Wedding day Snap! challenge

Com­pare and con­trast this wed­ding with our very Eng­lish wed­ding from last week. What’s the same? Tell me in the com­ment form and win a bar of Green & Black’s!

This is a great wed­ding for details. The pho­tog­ra­phy is by Car­o­line Pilling, one of my favourite wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers, based in Som­er­set. Is it just me or do the girls have a nat­ural skill for pick­ing up on the lit­tle details — the wed­ding bou­quet, sta­tionery, etc. — that you don’t see as often with male pho­tog­ra­phers? (Prove me wrong then… answers on an email, guys!)

Caroline’s curvy wed­ding pho­tos — like pretty bubbles

Caroline’s pic­tures get all the details, she also has a great style with the curvy bubble-shaped venue shots, and there are many pic­tures here where eye con­tact and inter­ac­tion between the guests is what makes for a really strik­ing image.

The venue is the Rec­tory Hotel in Crud­well, Wilt­shire. It’s a great venue, really charm­ing and olde-worldy Eng­lish in style. They have a lovely lawn set out with tables for wed­ding guests, and mod­est gar­dens with care­fully man­i­cured lit­tle hedges. All very quaint and — with­out being con­de­scend­ing — nice. Really nice.

The Rec­tory Hotel, Crud­well, Wilt­shire. Really nice!

Wed­ding dress, head­band and shoes

I love this: you do me, and then I’ll do you, and you two over there do each other, and we should be ready by 1pm. (Is it always like this?!)

I like the sim­i­lar but not iden­ti­cal brides­maids dresses. It’s a great idea, gives more flex­i­bil­ity than aim­ing for all your brides­maids in the same dress.

… more wed­ding snap.

Char­lotte is gorgeous.

I love the hal­ter­neck dress which really suits Char­lotte, she has a lovely big smile and her hair is so pretty — this is a wed­ding photo to keep, I love it.

Por­traits of the bride and groom

Inside the mar­quee — all bub­bly again!

The Rec­tory has a per­ma­nent mar­quee which is fab for smaller recep­tions. A mar­quee is also a blank can­vas, per­fect for dec­o­rat­ing in your colours.

Those mag­i­cal lit­tle details

My expe­ri­ence of wed­ding forums and mag­a­zines tells me the lit­tle details are mas­sively impor­tant — and hours of search­ing for the per­fect nap­kin ring, vase and cake mean you should have a damn good pic­ture of all of them. Like these!

speeches

The eyes have it. There are gig­gles, sad moments and belly laughs in the speeches. So much to get in 3 pic­tures, and nicely done.

My favourites — more later this week. RebekahDaley.com

I love Rebekah Daley, and because we work in sim­i­lar fields in the wed­ding indus­try I could spot her work imme­di­ately. (For the record she’s miles and miles — light years — ahead of me as an illus­tra­tor!) Rebekah and her team cre­ate the most amaz­ing cou­ture wed­ding sta­tionery based around cus­tom por­traits of the bride and groom in Rebekah’s own ele­gant and inim­itable style.

I’ll write a ded­i­cated fea­ture on Rebekah Daley later this week — she’s amaz­ing, don’t miss it.

Thanks to Car­o­line Pilling for sub­mit­ting this wed­ding. Car­o­line, you’re fan­tas­tic. Send more soon! In case you don’t, I’m sub­scrib­ing to your wed­ding photo blog as of today so I don’t miss any­thing. xx