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