One of my favourite things about England is the hidden magic that lies behind some of its walls.  Cambridge and Oxford, in particular, are amazing at having hidden architectural gems just hidden away.  Small wooden doors nestled in large stone walls, that open up into incredible colleges that feel like a movie set.  You can, if you time it right, tour these colleges.  But more often then not it seems, these buildings are closed to the public.

Places like Trinity College in Cambridge are still working colleges and they are still being used for the purpose they were built for, even 450 years later. In order to get married at Trinity College Cambridge, you usually need to have a connection to the school.  In the case of Maria and Suli, this is because it’s Suli’s alma mater. Suli loved attended Trinity College, and to be able to bring all of his friends and family back for his wedding was incredibly special.

I loved shooting this wedding, from the magical architectural backdrop to being able to see two families, from opposite sides of the world come together. Maria and Suli- Thank you again for having me be apart of your incredible day, it was definitely one of my favourite weddings of 2019.

The weather on the day of Callum and Sophia’s wedding was less than ideal.  It was cold, windy and raining sideways, pretty typical for an English wedding in October.

If you’re planning a wedding where you fear the weather might be your friend, it’s best to take a page out of Sophia and Callum’s book.  Pick a venue that has as much room inside as possible, and bonus points if it’s architecturally interesting as well as having space.   So even though the heavens were opening up, you wouldn’t know it from how amazing the party was on the inside.

A big shout out to the wedding coordinator for this wedding, Ann Nicholas and her team, who were fantastic to work with.

Jonathan and Lucy met on a cruise ship when they were both on family holidays and just barely teenagers.  Jonathan recalls Lucy stopping to watch him sing Whitney Houston’s “extremely well”, for a 13-year-old as Jonathan puts it.

They became fast friends exploring the cruise ship together but had trouble keeping contact in the days before Facebook and WhatsApp.  Years later, Jonathan found lucy’s number when he was preparing to move to London for drama school and now many years later, they now live in London with their dog, Mabel.

On the hunt for an eco-friendly wedding venue, they found South Farm. If you’re not familiar with South Farm, it’s a family-run venue that incredibly eco-friendly and even produces a lot of their own produce that’s served at weddings.  Between their farmhouse, barns and gardens, there’s loads of space to work with.  They also fell in love with the outdoor ceremony space that South Farm has.  And even though they were having an October wedding, they were determined to have their ceremony outside.

If some of the guests and wedding party look familiar, Jonathan is one of the creators of “The Play that Goes Wrong” and a collection of other plays as apart of Mischief Theatre, which has now been expanded to the “The Goes Wrong Show” which is now on BBC 1.  It was amazing to see how incredibly tight-knit the entire cast is and how absolutely hilarious they are in real life and I had an absolute blast shooting this wedding.

A big thank you to Lucy and Jonathan and everyone who was at the wedding for making me feel incredibly welcome and a part of the team.

Danielle and Micheal had spent a few years living in London and taking the chance really get to know the city and to travel around Europe. They now were planning on moving back to Canada, having packed up their life in London and found jobs back again back home.   They wanted to have a little momento of their life of London, and having a pre-wedding photoshoot was the perfect way to remember looking back at their time in the city, and have something to display back at their Canadian wedding and home that represented their time here.

We started off at Tower Bridge right after sunrise.  Even though it was a little bit cloudy, we still had perfectly empty streets to use as a backdrop for their engagement shoot. After we did a quick session at Tower Bridge, we popped into a black cab to head straight to the area around Saint Pauls to get a change of background.

I really loved shooting this session, not only were Danielle and Micheal fantastic to get to know, but they gave me a bit of a mini-challenge.  There was quite a height difference between Danielle and Micheal.  It was a great little exercise in finding different ways to bring them up to the same level for the photos.

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