Sneak preview of Saturday's wedding at Poundon House

Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of photographing Chloe and Kris' wedding at Poundon House in Buckinghamshire. Thankfully the widely-expected thunderstorms held off and the sun made a welcome appearance at what was a lovely wedding.

After a beautiful ceremony in the main house, the new Mr & Mrs Arnold and their guests spilled out onto the terrace and lawn for a few photographs before heading over to the gorgeous marquee, decked out in purple and white, and complete with those delicious-looking cupcakes I showed you earlier in the week (I am still thinking about those!).

Here are a few sneak peeks from the day...

Picture of the week #6

I photographed the wedding of Chloe and Kris on Saturday and am busy working on their edit (sorry folks - you'll have to wait a bit longer to see sneak peeks of that one!), but seeing as it's Picture of the Week time, I have chosen to show you the GLORIOUS tower of cupcakes Chloe's friend had made for the wedding.

As I busied myself in the beautiful white and purple-themed marquee, taking shots of the guests, I kept coming back to the cupcake tower (as did the waiting staff), lured in by the wonderful chocolatey aroma from these cakes.

 Now if only pictures were like smelly-vision eh? Delicious!

Picture of the week #5

This week's chosen picture is a riot of laughter and every time I think about it, it makes me smile. I photograph lots of best man and father-of-the-bride speeches and this one - at the wedding of Anna and Mark - was great.

Priceless expressions all round!

The Brickwork Lizards

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing a great band, the Brickwork Lizards, at the Oxford launch of their new album Zaman.

The band have a loyal following and the launch of their latest album was an opportunity for the fans new and old who packed out the venue to experience first hand the Brickworks' particular mix of silky Arabic vocals, energetic rap and a whole host of 1930s and 40's influenced tunes all mashed up together to create one crazy but brilliant sound.

Here's a taster of the full shoot. And do check out a list of the Brickwork Lizards' live dates on their website - they're well worth seeing

So, did you watch it or not?

Well, BEFORE the wedding, 57% of you were quite adamant you wouldn't be watching, a further 28% said you would only if you had to and only 14% of you said you would be sitting down to watch the Royal Wedding in all it's glory.

But I wonder if that was actually the case come 11am on Friday morning?

If yours was anything like our household, at around 9.45 you probably turned the TV on 'only to see what was going on' and then found yourself still stuck to the spot at 1pm, timing lunch so as not to miss the balcony scene at half past....

Whatever your views of the monarchy, as weddings go, I thought it was a pretty cool one; even with the imposing venue, the enormous guest list and the millions of onlookers, they actually managed to pull off a fairly personal wedding with lots of special touches that any other bride and groom up and down the country would love. But then I'm a sucker for a vintage car and monogrammed balloons at a wedding!

Picture of the week #4

This week's picture of the week is from the lovely Oxford wedding of Kathryn and Ralphael, where the little bridemaids and page boy performed their duties to perfection.

The shot itself is one of those photographs no-one realises you have taken until afterwards and I love this one in particular because it captures a tender and special moment between the bride and her little maid in those last few nervous minutes before they leave the house.