James & Hazel are getting married.
December 14th, 2011
James and Hazel get married this weekend at Mottram Hall up north.
Seriously, these two are really lovely.
See?
Clearwell Castle Wedding
December 13th, 2011
Matthew and Lyndsey chose Clearwell Castle as their wedding venue earlier this year.
This was quite an important wedding for me and I'll try to explain in my next post which will feature their whole wedding.
To keep things quick though, Matthew and Lyndsey had a beautiful day with weather that would make Michael Fish smile, very English.
(For the Americans that read my blog, "very English" usually means: Pretty terrible with short periods of "quite nice")
It turned out to be a very emotional day, full of surprises.
I loved it.
I hope you're having a good December.
Wedding season hasn't quite calmed down for me yet, I still have two left this month. One at Priston Mill and also one at Mottram Hall. Both couples are lovely, of course!
I was at Priston Mill last winter for Ian and Lucy's wedding and snow was a major issue, it was a great wedding though!
Let's hope we have a sensible amount of snow without any risk attached to it this year.
Enjoy this teaser from Matthew and Lyndsey's wedding from earlier this year.
This was taken just as the girls were taking an usual route to walk down the aisle.
Thanks.
Joseph
Hampshire Wedding. Tom & Lauren
December 7th, 2011
Tom and Lauren then...
Although I swear by engagement shoots, sometimes one just isn't possible.
The day I met Tom and Lauren happened to be the day that they got married. Coincidence, I'm sure.
No, it's not how I usually do things at all but this wasn't a usual wedding.
[Disclaimer: None of Joseph Yarrow's weddings are usual.]
Tom and Lauren are both Jehovah's Witnesses and chose to get married at the Kingdom hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Brookwood, Surrey.
Typically, I'm not a fan of shooting in Kingdom halls. Not because I'm opposed to the Witnesses' teachings (You might know that I'm one myself) but because the Kingdom halls are very basic buildings with few windows letting in natural light. Brookwood Kingdom hall was a complete exception. Windows everywhere! I was in photographer heaven (Another disclaimer: Jehovah's witnesses do not believe in "photographer heaven")
On to the wedding reception; if I was spoilt by the Kingdom Hall, the wedding reception was like being kicked in the shins.
The Cross Barn at Odiham in Hampshire is a beautiful barn based building but lacked any natural lighting worthy of making me smile. Still, this obviously didn't dampen the mood of the day, and I doubt anyone noticed the light. Just me. Miserable old me.
Tom and Lauren went for an afternoon tea theme with some fantastic sandwiches, scones with jam and proper cream, old fashioned fizzy drinks in glass bottles, a sweet bar, and lots and lots of beautiful flowers and amazing crockery and other little details.
The mood of the day was fantastic and of course I wasn't really a grumpy so-and-so. I was just so spoilt!
It was actually a brilliant day filled with laughter, moving moments, VW campers and Beatles and making of new friends.
So thank you for having me Tom and Lauren.
Please, I hope you enjoy your life together.
You may of seen me tweet a teaser from this wedding yesterday. If you don't follow me on twitter, then please do, I'm naturally very entertaining.
Thanks for reading.
Joseph
