Right then... let's get cracking!

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!

Enjoy these pictures, and leave a comment at the bottom!
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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.

UPDATE: Pictures are now up online ready to be bought!
http://www.photoboxgallery.com/josephyarrow

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Time for a load of pictures!!

This was a really important wedding for me and Jess, we've both known Bianca for years. I met Bianca in 2001, and after being friends for so long, Jess had her as a bridesmaid! (so no pressure there then, it's not like her mum AND sister are wedding photographers)

Jimmy on the other hand I've not known for as long unfortunatly, but anybody that truely knows him will tell you what a gentle loving man he is.  How he managed to turn Bianca into this lovey-dovey slushy girl, we'll NEVER know!

Saturday was such an emotional day, the rain didn't put a damper on it at all, but it was a shame that we couldn't go outside much because of the weather.
Hopefully I can shoot there again and take advantage of the amazing grounds of Mellington Hall Hotel.

Just one highlight of Saturday evening was the band that played. They were called Function and I really can't recommend them enough, they were all very talented!
Talk to anyone at the wedding and they'll tell you how incredible they were. Unfortunatly they don't have a website so I can't link to them here!

Bianca and Jimmy, Congratulations to you both.
Seeing you both marry each other was absolutly incredible!

Enjoy these pictures, and please leave a comment at the bottom of the page.
I'd love to hear from you!

Don't worry guys, this is just the Best Man, Dan (and what a best man!)

Here's Jimmy! In Biancas Mum's speech, she was telling us how he had to ask to see Jimmy's ID card because she didn't believe how old he was!


The Florist was incredible!

...as was the Dress..






Waiting patiently...



Bianca's Mum, Tania walked her down the aisle.








Sabina is awesome. Full Stop

This may or may not have been the reason for the weather. Socks modelled by Luke



Did I tell you? Jimmy is a highly decorated Chef, these cakes were his creation.


One of my new favorite bridal portraits...


This was cool!

Megan was an awesome bridesmaid! Well done Megan!!



Ask Jimmy what he's laughing at, perhaps this isn't the place to tell such things!! =)

Brotherly love.

Jimmy's Boys
From L to R we have Matt (who helped me with the crazy grooms-men picture)
Luke (Who is getting married on Saturday, remember their shoot?)
Dan, The very best man
Jimmy
Ross
Sonny
Al, who had everything in charge. Awesome
And Nathanael (Remember the photoshoot with him and his sisters?)
And Bianca's Girls...I think the boys win though, sorry Bianca.
From L to R we have Bianca, Obviously,
Mel, sister of Nathanael,
Sarah, sister of Jimmy,
Sabina, sister of Bianca,
Abi, getting married in November
and a recently married Melly.

Well done girls, you were awesome!

When its raining outside, an indoor group shot is the only option. Very tricky. But thanks everyone for your patience!

How many weddings have you gone to where the first dance was by the 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs'?



Very good friends, Zack and Tristan. Hi Zack and Tristan.



MK won the 2009 dance off. Congratulations! (You'll see MK in a few weeks time on the blog, keep an eye out for him)

Whew!! That was a big load of pictures!
Sorry if they took a while to load, but I really hope you enjoyed them.

Bianca and Jimmy, Thank you so much for choosing me as your photographer, it was a huge honour. Me and Jess had a fantastic weekend.
And thank you to the guests for making it so special for the two love birds.

Hey guys!

My posts are so sporadic at the moment, I'm sorry. With moving house everything else takes a back seat!
Amazingly though, I made time to do a photoshoot with my recently engaged friends, Luke and Elise...Then even more amazingly, I managed to actually write this post up inbetween phone calls to BT! (booo!)

A couple of weeks ago, when they got engaged, I thought I would make a post about the good news but realised I only had pictures of Luke.
An engagement shoot would get rid of that problem, and so it did!

Don't expect to see any pictures of their wedding on here, I'm going to be an usher! Which is nice! Thanks Luke!

We shot on the Downs in Bristol and we were blessed with really great light, but it was pretty windy as you'll see in one of the 1st shots.

Congratulations Luke and Elise!

They now own this tree...


Luke always had a huge smile!

A Damian Lovegrove inspired shot...

And now a couple of just Elise..




Gotta use up that blossom before its gone!

Sexy/Sweet




I'd kill to have a jaw line like Luke's!

If in doubt, do a silhouette!...I wasn't in doubt, but I did one anyways, its just how I roll...

Mmmm, Happy hour!

So yeh, we had fun. Thanks allot guys for letting me shoot you, I hope you enjoy the pictures!

If you (the people that aren't Luke and Elise)...want a shoot like this, just contact me. As you can see we have loads of fun and you end up with a plethora of sexycool pictures

Joseph