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My latest wedding was a stunning Saturday afternoon at Le Manoir Aux Quat Saisons near Oxford. What a venue! Owned by Raymond Blanc, this has to be one of my most favourite places to shoot ever. The gardens are absolutely stunning and they change so much with the seasons. The last time I photographed here I was doing a model shoot in October. The gardens were full of fiery reds and oranges and there were pumpkins dotted around the gardens. Now it’s summer, and the beautiful purple lavender is out in full bloom (I wish it was so successful in my own garden!).

Ruth looked absolutely amazing in her beautiful grecian style dress and I loved the peonies that made her colourful bouquet. She also had decorated the church with fabulous flowers - such a great colour scheme!

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It’s my hubby Lee’s birthday later this month where we’ll be heading out to see Night at the Museum 2 (ok so I admit I’m not very good at organising wild parties!). As part of the release of the film UK museums jumped on board and held their very own “night at the museum”, opening in the evening this weekend to encourage new visitors.

I heard that the Helicopter Museum at Weston Super Mare would be holding an event with flight simulators and I thought this would be an awesome surprise for Lee. He loves playing racing games on the computer so I knew coupling computer simulation with having a go at flying would be very cool.

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Last weekend I had the great pleasure of photographing Jonathan and Ela’s big day in the gorgeous Cotswolds (regular readers may remember their fab engagement session that we shot at Minster Lovell a few months ago).

The whole day was held at the Bay Tree Hotel in Burford, commonly known as the gateway to the Cotswolds and because I always arrive way too early to my wedding day shoots incase of traffic, I had a spare hour to treat myself to a scrumptious elevenses at the very quaint Huffinks Tea Rooms on the high street, yum!

The wedding was really chilled and fun, and the ceremony was held in the gardens (fortunately we had a gloriously sunny day!). Jonathan is a keen photographer himself, so it was great to have a couple who are so up for doing portraits as they are one of my fave parts of the day!

I promised Jonathan and Ela that I’d get some highlights posted before they headed off on honeymoon on Thursday, so guys here they are - enjoy and have a great time away!!

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The title of this post should really be called Anne, Jonathan and the lovely Nelson - as their downright gorgeous Dalmatian accompanied us on their engagement shoot.

We had the perfect weather for taking photographs - the sun was out and it was glorious to be walking along in the countryside. We headed to one of their favourite places to walk Nelson and came across these stunning bluebells, which were just the perfect backdrop for their fab purple outfits!

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Just a quick note to let y’all know I’m featured in this month’s issue of my favourite photography magazine Professional Photographer!

I was interviewed by the magazine about the hows and whys of doing model shoots, and I explained about how it’s a great opportunity to let your creative juices fly and to try new ideas out that perhaps wouldn’t be the best time to experiment with at a real wedding.

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Monday’s wedding was a blast from the past! I know both the bride and groom’s families from back in my schooldays in Exeter so it was a real honour to be there watching more history being written! Infact Jo’s sister Sarah is one of my oldest best friends and was one of my own bridesmaids two years ago!

As it was a Monday I thought it would probably be quite a small wedding, but I was wrong! Jo and Josh are very popular and it was lovely to see such a big turnout.

The wedding ceremony was held at Whirlow Grange, a Christian conference centre in Sheffield where Josh’s brother in Law Andrew gave a really great and inspiring talk.

Afterwards the reception was held at the absolutely amazing Hassop Hall with its very grand entrance just down the road. We stopped en route to grab some shots with the rugged moors behind us which was very windy and quite good fun as all the guests drove past beeping and hollering out of the windows - got some good reactions from Jo and Josh on camera!

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Ian and Lucy’s fab and fun wedding was held at St Andrews in Newcastle Under Lyme followed by a lovely reception at Goldstone Hall in Shropshire.

I know Lucy through church and knew she would have some great ideas to make her wedding really unique, although I had no idea she was planning the coolest wedding transport ever! I loved the AMAZING yellow camper van!

I was only allowed to take two photos during the service (no pressure then!) but I absolutely love the black and white shot of Lucy giving Ian a little look during the ceremony. It’s extra nice knowing I had that pressure!

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On the weekend I headed up for my old schoolfriend Louise’s wedding to the lovely Rash. They’ve been going out for what seems like forever, so I was so happy when Lou contacted me all those months ago to tell me of her engagement!

I’d not been inside Allerton Castle before, so I was blown away when I walked in and saw the huge log fire and sweeping staircase that surrounded the area where the ceremony would be held. And when the registrar took me into the incredible room where the signing of the register would be I nearly died -I’m used to pokey little church offices with fan heaters on the wall!

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I’m just back from my first ever three weddings in a row weekend - Saturday was Louise and Rash at Allerton Castle near Leeds, Sunday was Ian and Lucy at Goldstone Manor in Newcastle Under Lyme and Monday was Jo and Josh’s big day at Hassop Hall near Sheffield! Fortunately none of them felt like work as all the couples were already friends of mine, so I knew quite a few people at each wedding and it was really nice catching up with old friends.

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It’s not too often I get a weekend off, so I try and keep Sundays free to enjoy spending time with my family. Last week I spent Sunday celebrating both my 27th birthday and an early mother’s day. My brother, mum, dog Sam and I headed down to Noss Mayo on Devon’s South Coast for a stunning walk along the coast with the sun beating down and then to the Ship Inn for a scrummy pudding. Poor old Lee was stuck at home as he had to be back at work on Monday! We sat outside by the harbour and I ordered the strawberry pavlova but then had to share it when the others saw how good it was - very unfair! lol!

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