A wedding in two halves

Annie is today’s beau­ti­ful bride, in a sleek white wed­ding gown with her lovely red ger­bera bouquet

Annie and Matt’s wed­ding has every­thing: the beau­ti­ful bride, super cool groom, ele­gance, sophis­ti­ca­tion, smiles and laugh­ter. I fell in love with the pho­tos of this wed­ding day on pho­tog­ra­pher Joseph Yarrow’s blog, and espe­cially with how the day flows from exquis­ite black and white pho­tos to a riot of fab­u­lous colour. Hence my title, “a wed­ding of two halves”.

Annie’s dress is sleek and sim­ple, flat­ter­ing her slen­der fig­ure. The sweet­heart neck­line is empha­sised with almost gre­cian straps, and the folds of the fab­ric from Annie’s waist through the bodice and skirt of the dress are ele­gant and accen­tu­ate her curves. The train of the dress is a lovely length and Annie shows it off beautifully.

Annie and her brides­maids fin­ish get­ting ready. A lovely, nat­ural wed­ding pic­ture in black and white.

Annie and her brides­maids get ready for the big day. Annie’s hair is tied back with lovely flower clips. This pic­ture is typ­i­cal of Joseph Yarrow’s relaxed wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy style, with brides­maids help­ing out with those essen­tial final touches.

Annie and her brides­maids make their way to the wed­ding in Man­ches­ter town centre.

Annie and her brides­maids make their way through Man­ches­ter town cen­tre for the wed­ding. The brides­maids wear lovely white skirts, and black strap­less tops with waist sashes. There’s some­thing really spe­cial about an Eng­lish city wedding.

The wed­ding was in Man­ches­ter Town Hall, and the entrance is through these dra­matic tun­nels — wow!

This  photo is gor­geous, really atmos­pheric with the dra­matic tun­nels lead­ing under­ground to Man­ches­ter Town Hall. I love the lanterns light­ing the high gothic arch­ways, and the expres­sion on Annie’s face, and on her dad’s.

As Annie and her dad get ready to enter the town hall, pho­tog­ra­pher Joseph Yarrow takes this beau­ti­ful pic­ture of Annie in her dress. The shape is beau­ti­ful, the but­tons exquisite.

The 21 tiny but­tons on the back of Annie’s dress are so beau­ti­ful. It’s a clas­sic style (my mum’s wed­ding dress had these lit­tle but­tons!) and with Annie’s won­der­ful fig­ure makes a strik­ing wed­ding photograph.

The wed­ding cer­e­mony com­plete, the delighted bride and groom turn to share their hap­pi­ness with wed­ding guests.

Within the grandeur of Man­ches­ter Town Hall, a very for­mal Eng­lish wed­ding venue, the happy smiles of the bride and groom are fan­tas­tic. It feels as though this wed­ding photo mixes the for­mal­ity of mar­riage with the fun and enjoy­ment of con­tem­po­rary Eng­lish wed­dings. A lovely image!

Annie and Matt are a great cou­ple, full of fun and style — love those smiles!

Lead­ing the way out of the town hall, Annie and Matt look amaz­ing. These two never stop smil­ing! And the guests in the back­ground look pleased as punch too — a per­fect wed­ding photo. The lovely gothic win­dows spilling sun­light in the back­ground just com­plete the picture.

Com­bin­ing style and drama with romance — this photo of the bride and groom in the tun­nels under Man­ches­ter Town Hall is so romantic.

This is lovely — a roman­tic photo of the bride and groom together in those fab­u­lous tun­nels under the Town Hall.

Leav­ing the Town Hall with her hus­band and dad, Annie looks like a star in that gor­geous wed­ding gown

Another wed­ding pic­ture with every­thing: the dark black shad­ows to the left cre­at­ing drama, the light­ing, gothic win­dows and lovely mosaic floor, the bride our cen­tre of atten­tion — that dress was made for Annie! The last of our black and white pho­tos is a stun­ner by Joseph Yarrow, as they all are! But now…

Wed­ding guests shower the bride and groom with con­fetti — the bridal bou­quet offers lit­tle protection!

For me this pho­to­graph is set­ting the scene for the excit­ing colour pic­tures to come. The con­fetti, the light­ness and pas­tel colours of the guests’ out­fits, and the deter­mined lady on the right in the lovely sum­mer dress… all point to a fun, excit­ing after­noon fol­low­ing the wedding.

Super cool bride­groom Matt could only be from Man­ches­ter! I love his look, and his smile!

And before the riot of colour begins, a lovely pho­to­graph of the bride­groom, in sub­tle tones, means the focus is all on that smile. Matt looks really happy, this is a lovely pho­to­graph and well worth a men­tion. Plus — how cool are we Brits?! The hair, sun­glasses, stub­ble… rock­ing that wed­ding look!

Woah! A big, bright, red dou­ble decker bus. Get­ting mar­ried? Hire it — number’s on the back

The bus brings along a rain­bow of colour to the wed­ding. The blue sky, blue reflect­ing win­dows and result­ing pink­ness of the bus are a great com­bi­na­tion, and I love the angle of the image. And what a cool idea to hire a dou­ble decker for your wed­ding guests! (It’s also prob­a­bly the only clean bus in the UK. Look at that shine!)

Another amaz­ing, cre­ative wed­ding pho­to­graph: the reflec­tion in the bus looks great!

I fell in love with this wed­ding photo as soon as I saw it. The brides­maids walk along­side the dou­ble decker bus, and the bright red paint­work catches their reflec­tions so clearly! Again the angle of the pic­ture is per­fect, the brides­maids’ dresses are gor­geous and the pale pink roses to the right of the pic­ture are just an extra dash of pret­ti­ness — beautiful.

Annie and Matt’s wed­ding recep­tion was bright, sum­mery and fun — and full of lovely colour!

The wed­ding recep­tion was held in a friend’s gar­den, and they’d really pulled out all the stops to make every­thing look won­der­ful. The bright colours are every­where from the cen­tre­pieces to the plates and even the pretty shrubs between the tables!

Annie’s expres­sion is cap­tured for­ever in this beau­ti­ful wed­ding photo

As Annie sees how her friends have made such a beau­ti­ful dis­play of the wed­ding tables in their gar­den, her delight is writ­ten all over her face. This is such a per­fect wed­ding pho­to­graph, spon­ta­neous and nat­ural, cap­tur­ing a very spe­cial moment of the day.

The wed­ding guests have a won­der­ful time — and the pic­ture is awash with sum­mery colours

Annie and Matt’s wed­ding guests relax at the recep­tion while Joseph Yarrow snaps away and catches them off guard enjoy­ing a chat. The pic­ture is gor­geous for the lovely colours, from the lovely turquoise blue jacket to the sun­flow­ers in the back­ground, the lime green foliage and reds, pinks and pur­ples of the table dec­o­ra­tions. It all comes together beautifully.

Set­ting the scene… the apples are ripe in the tree, and this pic­ture is a lovely lifestyle type addi­tion to the wed­ding album

Some­times it’s not about the bride and groom, but about the day, the sum­mery feel­ing of the recep­tion, the lit­tle details you missed, the colours and quiet lit­tle moments your pho­tog­ra­pher will pick up on. Here, a cob­web sparkles softly in the apple tree, with the wed­ding recep­tion — shown in hot pink! — car­ry­ing on in the background.

A pho­to­graph taken from the back of the wed­ding recep­tion, full of late sum­mer colour

A great wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher will be around, tak­ing fan­tas­tic pho­tos while you aren’t even aware he’s there. Here we see the wed­ding recep­tion from out­side, with Annie and Matt the focus of the pic­ture, and the lush foliage, ivy and Japan­ese anemones against the brick wall cap­tur­ing the homely set­ting and sum­mery feel of the wed­ding day.

A riot of colour sparks a mini riot… well not really. But the wed­ding guests are hav­ing a blast!

The pho­tos of the evening cel­e­bra­tions don’t get any qui­eter, and every guest’s face shows they’re hav­ing a fan­tas­tic time. The mar­quee inside is dec­o­rated with swags in hot pinks, corn­flower and vio­let blues, with a dash of white — mak­ing for great shots of the dancing.

This is the one!

From read­ing pho­tog­ra­pher Joseph Yarrow’s own blog fea­ture on this wed­ding, I know the first dance song was the Stone Roses’ This is the One — and what a wed­ding song to remem­ber. I love this wed­ding photo for the enjoy­ment it shows — I wish I’d been there!

Thanks to Bris­tol based / UK wide wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Joseph Yarrow for sub­mit­ting this wed­ding. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have — please do com­ment below, we love read­ing your comments!