London Pre Wedding Photography - Louise & Dave

We postponed Louise and Dave's pre wedding shoot due to all the snow back in January, so it was a bit annoying that the weather didn't behave when we finally met up at Southbank in London :(  

It was a drizzly and cold day, but Louise and Dave didn't let it dampen their spirits and we used a few covered areas until the rain let up.  The huge advantage with the weather was the pretty soft light and the lovely atmospheric clouds, actually near perfect photography conditions!

Big thanks to Louise and Dave for a fun morning and for being so easy to work with, I'm really looking forward to their wedding at Pembroke Lodge next month!

Orleans House Gallery & The Bingham Hotel, Richmond - Wedding Photography

Holly & James' wedding was a wedding of firsts for me... It was not only my first wedding of the year, but my first wedding with the ceremony held at Orleans House Gallery and my first wedding reception at the Bingham Hotel in Richmond.  I'm kind of a bit in love with both venue to be honest!

Orleans House Gallery is simply stunning, with the ceremony held in the beautiful, baroque Octagonal room which was apparently build in 1721 for Queen Caroline, wife of George II.  There are plenty of huge windows which give beautiful lighting and even cherubs over the doors!  

Back at the Bingham, Holly & James braved the REALLY cold day and had some photographs taken by the Thames with Richmond Bridge in the background.  Their wedding breakfast was set up in the Garden Room and I loved their use of book covers as table names, which was apparently a last minute choice, but a great idea!

I also loved Holly's unusual wedding dress which was covered in tiny sequins and matched her sparkly Jimmy Choos!  Gotta love a bit of sparkle :)

Here are a few favourites from the day...

St Raphaels Church, Kingston & Pembroke Lodge, Richmond - Ana & Blagoye's Wedding

Considering all the terrible rain we've had the last few weeks (well all year really) we were pretty lucky with the grey and damp day we had for Ana & Blagoye's wedding. Their ceremony was at the stunning St Raphael's Roman Catholic Church in Kingston and their reception at Pembroke Lodge. I was thrilled at how Autumnal Pembroke Lodge was looking, the colours were so pretty. The downside of all the rain was that Ana did have to trek over some pretty damp grass to get the shots below, it turned her shoes a slightly fetching shade of green, which I'm not sure was the look she was after! Hope you'll agree it was worth it :)

Here are a few favourites...

St Elizabeths RC Church, Richmond, Richmond River Cruise & The Carlton Mitre Hotel, Hampton Court - Laura & Peter

Laura & Peter's wedding took place at St Elizabeth's RC Church in Richmond, it was an icebreaker of a service (the Priest not only mixed their names up, but also the service followed a completely different order of service to the one everyone else had and we won't mention the Honeymoon comment!).  We then all walked down to Richmond riverside where the Queen Elizabeth took us on a two hour river cruise to Hampton Court and their reception venue, the Carlton Mitre hotel.  Being a local girl, I was pretty excited to take the river through my neighbourhood. Being on the boat was great for photographs, even though it was exceptionally bright and sunny, not bad for October ;)

Here are my favourites from the day...