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Sunday and it's back to Walton Hall for the wedding of Stephen and Nikola. It could be quite easy to shoot weddings at the same venue week in week out, go to location A and pose like this, location B and so forth, however this would not only be very boring for me, but a great injustice to the bride and groom. Each wedding requires covering and photographing as the unique event that it is. (Plus imagine looking at the pics in the blog if they were all the same!).

Stephen had hired an AC Cobra classic sports car for the weekend and along with Glenn the best man had spent the best part of Saturday charging around the North Yorkshire moors. With the car available throughout the day it made a great prop for photos of the men and later, in a just before sunset shoot of Stephen and Nikola (See photos near the bottom of the page).

Stephen, who works in Stage lighting was able to light Walton Hall in pink for the evening. The couple have jetted off on honeymoon to the Maldives, the last of Stephen's wedding day surprises.

Kym added: The photo's are absolutely stunning. Looking forward to seeing you in two weeks at our wedding. Phil & Kym

Wendy Added (Nikola's Mum): Just a note to thank you for the wonderful photos of Steven and Nikola's wedding. Thank you for so many wonderful memories.

Jim and Hayley married on Saturday in a civil ceremony at Waterton Park. Another day of sunshine allowed us to make full use of the Island for photos before the wedding breakfast held in the County Suite of Waterton Park.

Following on from A sunny weekend in Rome it was a pleasant surprise when the weather forecast for this weekend actually said it would be dry and bright, and for once those wonderful people at the met office were right! (At times moody skies threatened but these simply added to the photos).

Firstly an apology to all those of you who looked at the blog last weekend waiting for the Italian updates, sadly I was lacking wireless in all areas of the hotel, well all areas except the bar!

Saturday 20th September - Album backgrounds and location reccie

A daft O'clock alarm signals that it's Saturday morning and an early flight from East Midlands awaits. Picking up Alex enroute we arrive early and manage to avoid having the hand luggage weighed as part of our  allowance (thankfully, as between us we are carrying two laptops, four cameras, five flashguns, lots of batteries and roughly ten lenses!).

The flight to Rome Ciampino is a good opportunity to catch up on some missing sleep as once we land we are met at the airport by Christina and Marco for a final run through for tomorrow's wedding.

The afternoon schedule involves a trip into Rome city centre for a quick familiarisation before tomorrows wedding. Although little has changed to the historic areas in a thousand years, since my last visit in January the Roman Forum has been fenced off and requires a ticket for admission, even worse, professional photo shoots are not allowed. This was the location we were going to use to photograph the bridal party, time to find a plan B!

Christina Added: I just wanted to say on behalf on me and Marco thank you so much for the photos - they are amazing, we are so happy with them
 

Sunday 21st September - Wedding Day!

The wedding is at 4PM so the morning allows us the opportunity to relax and talk through the days plans. Alex will be picked up at lunch time and head off to join Marco and the guys as they get ready, leaving me to cover Christina's preparations at the villa.

It's a 45 minute drive to the church and we manage to avoid the traffic and arrive a few minutes early. Marco is obviously already here as his wedding car (a tiny Fiat 126) is waiting at the bottom of the steps. Reaching the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli involves climbing no less than 124 steps - Christina has thankfully thought ahead and brought two pairs of shoes!

The inside of the church can only be described as incredible, the warehouse sized building's brick exterior belies the ancient and historic elegant interior. The vastness of the church is quickly forgotten as Christina and Marco marry in a very intimate ceremony.

A number of formal family photos are taken on the steps before we head back to the villa for the wedding reception and the more informal coverage. It's just after two when we finally turn off the cameras and join the guests for a beer before  heading off to bed!

Monday 22nd September - Photo shoot

Because of the late afternoon ceremony yesterday we were unable to photograph Christina and Marco around the city in daylight, today's plan is to return back and spend a couple of hours taking in the Forum, Coliseum, Trevi Fountain, and time allowing, The Spanish Steps and St Peters Square.

It's a hot busy day and quickly we realise that even though we have a car we aren't going to make all the locations on the hit list. With Christina and Marco dressed in their full wedding outfits it's quickly time to stop for a coffee and some shelter before we continue on. A plan so cunning it would have made Baldrick proud is all it takes to bypass the The Forums strict no photo shoot rules and we spend a good fifteen minutes walking through the ruins. A stop at the Trevi fountain and all too soon it's been three hours and we are back in the car heading towards the villa.

Christina and Marco are heading off to spend the night in the city leaving us to celebrate Alex's birthday, now where did we say that wireless connection was?

A totally new album package was made available today along with amendments to two existing album ranges.

Eros: The new package is a large 14x11 landscape album called Eros. Each album is hand finished and and photographs printed at the award winning photo printers 'The Edge' based near Melbourne. The Eros album's landscape format is perfect for sequence images that run across a page, presenting the wedding day in continuous flow as it unfolds. Each album will display up to 120 images. For more information see the wedding packages page

Albums are available in an eye popping variety of colours and styles including leather, lace, wood and linen. Albums can also be personalised further with gatefold pages and fold out triple pages for that extra wow factor. The first gatefold and fold-out page is included with the package.

Graphistudio Album Packages: The long established Italian Story Book range is now available with free mini books. Order a Graphistudio album and a pair of parent albums, you'll receive ten free mini books. Mini books are a great way of always having a copy of your wedding album to hand or make ideal gifts for the guests. For more information see the wedding packages page

Tags: Graphistudio : Wedding Album : Storybook : Parent album : Digital Album : Italian Story Book

Alan and Adele married on Saturday at Rothwell's Holy Trinity Church before celebrating at the Tong Village Holiday Inn.

Garry and Caroline were obviously big fans of chocolate, their wedding cake featured no less than eight tiers of chocolate cake all smothered in chocolate and then swirls of more Belgian chocolate added to the outside of this gargantuan monster! And if that wasn't quite enough, a chocolate fountain was on stand by!

Wet wet wet! Spirits certainly weren't dampened for Dave and Vikki's wedding at Waterton park near Wakefield for their wedding on Friday. Vikki was adamant that we get outdoors in the evening as she had seen other photos from after dark at Waterton on this blog. Thankfully as the light dropped the rain stopped and her wish was fulfilled.