Larmer Tree Gardens Wedding Photographer – Sarah and Darren

When I first met Sarah and Darren and they told me about their wedding at the Larmer Tree Gardens I was excited, having worked here before and knowing what a beautiful venue it is. As I found our more about their wedding I was more and more excited, they were to get married at the local church in Irwene Minster and have a red Route-master bus take all their guests from there to the Larmer Tree Gardens (it was fun following the bus down the narrow country lanes). Both Sarah and Darren are in the Navy so it was exciting to get emails from the Enterprise! (reminded me of Star-Trek)
Their big day finally arrived and the day started off at the family cottage where I photographed Sarah getting ready in the Garden Shed. It was lovely 🙂 Then Darren was waiting at the Church, Sarah was only a little bit late (brides are allowed). After a lovely service it was off to her parents gardens for some portraits before heading off to the Larmer Tree Gardens for some formal and fun photography. The Larmer Tree Gardens has lots of games like Jenga, space hoppers, badminton and rounders. It’s such a relaxed and beautiful place. We took this opportunity to take some more portraits too. This was also the first time I’ve had a calling peacock in the formal photographs, it certainly made everyone laugh!
The wedding breakfast room at the Larmer Tree Gardens was setup beautifully as always, with some beautiful touches by Sarah and Darren. These touches included special candles, home made jam, country flowers arranged specially for each table. It was a very intimate and close wedding, lots of attention to detail and you could feel the love between them both.
After some brilliant speeches it was time for the First Dance – a bit I know Darren wasn’t looking forward to. Don’t worry though Darren I also video’d the First Dance for you.

Wedding Videography of the First Dance

Parley Manor Wedding Photographer – Matt and Hannah

Yesterday saw me at Parley Manor second shooting with Tim Churchill for the wedding of Matt and Hannah. What a lovely laid back couple. You may remember my second shooting wedding photographer article a few weeks ago. I love second shooting as it lets me get some great additional images and different perspectives than the main photographer. It also lets me be a bit more experimental that I could be normally. This is why I still love second shooting. After all practice helps right? I believe that we can learn from everyone we shoot with, me and Tim shoot a lot together so we have a good idea of where the other is going to stand and means that we get shots from different angles meaning we can work together faster. I also offer a second photographer in my collections, together with a HD wedding video option.

For the photographers/interested amongst you I used my Panasonic GX1 alongside my canon 1ds3 mark 3 and 135mm f/2 L lens to take these images (The Canon is soon to be sold). I have to say it was a great and lightweight combination.

Thanks go to Tim and Hannah and Matt. Here’s a few wedding images you might like.