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On Saturday we joined Tyrone and Abbie for what turned out to be a fantastic day with wall to wall V-dubs and sunshine.

We started the day with Abbie at there house in Brockenhurst for an hour or so and then drove to St Saviours Church just across the village and met with Tyrone and the lads.

Abbie then arrived in a beautifully restored VW beetle that she had brought as a wedding gift for Tyrone which was a very well kept secret in such a small village, The bridesmaids arrived in a beautiful VW camper which suited the day very well.

After a wonderful service we took a few shots at the church and then drove together to Exbury gardens grabbing a few shots along the way in my usual hanging out of the car fashion. Once at Exbury we had a fantastic day with lots of children and various activities as well as lots of summer punch (not me of course) hehe.

Later in the evening we strolled around Exbury taking a few very relaxed portraits with Tyrone and Abbie.

Sue & I drove home at sunset and what a perfect end to a great weekend.

Jules x

On Friday we photographed the first of our 2 weekend weddings at Larmer Tree Gardens in Whiltshire with Tony and Laura and we had a pretty unusual day to say the least.

On arriving in the carpark 2 Macaws flew over our car and landed next to us making a serious racketfollowed my a few Peacocks so it was a very adventurous location.

We then Met with our good friend Mick from the Romsey Carriage Company driving one of his beautiful Bentley cars where we took a few pictures of Tony and the lads and lasses who were ushers

After Laura arrived we walked through the beautiful gardens upto the ceremony room which looked wonderful, Unfortunately the Wiltshire registrars refused to allow us any photographs at all during the service GRRRRRR… which is very very annoying and I have to say very unusual for civil ceremonies and very unfair towards the couples.

After the ceremony we spent a couple of lovely hours walking around the grounds with some sunshine and intermittent showers (well it was Glastonbury weekend) and it was a lovely relaxed afternoon.

We then went into the wedding breakfast for the speeches before Sue & I left for the day.

Jules x

On Saturday we photographed the wedding of Neil and Helen on what was a fairly typical Midsummer Solstice day with a few showers and a few sunny spells but despite that everybody had a wonderfully relaxed day and evening at the Shooting Lodge in Longwood.

We started our day at Helens Mums farm and then went onto there local church St Andrews Owslebury and then after a beautiful Service we had a Christening for Neil and Helens Youngest Harrison.  Helen then had the great idea that I should climb the bell tower to get a great shot of everybody !  Thanks Helen

We then drove to Longwood Shooting Lodge where we had a wonderful meal and afternoon before trying out the various and very well planned activities which included a bouncy Castle and a bucking Bronco both of which the Bride and Groom tried.

Later in the evening everybody danced to a wonderful barn dance group and the atmosphere was electric,

Jules & Sue x

Earlier this week we photographed Adrian and Claire who’s wedding we are shooting in a month or so at Frimley hall.   We had a great time and took some fab photo’s although spent most of the evening chatting rather than working.

Here are a couple, wedding pics soon.

Jules

We also got to photograph Lee, Hayley and Thomas on Sunday which was just fantastic, They are such a lovely family and were looking forward to there wedding in August.

Thomas had some great toys which made for a very colourful photoshoot.

Jules x

Although we have a busy weekend with weddings we also had a couple of shoots on Sunday,  We travelled to Buriton Petersfield to the Manor Barn where we will be photographing Mark and Kristen’s wedding in a few weeks to take a few pre wedding shots which turned out to be a wonderful afternoon and I have only just stopped smiling,  Mark and Kirsten have a wonderful wedding planned and were both looking forward to it.

Jules x   (qualified skipper)  just in case Mark