{Wedding} Maria & Rob Porter at the Runnymede (Part 1)

At the beginning of June I had the privilege to photograph Maria & Rob's wedding at the St Anthony's Church, Slough and the The Runnymede-on-Thames, Egham.

When Maria asked me to be her wedding photographer, she also warned me to be prepared for anything at a large Italian wedding. And let me tell you, she was not exaggerating!I had a fantastic time, right from the word go!

Maria got ready at her Mum & Dad's house, and so much for a peaceful affair. The doorbell did not stop ringing. Most of the neighbours, and family members dropped in to quickly come and wish her good luck. In true Italian style, the catering (at the house) was to die for, but in retrospect, you can understand the amount of food taken into account the number of people that came through. I tried to make a dent in the sugared almonds, but sadly for all my efforts, I don't think I succeeded!

There were times when the emotions got the upper hand, and there were times that the pure joy could be felt in the air (and across the internet during a Skype conversation with Australia just before setting off).

The ceremony at the church was lovely and heartfelt, and even a bit funny when Maria forgot what she had to say ;-)

After the ceremony when everybody went outside, there was no stopping them throwing handfulls of rice (uncooked!). Even with my best photographer voice asking them to just hold tight for a minute so that we could get everybody together, just meant that I got pelted with it too! Now there's a lesson to be learnt here, don't try and organise close on 150 Italians when they want to do it differently! ;-)

Now, I was never going to fit all of this wedding into a single blog post, so part II will contain the rest of the day at the Runnymede-on-Thames.

Let me know what you think so far.









































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