Chelsea Register Office Wedding Photography | Susan & David

My first wedding of the year took me back to Chelsea Register Office, and another bright, crisp, sunny winter’s day. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to start off the New Year.

One of the reasons I love photographing intimate register office weddings so much, is that often there’s a really interesting story, or just something “a bit different” about the couples I get to photograph. Like Susan and David… they have been together for 27 years! And the two couples, Susan and David’s closest friends, who were their guests at the wedding, had NO idea that they were coming to London to celebrate a wedding. They just thought they were coming for lunch together. So imagine their surprise when they arrived at Chelsea Register Office to witness their dear friends getting wed!

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Children’s Photography in Essex | London Children’s Photographer | Poppy

Happy New Year, everyone! I thought I’d start the New Year’s Blog, with a gorgeous little girl I photographed just before Christmas.

My last children’s photography session of the year involved a trip to Essex. I’ve been photographing Popppy since she was a newborn, in fact, I photographed mum and dad’s wedding, and I love it when I have the opportunity to go back and see the family grow. And it’s also nice seeing my images being part of someone’s home – in fact, that’s really what I love the most about what I do for a living: Creating images that are a treasured part of other people’s lives.

Anyway, it was a grim day, so we stayed inside, but the weather obviously had no effect on Poppy’s excitement about Santa coming soon. After an initial period of calm, there followed lots of jumping up and down on cushions in the living room! We managed to stear clear of the tree, and no baubles were hurt in the creation of these images.

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But Poppy’s biggest Christmas present won’t be here til the end of January – a little brother or sister! (although Poppy is very much convinced it’s going to be a boy:-))

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Wedding Photography at Marylebone Register Office | Madina and Andrew

My last blog post of the year, featuring my last wedding of 2011 (I’ll start my 2012 blog posts with a gorgeous children’s photography shoot I did just before Christmas!).

It’s been YEARS since I was last at Marylebone Register Office (or Westminster Register Office as it’s officially called). In fact, one of my first ever paid weddings took place here, and I have not had occasion to come back since.

For my photographer friends reading this: the venue certainly holds a couple of photographic challenges. Having thanked the weather Gods all year for their guardianship, my luck ran a little low the morning of this wedding. It was pelting down… and the ceremony was due to take place in the Blue Room, which is not a room bestowed with much natural light at the best of times. So the ambient light in the room was certainly dark and of course, due to the walls, everything had a bit of blue tinge, with yellow/greeny light coming from the energy saving lightbulbs in the chandaliers (another bane of the modern photographer’s life). Flash allows us to clean up the skin tones a little bit in those circumstances, but even then, you’re bouncing blue tinged light off a blue wall, so blue is all around. During the vows, of course, I don’t use flash, so I was working with very high ISO.

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None of this, however, mattered to our lovely couple, Madina and Andrew who were gathered with an intimate circle of their closest family and friends to commit to each other for life on this winter morning.

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A few last minute touches and then it was time for the ceremony to begin.

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Thankfully, by the time we headed outside for our confetti throw the rain had temporarily paused, but the wind was certainly still howling and it was bitterly cold.

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We did quite a large number of formal family groups on the steps of the register office, after which there wasn’t a whole lot of time left for our couples portraits, but we still managed to get lots of lovely images in the short time available.

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Many congratulations to Madina and Andrew, and a Happy New Year to ALL my blog readers!! See you on the other side.

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Pre-Wedding Shoot at the Rookery at Streatham Common | Alison & Matt

I love it when I get local wedding clients. Being a London based photographer, you end up photographing weddings all over the country – but even a London wedding at the other end of town can mean a 2 hour commute. So having clients who literally live around the corner here in Streatham is great! Even the wedding, in February, at the Windmill on Clapham Common is only a 5 minute drive from my home and I can’t wait to photograph Alison and Matt’s big day.

For their pre-wedding shoot we headed to the Rookery on Streatham Common, which is a beautiful space with a gorgeous view that you just wouldn’t expect to find in this part of town. We were super lucky with the weather too – it had been tipping down the day before, but this morning was FREEZING, but sunny. I love a crisp winter morning. If we have weather like this for the wedding, we couldn’t ask for anything more.

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Coming Soon: Wedding at Westminster Register Office, Marylebone | Madina and Andrew

I snuck another little wedding in before Christmas – Madina and Andrew tied the knot at Westminster Register Office at Marylebone last week. Here’s a little teaser of what’s to come early in the New Year.

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If you were a guest at the wedding and would like to be notified when the bride and groom have released the gallery for public viewing, then please click HERE.

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