Boho Festival Marquee Wedding

Writing this on a chilly January day makes summer feel VERY far away! Jenny & Antoni got married in September and it felt like such a perfect summery day - definitely helped by the fact that they opted for ice-creams in stead of canapes at their reception too! They had their legal ceremony on Friday in Shropshire and then celebrated with a boho marquee wedding at the family home the next day, with their Saturday ceremony being led by a close friend. I really love it when couples opt to do this, it means you can marry outside which is much less restricting and you have so many opportunities to make the ceremony more personal. Jenny and her bridesmaids wore pastel yellow and each had flower crowns (I’m such a sucker for a flower crown and they photograph so nicely!) and when they walked back down the aisle they brought their lovely little doggie!

“We absolutely LOVE this!! We just watched it 4 times in a row and even then we kept clicking back to rewatch different bits, each time seeing something new! We both have said since the wedding how fast it all happened and that we wish we could do it all again, your video lets us relive it and enjoy it all over and over again. We cannot believe how much you captured... you have a real talent for capturing moments from perspectives that no-one else would have seen and this is something we are so excited to share with all our family and friends. Thank you SO much.” Emily & Pete

Ahh looking back at these is making me miss South America so much! LOOK AT ALL THE COLOURS. I have continued love affair with film right in 2019 and when we decided to voyage around South America for 6 weeks from February there was no question which camera with would be trusty companion. As it turned out as much as I love these I do wish I had brought my digital with me too.. I also realised my lens had developed a kind of fault too which means it misses focus A LOT and there’s nothing more frustrating than thinking you nailed a shot to find out 8 weeks later when the films developed that you did in fact, not.

I always struggle with photography on trips; do I take my ‘work’ camera? Do I use my lightweight Fuji instead? Do I take no photos? When I switch my brain into ‘camera taking mode’ it can be hard to relax sometimes I end up making the whole trip about getting that incredible epic shot rather than enjoying the scene in front of me and interacting with people.

Part of this trip was switching off from work too, and re-forming my view on the medium that I work with. SO, I bought a film camera and vowed to only shoot film for this trip. Learning to use film again had been on my list for a long time and always got shoved to the bottom, but this trip away was about me pushing myself so off I went to the second hand camera store.

I’ve been so inspired this year with my travel photography work, and realised I don’t really share any of it! Travel & photography are probably my two biggest passions so exploring them together has been wonderful, and the perfect tonic to wedding season. It enables me to be creative not for a client or couple, but free to see and capture the world as I want.

Beautiful laid-back wedding at Stanford Farm in Shropshire - music themed with lots of emotional speeches in their quirky farm wedding venue.