...From 9th-12th February Level 11 Photography will be at the Bluewater Wedding Week which will take place at the brand new events venue Glow at Bluewater.

The Wedding Fair at Bluewater promises to be a fabulous day out and the ultimate destination for inspiration for all of you who are planning your wedding.
With over 150 fantastic wedding professional exhibiting at the show you are guaranteed to find something that you are looking for!

We will be launching some new albums at the show and we will also be offering some amazing special offers which will only be available during the Wedding Week.

Level 11 will be located in the lower hall, stand B46 so come along and see us!!

www.weddingfairatbluewater.com,

OMG....I really need to play 'catch up' on this blog!!

There is so much to blog, I just haven't had the time to do it in between shooting weddings, portraits, editing, processing, album design, being a mummy and wife....and sleeping!

So, here's a little quickie until I get the chance to blog properly over the Christmas period.

Suhayla and Damien were married on Saturday. After a church ceremony the reception was held at Dorton House in Sevenoaks.
Dorton House is the Royal London Society for Blind people http://www.rlsb.org.uk/ . A beautiful Grade 2 listed building where all profits from your event go back to the RSLB.

Here are just a couple of shots that jumped out at me whilst editing...

 I'll be blogging again soon but in the meantime....Happy Christmas!

...here is a little sneaky peak from Kate and Craig's small but perfectly formed wedding on Saturday at the Brandshatch Place and Spa hotel.

 I'm still editing and then I will be designing the album but this shot jumped out at me.

...a few weeks ago I had the priviledge of photographing Katie and Tim's beautiful wedding in Rye, East Sussex.

I love Rye, I like wandering around the old cobbled streets and visiting the little quaint shops so I was looking forward to Katie and Tim's wedding.

The day started off with Katie and her sister getting ready at The George in Rye - which was to be the venue for the reception.
I then went and found Tim and his best men in the gun garden for some pictures before heading to the pub for a quick drink (them, not me) pre-ceremony.
I left them to it as I made my way back to The George to meet Katie, her bridesmaids and her father for the short walk to Rye Town Hall for their ceremony.

The ceremony was beautiful, I had to stop a tear or two falling down my cheek behind my camera. I captured some great shots during the ceremony, little knowing looks between the couple!!

Ceremony over, it was time for Rex, Rye's infamous town crier to announce to everyone that they had indeed married before leading the way, with everyone behind him, back to The George for the celebrations to begin.

Once all the guests were greeted and were happy with a glass of bubbly, I took the bride and groom off for a walk around the cobbled streets of Rye to take shots of them both for 20minutes or so before heading back for detail shots before the wedding breakfast. The room where the breakfast was to take place at The George looked beautiful, I particularly liked the personalised bar mats complete with both surnames and wedding date which the guests had as favours.

Come and meet Claire at the Cooling Castle Barn wedding open day on Sunday 4th September 2011 from 11am-5pm.

If you don't know the venue come along to see how beautiful it is and if you already know the venue...come along and enjoy!!!

Following on from my previous post showing the gorgeous photograph of the conservatory at London's Syon Park, finally, here is my post showing some photographs from Katie and Brendon's wedding last month.

I loved this wedding!! Katie and Brendon were fantastic to work with, their guests were all lovely, lovely videographer - Dan from From the Hip who was great to work with - fabulous venue and no rain!! I didn't want to leave and could quite easily have stayed longer despite the fact that I was already well past my contracted time.

We started with the preparations at the Waldorf Astoria hotel within the grounds on Syon Park.
Just look at Katie's shoes...

Katie looked gorgeous in her beautiful bridal gown, the way it flowed from the back reminded me of the soft waterfall pictures that you sometimes see - where the waterfall looks like cotton wool. Obviously the dress wasn't cotton wool, but it flowed beautifully!
Brendon looked very smart - despite the mad rush to get ready after his shopping trip to Westfield just a couple of hours earlier - to buy his shirt, tie and bridesmaids gifts!!! Nothing like leaving it to the last minute!! Still, with a little bit of encouragement from me, Brendon was ready in plenty of time to get to the church!

The ceremony went smoothly, it was a mad rush afterwards as there was another wedding waiting to get into the church as our wedding was coming out. I don't know why churches allow this to happen, it's not fair on the couples getting married plus it can be confusing for the guests.

We got back to the beautiful Syon House where we started taking the bride and groom portraits straight away. I love this venue! It's in my top 5 favourite wedding venues.
Once all the guests were back to the venue we did the requested groups, candid shots and detail shots in the stunning conservatory.
Katie and Brendon led their guests across from the house to the conservatory where they all tucked into what was a delicious meal!! It's always a treat when I get served a meal, and I honestly appreciate it because I'm usually starving! This was one of the best meals I've had - I can still taste it as I write this, yummy!!

Anyway, enough dribbling. Speeches were next on the agenda, the best man embarrasing Brendon with childhood tales - which involved a kitchen fire, don't ask!! Their poor mum!

Speeches over, it was time to cut their black and white cake, which smelt delicious. During this time, guests mingled, relaxed and generally enjoyed themselves before the dancing started with the fabulous Micheal Buble act. Talking to him before he started I found out he came from Essex so it was strange to hear him speak in an American accent during his set!!

The dreaded first dance went well and got everyone in the mood and onto the dancefloor.
Finally, it was time to leave but I couldn't leave without doing some final portraits with the cloudy night sky over, which is, in my opinion the best venue in London.

Leading the way to the stunning conservatory...

Gorgeous wedding flowers by Louise at http://www.thecrackedpot.co.uk/ - such a great name!!

Different corsages, with a touch of bling, again by Louise.

Dancing princess...

Micheal Buble....

Congratulations and thank you for looking after us, we had such a great time working with you!!

Now onto the album design....

...A couple of weeks ago I met up with Carly and James who's wedding I am shooting in November.

We stayed local for their pre-wedding shoot, which was great as we used an old, derelict mansion house - we weren't supposed too but it was empty, we thought, until we were told we were trespassing! Ooops!
So, we walked around, stopping at a couple of spots and here are a few of the results.

Looking forward to their wedding!!

...by night!

Syon Park was the amazing venue for Saturday's wedding. This venue was where Katie Price's make-up artist, Gary Cockerill married his long term partner Phil Turner which was shown as part of the Channel 4 progamme 'Four Weddings'......on which I have also been on - not as a bride, as a photographer!!

Syon House is also the residence of the Duke of Northumberland.

I will be posting more photographs from Katie and Brendon's wedding once I've edited all the photographs however I just wanted to share this photograph to show off Syon Park in all it's gorgeous-ness!

...come and see us at Brandshatch Place and Spa hotel on Thursday 9th June 2011 from 6.30pm.

We are the preferred photographer at brandshatch Place and Spa hotel so if you are thinking about choosing the hotel for your own wedding please come along.

Last weekend I met up with Emma and Wes for their pre-wedding shoot.

They are getting married later this year and after hearing about their plans, I'm excited!
I love hearing how client's wedding plans are going, it gets me excited about thier day too!

I always find that the pre-wedding shoot is ideal to get to know each other, talk about the wedding and have fun! It's also a great way for me to see how my couple are together, how they interact, body language etc plus it's a good way for me to find out if I have 'blinkers'...those of you with a fast blink rate!

The pictures from the pre-wedding shoot can also be used in a personalised guest book, so that your wedding guests can write little messages in a personalised book....whilst looking at your lovely pictures!

Here are a few of my favourites from the session...