Finally, something local!

Jessica and myself travel all over the country to shoot weddings, I guess that's just something that you get from being so good looking.
Ah well.

Shooting all over the country does have it's benefits. We've made some new friends and we can stay in contact with old friends too.
But, it tires us out and we can never wait to get back home to our own bed!

Moses and Sabrina are getting married early next month in Thornbury, Bristol. Then on to Caldicot Choir Hall.

Like the majority of my couples, Moses and Sabrina chose to invest in having an engagement shoot around Clifton where Moses popped the question.
You might recognise Sabrina from the Hornby Photoshoot back when it was freezing. You can see the Bristol pictures here and here.

As I'm super busy at the moment (Two weddings this weekend; local too!)...so I won't be inundating you with pictures from their shoot. Enjoy this little collection!

We couldn't believe this sunset when we were shooting next to the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Hope you enjoyed

As I said the other day, we all knew that this would be a killer wedding!

I was lucky enough to be at Jasmines house with her family whilst she was getting ready.
I always love the atmosphere at the Brides house. So Electric, but so fun. Rushing back and forwards to the hair dressers, make up being done and girly music being blasted out. (no, I'm not a fan of the girly music, or make up for that matter)
Btw, the incredible Naomi from Angel Face Make up did Jasmines make up

Its slightly different at the grooms place. Fry-ups, Xbox, putting the ribbon on the car, failing to do a good job of putting the ribbon on the car, tieing cravats, failing to tie cravats without the aid of the internet, realising that they should of left the house 15 minutes ago. All good stuff.

The advantage of this job is that you can step back from all the nerves and excitement and be more aware of the emotions, because you yourself aren't actually involved in the emotion, even though you might get caught with watery eyes... =)
It's Fun!

A Classic Citroen picked Jasmine and her Dad, Marcus up and drove to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Craven Arms.
Now get this: We had to stop in a housing estate because we realised that we were running about 15 minutes early! How many times has that happened?!

From the Kingdom hall, the fresh and new Mr and Mrs Morgan along with a gorgeous Mrs Yarrow and Myself went to Stokesay Castle to do our little thing that we do.
That is a beautiful building, and I hope I can shoot there again soon.

We then went back to the reception in Craven Arms where Luke and Jasmine were greeted with a ruptious applause.
Then the Party started and they lived happily ever after.

Congratulations Luke and Jasmine!

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The back of Jasmines silk wedding dress was laden with Swarovski Crystals




A bit of needed moral support from Bridesmaid and a Josephyarrow.com regular,  Mel

Here's Daddy




I don't think this picture will ever age.

In-case you didn't catch the teaser.



How's this then for a proud Mum and Dad?

This book was packed with helpful facts. There, I've written it now!




Jasmine Rocks


"Wow, you've got some really good looking friends Joseph" said Cindy, my previous bride!




Stokesay Castle Had billions of beautiful wild flowers, so I think a little color is in order here




Look who it is everyone!!

OK...Marcus (Jasmines Dad) is a bit of a dude when it comes to Origami.
This was the centre piece for the top table, it was about the size of a small football and was assembled with no glue (true origami uses no glue) If I remember correctly, Marcus asked for this very intricate design from a polish (?) origami expert, who designed it himself, so he's probably only the second ever person to make this? Probably
Now I'm really pusing my memory here...The whole ball is made up of 20? 24 pieces? (I've forgotten) and each piece took about 15 minutes to make and interlocks with the neighbouring piece.
After that very accurate description, I expect all my blog readers to create this and send it me so I can judge them.

And then... (I know, there's more)...on each table was this beautiful floral center piece with roses and peonies and the like, but Marcus had made origami roses and hidden them inside for the guests to find and take home as gifts. We found one in our center piece that was kindly given to us about 5 days after the wedding!! We were so pleased!! =)


Ben was the best man, well done Ben, and congratulations on getting married!


I didn't have any, but apparently, this cake was "off the chain"

Yes, this is relavent

OK..Usher time.
We have L>R
Jimmy
Mr Matthew Ives
Mr John Mark
Mr Tristan Khoo
Mr Luke "The Groom" Morgan
Mr Nathan Sonny Lee
Mr "Hot" Ben
Mr Davy Flavell

Ok...You ready?
Check this out!

No, your eyes aren't decieving you, that picture just happened!
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Jasmine and Luke chose "Your love gets Sweeter" by Finley Quaye, One of my favorite songs

India rocks out the Charleston.

If you were wondering "Joseph, that picture of Jasmine and the ushers just looks too good to be true, surely something like that needs a whole team working together to make it happen?" Then you'd be right.
Thank you Dan.
On a different note, after checking through this post for typos and things like that, I realised that I hadn't actually edited the next two pictures. All that crazy blur is done completely in camera, no photoshop here.

It was great seeing the kids dance just as hard as the big kids



A suitable and relevant ending to the pictures I think!

Again, thank you Luke and Jasmine for choosing me as your photographer, I felt blessed to be there and be an important part of your day.

Me and Jess have been friends with Ian and Grace for years now, so it was a breeze to shoot with them.
Every wedding I shoot, I'm always amazed at the love between the couples. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, you know, with it being their wedding and everything!!...but I hope I never get used to seeing it! Ian and Grace were of course no exception!
Both sides of the family are super awesome too.

The ceremony was held at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Wilmslow, Cheshire.  It was definatly one of the best Kingdom Halls I've shot in, so much natural light flooding in!
The ceremony was then held at Davenport Green Hall in Cheshire. It was a stunning reception venue, I'd really love to shoot there again.
The food was incredible and they made a real effort to make sure that none of the food upset me. (I'm one of those annoying allergy people)
Also, the staff couldn't of been more helpful!

Anyway everyone, I hope you enjoy the pictures, I really loved taking them, it was a brilliant day!
Congratulations Ian and Grace!

(Don't mention the red sofa!!)












You really don't want to know what they were laughing about... =)


I think this is one of my favorite ever pictures of one of my brides!

She's got a wicked cool smile...





Ian is just a plain old happy bloke! =)

Daddy Hill....Respect please!


Ian and Grace didn't know that they were getting a wedding cake, so this present was one of the best suprises of the day...


And....DANCE!




That'll be my brother-in-law-best-mate Keir

Everyone loves a conga line!...Right?





And they're off! (to Egypt incase you were wondering!)

Thanks so much guys for choosing me as your photographer, it was a real pleasure! I loved every second of your day!

If you would like me to photograph your wedding, first find an awesome person of the opposite sex, fall in love, get engaged, then contact me

I thought I'd just share my favorite images of the year, and whilst I was compiling all these images from our archives in the basement(?) I realised that I've had an amazing year!

enjoy these pictures will you? =)

We went to London. London Rocks

Shot a Party...

Took one of my favorite pictures of my brother-in-law, Keir

Had the pleasure of shooting some promo shots for a pub in clifton called the portcullis.

Had an awesome E-Session with Sam and Reanne..

Spent lots of time with Keir, and his girlfriend, Sonia

I do take pictures of them facing the camera sometimes! =)

Spent loads of quality time with my brother and his wife, Hannah

Did a cool E-session with Sam and Esther

Shot a Cat

Rocked a 10-20mm lens at Sam and Esthers Wedding.

Rocked one of the best weddings ever, Ben and Selena...

Saw true love...or something

Sam and Reannes Wedding, What a day!

Autumn Came, and we rocked it..

So did my couples...
Em and Stef

...Phil and Helen...

Emma and Jay...

And look out for this couple!

And of course, none of this would of been possible without my lovely little lady who I love more and more each day.

I think I deserve some rest...especially after using the word "rocks" far too many times in one blog

They got married 2 years ago and have gone to Thailand on holiday.

They've got a little kitten called Tails (as in sonic and tails...) andnd this cat is Mental... Seriously!

Anyway, we're having a great time here.

Exactly! Mental!

Heres some pictures from their wedding that I shot for them.

We drove down to Cornwall on Saturday to meet up with some friends who were camping. With it being summer in England, it rained, but we did a spot of body boarding, and sat on the beach (in the car of course!)

I chose to just take one lens with me, the 50mm 1.8 (instead of the usual 4 lenses...)
I immediatly regretted this, but its nice to just be limited to a prime lens, because it gets you thinking more about composistion. If you want to zoom into something, you have to walk there!

My 50mm 1.8 lets in allot more light than any other lenses, so its great for dark weddings where I can't use flash, and even better for portraits, as the background gets very blurred out. Very flattering.

If you don't own a prime lens, really consider purchasing one if you want super sharp images, and don't want to use flash at a wedding.

The sun came out just in time to let us watch it set, which was brilliant.

I felt very honoured to be asked by this couple to get a silloutte of them both!

What will I be blogging about next?
Well, as you know, I have Sam and Esthers wedding coming up on bank holiday monday.

I should be having a delivery of a guest book that I compiled for Sam and Reanne any day soon, so I'll post some pictures up for you to see.

I've been writing content and reviews for this blog, and for my site so I won't be running out of anything to write about.

As from today, I will be looking for a blog to feature.
This feature is called "My blog of the Blog"
Todays blog of the blog comes from: Bert Stephani
I discovered Bert after finding some of his brilliant videos on youtube

His pictures are always of the highest quality, and he seems to be pretty much the nicest bloke in Belgium!
Following his blog, you can really tell that he puts his family ahead of his work, which is something we all need to remember to do.

Thanks Bert!