Hello there, David here from www.davidpurslow.com
Today I had the fantastic and I mean fantastic pleasure of photographing the wedding of Sarah and Ryan. The couple got married at Warpool Court Hotel, St Davids, Pembrokeshire and this was the first of my weddings at Warpool Court Hotel this year. Sarah and Ryan found me online and booked me via the internet however as it turns out they live just around the corner from me. Since they first visited me to book the wedding and browse my portfolio, I have kept bumping into them from time to time in the neighborhood so it felt like I was shooting the wedding of someone I knew – this always adds to the pressure.
The weather is not what you would order if your planning your wedding day however Sarah and Ryan are not the kind of people who were going to let it spoil there day. I always carry bride and groom umbrellas in the back of the car, a white one for the bride and a black one for the groom and today they came in very handy. Warpool Court Hotel has a fantastic long sweeping driveway which is covered by trees on both sides and is great for taking photo on. Here is one I had planned prior to the wedding but without the brollies however I think they actually help make this a very fun photo for the album.
I shot some other photos out on the drive way, here are a few of them – thanks to the bridesmaids for being such great sports and Mark the best man for keeping the girls dry !
Below, Sarah running down the driveway towards her man !
The shot below I just love, this was taken over Ryan’s shoulder looking drown the driveway at Warpool Court towards the entrance way far down the road – Sarah was getting ready to run (in the photo above) – The photo below is more of a candid outtake but I just love it.
Normally you get to see bridal preparation photos here from me, but today I wanted to share a couple of the groom getting ready shots. Wherever possible I like to shoot the bride and the groom getting ready so here are a couple of Ryan getting ready.
Now at this point I am going to put the rest of the post on its own page, so if you want to read the rest and see the photos
The wedding itself was really nice and relaxed and following the actually service there was a reading that ended up in a few tears (good ones but those pics are for the B&G to view first). Here is a the moment that Ryan slipped on the wedding ring to Sarah’s finger.
Followed by the reading……
Following the weddings I generally let the bride and groom have a quick 5 minutes by themselves and there guests so they don’t feel under the camera spotlight the whole time. I watch from afar with my longer lens on hoping to catch a great moment or 2 – today was no exception, I caught a sneaky the newly married couple, just as I was taking the photo Ryan spotted me, another great candid moment and a real keeper I think.
Throughout the whole wedding there was a feeling of a really happy close nit family and that included the cake being made by an Aunt of the bride.
It seemed such a shame to cut the cake (we didn’t really, this was the artistic photographers cake cutting photo – sounds much nicer than the fake cutting) but I guess at some stage it would be for real – it sure looked yummy !
Weddings are very fluid situations for a photographer, and today was a little difficult because The Warpool Court Hotel has such fantastic grounds that I had scoped out some great locations for photos – when the heavens opened and put the proverbial dampers on that – I had to come up with other ideas. I am a firm believer that in years to come, the only memory of your wedding day will be your wedding photos and wedding album so if the weather is not going to play ball, you HAVE TO for the bride and grooms sake work harder to come up with some great images for them and just shoot them inside using whatever light you have available.
Here are a few of the shots we came up with, thanks to the management at the Warpool Court for allowing me to have Sarah jump on on there piano and pose here for some photos there. That being said, all the staff were great they moved tables around to allow photos to be taken without every batting an eyelash at any of my requests – This wedding venue gets a huge recommendation from me as bending over backwards to accomodate the wedding party.
All the guests turned out in the rain without a single moan to allow me to capture a group shot – again the hotel let me hang out of a bedroom window for this one.
I know this little selection of photos does not really do the day justice however there are so many great shots from Sarah and Ryan’s Wedding that my blog would run on for pages. I hope you like the previews, as always feel free to ask me questions or make comments either via email at david@davidpurslow.com or by entering a comment below.
Take care, more soon.
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David Purslow
Photographer
www.davidpurslow.com
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