Lloyd & Faye :: wedding

My final wedding for August was with Lloyd and Faye, starting in Stamford at the All Saints church and then heading down the A1 to the Haycock at Wansford, a tiny, very English village in the Lincolnshire countryside.

Glorious sunshine greeted us in the morning, which unfortunately closed in the afternoon, but not enough to stop the skittles set seeing plenty of activity in the beautiful, private garden.

It was genuinely a huge amount of fun for me being there, one of their child guests even let me try out his camera....I may have to invest in one if fortunes go well!

Head over to our facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gryphon-Photography to have a look at their fantastic guestbook photos where everyone recreated famous movie photos (with varying degrees of success it must be said) - see how many you can guess!!




Big thanks to Clare Richards for helping out....and putting up with lots of ginger jokes.

Claire & Ash :: wedding

I think that the best way to describe yesterday's wedding is....different. I've been doing this for a while now but I've never seen a woman in a beautiful white dress hammering on a bar demanding cheese or practically dancing to avoid the advances of a great dane in a bright orange tie before, but I can now tick them off my bucket list!

Regular readers will remember our happy couple from the moonlit session last year, their big day rolled around and it was everything we could ever have expected and a whole heap more, one of the most fun events I've ever attended, as photographer or guest, there was a lot of genuine fun and laughter to be had....as well as a guest telling me it's about time I settled down with my partner Kady as I'm 27 and not getting any younger!

With that said....on with the photos.....

The first photo I took on the day turned out to be one of my very favourites -


A row of matching and beautiful shoes for the bridesmaids


While Claire had a rather special set all of her own


and a rather lovely necklace


Our Claire likes her bubbles


but she does scrub up rather well


Woody looking at the camera, this was easy, got it first time...I'm just THAT good...didn't take 20 attempts at all.


Claire REALLY likes champagne


rings as shot on a very battered but 'interesting' chinese style table in the venue


first dance and viewers


Oh yes, and a couple of our two lovers







And finally......a big thank you to Clare Richards of Clare Richards Photography for all her help during the day, even if she did desert me to go to Pizza Express...while cruely teasing me about upcoming doughballs and Nutella.



Clare is just starting her professional journey, so if you're on a tight budget and can't quite stretch to a complete photographic genius like myself you could do a lot worse than giving her a call.

James & Nicola :: 13/06

Saturday's wedding was a local one for me, morning in Spalding, service in Edenham then on to Dyke for the reception.

The day starts at Image International hairdressers in Spalding, credit to them for carrying on smiling as the photographer pays more attention to what the lens is seeing than where he's walking.

The bride's hair is finished -



As the bridesmaid (Donna) tries to put a brave face on someone photographing her halfway through her preparations -





Bride's shoes and bouquet -



Putting the finishing touches to the dress -





The rings -



Mother and father of the groom -



Donna arrives with a flourish -



The ceremony starts and everyone except Nicola and James are privvy to Mick (father of the Groom)'s little prank!





Bridesmaid Katie winds up the Best Man (her brother) in my favourite candid shot of the day



The newly-weds go to sign the register



I'm not sure the couple knew what to think when I started driving them down a quiet little dirt track, but hopefully the choice of location was worth it.





Off-camera lighting for the first dance.



It was a long, hot day for everyone, so big thanks for everyone for being great sports, giving me opportunities for some lovely photos, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the final album.

Rob & Becca :: 30/05/2009

Rob & Becca were celebrating their 2nd anniversary, and wanted some photos to celebrate this event.

We headed into the Peak District just outside of Sheffield on what turned out to be the hottest, most bright day of the year so far.

Props to Becca for being so brave and standing so close to the edge just because the bossy photographer told her to.





I suspect that this day might just have been an excuse for Becca to get her wedding dress out again











Big thanks to them both for being such good sports, being up for anything, and for the yummy Dominos Pizza supplied afterwards! Congratulations on your anniversary!!