This is a recent wedding with two lovely people, Kevin and Charlie. They were married at St Mary's Church in Andover and then to The Quality Hotel also in Andover for their reception on the 12th April 2008.
As you can see below we experienced a heavy down pour as the bridesmaids and the bride arrived at the church. But it did not matter. The mood and the excitment was fantastic and the expressions on their faces say it all.
St Mary's in Andover is a beautiful church. There is a balcany where we can get some great shots of the service.
And here is the church from the outside.
 
The Quality Hotel offers us some great locations for the photographs.
And these images were taken in the lane beside the hotel.
Here are a few taken in the grounds.
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At the end of December, I was fortunate enough to be invited to photograph a wedding in Scotland.
It was a fairly small, intimate affair in a quaint hotel on the shores of Loch Tay, about one and a half-hours north of Edinburgh. The couple are from Hampshire, but got engaged at this beautiful location in Scotland and decided that it was the perfect place for their wedding.
The wedding was on Sunday, so I decided we would travel up by car on the Friday. We had arranged to meet up with Wendi and Miles, my bride and groom, on the Saturday to go over the wedding plans and to take a few relaxed portraits on the shores of Loch Tay. It would also give me the opportunity to look around the area and to do some landscape photography, which I really enjoy doing, but rarely get the time.
  
Sunday arrived and we took a leisurely drive from our own hotel along the coastal road of Loch Tay to the wedding venue. It was a beautiful bright day, although the sun was a little too low to peep over the surrounding hills, as I would have wished. However, we snapped away at a few more landscapes.
 
The hotel was beautiful (www.ardeonaighotel.co.uk), a small ‘oldie-worldie’ hotel set back from the loch. It was not a large wedding – we’re only talking about 35 guests – and all stayed at the hotel in various rooms that were snug, all with individual character and that lead out into a pretty courtyard garden.
We arrived to photograph Myles and his groomsmen, both inside and out in the hotel grounds.
  
Then we went up to take some shots of Wendi getting prepared and some soft bridal portraits.
  
The ceremony was in the Library Room in the hotel and made a cosy and intimate setting for a very romantic ceremony.
 
I don’t like to disrupt the natural flow of a wedding day, so I enjoyed taking these informal family photos in the hotel courtyard.
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We did sneak off for a few minutes to take some romantic shots of the couple with the dramatic scenery of the Loch and mountains beyond.
  
We were invited to join everyone for the superb wedding breakfast. The owners of the hotel are South African and brought a taste of their homeland to both the lovely meal and to the wedding cake too.
  
The bottom tier was made with a chocolate brownie style cake and the top was a delicious cheesecake. I’ve photographed hundreds of weddings in my time, but never come across anything like this before – truly unique.
 
The evening was informal and very relaxed. We did some more romantic photos around the hotel and in the honeymoon suite.
  
After a long day, we drove back to our hotel, looking forward to the long drive home in the morning – not!
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