Today I had the pleasure of photographing Rob & Kelly’s wedding at the Maes Manor in Blackwood. It was a lovely wedding and everyone had a great time.
Rob & Kelly’s Wedding at Maes Manor
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Wedding Cars
My last two weddings have had stunning wedding cars, the photograph below from Lee and Claire’s wedding shows Claire’s mum (Heather) and bridesmaids (Stacey, Pip and Gill) at the side of a beautiful 1934 Sunbeam Twenty Five Six Light in terrific condition from Love and Marriage Carriages of west Norfolk.
At Adam and Sally’s wedding they had a beautiful modern Bentley with an interesting registration.
A busy few weeks
I’ve been very busy recently with quite a lot of commercial photography and personal injury assignments. There’s also been quite a lot of work to complete with the various courses I’m studying which has left very little spare time, luckily the courses come to an end before the busy wedding season.
Yesterday I went to Roath Park in Cardiff to take some photographs of Adam and Sally who are getting married next month. Adam and Sally are having a signing frame at their wedding and wanted a photograph of the two of them for the frame which will be replaced after the wedding with a photograph of them taken on the wedding day.
This is the image they’ve selected for their signing frame.
Stuart and Rachel’s Wedding
Today we had the pleasure of photographing Stuart and Rachel’s wedding at St Barnabas Church in Penygraig. It was a lovely wedding but unfortunately the rain didn’t let up so there are very few outdoor photographs.
Here’s a photograph of the happy couple.
And here’s their terrific cake from Rhianydd Easton at Dragons and Daffodils.
A cold and overcast Thursday
Here’s a photograph of Tiegan that I took yesterday evening with the Fuji F11 point and shoot camera.
I spent most of the day processing print orders.
A relaxing Sunday
Shopping at Tesco Extra in Talbot Green this morning and then Sunday lunch at John & Ida’s in Pontypridd. Cleaning the Passat this afternoon with a little ‘help’ from the twins (Chloe and Anita). Here’s a photograph of one half of the twins.
A warm and sunny Sunday
I finished re-wiring the trailer socket on the Nissan Patrol this morning. I met Lisa (one of our brides from last year) at Tesco in Talbot Green this morning and then on to the Bridgend Classic Car Show at Pencoed. A very large selection of classic cars from vintage to modern at the show this year which is organised by the South Wales Classic Car Club and held at the Pencoed Agricultural College.
Here’s a photograph of the engine bay of an immaculate MGC roadster (I owned one myself for many years and it was a terrific car with bags of character).
And here’s a photograph of a Ferrari engine bay.
A drive around the coast, stopping at Southerndown before returning home for a relaxing evening.
A cold Monday
Claire and I went to Newport this morning and travelled on the Newport Transporter Bridge it’s a superb way to travel over the river and a real snip at 50p each way. Here’s a photograph of Claire taking some photographs at the bridge.
We then had a walk around the grounds of Tredegar House and then to Cardiff for lunch at KFC followed by shopping at Tesco and a visit to Cefn Parc to take fresh flowers.
We all went to the Showcase Cinema this evening to watch The Hills Have Eyes it has some very good effects.
A cloudy Monday
A nice start to the day, a bride who had cancelled her wedding plans for later this year rang to say that the wedding had been re-scheduled, luckily we’re still available for her new date and we’ve now re-booked her wedding. 🙂
Wedding dates for 2007 and 2006 are steadily booking and we’re also receiving enquiries for 2008, we always advise people to book early to avoid disappointment, we only photograph one wedding a day so once we’re booked the date is no longer available. When we first started photographing weddings in the early 90s people generally arranged their wedding a year or two in advance, many people still do this but in recent years there seems to be more of a trend towards people making the arrangements three to six months before the wedding. This unfortunately often means we are already booked on their wedding date. The shortest notice wedding we have so far booked is a week before the ceremony, I believe the couple had booked the venues over a year in advance but didn’t make all the other arrangements until just before. Another interesting trend over the last few years is that the ‘traditional wedding season’ has shifted to later in the year, when we started April, May and June were often our busiest months with weddings begining to slow in September. Over the last few years the early months have been less popular with a large number of weddings continuing through to October.
We are very lucky that in South Wales we have a very wide range of beautiful venues from small country house hotels, castles, former stately homes to up market modern hotels, with such a wide range of lovely venues there is less of a need for couples in the area to arrange their weddings on a Sunday due to limited venue availability, although we are now starting to see a marked increase in the number of Friday weddings and a slow increase in Sunday weddings over the last couple of years.
I’m very grateful to Rhys Wynne who tried to post a comment to one of my posts and was kind enough to email me letting me know that there was a problem with the comment processing. I’ve now fixed the problem. 🙂
A busy Sunday
Spent most of the day processing the images from Stuart and Karen’s wedding which was at Bryngarw House.
Here are a couple of images from Stuart and Karen’s wedding.
Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, “Gee, I’m glad I have that moment”. – John Loengard, “Pictures Under Discussion”