Stunning red wedding

It’s def­i­nitely time for some­thing a lit­tle bit dif­fer­ent… a real wed­ding fea­ture with a red wed­ding dress any­one? Oh, yes please — this is absolutely gorgeous.

Gemma’s red wed­ding dress is by Mag­gie Sot­tero — it’s stunning.

The wed­ding dress is Fiorenza, by Mag­gie Sot­tero. Fiorenza is a rich scar­let gown, with soft ruch­ing at the side and fab­ric flow­ers scat­tered around the A line skirt, catch­ing up the fab­ric in a fab­u­lous tum­ble of lux­ury. In each clus­ter of flow­ers is a lit­tle spray of beads and Swarovski crys­tals. I believe with all my heart that if you’re get­ting mar­ried, you really should wear this dress… like Gemma did…

Gemma chose strik­ing jew­ellery to com­ple­ment the wed­ding dress

Bride Gemma made her own wed­ding jew­ellery to go with the dress. Her beaded neck­lace is won­der­ful, really strik­ing (and I love this pic­ture of it hang­ing by the win­dow to catch the light), while the match­ing hair comb with coloured pearls and clear beads, and lit­tle sparkly red beads, is just lovely. Gemma’s bou­quet is sim­ple, with gor­geous colours — rich red roses and that lovely trail­ing ivy.

Gemma looks amaz­ing, her colour­ing is per­fect for the red dress

Gemma has the per­fect com­plex­ion and per­son­al­ity to show off this gor­geous red wed­ding dress. Wow! I love this pho­to­graph (by Amy Wass) for the rich colours in the dress and bou­quet, for Gemma’s fab­u­lous smile and for that pose — she looks soooo amazing!

Such a pretty fairy brides­maid — and a beau­ti­ful photograph.

I’ll get back to the bride and groom in a minute, but this won­der­ful pic­ture really stopped me in my tracks when I saw this sub­mis­sion from Amy Wass. She’s the pret­ti­est lit­tle fairy I’ve ever seen! With a lovely alice band with white flow­ers, brown ‘baby’s breath’ and crys­tal bead sprays, plus those adorable lit­tle fairy wings and the per­fect smile for the cam­era — what a beau­ti­ful lit­tle girl!

Rhine­field House is a lux­ury wed­ding venue with bags of character

Rhine­field House is a mag­nif­i­cent coun­try house in the New For­est, built in 1887 and full of roman­tic and gothic fea­tures — per­fect for a fairy­tale wed­ding venue. It’s licensed for civil cer­e­monies and caters for both inti­mate and larger wed­dings. I love the com­po­si­tion of this wed­ding pho­to­graph: everything’s point­ing towards the house, from the water to the clouds… gorgeous!

Groom Jon and his best men enjoy their moment in the limelight

Groom Jon and his best men pose for the wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher, look­ing fan­tas­tic in their choco­late brown suits with white rose but­ton­holes and cream waist­coats. Jon’s yet to see Gemma in that stun­ning red wed­ding dress, and only the red berries in the boys’ but­ton­holes hint at the colour of the dress!

The wed­ding cer­e­mony — the opu­lent set­ting makes it really special

The wed­ding cer­e­mony is held in the Grand Hall at Rhine­field House. The room is lav­ishly dec­o­rated, the dark wood pan­elling and gothic chan­de­lier set the scene as Gemma and Jon tie the knot.

Gemma and Jon, hap­pily mar­ried. A really lovely couple.

Jon and Gemma, hap­pily mar­ried, pose for por­trait pho­tographs after the wed­ding cer­e­mony. I love Gemma’s smile — she has such an air of con­fi­dence and they both look so very happy. The wall behind them, with the lovely tex­tures and mot­tled lichens, is a really inter­est­ing back­drop for the photograph.

The tables look fan­tas­tic for Gemma & Jon’s win­ter wed­ding theme

I always love to see a wed­ding from dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives… I imag­ine the wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher silently padding around the venue while it’s quiet and when no one’s look­ing, sneak­ing fab­u­lous pho­tographs that cap­ture the spirit of the event. These are just lovely: before the wed­ding break­fast begins, Amy takes some great detail pho­tos of the table cen­tre­pieces with ivy and pine cones, then dur­ing the meal there’s this fan­tas­tic pic­ture of the guests from above. I love the glow­ing blue cen­tre­pieces and the light of the chandeliers.

The wed­ding speeches embar­rass Gemma, just a bit!

I don’t usu­ally do this, but I can’t resist this quote from pho­tog­ra­pher Amy Wass’s web­site: “Reportage, Pho­to­jour­nal­ism, can­did, what­ever you want to call it. I shoot to tell the story, from the emo­tions of the cer­e­mony, the details of your table dec­o­ra­tions to your Aun­tie rock­ing out on the dance­floor” .… this photo of Gemma suf­fer­ing the wed­ding speech (and lov­ing it, I think!) is one of those mag­i­cal moments you need a great pho­tog­ra­pher to get. Brilliant!

A lovely relaxed pho­to­graph of the bride and groom enjoy­ing their day

Another lovely, can­did shot of Jon and Gemma at the wed­ding breakfast.

What a mag­nif­i­cent tower of cupcakes!

Wed­ding cup­cakes are a fan­tas­tic alter­na­tive to a tra­di­tional wed­ding cake. I would choose a struc­ture like this one any day! The lit­tle cakes are exquis­ite, colour­ful and beau­ti­fully made, and the cake top­per is so cute! I love how the cake top­per has that Mag­gie Sot­tero dress so per­fectly formed!

The bride and groom have some fan­tas­tic por­trait pho­tos done

Once again sav­ing the best until last. Well… one of the best. I’ve loved all of these pic­tures. But this final por­trait photo shows Gemma and Jon shar­ing a roman­tic moment together, relaxed and cleary deliri­ously happy, and that Mag­gie dress in all its glory. It’s every­thing you could pos­si­bly want from your wed­ding pho­tos, in one sin­gle pic­ture. And that dress… wonderful!

Thank you to Hamp­shire wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Amy Wass for sub­mit­ting this wed­ding. It will remain a favourite for me for a long time. Gemma is so beau­ti­ful, her dress is out of this world, and the pho­tos even match the blog colour scheme! For more infor­ma­tion see Amy’s fab­u­lous wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy web­site, or visit her blog at http://amywass.co.uk/Info/blog

Here’s another real wed­ding full of char­ac­ter and style for you to enjoy next: a vin­tage styled wed­ding at Hurst House