Katie & Kieran

We had a good and interesting day with Katie & Kieran a few weeks ago. They had a simple but stylish ceremony at Ripley Register Office followed by one of the funkiest receptions of the year in a marquee.

The couple happily obliged any and all requests to walk through fields, climb over (and, amazingly, through!) fences and down lanes to get some lovely chilled out looking shots - all of which summed up their personalities perfectly.

As Katie & Kieran's mode of transport was a funky old VW camper van, it seemed fitting to make the most of this amazing find - another old camper van looking, well, somewhat weathered.

No village fair theme would be complete without strawberry scones and cream of course. And the wedding breakfast? Fish and chips all round with REAL newspaper tablecloths. Fantastic!

The guests all settled down for the speeches before the meal, just in time to miss a real humdinger (yes, that IS a word) of a storm. Check out the last shot below for those clouds...

See? Humdinger clouds. Told you.

Baverstock School

Last week we were trekking off down to Birmingham to shoot the prospectus for Baverstock School, with our lovely and talented friend Taj from Pebble Design.

The brief was simple enough, requiring contemporary shots of students in a positive environment enjoying learning and socialising. We used some quite harsh black and white, and cross process colour techniques to give a funky, fun and unique look to the shots.

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Cara & Lee

We've spent a good deal of time at Horsley Lodge recently, which is absolutely fine by us as it's just super. We were there a few weeks ago for the wedding of Cara & Lee. Our shot of Lee and his best man erm, 'arriving' set the tone for the rest of the day.

Then we shot the page boys, when we caught them!

We knew we were in for a fun time.

Cara got ready for the wedding in the lovely little cottage in the grounds of the lodge so we had a wander over there for a few minutes.

After the wedding we had the chance to really make the most of the grounds, especially the ornamental lake and fountain.

And to finish we got some lovely shots of the personalised details around the wedding breakfast room, created by our friends at Event Heydays.

Congratulations Cara & Lee!

Carly & Andrew

It was a a rare warm and sunny August day for Carly and Andrew at Quarndon church recently. We visited Carly's home for a few quick shots before heading to church, and to be honest were expecting to find things much more chaotic than they were :)

We were particularly chuffed with a lovely shot we managed to grab of Carly & Andrew's daughter just before she got out of the car at church.

After the ceremony we all made our way over to Makeney Hall for a lovely drinks reception, and of course managed to talk Carly & Andrew into a walk around the countryside before we left them in peace for the evening.

Playing with the noise and saturation of the digital image gave us a lovely soft impressionistic feel to the image of them strolling along in the Milford countryside.

Many congratulations to you from us all here!

Lucy & David.

We have so many fantastic shots from Lucy David's day at Wirksworth Church it's hard to know where to start when looking for blog pictures.

For Lucy, it was all about the details. So we shot loads.

A detail David and the guys noticed was that the Hope & Anchor pub was right next door to the church. But we soon put a stop to those shenanigans and marched them over in time for the ceremony. Just :)

We spent some time waiting for Lucy to arrive by looking out for some nice 'caught' shots. And when Lucy arrived without her bouquet and promptly had to go back home for it, we had even more time!

Eventually, bouquet safely acquired, the ceremony began.

Lucy is a dance teacher, and her reaction when she saw her dance class' guard of honour after the wedding was priceless.

The heavens opened on us just as we finished the last of the family pictures, and the shot below is my fave from the day. When the rain comes, it seems there are winners and losers in the race for umbrealls.

Luckily it was a passing shower, and Lucy stayed dry enough by nicking the photographer's umbrella :)

Oh well, I had too much to carry anyway...

Our reception was at the Mickleover Court Hotel which has quite a modern exterior, so we made the most of the shapes in a funky composition.

And finished with the group photograph to end them all.

Why yes, that did take a lot of organising, thankyou :)

Our Shiny New Product...

We're very excited and bouncy to be able to unveil our latest gadget, no, toy, no, very serious high tech wedding product...Yes, that's it.

Our iPad wedding album!

Maybe a wedding 'album' isn't for you - a lot of our couples these days opt for our rights free digital images service already - or maybe, like us, you love the thought of something new and different and fancy getting your hands on a shiny new iPad. Either way we think this might float your boat...

Full coverage of your day from getting ready in the morning until when you sit down for the wedding breakfast, and ALL of the images included on a brand new iPad ready for showing off to friends and family.

All in all great stuff. Give us a call to have a chat about your plans for your wedding day, how we can help, and of course how you can grab a shiny iPad loaded and ready to go with your wedding images on! You can get us on 01773 769900 for a natter, or visit us at www.fieldphotographic.com.