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An English country Wedding

There is nothing like a Traditional country village wedding, A Norman stone built church, kept grounds and warm sunny days just like the quintessential lazy British summer, which in an idyllic world we all dream of for our perfect wedding day. Although this wedding took place on the 11th April 2014 it seemed like the weather was in the middle of august.

St NIcholas,Witham ,essex

Unlike a venue where the wedding service tends to be relaxed a traditional church tends to have stricter rules regarding the use of  photography & as was the case with this church filming of the actual service was limited to just one or two shots from a distance, ( even if the guests were flashing away with their  I - phones & I - pads ). Outcomes the Nikon 70-200 2.8 vr2 , max wide open and ISO 2500 & no flash.The good thing was there was plenty of natural light so not a problem in the end with the quality of the images, but even so it still gets my goat when us official photographers have to obey the rules, yet the guests get away with it.

And then all group shots out the way, time to relax with Nick & Jo to get some nice directed shots of the couple together, now that's directed not posed so the eyes looking that way, the movement of a hand here, direction of light and maybe a Little fill flash.

Honeymoon here we come...........

The lion restaurant, Boreham, Essex

A post wedding party

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The lion Inn,Boreham near Chelmsford in Essex was the setting for this post wedding party for Scott and Charlotte Leonard whom had just the previous week got married in Las Vegas, The Lion Inn is a massively busy Gastropub restaurant set just outside the village of Boreham, seating for 160 covers,big comfortable chairs, open plan dinning and everything you would expect from an a la carte restaurant at the fraction of the price.Don't get me wrong this isn't a critics review of this establishment more of an observation of where's good to eat and good value bang for your buck.Enough said, back to work, hired by Charlotte and Scott to photograph their post wedding dinner, space was limited but managed to set up two Nikon Sb-910 in each corner of the restaurant bouncing off a white ceiling, pocket wizards and a Nikon D700 with a 70-200 vr2 and then outside for some posed couple and family shots.The Bride was stunning in her designer wedding dress and the Groom looked very much the part of the proud husband and even though customers were milling about constantly we managed to get some very striking shots.

Mr & mrs Leonard

Mrs leonard

 On the Gound,single off camera bare flash to left,backlit

The kick back

Bride & Bridesmaids