Harry's little photoshoot

As part of my sister's wedding, little Harry got to have his photo taken wearing a celebratory bow tie, which he seemed more than happy to do for a treat.

The photographer - Daniel from Lightening Photography was amazing, both with Harry and throughout the wedding. I can't wait to frame these somewhere in our house.

Credit for all photos: Daniel from Lightening Photography

These photos were used with his permission.

My lickle sister got married!!

and I cried... a lot.

Isn't she beautiful? Gah I love them both so much and their wedding was definitely one of the best days of my life as well as theirs.

Hurray for love :)


{photos by various family members shamelessy stolen by me and put through instagram}

Some photos from the Hen Party weekend...

 

I think I can deem my lickle sister's hen party weekend a sucess! We rented a house at the coast for the weekend, had an afternoon tea party followed by hen party games, food and drinks. I had so much fun and I'm pretty sure everyone else did too.

Can you believe that I took hardly any photos though - I took 4 cameras down with me and they all stayed in my bag - in fact half of these photos were borrowed from another hen (thanks Ellen!). I particularly love the photo of me, my sister and our Nanna at the bottom in our tissue dresses, so much fun! 

p.s. The mug is a thank you gift from my bride sister :) she knows me well!

Love is in the air...

I'm at an age where a lot of my friends are getting married and honestly, I don't mind... I love attending weddings, even if I am the one sniffling to myself throughout the ceremony and speeches.

Last month I took my Diana Mini with my favourite Ilford XP2 film along to one of my university friend's amazing wedding and I'm in love with the results!


Everything about the entire wedding was beautiful and if anything I'm a little bit sad I didn't take more photos but I'm still very happy with the ones I did take.

I miss the weekend!

We had such a lovely weekend, I love weddings. But travelling to Norfolk and back in under 3 days is exhausting and today I'm tired and wishing it was a weekend again so I could have a lay in, eat a massive breakfast and sit around reading my book... Only 4 days to go!

Wedding holgas...

First I will say that I didn't take these photos... I didn't have the time to be honest, so I gave my camera to one of my friends who has a Holga 120 - I think he enjoyed that he got to have more than 10 photos to take with my holga 135bc.

{double exposure of the gorgeous bride}

Unfortunately Helga (the holga, not the friend - bit of an odd name for a boy, ha) let me down - out of the whole roll only 4 photos were on the film... I have no idea why - maybe because some were taken inside? or maybe the film was a dud? I don't know and its frustrating!

{One handsome little page boy, I'm in love!}

Luckily for my friend I love these two from the roll and there is still half a roll in the camera waiting to be finished... I'm just really hoping that those turn out so I can give the bride and groom something...

A perfect wedding...

Isn't it funny how you can go to a family wedding and be completely calm yet when its one of your best friends weddings you pretty much cry through out the whole thing!

I honestly can't think of a time when I saw the bride and groom look as happy as they did on Saturday and their happiness truly makes me happy as well...

Hurray for love!

6 months!!

I know, I know its a Saturday but... today is not just any old Saturday - today it is 6 months until I am a bridemaid at one of my best friends wedding!! I am so unbelievably excited!

I have been really rubbish at providing details about the wedding every month - mainly because I honestly don't know that many but the lovely bride is coming to visit us in two weeks (I can't wait) so hopefully I should know more soon, yeay!

Anyway to celebrate this month I have dug deeply into the box of photos that resides on my parents wardrobe to find a picture of the first time I was a bridemaid!!


How cute and very 80's! I was 3 years old and it was for my Aunt's wedding (who I adore still) Check out the fringe - I wish my hair would sit like that now!

Anyway, Hope you are all having a wonderful Saturday - I'm going to try and restrain myself from sending the blushing bride too many overexcited text messages :)

9 Months!

Well, actually less than that now - I realised on the train on Friday that I had completely forgotten about this post... oops! I think it was for the best though because I got a call from the Bride to be on Saturday telling me that she has put a deposit down for her wedding dress! Eeeeeeeeee!

We first went wedding dress browsing 3 years ago (how time flies...) and I'll admit that I did get a little teary seeing her in such stunning dresses.

So here's another snipet of the wedding: a champagne coloured wedding dress.

The Bride to be is a gorgeous red head and the traditional white dress did not suit her at all but wow did she look amazing in champagne! I seriously can not wait to see the dress that she has finally chosen.

{All images from Disney Bridal: did you know Disney did wedding dresses? I had no clue. I love the idea of Princess wedding dresses though!}

10 months!!

As excited as I am about my new camera, I'm also hugely excited about my friends wedding next year!! And now theres only 10 months to go!

During the last month I have tried on a beautiful bridesmaid dress (it really was lovely) and thats it - I really feel like I should be doing more to help but I haven't been given anything to do yet... so instead I shall share another snippet of the wedding and hopefully this time next month I will have a longer list of duties to report...

{all images from favorideas.com}

The theme of the wedding is going to be butterflies - how gorgeous!! Its going to be stunning...

Hopefully I will have had enough practice with my new camera by then to get some great photos... I'm so excited!!

Oh my...

This might be the most perfect wedding shoot ever!!

bow ties, streamers, fairy lights, beautiful dresses, gorgeous hair, hats,

initialed buttons, parasols, banjos, vintage cameras, braces, candles,

mismatched chairs, photo frames in trees...

I just need to remember to breathe now.

Talking of weddings...

I mentioned here that one of my best friends is getting married next year. Did I mention that I was going to be a bridemaid? Eep! I can not wait!

(me and the bride watching the sun set at Castle Hill, Huddersfield 2006)

I'll admit I may have sent her a message on sunday (after a drink, oops) saying how excited I was about it only being 11 months until her wedding...

So instead of bombarding her with overexcited text messages (or as well as... you never know) I decided to celebrate her impending wedding each month on my blog instead, yeay! I realise that this is 3 days late, but heres a snippet of the wedding, birdcage centrepieces, lovely.

Only 11 months to go!

(Images from mintdesign.com, Bonnefete Hire & Petal Passions)

I love weddings...

I love weddings... I just can't help it. I love that two people and their family and friends can come together and celebrate love and the commitment to spending the rest of their lifes together.

(I'm such a romantic I know...)

My previous boss got married at the weekend and her wedding photos were gorgeous (taken by Garry Castle, ohhhh) This one is my favourite!

Isn't it funny...

How you find something you think is really cool and pretty only to find that it is already everwhere in the blog world... Oh well :) I'm still posting this anyway!

When I get married I am wearing pumps and I will be hugely happy if they are yellow!! Eeep!

{Image via Snippet and Ink}

Wedding Party!

I love weddings! I'm a total sucker for them. I cry, I laugh, I smile and sometimes I dance. I was very self restrained at this party though, my eyes welled up during the first dance to Take That - Rule the World (awwwww) however, I didn't full on cry and the eye welling stopped when the bride turned to look at me... and laughed!

Part of me is still in shock that one of my oldest and best friends is married... the other is ridiculously happy for her! The party was great, the decorations, including the balloon arch, worked out well (phew! see below) and everyone seemed to have a lovely time. The bride looked gorgeous in her lovely white dress and the groom looked handsome (and somewhat smug) in his smart casual suit.

I do now want to sit on an elephant on my wedding day and have photos on the beach after seeing all the stunning photos of their wedding in Sri Lanka- I have a feeling that I will only manage one of those though: perhaps Cromer? :)