We have had so many weddings lately that I’ve not had a moment to add any new images to our Blog.  In July and August we’ve done weddings in many diffrent UK regions - Norfolk, South East London,  Banburgh Castle in Northumberland, one near Blackpool, and one in Cheshire, as well as loads in West Yorkshire. Here’s just a few  to give you an overall idea of range.

 Bride and Bridgroom in the bath in the Bridal suite at Gomesal Park Hotel

 Photos at sunset on the helipad at Kings Croft in Pontefract, West Yorkshire.

 This one is by our main associate wedding photographer, Julie at a wedding reception picnic on the grass in Norfolk

2 more photos by Julie - of the Groomsmen walking in Leeds City centre after a wedding at the Queens Hotel on 19 July this year.

and of the bride and Bride groom by the fountains opposite Queens Hotel in eeds

 Dramatic rainy day wedding pictures at Banburgh Castle in Northumberland 

And just so you don’t think that this dull wet summer means none of our trademark colour, here’s a few that have beaten the damp!

A bride at Gomersal Park Hotel in West Yorkshire by a colourful bus in the car park!

 bride and bridegroom on steps of Nostell Priory near Wakefield

 Confetti Outside Woolley Hall near Wakefield

We love showing you clips from recent weddings but the past three weddings have all been for the same couple who have requested that we don’t show their faces to the world, so unusually for Reel Life Photos they have been hidden away under a password.  Here are a few we can show:

Luton Hoo is a newly opened hotel with historic grandeur and elegance.

Luton Hoo Facade on a sunny day

Luton Hoo gardens on a rainy summer’s day

champagne drinks reception

wedding breakfast at Luton Hoo Hotel

vegetarian starter

grand staircase at Luton Hoo

restaurant at Luton Hoo

evening wedding reception dancing

The ferry crossing from Holyhead to Dublin sent our wedding photographer Julie crashing to her knees, skidding across the spray-sloshed deck like a rag doll, but in the end she made it safely down below: I had to stay on deck though, as didn’t want to waste the recent picnic by regurgitating it for the seagulls!

   Our first impressions of Ireland are happy ones, despite the driving rain, as we passed roadside stalls selling strawberries  and potatoes, 

discovered a home from home B&B - Hillside House in Gorey, County Wexford - and found everyone so friendly along the way.

View from Hillside  House B& B which is highly recommended by Reel Life Photos for service and location!

This dog seemed quite at home in his owner’s cab,

Love the colourful shops and houses - so full of personality! 

Its the Strawberry Festival this weekend in Enniscorthy so the wedding in the afternoon will be sharing the celebrations with all the strawberry lovers!

 We rounded off our first full day in Southern Ireland listening  and recording live music of a girl band singing and playing as a quartet at the delightful bar and reastaurant  the BANK in Gorey.

To all our brides and grooms looking for a wedding photographer or combined wedding and High Definition video team: hope you enjoy browsing this blog! We’ve got a wedding next week in Southern Ireland, so may be a bit slow to reply to any info requests. If urgent - try our mobile 07990 867058. xx Elaine, Jorge & Julie

Sydney has many facets and moods. Even without ever having set foot in the city, everyone has an image of Sydney Opera House in their heads; so much so that we have a perceived sense of scale in our minds too. I made a flying visit to Sydney a couple of months ago - on my nephew’s birthday, as it happens - (while in Australia to photograph a wedding in Jacob’;s Creek) so was given a whistle-stop tour of the area - at night, when the streets come alive and the multicoloured glow of lights coats it with a surreal magic that most big cities seem to conjure up out of the blackness, changing its shape and forms.

  The quality of the experience sometimes outweighs the need be profitable every week, so last year Reel Life Photos started accepting International wedding bookings, the first of which was a wedding in the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden http://weddingphotos-video.co.uk/blog/?p=182  where indoor temperatures are a static minus 5 degrees Centigrade.

    At the opposite end of the scale, this was followed by a wedding in Tenerife http://weddingphotos-video.co.uk/blog/?p=24  http://www.reellifephotos.silkstream.org/online/view.php?flag=view§ion_id=800 where the sun shone brightly, adding romance to the sunset wedding pictures. 

   In March this year we had a fabulous location 10,000 miles away – in Jacob’s Creek Retreat in the Barossa valley, Australia - http://weddingphotos-video.co.uk/blog/?p=248 .  We did of course tag on a holiday! 

  This month (May) our overseas wedding was in the Loire valley France http://weddingphotos-video.co.uk/blog/?p=286 and http://www.reellifephotos.silkstream.org/online/view.php?flag=view§ion_id=1045 

Our next overseas wedding is on 28 June – in Southern Ireland.  That one is going to be particularly exciting as it’s the first of 3 wedding days - for the same couple -  as they are having the Catholic church wedding in St. Aidans Cathedral in Enniscorthy followed by the reception at Amber Springs Hotel In Gorey, Wexford, then the following week its back to the UK for a civil wedding at Luton Hoo, in Bedfordshire, followed by the final wedding ceremony the week after - a traditional Hindu wedding – in a marquee in St. Albans!  Phew!

Angela & Simon’s wedding was on 07/07/07 a magical date last year that makes it extra special. This is the cover - all stretched out. The following pages should be in order but I may have added one or two in the wrong place here, but they are correct in the book itself.

It takes about 6 weeks to print a design like this with Graphi Studio (several weeks usually for me to design it unfortunately), or just 2 weeks for a simpler, hard-backed book on high gloss paper. The designs could be laid out however it suits you, and your personality (See our online complete Graphi Studio sample I designed from a wedding at Auchen Castle in Dumfries, Scotland). Angela is a very organised person so when designing this book I tried to match the style to her personality. The choice of images included here is always the Bride and Groom’s personal preferences, as its not based on art alone but on feelings and emotions, so you can include mainly pics of yourselves, or if you have a preference for favourite family photos then those are the images that we use in the design.

Julie, my right-hand photographer, took these lovely photos…

The day was one of the nicest days all week.  While the bride and bridesmaids were out getting their hair done, I busied about taking behind-the-scenes shots and  making the most the the beautiful morning light.