Emma & Ian's wedding at Bapchild Church & Hempstead House.

2008 is turning out to be an amazing year! Easy going, fun couples, wedding days full of life and love. And a real run on church weddings – in 2007, less than 25% of our bookings were for church weddings but this year they’ve been much more frequent! The biggest problem we run into churches is…. Vicars! So many of them have arbitrary rules preventing any photography during the ceremony. No ring exchange, no first kiss, no images of the amazing moment when the groom sees his wife to be walking down the isle. To me, the ceremony is THE reason we’re there! It’s the culmination of months of planning, its full of emotion and love.

Despite what these vicars suggest, no – it can’t be mocked up afterwards, and why would we? I just don’t know why they’re so willing to steal a couples precious memories, I don’t know where in the bible it says that photography is a crime. I do know its wrong – its not the vicars day, it’s the couples and discreet photography from 20ft away isn’t putting anybody off!

Anyway, rant mode off(!) – no such problems at Emma & Ian wedding at St Laurence in Bapchild, Kent. Michael ran a beautiful ceremony and we got some great images for them to treasure. The weather forecast turned out to be wrong and the sun shone all day….so we parked the rather gorgeous horse and carriage from The Ostler Carriage Company and wandered into the fields to get some fun stuff of the two of them together.

Then it was off to Hempstead House for the reception where Norman, Emma’s dad, made the funniest gag ever in a fotb speech, unfortunately not one I can use here – suffice to say I’ll never regard Dick Whittington the same again! Here’s a few from a great day!