Katie and Steve, Engagement, Palms Hill Wedding photography Shropshire

The other day I travelled to Palms Hill in Shropshire to have a scou/engagment shoot of an awesome little venue. I love these little known venues, often owned and run by the residents of the house they put their heart and soul into making wedding days special. They also tend to only hold a few weddings per year making it all that more special.
Palms hill looks like one of these venues and while I didn't get to meet the owners yet, the grounds look amazing and I can't wait to take some wedding photographs. It looks like one of those wedding venues where I could turn up to and create different photographs time and time again!
Here's a few from our quick engagement photography shoot with Katie and Steve.

Emma and Tom, wedding photography, Haughton Hall Hotel

Wow! who knew I was going to be this busy in what is essentially the 'off season'. I'm still not in the busy wedding photography season yet but the weddings have already started to happen for 2015! We're also having a refurb of the studio with new kitchen facilities and hopefully a new studio area soon once we've decided what features we would like to add.
I wold like to say a big thank you to all of my customers who have essentially booked out the entire 2015 season and a few more couples still booking some late dates still. My focus is now on 2016 recently releasing the 2016 wedding photography package which includes 2 photographers as standard for the entire day! I'll keep my focus here until March when wedding season goes full throttle.

Emilie and Raphael, Wedding photography Shropshire, Goldstone Hall, Market Drayton

So close to the end of the season now! Only one more run of weddings to go and I'll be able to concentrate a little harder on the studio and start thinking about winter! We've lots of Christmas offers and ideas coming up as soon as the summer is out of the way!
Speaking of summer! What can I say about Emilie and Raph's wedding? SUNNY would be one. I can't believe how much sunnier it's been compared to last year! Emilie and Raphael got lucky at Goldstone Hall, Market Drayton with the weather but excellent planning made it perfect! Awesome cakes, brilliant decoration and a beautiful venue.

Laura and Mark, Engagement, Compton Verney

A bit of an impromptu post here. I've had this for a while but I've never been able to get around to editing. I headed down to the tremendous art gallery Compton Verney in the West Midlands a few weeks to meet with Laura and Mark for a chat about their wedding in July.

It was a beautiful day and I was truly blown away by the location so we thought we might as well have a little engagement shoot for a bit of fun :)

To make it more fun, I'd only brought along an 85mm lens. I set myself the targets of getting the art work and interiors in and we took the shots in as short time as possible :)

Here's what we came up with :)

Luke and Jo, Hawkstone Park hotel, Shropshire wedding photography

I went a little bit hipster at Luke and Jo's wedding. The sun had a beautiful warm glow to it all day and with the exterior of the Hawkstone park hotel being completely white it makes life so easy for reportage style wedding photography.
As always it was a beautiful ceremony with a few surprises thrown in to make life a little bit of a challenge but the highlight for me is the cool place names on the reception tables. Luke and Jo went through the facebook images of every single one of their guests and printed their pic on to card which they pegged to every glass on the tables - a brilliant little touch which the guests found really fun!
Beware when you click through to the images today. There are MANY. I think around 95 pics made it into today's blog post, I feel sorry for your internet connection :p