{Married} Beriah & Darren - Fulham Palace, London

Last month (on my birthday) I had the pleasure to photograph Beriah and Darren's Wedding at Fulham Palace in London.

For those of you that can remember the competition I ran back in January (see here), Beriah and Darren were the winners.

I started off the day with Beriah getting ready at their flat in Putney. The girls were fantastic and they even had a bottle of "sparkly" and some yummy snacks on the go while they were getting ready. The overall feeling was very laid back and relaxed, which I loved, as there were hardly any nerves getting in the way ;-)

I left the girls to apply the final finishing touches, while I made my way to Fulham All Saints Church to go and meet Darren and the boys. The church was impressive and the ceremony very special, but the icing on the cake for me was the atmospheric Fulham Palace.

The couple walked from the church to the venue, through Bishops Park, which gave them some time alone, away from the crowd. We stopped a couple times on the way to take some photographs before rejoining everybody in the fabulous courtyard at the Palace.

The reception was truly wonderful and the food fantastic, and it was apparent that all the guests were enjoying the celebrations.

It was a beautiful setting and a lovely group of guests, and I felt honoured to have spent my birthday with them on such a special occasion.

Here are a few of my favourites from the day...























































Church: Fulham All Saints
Venue: Fulham Palace
Dress: Pronovias
Caterers: Party Ingredients
Performer: Becki Biggins
Cake: Groom's Mum
Flowers, Stationary and Decorations: Made by the couple themselves!

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{Lifestyle} Family shoot for a 60th birthday.

Sunday saw me heading down to Beaconsfield to meet up with Sasha Dale and her family for a shoot at Cliveden.

Sasha and I go back a long way, in as much as she was my second client when I started the business at the beginning of 2006. Over the years she has referred numerous clients to me, and she's done quite well out of the referral vouchers scheme that I run. I have photographed babies, children, christenings, weddings and families for most of her family, extended family and friends, and I am always made to feel very welcome.

This time we combined to shoots into one. Carol's (Sasha's Mum) 60th birthday present and updating the photos of Lewis and Max. I last photographed them when they were 3 months old (separately), and it was time to have some lovely new pictures to go on the wall.

We went to Cliveden on Sunday afternoon, and although I have been there a few times before, this was their family's first time. This was quite nice from my point of view, as I got to see it through their eyes again. It is rather impressive, isn't it?

We had a lot of giggles, cheeky smiles and even a few tears and a grumpy moment. But a lovely time was had by all. We finished off the afternoon with a well deserved ice-cream and a sit down, before heading back to the cars.

I feel honoured to trusted to capture all the special moments for this lovely family, and I'm looking forward to many more!

Here are a few images from the day...

PS: I think I'm going to do a seperate blog post with some Then & Now photos of the boys so you can see how much they've changed.






















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{Married} Matt & Lydia

At the beginning of July I helped out my friend John Blythe at Matt & Lydia's wedding.

I captured the groom's preparations in Oxford while John was with the bride in Welwyn Garden City. Their ceremony took place in the Victoria Hall, Tring and the Reception was at Nether Winchendon House.

It was a lovely wedding and one that I will remember for LOADS of reasons.

Let me quote some numbers:

250metres of bunting with over 700 flags

at least 200 hearts

loads of packet of wildflower seeds with a lovely message from the couple (as favours)

Bride's Dad singing them a personalised song (at least 10 verses) during the ceremony - Unaccompanied!

3 gorgeous bridesmaids (in the most beautiful dresses I've ever seen on BM's)

a lively Ceildh in the barn with a very loud Dude that was calling the moves

and a truly fantastic couple

And just so we are clear on a small little detail... Lydia MADE all the bunting, hearts, seed packets, invitations, programs, etc HERSELF!! Fantastic!

I think this wedding will be the one that I will always compare all others to...

Have a look at a couple of images from the day.























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{Newborn} Our precious little Sam!

I would like to introduce everybody to the newest addition to the Croft clan (not mine I hasten to add). He is Alyssa and Ryan's little baby cousin.

This is little Sam (Samuel Lewis)and he was born on Wednesday 14th July and weighed a strapping 8lbs 15oz.

We waited a LOOOONG time for this little boy and we are SOOOOO pleased that he is finally here.

I went over to go and take his first formal portraits last week when he was 2 weeks old (to the day), and I know it will be the first of many more to come ;-)

Here's looking forward to many more cuddles from the little man...