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No. 2: Being Too Organised and The Bridesmaid Dilemma

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Claire

Days to go: 78

I chose and pur­chased my shoes for the wed­ding in April 2010 — 19 months before the big day! Now these aren’t a prob­lem because I knew these were the shoes for me (even though one of the brides­maids wanted to bet me £10 that I’d change my mind) — and I knew the dress I was going to choose would match per­fectly (even if it would be in a non-matching but match­ing any­way sense!).

Here are the beau­ties — Irreg­u­lar Choice Corte­san:  Read more…

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Black and white wedding photos

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Claire

As promised, a cou­ple more wed­ding pho­tographs in black and white. Fol­low­ing yesterday’s strik­ing and dra­matic wed­ding pic­tures by Chris Han­ley, today I’ve cho­sen two pic­tures sent in by Han­nah Dornford-May.

In con­trast to yesterday’s pho­tographs on quite a grand scale, these pic­tures focus on the more inti­mate details and sim­ply cap­ture real beauty in peo­ple: the first pic­ture of a bride get­ting ready is com­pletely unposed and unplanned, but I love how nat­ural it looks and how beau­ti­ful and sen­sual the pho­to­graph feels.

bride in black and white

An unusual bridal por­trait by Han­nah Dornford-May  Read more…

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