Ali & Todd at Great Fosters

Anyone considering a winter wedding, then Great Fosters is the perfect venue with its warm interiors and original Tudor Architecture.  It also boasts some amazing gardens, and has masses of photo opportunities, whatever the weather can throw at us.  Ali & Todd chose Great Fosters for their venue and this was one of the many reasons.

It was lovely to have to have a humanist service in the orangery which included some Jewish elements such as a chuppa under which the ceremony took place. A perfect blend and a very warm atmosphere, even though it was freezing outside.  I had to be a bit sharpish with the shots outside, and we got some nice images out the front when the Christmas lights came on.

Lots of Jewish dancing later on in the evening and how the couple both managed to stay on the seats I don't know.  No broken bones and a very happy couple.

Rebekah & Neil

Rebekah & Neils wedding was held at the spectacular Cooling castle in Kent.  Owned by Jules Holland, its one of the most sought after venues in the area and after working there I can see why.  The Barn is so well styled for winter weddings with no expense spared on lighting.  A photographers dream especially with low light in the winter months.  

It did help using the Nikon D4 which is the perfect camera for winter weddings.  Expensive but you need to have that edge nowadays with so many people accessing the wedding photography business with the introduction of digital.  I learnt with film and developing it myself.  I do miss those days and a sniff of developer brings all those memories flooding back.  I now seem to spend a lot of time in front of my computer processing images, but hey there are far harder things to do.

The day went so well and was one of those weddings where everything just fell into place.  Rebekah and Neil where so relaxed from the start and this carried through to the images.  Here is a tiny selection from the 500 images that they received and they were a very happy couple of clients.

Freya & Mark at Bury Court, Farnham.

Heres one of my favourite Winter weddings which took place at St Andrews in Farnham and the lovely  Bury Court Barn near Farnham.  Its a venue I have been to on several times and is the perfect setting for Winter weddings.  I'me sure its perfect for the rest of the year, but not had the chance yet to shoot there any other time of the year.  Hopefully soon as I know its a very popular venue which is set up perfectly for weddings.

Freya and Mark certainly organised a great do, which included a magician to keep guests entertained during the reception, also loads of champagne helped.  Unfortunately being a photographer is a bit like been a policeman.  No drinking on duty.  The pics could get quite abstract to say the least.