Wedding Photos Pittville Pump Room / St Mary's Church, Gloucestershire

Sanju & Francesca - Sept 18th 2010 - St Mary's Church, Prestbury / Pittville Pump Room

Having photographed an engagement session with Sanju and Francesca earlier in the year, it was great to finally get around to their wedding day.  The wedding was very local to me in Cheltenham, and made even more special by the fact their ceremony was at St Mary's Church in Prestbury, where I got married at some 5 years ago now!

The wedding day had an interesting mix of characters with Sanju (and therefore lots of family members) being Indian, making a kinda wedding fusion.  I believe they will be having a full Indian Wedding later in the year, so this part followed the more British customs - yep, flowers, cake, first dance......yada, yada, yada.

Wedding flowers - not sure who provided these (yep I'm officially useless at remembering to ask!) but they were rather lovely - if not provided in a rather large box (at least that's what I thought!).  You could fit a small person inside that!


Francesca's sister - not to be mistaken for Fran, as to be fair they do look quite similar.


How cool is this photo?  I love the way Frans (other sister) fits so neatly in the mirror, literally creating a fourth person at the dinner table.



OK, the cute guy has arrived.


Ta na.....


At this point Francesca noticed her bridesmaid's dress wasn't actually done up!  You'd think they were old enough to dress themselves surely?


St Mary's Church, Prestbury.  Such a cute Church and with some super September light it made for a great wedding.








The nice Vicar allowed photography during the ceremony, which gave me the chance to cover a few angles (discretely) including this from the back of the Church during a hymn.    It's simply one of the best Churches to work in as you have options to walk up either side of the congregation, without needing to use the central isle.  It also has AMAZING light.  


I must have about a dozen super shots from this position at the front of the Church, but this moment with father of the bride is beautiful.






Did I mention the beautiful light inside St Mary's Church - ohhhhhhhhhh yeah.  Signing of the register was brilliant.







Here we have this weeks assistant wedding photographer.  If you are wondering why singing makes you smile so much, it's not the hymns, it's my presence in front of them with a 24mm lens and camera!




Guests congratulating the couple after the wedding ceremony is one of my favourite parts of the day.  everything is very natural, emotions are high, it's just a great time for photographers.


There were A LOT of guests with cameras at this wedding.






I really like this photo.  It has all three bridesmaids in, a mother of the bridesmaid, and also this touching moment with her sister and friend.


The colourful ladies.  The question is.....did they co-ordinate their dresses as they really did work well together.





A very impromptu car shot that just worked out rather well - with the exception of my 'banana' fingers on the door reflection!


Table layouts ready for the wedding breakfast inside Pittville Pump Room.



Kids do the best things for photos.  If I'd asked them to stand here it would no doubt look contrived, but allowing them to just do their thing, they ended up perfectly framed.....even if they are stuffing their faces!






A few wedding potraits around the grounds of Pittville Park.




We even had time to venture down to the lake in Pittville....best of all, not a single soul was around!



It's not often you'll see Pittville Pump Room with no-one out on the grass.  It didn't take long though for a small cute child to join us!




Wedding speeches.  I'm seeing more ipads now too - gone are the days of paper as we enter the iworld!




OK, Dad still used paper.....but some of us are still old school right? (me included!)