After a very busy wedding season last year, and my season starting early in 2024, I really haven’t had much time to write my blogs. I’m sure you’ve been devastated by its absence (hehe).

This lovely wedding took place in April last year, at the beautiful Southdown Grange Gardens in Lewes. We were lucky as the rain stopped briefly, and the sun even graced us with it presence. The gardens were looking so pretty as the spring blooms were out.

Southover Grange Gardens is the registry office for Lewes. We are very lucky here in Lewes as the building and the gardens are rather stunning, and that’s in every season. I have been blessed by being able to photograph many weddings; maternity shoots and family portraits there. I ended up photographing five weddings there last year, and have already been back there this year.

The gardens are also surrounded by many historic places, so if you wanted to go elsewhere for wedding photographs you could go to the castle or medieval ruins, Lewes has plenty of places for a fabulous photo op.

One of theses places is Keere Street. It is a very historic and steep cobbled road. It was said that King George IV drove his coach and horses down it for a wager. It was on this street that my lovely couple had their ‘first look’. If you don’t know what that is, it is where the couple first see each other on their own, before they walk down the aisle. It’s so they can have a moment for only the two of them. Unfortunately, as everyone was running late we were unable to do it in the gardens, so we made the most of the situation and took the photographs of the ‘first look’ on Keere Street. It was a really magical and emotional moment. It was lovely as their daughters (who were bridesmaids) were there also. There was not a dry eye.

The ceremony carried on in this vein, and it was very moving and emotional. They were a special couple, and everyone in the room thought the same. We carried on the celebrations into the gardens for their couple shots, and some family and group shots.

The bride and groom looked stylish in their matching Kurt Geiger gold adorned shoes. The bride wore a beautiful lace dress and the groom had a fabulous aubergine coloured suit. It’s. nice to see a groom in a different colour suit and being adventurous with their wedding outfit.

One thing on my wedding photography wish lists was to have a wedding with a bus. I love the colour and fun that they bring to wedding photographs. It’s lovely to have all the guests travelling together to the venue.

As it turns out I ended up having three weddings with buses last year, that’s so typical wait for one bus and three turn up!

This was one of those weddings. We all travelled to West Hove Golf Club to celebrate with the newlyweds. There were doughnuts, personalised pink shots. The reception room was decorated in fairy lights and yellow and green balloons, and many photographs of the happy couples life together so far. I try to take polaroids too of the day, so they were added to the many photographs.

It was a beautiful day, and a lovely way for me to start off my 2023 wedding season.