Portland Castle Dorset Medieval Wedding Mel and Lee

We wanted to go back and blog a few more weddings from this summer, it's been an amazing year and we'd like to thank all our couples for letting us be part of their wedding days, it is special to us and a privilege, thank you :)

Mel and Lee's Wedding at Portland Castle in Dorset was the most unusual 2008 wedding and one of the most fun and relaxed, both Teri and I dressed in medieval costume for the occasion (I'm sure we would have felt out of place if we hadn't!).

Mel's medieval wedding dress was custom made by The Costume Company who also supplied Lee's suit of armour and the majority of the wedding guests costumes, they did a great job and the craftmanship on all the costumes was top notch.

Everyone looked amazing and really entered into the spirit of the day, Portland Castle was perfect as a Medieval Wedding venue. Built in 1539 by Henry VIII to defend the harbour against possible French and Spanish invasion, it's later history includes Civil war sieges and use a prison by Oliver Cromwell.

Anna and William, Beach Pre-Wedding Shoot

Hengistbury Head nature reserve and beach provides a lot of neat areas for engagement images and Anna and Will were up for a ride on the land train and didn't mind going off the beaten track a little :)

Umbrellas have become a mini theme during 2008, being featured in quite a few weddings and pre-wedding shoots!

Travels With My Camera (Italy!)

Ahh,, they say that Italian is the language of love, it's not hard to see why once you've been to Italy and met the people there :)

I got to 'discover' Italy myself this past September as I tagged along with Zoe Richards to participate in photographing the wonderfully romantic destination wedding of Jules and Mick. As I get time I'll write a few blog entries covering the adventures Zoe and I had, as well as a few favorite images from Jules and Mick's pre wedding session in the glorious medieval hillside village of Castellabate on Friday and their wedding in the amazing Castellabate Castle on saturday.

So now for a few personal images from Italy. It's rare these days that I get time to shoot for fun, but it was hard to put my camera down. If you do plan to visit Italy, I highly recommend a visit to Castellabate. The views from the top of the hillside, where the Castle looms over Santa Maria, is absolutely breathtaking.

Teri

Change can be a good thing :)

Hey all!

David and I wanted to give a huge thanks to those you have sent us email comments about the new look for the blog.

The feedback had been incredible, it's great to hear others as excited about the changes as we are :) There is more to come!

Changes have been in the works for a while, but as the summer and early autumn was so crazy busy, we are only just
finding the time to work on the list of improvements and updates to the blog, and websites. :)

There will be a plethora of entries made during November, as David and I catch everyone up on all of the happenings from the past summer, so put on your running shoes and be prepared to keep up!

Teri