Kelly & Mauricio at The Dorchester Park Lane

Ime slowly catching up writing up all my posts.  This one is a real standout wedding from last Autumn.
Kelly & Mauricio literally booked me about a week before the big day and everything clicked into place perfectly, as their ideas fitted in so well with what I envisaged at The Dorchester.  Its such a landmark venue, and from previous experience I really wanted to retain the low light atmosphere from all the interior lighting.  Using a flash would have killed it.  I have recently invested in a couple of Nikon D4's which are the best cameras available when it comes to low light photography.  Not cheap at £6000 each but if your going to shoot high end weddings you can't turn up with some sub standard equipment.  Unfortunately a lot of the cheaper photographers do and it really does show.
I have also attached a few images from the pre-shoot we did in Park Lane.  Its always good to get used to the camera and its something that I offer all my clients.
Overall this is a very small selection form both shoots as its impossible to post all 600 images.

Sarah & Matt

These are a small selection of the images that I took for Sarah & Matt at the beautiful Great Fosters Hotel in Egham.  The weather was not at its best behaviour but that did not bother us as we were at one of the best locations for wedding photography.  Great Fosters is not only blessed with some stunning gardens and exteriors, but also original tudor wood panelled corridors and rooms.  It really made our day so much easier as Sarah was not very keen on going out as the dress could get dirty.  No problem though as we had some great bridesmaids that took care of everything and not one speck of dirt was on the dress.  Phew!!  I would have been in trouble.  We managed to get a really nice mix of shots with the family groups taken in the Tithe Barn.  Something ive not done before but worked really well and no one got frozen outside.

After the family groups, its really the time when I stand back and take the more informal reportage style shots that really capture the atmosphere.  The speeches were great with the Brides Dad such a character and starting the ball rolling. Then onto some serious dancing in the Tythe Barn.  I would have loved to have stayed to the end but the Guinness was flowing and time to let people get on and party.