Day 130 - Serendipity Wedding

Today was a big day in the life of Serendipity Photography...my first wedding. The bride, Alison is the sister-in-law of the owner of the Lounge Bar where I had my Serendipity Launch party. I had given Daniel my business card when I first met with him back in December and it resulted in me photographing Alison and David's wedding today.

I met with Alison and David a couple of times before the wedding and got on with them really well, a lovely relaxed couple. They wanted very informal photos of their big day, mainly because David isn't a huge fan of having his photo taken so I had some ideas for them and then would spend the most of the day wandering around taking photos of the the guests enjoying the day.

Unfortunately a few months ago Alison started to feel really unwell and had to have emergency surgery 3 weeks ago. There was a moment when they didn't think they'd be able to go ahead with the wedding and had to cancel their honeymoon as Alison can't fly at the moment. Fortunately they decided to go ahead with the big day but because Alison is still not 100% it did limit the type of photos I could do which was a shame but I hope I got some good ones for them.

I arrived 1:30 at the venue and spent the time taking photos of Alison getting ready but also sorting out the wedding cake, making sure the flowers were OK, showing the manager how to download music from i-tunes when he realised he'd lost the music for the ceremony and then doing up the bride's shoes just before the ceremony began! Who'd have thought this was all in the life of a wedding photographer! It was a small wedding and there were a few problems with the venue but considering there'd been moments when they didn't think the day would go ahead I think Alison and David had a really lovely day and definitely looked happy.