Somerset & Bristol Wedding Photographer

Friday, 30 September, 2011

Rachel & Joe’s Wedding Featured in Your Bristol & Somerset Wedding Magazine

How exciting! Another one of my weddings has been featured in a wedding magazine this month. Rachel & Joe’s Orchardleigh House wedding from last October is in the real life wedding section of Your Bristol & Somerset Wedding magazine starting on page 30 and the portrait I took of Rachel is on the front cover!

More information about the magazine can be found here: www.countyweddingmagazines.com

Posted in Real Life Wedding Feature

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Mark - 16 November, 2011 - 9:48 pm

Great day and love the photos! :)

Wednesday, 21 September, 2011

Dorset Wedding Photography – Rachael & Dan at Parley Manor

Saturday saw me heading down into Dorset for Rachael & Dan’s wedding in Ferndown, near Bournemouth. Due to me being on maternity leave and Rachael & Dan’s busy schedules in the run up to the wedding we hadn’t had a chance to meet up in person before their actual day…so it was lovely to finally meet them and put faces to names!

I started my coverage as usual with the bride’s preparations which were taking place at Rachael’s parents house. The mood was relaxed and everything was running to schedule so I was able to get some lovely pictures of Rachael having her hair and make-up done before it was time to put on the dress.

I then headed down the road to St Mary’s church, where the ceremony was to take place, to meet up with Dan and the boys. After a lovely service with readings from both of the couple’s mums it was time to head over to Parley Manor for the reception.

Parley Manor was a new venue for me so it was fun to explore somewhere different and I have to say, it was a gorgeous place with a fab marquee in it’s own private courtyard garden. I took the couple off for some romantic portraits of the two of them around the grounds and we managed to time it just right before the rain started.

I’m not sure if it’s because I spend the day staring at people’s faces through my camera lens but I often notice that people I photograph look like famous faces…and I like to think that this was my celeb wedding! I don’t know if you’ll agree but I was convinced that Rachael looked like the actress Kate Hudson whilst Dan looked the spitting image of Noel Wyle (Dr Carter from ER)!

Rachael and Dan’s full gallery will go online in a few weeks time once they’ve had a chance to view the images first themselves, and if you’d like to be notified when the gallery is live please register your details here. In the meantime here are a few images from their day:

Posted in Dorset Weddings, Parley Manor

14 comments

Ian Hasell - 30 September, 2011 - 10:47 am

Superb photos Caroline – amazing quality! Really captures the day. Can’t wait to see the full set.

Ian

Danni Payne - 30 September, 2011 - 8:18 pm

These photos are incredible! Rachael looks beautiful.

Ami Preston - 30 September, 2011 - 8:33 pm

Lovely pictures Caroline, great reminder of a great day! My brother & sister in law look gorgeous in them all, loving the ones of just the 2 of them xx

AJ - 30 September, 2011 - 8:45 pm

Great photos catches the happiness of them both

David & Elaine Preston (parents of groom) - 30 September, 2011 - 9:01 pm

Caroline captured the day perfectly, so natural. Each photo tells a story. We already want a copy of each one!! Bought back fantastic memories of our Son & Daughter-in-laws special day, including few more tears of joy. Thank you so much Caroline x

jackie rickard - 30 September, 2011 - 9:15 pm

what beautiful photos of a lovely day everyone looked stunning.

christine ballantyne - 2 October, 2011 - 4:01 pm

Beautiful photographs which captured the spirit of the day,Daniel & Rachel were made for each other & the photos make that look so apparent .

Jinny Ngui - 3 October, 2011 - 8:41 am

You’ve really captured some lovely moments of a special day.

Natalie Fitzpatrick - 6 October, 2011 - 10:04 am

Fantastic photos – such a lovely day and you can tell by the photos how genuinely in love Daniel and Rachael are, a very special moment.

Michelle Rowe - 12 October, 2011 - 3:36 pm

Beautiful pictures – totally captured the day.

Chi Smith - 12 October, 2011 - 3:56 pm

Lovely photos. Rachel looked stunning and Dan didn’t scrub up badly either.

Karen Scarfe - 12 October, 2011 - 6:37 pm

Caroline has captured some superb, special, and treasured moments from Rachael and Daniel’s absolutely beautiful wedding day.

Kate Farmer - 15 October, 2011 - 10:09 am

These are beautiful photos – a lovely reminder of a great day!

Matt Cooper - 19 October, 2011 - 9:07 pm

What a lovely set of photographs! Such a wonderful day! Congratulations to you both

Monday, 19 September, 2011

Coming Soon! Rachael & Dan’s Wedding at Parley Manor

I expect to get the full blog post up sooner rather than later, but just to keep everyone ticking over…here is a picture from Rachael & Dan’s gorgeous wedding on Saturday in Dorset:

Posted in Dorset Weddings, Parley Manor

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Friday, 16 September, 2011

Devon Wedding Photography in Torquay – Emily & James

I have been doing a lot of Somerset weddings this year so it was a nice treat to head down to Devon last weekend for the wedding of Emily and James in Torquay. As I said in my “coming soon” post, I don’t often get to photograph at the seaside so I was really looking forward to the portrait session down at the beach that we had planned for after the church service.

The sea was a major feature of this wedding…Emily and James had met through their mutual love of sailing, the marquee was decorated with a nautical theme, and it even featured during the bridal preparations as part of the amazing view from Emily’s parents house!

After photographing Emily putting the final touches to her preparations I headed over to the church to meet up with James and capture the arrival of some of the guests and the bridesmaids. Before I knew it Emily had arrived! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bride arrive as early as she did (which apparently is quite unusual for her too!) so she must have very keen to marry James.

Afterwards everyone made their way across town to James’ parents house for the marquee reception whilst Emily, James and myself did their portrait session at a nearby beach – making the most of some fantastic props such as deckchairs and beach huts!

Emily & James’ full gallery will go online in a few weeks time and you can register your details here to be notified as soon as it does (well, once the couple have seen their pictures first!). In the meantime here are a few images from their day:

Posted in Devon Weddings

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