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Jo and Alex are such a fun couple and their friends and families made photographing this wedding such a treat. I have never seen the best men and ushers have so much fun at a wedding – the party had started before the ceremony had even begun.

The Royal Armouries ( Fort Melson) is a stunning place to get married with fantastic views over the Solent. Jo and Alex even got to fire a canon in front of their guests before limousine turned up to take them down to the lovely Camms Hall for their wedding reception.

Julian and I are very jealous as Jo and Alex headed off for their honeymoon around California and Las Vegas- where we also holidayed for our honeymoon and we have never found a destination like it! Have fun Jo and Alex![slideshow]

Shooting pregnancy and baby photos is one of my favourite parts of my job. I have done some lovely shoots recently and met some fantastic people all enjoying the crazy but lovely time of becoming a mummy. What a great time of year to have  a baby though – lots of lovely walks on the sea front with your new baby.

Please remember any previous wedding clients of mine get a special discount for their bump and baby photos. Have a look on my portrait site for some more examples.

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Kerry Trashes Her Dress – The Elements!

On their return from a spectacular honeymoon in the Maldives Kerry and Wayne met me on Hayling Beach to have some fun beach shots and boy did she trash that dress! We had such fun together as the photographs show.

[slideshow]If anyone is interested in getting some really beautiful photographs together in yuor wedding dress and suit, what we call a post wedding shoot or “trash the dress” as they say in America then please do contact me soon as this time of year is the best time to do it. I always suggest meeting during the summer early evening to get the perfect light and when beaches and public places are quieter

The speeches a Kerry and Wayne Parker’s wedding were so much fun to listen to and photograph- with 5 best men the jokes just kept on coming with some healthy competition between the men taking it to another level! What emerged was that Kerry and Wayne met when they Kerry was at Brownies and so was Wayne!

It was a very wet May wedding but this did not ruin things at all. The sun came out for some lovely photos in the Orchard at the side of  The Newtown Hotel in Hayling Island where the wedding took place.

Very jealous of an amazing honeymoon in the Maldives. Have fun guys! x[slideshow]

Charlotte and Barry were a  dream to photograph on their wedding day as they were so enthusiastic and so happy. The bridesmaids’ green dresses created some lovely contrasts to St Mary’s Church in Portchester Castle and Charlotte  looked radiant.

The reception was a real treat as they held it at Explosion Museum in Gosport. The Magazine was lit up beautifully by candlelight for the wedding breakfast – an exciting wedding venue which should not be missed if you are still looking for a venue!

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I have had some lovely afternoons spending time on pre-wedding shoots for Spring and Summer wedding clients. Here are a few from some recent ones for impending weddings at Newtown Hotel in Hayling Island ( Kerry and Wayne), Portchester Castle and The Explosion Museum (Charlotte and Barry ) and Fort Nelson and Cams Hall ( Jo and Alex). Looking forward to them all![slideshow]

It is only recently that i realised how behind I have become in regularly updating my blog . I bumped into a family whose photos I had taken a few weeks ago and they casually mentioned why they had not appeared on my blog. So, here I am making an apology to all my clients who are not on this blog -I have a long list on weddings, bump shoots, family portrait and engagement and commercial shoots which I will try to add on as soon as I can or add at least the ones who i know would enjoy reading and seeing their photos on here.

Of course, not everyone wants their wedding or bump or certainly not boudoir story on here!

Just off to meet Jo and Alex for an engagement shoot at Cams Hall. But i will try to blog more often!x

Amy and Charles Stubb chose to keep it local with their lovely family wedding in Fareham. Julian met Charles and his “suits” for a walk to the Clinkers Pub for a pre-wedding celebratory drink whilst I spent some time with the arriving guests at The Holy Trinity Church.

What was so lovely about this wedding was the variety of the day. After the church service we took time out with the newly married couple to take some photographs in the tropical remembrance gardens whilst the guests made their way to Antonios Tapas restaurant.

Julian and I were even treated to some lovely spanish chicken after spending some time having fun with the guests and discreetly taking photos of the details and the guests enjoying the wedding meal along with the speeches.

The Wedding party then moved to The Bugle Inn in Titchfield where the took over the whole place as well as the newly converted barn for more food and dancing. I was already excited about the first dance as i knew one of Charlie’s friends was performing “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls – my  all time favourite .song and Amy and Charles danced to it in such a romantic way, singing to each other the whole way through!

I met Josephine and Chris last Autumn and knew then that their wedding was going to be something special and just that bit different!

Jo and Chris are both teachers and not surprisingly very organised so it came as no surprise to me that we would be meeting up for a pre-wedding engagement shoot a few months before the wedding.

I always enjoy to sit with a couple over a cup of coffee and chat about the day before the wedding so that we can put together a full wedding itinerary with all the timings of the day.

So we met in February at The Watermark Restaurant in Port Solent, Portsmouth, to have a chat and then took a stroll nearby to take some casual photographs of the two of them together. These shoots can be very useful both for the couple who may never have had their photographs taken professionally together before and it also great for me to spend some time with them working out what makes them click in front of the camera.

Jo and Chris had chosen to have a Signature Board for their wedding day instead of a guest book so that the guests could sign their good wishes to them around a mounted photograph of the two of them from this engagement shoot.  It looked great at the wedding next to the cake and the guests enjoyed signing the photo as something different . An image of this is shown below.

On the 3rd April we decided to maximise our time so whilst i was with Josephine, Julian went down to Hayling beach to meet the guys all suited up and looking cool so he could capture some groom prep and have some fun on the beach.

After a lovely intimate ceremony at Portsmouth Registry Office, the guests made their way to The Watermark Restaurant on a big yellow school bus supplied by Jo and Chris whilst Julian and I took advantage of the shelter at The Hot Walls for some romantic shots of the  happy couple.

Jo and Chris were so much fun to photograph together and they were all smiles and laughter despite the April showers.

Back at The Watermark we were treated to a fantastic music medley by Chris’s Dad and Chris himself along with Jo’s brother Ben.

Happy Honeymoon in Jamaica Mr and Mrs Armstrong!

Lieutenant Holly Henderson and Lieutenant Commander Philip Dennis could not have picked a more fitting wedding than a ceremony at St Ann’s Church in The Naval Dockyard followed by a stunning wedding breakfast at The Royal Marines Museum. The couple met aboard HMS illustrious and  they never looked back.

Julian and I were very fortunate to be chosen as the wedding photographers for such a lovely couple and Phil’s speech to Holly almost had me in tears – of course I had to hold it together to get those emotional moments  on camera!

In between the ceremony and reception we spent some time with Holly and Phil at The Hot Walls in Old Portsmouth which is by far one of our favourite spots for all weather conditions and wonderful lighting conditions.

We were pleasantly surprised to see one of our photographs featured  in a half page spread in The Times Newspaper on March the 27th – only a week after their wedding. Thanks for giving us credit  for the photo Phil and Holly.