So back to blogging with a wedding from late last year.
This wedding was just a few days before Christmas, and believe it or not, I still have one more wedding and an engagement shoot to share with you from last year. (Remember all that snow?!)
Daniel and Daniella held their ceremony and reception at Berwick Lodge, just up the road from me.

Berwick Lodge is an incredible venue that I fell in love with the very first time I saw it online.
Walking in through the entrance only increased my love for a simple building that had lovingly been restored and cared for by the warm and friendly staff.

Really, you just have to be there yourself to understand how it feels inside, if you're lucky the saxophonist or the pianist will be playing and the fire will be lit!
I'm lucky enough to be Berwick Lodge's recommended photographer, so it's nice to have their backing which they also give to a handful of other small businesses including my favourite florist.

If you've got time, make sure to check out another recent wedding at Berwick Lodge.

It was really great to spend some time with Daniel and Daniella on their wedding.
Like many weddings, not everything runs perfectly, but it was great to see a couple work together and put the little things behind them and look at the bigger picture.
In the end, it was a really great wedding where I was made to feel so welcome!
So, thank you Daniel and Daniella for choosing me to cover your extra special day.

Enjoy the pictures.

The ceremony itself was a pleasure to cover. Real emphasis was put on making the marriage strong by making their God come first and by supporting each other and working as a real team. Often I find that church ceremonies aren't personal to the couple which is a real shame as it is such a personal day.
On many occasions, the priest/vicar/officiant has got the couple's name wrong and it's so embarrassing!
To save their own embarrassment, I've often been asked if I know the couples name.
"Sure, I'll tell you if you pay me real good money!"
Of course, there was no shame or mess-ups. Perhaps because my very own brother was best-man. It was very strange having him around, as I'm sure anybody will tell you!

It was a great wedding full of friends, old and new. Many of them previous clients of mine (a term that I hate using) 

Please enjoy the pictures, I know a lot of you have been looking forward to this wedding so if you've seen the pictures, please leave a comment and spread the word!

Thank you as always.

Joseph

Anyway, enjoy the pictures and as always, leave a comment.
They make me feel all happy!
 Joseph.

I've known Mike for a little while but met Gabi for the first time at Rowan and Faye's wedding a couple of months back.

The engagement shoot
We met up at Blaise Castle which you may of seen a couple of times on the blog here, here and here!
When couples ask to shoot there, it's music to my ears! It's on my backdoor step, and it's beautiful there!

We started the shoot in the typical way by having a chat and helping them to see that although I may look like a total hunk in my picture, I'm actually very approachable, as is my camera!

The actual pictures!
Enjoy them, leave a comment and more importantly look out for their wedding on here soon!

So I've been waiting for the right time to blog this wedding and I'll be straight with you here; this is a long post.
Colin, my web-guy will probably kill me for this. Sorry Colin.
We're talking like, 120ish images here. So, I'm sorry but at the same time I'm also not sorry at all because I know you'll love this wedding.
Alex and Sian, as I mentioned in my previous post featuring their engagement pictures, are both doctors.
A fair percentage of doctors were present at the wedding, I'm sure they would of had an absolute field-day poking my odd little body and wondering what the devil is up with it!

Alex and Sian had their wedding ceremony in Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, just a few miles outside Cardiff.
They then were joined by their friends and family at Sian's parents amazing house in a little village called Bonvilston.

It was an utter pleasure to shoot. I was looked after so well by everybody, especially Sian's parents who kindly hosted their daughter's and new son-in-laws wedding.
They had an amazing marquee on their land but as you might know, a marquee requires flat land and it meant that earth literally had to be moved to make everything even!
I joined Sian and her bridesmaids, as well as Alex and his boys as they got ready for the most amazing, musical wedding that Bonvilston has ever seen. Probably.

Enjoy.

Sian and her girls got ready in a room that was big enough to host her 21st Birthday party with a bouncy castle!

An asian/south american/english fusion breakfast! Of course!

These bouquets and the button hole a few pictures up were by Vida Flora in Porthcawl. Really amazing!

Sian surprised her girls with pearl necklaces. I loved their reaction!

I think all of Sian's girls all looked amazing, they were great fun too.

I then met up with Alex and his ushers in this funny little B&B.

We popped over the road to a petting zoo for some quick formals.

Simples!

The amazing Welsh male voice Choir filled the church with their incredible voices!

Does mother approve Alex?

Don't they all look great! Sian's sister is the one in the middle.

That's a proud Dad!

Married!

My favorite picture from the day I think!

It was so hot. Alex and Sian had kindly made sure that the ushers handed out bottles of water to the guests outside the church. Little acts of kindness like this cost so little, but say so much!

We visited the castle ruins that we did part of their photoshoot in. I was expecting the castle to of been finished by then, but no.

Samuel Davies, an incredible jazz pianist set the mood whilst the guest enjoyed champagne and canapes.

Enjoy these detail shots from the marquee!

Both Alex and Sian's parents are still happily married so they chose to display wedding pictures from previous generations.
Call me slow, but it was right here that I realised the importance of my "job".
In 30 or so years, pictures that I've taken will hang next to these pictures at their child's wedding! Such an honour.

The table names were all named after pubs on a famous Leeds pub crawl.

A review I found online of the Polybop charmingly said:
"Every darn saturday we always get ourselves completly drunk and end up going to this complete dive. But the thing is, every time we go here we have a right good time. I dont know what it is, mebbies because everyone who is there hates the place as much as you do then everyone is out to just have fun and pull anyone they can..."
Great choice for the top table then!

Look at that view!

Time for food! Catering by New House Hotel, they did an incredible job.

Just as they started the first dance, they had a power cut! Thank goodness it didn't last long because it looked like they'd been practising!

Without a shadow of a doubt, this was the best wedding band I've seen. They're called SoundAwake. I can't wait to work with them again!

Look lady, we all know how to play a vuvuzela!

Yes, there were a lot of pictures, but I could of easily blogged them all!
I had such an amazing day, thank you so much for letting me capture all of this Alex and Sian!
It was a pleasure, all day!

Hope you enjoyed!

A few weekends back I shot the wedding of a friend.

Rowan is the brother of one of my friends and Faye is the twin sister of one of my previous Brides.
It's always a pleasure when friends are willing to trust the recording of one of the most important days of their life to me.
No pressure or anything!

Rowan and Faye are an incredible couple. Rowan honestly has to be one of the coolest guys around. You instantly feel relaxed in his company!

They had their ceremony at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Bishopsworth, Bristol and then went on to Flax Bourton village hall, just ten minutes from Bristol Airport.
They had great weather, in fact it was another boiling hot day! Cocktails on arrival to the reception were just what the guests needed!

It was great to be shooting a wedding with some many friends as guests from all over the country.
Enjoy these pictures and leave a comment at the bottom.

Good ol' Mary and Pete! Breaking their usual tradition of leaving 7 kisses on a card!

"Joe, don't you dare show Faye me doing this in this kitchen, she'll kill me!"

"What'd you say Rowan?"

I always like a little bit of guerilla tayloring!

Hey! I took that!

I didn't know that tie-tieing was such a serious past time worthy of judging!

Not the most steady drive to the ceremony I have to say...!

Such a great smile!

I love Mark's smile too. Legend

And here comes the Bride.

With no hiccups and everybody arriving on time all the important people walk into the hall. No hiccups at all. Especially not with front doors.

Faye's Dad, naturally was so proud.

Kevin, the speaker gave a great illustration about marriage being like a brand new car that needs maintenance to stay healthy. Me? I just like toy cars.

One of my favorite pictures from the day:

Faye looked perfect didn't she!

I don't have a clue what's going on here either.

The imagination of the boys got a little out of control in this field. Again, I don't really know what's going on. I just turned up and shot.

Time for dancing!

Ashlee is a good friend of mine and is Rowans little sister!

This was the response when "The Bunsen Honey Dew Band" played a bit of JLS.
Or...she was doing an impression of me reacting to the band playing JLS.
Who knows!?

Another familiar face!

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery!

Awwh! Cute!

...oh my! What sharp teeth you have!

There we go then!

I really enjoyed this wedding which probably won't come as much of a surprise as you know I  love shooting them!
When a couple are as relaxed and happy as these two and have guests who are 1)a ton of fun and 2) previous josephyarrow.com clients, it's a recipe for a killer wedding.

Congratulations Rowan and Faye and Thank you.

Remember last year I posted up a few pictures from Paul and Rebecca's engagement shoot in Blackpool?
We had a load of fun that evening but it was insanely hard work.
Check out the Blackpool shoot here.

Most of the shoot was taken up by sitting in cafes just getting to know each other, so by the end of the night Jess and myself were really eager to see how their wedding day turned out!

Paul and Rebecca both got ready at the Manchester Airport Marriott and then moved on to their ceremony and reception at Davenport Green Hall.
Regular readers of the blog will remember that I've shot at Davenport Green Hall before for Ian and Grace's wedding reception.

It's a great venue to shoot at with it's beautiful grounds. The staff are all so accommodating too, so I was more than comfortable being there all day.

Their wedding was on another hot day. Perfect weather for a wedding! Guests flew from all over the place so it was an extra special day for them!
I'm not too sure what was going on that day, but we had three people walk straight into glass doors and windows! The MC actually cut his nose, poor guy!
I also was one of the unlucky people that mashed my face up on a window! Stupid!!

The family and friends from both sides were brimming with personality so they made my day very easy as there were plenty of characters!

So, enjoy these pictures and please leave a comment at the bottom of the page!

You'll see plenty of pictures of Paul and Rebecca's little girl; Connie later. Meanwhile, check her tiny shoes out!

Paul looks pretty relaxed considering 1) he's getting married in a bit and 2) he just had his personalised registration plates nicked from his car!

Talking about cars, check this beauty out. This limo was provided by Horgans Limousines
I can honestly say that the service provided by the chauffeur was the best I've ever seen, and no, I'm not being paid to say this!

Look at those beautiful eyes! What a charmer he was!

To me, these two picture are what weddings are all about...

Here's our little Connie!

Rebecca looked incredible! She made a great Bride!

Best service ever.

As my first couple that I shot here had their ceremony in Wilmslow, it was nice to see how Davenport Green Hall does things during the entire day.
Instead of walking straight to into the ceremony, Rebecca took a more scenic route which made for some great pictures but also helped to settle some nerves.
A really great yet simple idea!

Come on Paul, you can do this!

The room was a little...intimate and...cosy.

I love it!

I love this picture, I think it's the trail of crumbs from a packet of crisps that does it for me!

"Right, when you've finished that one luv, you can down this one too"

Jessica captured this beauty!

Pictures like this make my "job" extra special!

Connie is absolutely gorgeous!

I wonder who thought up these table names then?

Time for speeches. Just a word of advice to wedding photographers...
When the Groom and the Best man approach you and ask you to rate their speeches out of 10, for the love of all that is good, don't say that one was better than the other.
Goodness me, I almost got myself maimed!
I'll say now that both speeches deserved a 10/10.

Rebecca's girls looked great!

And doesn't Rebecca herself look incredible? For the photographers reading, this was shot outside at 9:45pm with on camera flash!

They shared their first dance...

Joined by friends and family.

And soon, things got a little rowdy. Just how I like it!

I was more than happy when the DJ dropped a few Irish songs including some Pogues! Love it!!

Oh yeh, you didn't hear? Tina Turner was there.

Thank you Paul, Rebecca and Connie for letting me be with you all day! I had so much fun!

A special thank-you goes to Mr Jonathan Taphouse for his help with this wedding. You made my day even easier!

I've been really keen to blog this wedding even before I shot it!
Joseph and Emma are a really lovely couple and their wedding was beautiful.
They just ooze personality and their guests and family are no exception at all.

They were married at Clifton Mansion House in Clifton, Bristol.
With the weather on their side, they had the ceremony in the pagoda, then they enjoyed a receiving line over champagne.
Joseph and Emma, along with their guests walked from the mansion house through Clifton, over the world famous Clifton suspension bridge and then went on to enjoy their reception at Burwalls.
The atmosphere on the walk between Clifton Mansion House and Burwalls was fantastic! Cars were tooting their horns, people were shouting their well wishes and so many people just wanted to stop and chat!

It was the first time that I had shot at Burwalls, but I'm so keen to do it there again.

Enjoy these pictures and remember that Jessica has created another flipbook that if you've not seen, head on over here.
Before I forget, here's a little challenge for you; Try to find just one picture of Emma where she's not smiling.
Emma had to be the happiest Bride ever! Thank you Emma, and thank you Joseph for making her so happy.
You did good!

A beautiful setting right in the middle of Clifton!

A few of Joseph and Emma's amazing guests!

Joseph's Nephews were guarding the fort...

Meanwhile, Emma prepared herself with the help of her Bridesmaids.

A few friends gave some personal readings.

Joseph's Dad was a real character! Lovely guy!

And Emma's Dad was also a real character. He was just as much of a smiler as Emma for sure.

The walk to Burwalls began! Such a nice day for it!

Emma shared her favorite view of Clifton Suspension Bridge with a friend!

Next to the Clifton Suspension bridge is this natural slide that has been worn away over the decades by thousands of people sliding down on their Bristolian bums.
I may have exaggerated  the angle of the slide but it's all good!

I've done it before and I'll be honest, it's pretty scary! You pick up a lot of speed!

...to Burwalls!

They had four wedding cakes, each cooked by different friends. I thought that was a lovely idea. Joseph created the cake stands himself.

Emma's smile is incredible isn't it?

I'll leave you just looking at this for a while.

Joseph and Emma grew these bluebells in their house especially for the wedding!

And onto the speeches.

Joseph's Best man's speech was great! He gave it in such a relaxed and dry manor. He had everyone in hysterics with his stories of Joseph's earlier days. Brilliant!

The Clifton suspension bridge peering through the trees. I love this picture as I love the bridge!

After teaching this chap all my Jenga tips;  he wooed pretty much all the ladies one at a time.

So Joseph and Emma met at ballroom dancing classes, so there was plenty pressure on them for the first dance!
When we met up a few days earlier, Joseph and Emma had explained that to practise their dance, Emma tied a duvet around her to act as her wedding dress!
That's a top tip right there!

I've never seen a conga-line start so quickly! Impressive!

Amazing live music provided by Evolution. I'm recommending them right here, right now.

And that's it!
Joseph and Emma, you're an amazing couple and you're just so happy. It's nice to see such massive smiles all day!
Thank you to the guests for being so welcoming, friendly and accommodating.

So Moses and Sabrina exchanged vows a couple of weekends ago in Thornbury, Bristol. They then went on to Caldicot for their formals, and wedding reception! For couples who aren't sure, I do formals (posed family group shots) at all my weddings despite never showing them.

Moses and Sabrina are good friends of ours, it was a pleasure to be their wedding photographer and naturally there were some very familiar faces around!

He'll hate me dearly for saying this on here, but spare a thought for one of my best friends Nathanael; Sabrina's older brother who has just come out of brain surgery and is on the road to recovery!
Also, Sabrina's father is also having an operation on his nose!
There, you get pretty pictures, and Hornby health updates!

Enjoy these pictures please!

First port of call is Caroline, the Mother of the Bride looking wonderful!

Moses and his Dad.


Dan, the very best man.

Here's our Bride, Sabrina looked stunning!

Samual keeps an eye out for monsters, or something. Look how much he's grown!

David, Sabrina's father looked so proud!


I love these two pictures...

Bridesmaids; Melissa, Kim and Hayley all look on.


Nathanael, at this point, a brain surgery virgin!


Would you believe it? Caroline made this bouquet, her very first attempt! Incredible! If you need flowers, she's the one to call!

A freshly married couple! Lovely stuff!


I love this picture! Super cute!


Dan starts off lightly with his speech but soon resorts to ripping Moses to shreds.
He also explains why people call him Moses (his real name being Carl)

I love Sabrina's face here, watching her husband give his speech.

The ushers braved the elements for some special shots.

Find a broken Barbie scooter in a skatepark and the world is your oyster! Good sport, is our Moses!

The father daughter dance! I love Dave's eyes here!


The end!

Thank you Moses and Sabrina for letting me be with you all day, and also thank you for the "special food" (previous couples of mine know what an utter pain I am to feed)

I hope you enjoy your new lives together!

Keep an eye on the blog, I have plenty to show you very soon!

Last weekend I shot a wedding on another absolutely beautiful day just outside Bath. At one point I actually rolled up my sleeves; partly because I was a little warm, but mostly because I wanted to show what a rock and roll photographer I am. It's just how I roll.

Mark and Amy really couldn't of had a better day, Priston Mill really is the best place around for a luxury wedding with a relaxed feel.
Being just 45 minutes away from home, I can't begin to tell you how great it is to be in bed not too long after taking your last picture of the night...nay, weekend!

I think that's enough moaning from me about how I shot 24 hours at the weekend, I won't mention it again!
Today's teaser is another wedding flipbook created by Jessica.

We aimed to shoot one at Owen and Jane's Wedding but unfortunately I forgot the tripod. Sorry guys!
Although this is only our second attempt at a guestbook, I think this is the best by far. But of course, it's Mark and Amy's friends and family who make the video.
If you've got time, watch it a couple of times because I can guarantee that you'll notice something new each time. We've watched it countless times, I'm surprised the video hasn't gone viral yet!

We'll do these videos a couple more times just to make sure we're doing everything right before we offer them as a little something extra for our couples to enjoy. After all, the Bride is the last to arrive and the first to leave, so she misses out on all the action. It's nice for her to see every little detail.

Enjoy it!