Tag Archives: South Wales

Pencoed Classic Car Show

6 May 2007Daily LifeClassic Car Club, Classic Car Show, Classic Cars, David Hannah, Farina, Jaguar, Jaguar Xj6, Models, Princess, Roadster, Rose, South Wales, Van Den Plas, Weather, Xj6 SeriesStephen Brennan

David, Hannah and I went to the South Wales Classic Car Club’s annual show at Pencoed College this afternoon, as usual it was very well attended with an excellent range of old and not so old classic cars. Nice to see so many models that I once owned there, including MGC roadster, Van den Plas Princess, Jaguar XJ6 Series III, A40 Farina, Austin 1100. The weather was rather miserable today but there still seemed to be an excellent turn out at the show.

Another wedding booking received this weekend for a wedding later this year. 🙂

A warm and sunny Sunday

7 May 2006Daily Life, Posts with ImagesAgricultural College, Brides, Classic Car Club, Classic Car Show, Classic Cars, Ferrari, Ferrari Engine, Mgc Roadster, Nissan, Nissan Patrol, Photograph, Returning Home, South Wales, Sunny Sunday, Talbot, Terrific Car, TescoStephen Brennan

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).

MGC

And here’s a photograph of a Ferrari engine bay.

Ferrari

A drive around the coast, stopping at Southerndown before returning home for a relaxing evening.

A bright sunny Monday

3 April 2006Daily LifeBmw, Demonstrations, Familiar Faces, Laptop Computer, Master Photographers Association, Met, Miskin Manor Hotel, Passat, Photographic Trade, Photographing A Wedding, South Wales, Sunny Monday, Trade ShowStephen Brennan

Installed some more software on the new laptop computer, should get everything I need on there soon!

David’s car finally passed the MOT. 🙂 Booked the Passat in for a service on Friday and I’m hoping that the red BMW will be in the garage next week.
A photographic trade show at the Miskin Manor hotel this afternoon, made a change being there and not photographing a wedding, met up with many familiar faces most of whom were other South Wales members of the Master Photographers Association. An interesting range of displays and demonstrations from a number of major suppliers.

A relaxing evening.

An overcast and damp Thursday

30 March 2006Daily LifeBakery, Church Village, Desk, Essex, Initial Set, Overcast, Photographer, Shopping Cart, South WalesStephen Brennan

I bought David breakfast at the bakery in Church Village and then helped him change the horn on his car. More work on my accounts, everything is now fully up to date. 🙂 I spent an hour or so doing the initial set up for an on-line shopping cart for another photographer in Essex this afternoon, the joys of broadband internet , I can sit at my desk in South Wales and do a little work for someone more than a hundred miles away.

A cloudy Monday

27 February 2006Daily LifeBegining, Blog, Bride, Castles, Cloudy Monday, Country House, Couples, Disappointment, Hotels, Many People, New Date, Photograph, Photographing Weddings, Six Months, South Wales, Traditional Wedding, Trend, Wedding Dates, Wedding Day, Wedding Season, Wedding WeddingStephen Brennan

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. 🙂

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