Having been wedding photographers since 1996 Rob and I have been present at some wonderful marriages.
I've tucked over 100 beautiful brides into their wedding cars and thoroughly enjoyed recording their special day.

 

You don't need to spend a fortune to have a happy wedding day. I can honestly say that couples who organise their weddings on a shoestring have just as happy a day as those who spend a lot more money. In fact the 2 most stressful weddings were, yes you guessed it, the most expensive. Probably because of over ambitious expectations and what
I see as a strange need for some deluded brides to prove to friends that they can afford the most expensive choices.

As long as the happy couple, their family and genuine friends celebrate and enjoy the day, who could ask for more ?

Emma and Jeff tied the knot in June. A church wedding ceremony followed by a reception at a Devon pub.

 

Bertie and David chose a civil ceremony at one of the hotels on Dartmoor. The lady with the book is the Registrar.

 

These days as long as it has a civil ceremony certificate from Devon County Council, there are many and varied

licenced wedding venues where you can get married. And same sex ceremonies are welcome all over Devon.

In 1974 I got married in a borrowed wedding dress. It was standard in those days to get married at around noon.
The reception was usually a large lunch at a local pub or hotel followed by speeches, cutting the cake and then the

happy couple were waved off in the late afternoon driving a car that had been heavily decorated with
shaving foam and a collection of noisy tin cans and old boots tied to the back bumper. We got married in
November and we set off for our honeymoon in daylight, even with time taken time to change into my 'going away
outfit'. So the whole lovely wedding was done and dusted in about 5 hours. How things have changed !

 

 

 

 

 

This happy couple are posed for their wedding photographs at Postbridge in the centre of Dartmoor
on the famous granite clapper bridge. There are hundreds of different locations all over the Moor, where
you can pose for your wedding photos. Spectacular tors and forests, beautiful riverbanks, ancient bridges
and pretty villages in the most stunning country locations in the heart of Devon.

 

In 2001 I had phone call from a bride (above) asking if I would take just 3 or 4 photos at a wedding on Burgh Island ?

She explained that there would be no guests at the wedding only the Registrar, the Registrar's Assistant and us the photographers. I told her that I could not possibly take only 4 photos at any wedding, but suggested that I take quite a few shots, and that they could buy as many of them as they wished. If she only wanted 4 then that would be fine by me.
The couple came to visit us and told us that they would be having the wedding of their dreams on the island, with
a large family party later on in the month at their home town of Clevedon. Marilyn explained that some of the older
guests would simply not be able to journey down to Burgh Island, so would Rob and I mind being our witnesses ?
I was delighted and of course said yes. This turned out to be one of our favourite weddings ever. See above.

Following the ceremony, the lady Registrar and her lady assistant the bride and groom and Rob and I all sat and
enjoyed a slice of specially made gluten free cake, as Marilyn is a celiac, and drank a bottle of champagne together,
us four toasting the happy couple. Then the 2 officials had to get onto the tractor affair that transports visitors
from the island, back to the mainland, and we 4 spent the sunny afternoon walking around the island taking wedding photos on the beach, and in all parts of this beautiful Art Deco hotel. At 4 o'clock we sat down to a wedding breakfast Devon Cream tea overlooking the beach, and later on we and every other person going home on the tractor waved goodbye to them as they stood arm in arm near to the slipway. They had exactly the wedding that they wanted,

and yes, just as I thought, they bought over 40 photos plus a gorgeous black leather Marconi album.