place Wedding

The Firle Estate near Lewes was the destination for Ruth and Matt on their wedding day this May.

Firle itself is a small town complete with church and a large estate all within cosy distance of each other.

Ruth and Matt used the stables for their wedding reception and 250 guests…this was a big military wedding with an elegant theme throughout.

Ruth's original 1930's wedding dress

Wedding Olympic Games

The whole day went off without a hitch and the weather was exceptionally good to us. After the ceremony Ruth was place in a wheelbarrow and wheeled away from the church but the barrow had a flat and so the solution was for Matt to call on his Navy friends to carry Ruth instead!

Unfortunately the Wheelbarrow had a flat, so Ruth was quite literally escorted off the premises

The wedding reception followed on the grounds of Firle Place…which are huge.

Loads of places for photos are available here, weeping willows, long grasses and a croquet lawn to entertain guests with and everything is in one place (the guests arrived by a double decker bus).

After dinner things went off the track a little if I’m honest… we had a Wedding Sports day!

There was three games in total. The first being where 4 or 5 victims, ah, volunteers had to hold a pole to their chins, look at the top of the pole and spin around for ten seconds and run towards a tree.

The Wedding Olympics!

Bearing in mind by this point there’d been the reception drinks, wine during the wedding breakfast and then the toasting during the speeches and well…

It's all fun and games until someone loses their head.

Next up was an egg and spoon race.

This wedding sports day had an egg and spoon race

Lastly a competition where groups of two had to balance an apple between their foreheads and do various steps and jumps on command without losing their apple.