Wednesday, 6 May 2009

Sarah & Mark's wedding - Cadbury House Hotel

Everyone asks me, as a wedding photographer and having seen so many beautiful weddings, whether I would change anything about my own. And the true answer is 'No'....it was just perfect and exactly how we wanted it to be. However, there are occassions where I think 'Ah.....that might have been nice' and the wedding I photographed this weekend was one of them.

The fantastic thing about civil ceremonies is that you can adapt them to reflect your personalities and Sarah & Mark chose to do this by writing their own wedding vows. Wow...it was so moving. I was close to tears, Judy, the registrar was nearly there and the guests just sat mesmorised in silence. They were a beautiful reflection of Sarah & Mark's personalities, an insight into how they both felt about each other and something I'd definitely choose to do now!

After the wedding ceremony Sarah, Mark and I went into the grounds of Cadbury House Hotel to get some goregous photographs of the two of them. Sarah is permanently in a wheelchair but was really keen to get the majority of the photo's of the two of them with her out of her chair.....she a whizz at getting around and in and out so it took no time at all!

It was a real pleasure to photograph such a lovely and moving wedding guys and I hope you love the photographs. I think I managed to get even better ones of Mark this time than I did at the pre-wedding shoot!

Speak to you soon.

Venetia xx
Sarah looked stunning......
Kimberley the Florist at Cadbury did a fantastic job of the flowers.....
Mark was really quite nervous which was lovely.....
During those moving vows.......
Our time afterwards was lovely......



And I got this lovely picture of Mark....I think it's the best so far!!

The happy couple.......

The 'confetti crowd' waited very patiently for their opportunity to shower them....!



Sarah made some gorgeous, and perfectly colour co-ordinated favours.....


And invitations......


I love this picture of Sarah & her Mum...

They look really happy don't they!

Friday, 1 May 2009

I am having a lovely week of......

......lots of really nice emails and tonight I had a lovely one from Kerry & Paul. I photographed their wedding at Cadbury House Hotel, Bristol in March and this week I delivered their beautiful wedding album to them. This is what she had to say.....

"Hi Venetia,

I just wanted to email you to say a big thank you for our wedding album, it’s fab. Everyone who has seen it agrees it’s fantastic too.

Thank you so much once again.

Kerry"

It was a real pleasure to share your day with you and even better to have such fantastic feedback from a couple who really didn't want a wedding photographer!

Hope our paths will cross at some time in the future.

Venetia xx

Thursday, 30 April 2009

Freya's Mummy's happy with her portrait....!

As you might have seen Freya and her Mummy and Daddy came to my portrait studio near Taunton, Somerset last weekend. I blogged a few of the images from the portrait and was so pleased when she sent me this email and left a comment on the blog:

"Hi Venetia,

It was lovely to meet you. Freya seemed to really enjoy herself and I just know you've taken some lovely photos.

Thank you for writing such nice words about Freya! The pictures are gorgeous... really really beautiful. We love them! I just know we are going to want them all. We'll start saving up!!

Looking forward to seeing the rest.

Ali (Freya's Mummy)"

I love my new portrait studio and my job so much....it never feels like work! Capturing those moments in a child's life and giving people gorgeous portrait images to treasure is always a pleasure.

Venetia xx


P.S And as all blog postings are so much better with an image....here's another one from their portrait sitting! I love this one Ali....hope you like it!

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

1st August 2009 - Wedding photographer

Sadly, due to unforseen circumstances, one of my brides is having to postpone her wedding until next year. Which means I now have the 1st August this year available.

It's one of the busiest months of the year for wedding photography and to have such a key Saturday available so late in the year is a first for me. So, if you are planning your wedding for on the 1st August and were worried about finding the right photographer.....don't panic! Just give me a call or drop me a line.

Venetia xx

Monday, 27 April 2009

A gorgeous little girl....

I love children. It's a fact. I always have done and probably always will do. Even to the point of voluntarily offering to have friends children.....just because I can.

I love their innocence, I love the way they love life and I love the fact they see things for what they are.

And what's more......I love photographing children. Especially gorgeous, beautiful little girls like the one that came to my portrait studio yesterday.

Freya, her Mummy and Daddy came to capture some wonderful memories of her as she grows (and a few of them as a family). There was lots of fun, lots of laughter, lots of nursery rhymes (thanks Philippa!) and hopefully some wonderful portraits capture.

Venetia xx

And of course bear came too......



And when you ask her to smile she does this really cute thing and closes her eyes.....I had to capture that!!