Studio diary of Hampshire photographer - Mike French
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Last Saturday we photographed Becky & Ian’s wedding at St Boniface Church in Chandlers Ford followed by a reception at the Winchester Guildhall. Typically it seems for August weddings it started raining during bridal preparations at Becky & Ian’s house but this didn’t affect the mood as Becky, her bridesmaids and lovely flower girls got...
Winchester Guildhall was the central venue for this evenings pre-wedding shoot with Becky and Ian. Although they will be getting married at a local church Becky and Ian will be going to Winchester Guildhall for their wedding reception and this was the natural place to do their pre-wedding shoot.
Yesterday I spent the afternoon with Libby & Richard at their Rhinefield House winter wedding. This was an intimate wedding with 40 guests based entirely at probably my favourite wedding venue in Hampshire.
Yesterday I photographed the lovely wedding of Fiona and Rory who’s ceremony took place at St Ann’s in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and then onto the reception at the Tithe Barn, Ditcham. This naval wedding was also a Scottish wedding and the wedding party comprised of a strong contingent of both naval uniforms and kilted gentlemen.
Today I was at Marwell Hall for the lovely autumn wedding of Tanya and Mike, who had seen the images I took of Gemma and Dan’s wedding at Marwell on the same weekend of the previous year and booked me based on those !
Saturday was possibly one of the hottest days of the year so far and so I was delighted to be spending it on the very edge of the coast with some cooling sea breezes. Rachel and Garry’s wedding took place on Thorney Island, here in Hampshire, at St Nicholas’ church and then onto the Warrant Officers’ and Sergeants Mess for the reception.
With all the good news about Andrea and Dale winning round 2 of the Your Hampshire Wedding of the year competition we haven’t had chance until now to make a noise about the fact that Karen and Tim were also shortlisted for round 3 of the competition in the current issue of the magazine (out in August and September 2009).
I have just checked the Your Hampshire Wedding site for confirmation and once again we have the cover image ! Lolly one of our July brides from 2008 graces the cover and also has one of the featured weddings inside from the lovely St Peter’s Bishops Waltham, and Bishops Waltham Palace ruins wedding.
Subject to final editorial control and confirmation we believe that Andrea and Dale’s Hampshire wedding which we photographed in March this year has been shortlisted to feature in the next issue of Your Hampshire Wedding magazine. As entrants of the wedding of the year competition they stand to win a fabulous prize of some accommodation at New Place in Shirrell Heath near Southampton – where we have a wedding to photograph this August.
Saturday was our first wedding of the year and it took place in the lovely village of Langrish just outside of Petersfield. With the ceremony being conducted in the lovely St John’s Church and the preparations and reception happening at Langrish House a very short distance away.
Saturday was a wonderfully warm, blue-skied day – fitting for Rachael and Simon’s wedding. On my second trip to the wonderful church in the castle grounds the day could not have been better.
Yesterdays wedding was at St Mary’s inside the ruins of Portchester Castle – a stunning church which I have never been able to photograph in before because of the previous vicars rules for weddings. I’m delighted to say that the new vicar, the Reverend Charlotte Allen is much more relaxed, and really lovely and I now have my first set of ceremony images from inside, nicely tucked away at the front, discreetly capturing moments.
Yesterday was the wedding of Helen & Justin down in the naval dockyard, Portsmouth in the lovely church at St Ann’s.
I had been looking forward to this wedding for some time, and fortunately my luck held out as the poor weather skipped Saturday and the morning and ceremony was blessed with lovely spring weather. Whilst I had not seen Helen or Justin since their e-Session on the 20th January I knew through email contact that they had been busy putting finishing touches to the wedding, and it certainly showed as everything went to plan with the guys in their naval uniform and the bridemaids in a “meonshore” blue. The flowers by Christine Walker were stunning with heart motif’s and the blue theme on the bouquets.
This slideshow is a featured wedding from HMS Warrior and shows the highlights of Debs and Ian’s intimate wedding and evening celebration aboard HMS Warrior, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in December 2009.
