Wednesday again, which means Wedding Wednesday.

Here are a couple of sneaky peaks from my most recent wedding on Sunday...the very sparkly wedding of Donna and Michael at one of my favourite wedding venues, Cooling Castle Barn.

A day that was full of emotion, windy weather, bling and most of all laughter!

I will blog more pictures once I have shared the album and gallery with the bride and groom but for now here are two of my favourites!

Capturing the emotion of the father of the bride speech, as read by the bride's brother...

Claire x

...nearly a year ago!

Yep, I know - it's been manic and I've left the blog whilst I do other stuff but I'm making an effort to catch up and blog all my lovely weddings. They may not be in order but at least they're here, right? Poor excuse, I know.

Back to it.

So, Amy and Dylan got married at the beautiful Notely Tyth Barn, in Thame, Oxfordshire.
The story behind it was that when Amy used to see the barn as a little girl, she'd say to her mum "I'm going to get married there one day!" - so lovely!

And so Amy did get married there, to her prince charming Dylan.

I started the day with Dylan and his family at their beautiful home very early in the day. After some great shots with Dylan I went on to meet Amy and her mum and bridesmaids at the hotel where I spent a while capturing the excitement and all the little details.

The weather was crazy. Sunshine, showers, sunshine, wind. We had sun right up to the point that Amy arrived at the venue. Amy's car had to wait just outside the gate whilst all the guests arrived and took to their seats. Just as she arrived at the door to get out of the car the heaven's opened! However, that didn't dampen anyone's mood and Amy met an emotional Dylan waiting for her at the end of the aisle.

After a lovely ceremony, it was still raining, so guests greeted the bride and groom whilst I started the few groups that the bride and groom requested.

Eventually the sun made an appearance for the rest of the day just before dinner so we had the opportunity to get outside and make the most of the great garage door that I'd spotted earlier! It was a bit wet underfoot but that was fine!

I left the bride and groom dancing and enjoying themselves as I made my way home with a smile on my face knowing I'd captured so great photographs and moments that will be remembered forever!

Congratulations guys, enjoy your first wedding anniversary, sorry it took so long to blog!!

...and my absolute favourite.

Today, I found a few messages on my facebook page which were hiding. I didn't realise that they were hiding within my messages folder so apologies to anyone who has 'facebooked' me and haven't had a reply - I didn't know, until today!

Anyway, it was there that I found this lovely little comment.

"I have just seen your photography on your website and facebook page. Beautiful photographs..really beautiful. Individual, characterful. I was recently exposed to a presentation of the most stunningly boring portraiture. Your photographs are wonderful. Congratulations. Where are you based? You have to be a lovely person to see people so richly!"

 Thank you so much Clara!

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My 'Wedding Wednesday' posts will be blogged from now on...

This wedding is in honour of one of my favourite TV programmes at the moment, Silk.
If you don't know it, the BBC drama Silk is about a set of barristers and is filmed in and around Middle Temple Hall, London - which is one of the four ancient Inns of Court.

This gorgeous wedding took place at the beautiful Temple Church, London followed by a fantastic reception at Middle Temple Hall.
Such fantastic ancient architecture surrounds the church along with fabulous courtyards and gardens, I was in my element!

Happy Wedding Wednesday!

Meet Baby Jack, at just 4 days young he is my youngest newborn baby so far!

Jack was such a great little model, with regular milk top up's we managed to get him sound asleep and worked quickly, and quietly, to get the shots I wanted.

I am looking forward to capturing Jack's first year as part of my very special Tiny Moments baby package.
I love seeing 'my' Tiny Moments babies grow, they change so much within the first year and it's such an honour to be able to capture such a special time for parents.
Unfortunately the newborn phase is over all too quickly, although it sometimes doesn't feel like it, and it's such a lovely way to look back on and remember how tiny they were.

As a mummy myself, to a now 2 and a half year old little lady, I can appreciate even more now how important it is to record and capture your new baby's early days. I spent so much time (and still do) watching my little girl, whilst she slept, played, gurgled, explored, slept, yawned, smiled, crawled, climbed, walked, fell over, explored some more and most important and special of all, just watched me watching her! It's an amazing experience and one that I feel is so important to capture forever and look back on in years to come.

Here's a very sleepy Jack...

Sucking his thumb..

A little windy smile...

Pondering...one of my personal favourites.