Kent wedding photography at The London Golf Club

The marriage of Lindsay Wells and Joe Brown on Saturday 14th August 2010 – with bridal preparations at the Rowhill Grange Hotel & Utopia Spa in Wilmington, Kent and wedding ceremony and reception at the London Golf Club near Brands Hatch, Kent

Hi all,

We’ve been having fun again!  Today I’m going to show you Lindsay and Joe’s wedding photos that Karen and I took at the weekend.  Regular readers will recognise our bride and groom today from their pre wedding photo shoot at Kelsey Park a few weeks ago in Beckenham… and if this wedding doesn’t demonstrate the benefits of a good pre-wedding shoot for relaxing a bride and groom then I’ll eat my hat because we’ve got a corker in store for you today!  When we met for the pre wedding shoot, Joe explained that he wasn’t perhaps the most comfortable person in front of the camera – but we thought the shoot went really well and got some great pictures.  I can only assume that Joe agreed, because on the wedding day both he and Lindsay were so totally ‘up’ for running with our ideas that we really got to push the boat out and came away with a whole heap of classics!  We started with Lindsay, who was getting ready at the Rowhill Grange Hotel & Utopia Spa in Wilmington.  The Spa has lovely rooms and Lindsay had a bathroom to die for, which made a great setting for our bridal preps – so let’s take a look at a few examples then.  We’ll start from the ground up… wedding shoes!

Pretty funky shoes – Karen couldn’t get over how tiny they were!  Next up, here’s a shot of Lindsay being laced into the wedding dress by Kelly…

Our radiant bride, looking… well… radiant!

And let’s not forget the dashing groom.  I was so impressed with how relaxed Joe was in front of my camera…

The wedding ceremony:

I love capturing these moments – and with everyone so relaxed, I had great fun taking candid photos of the guests enjoying themselves.

I think the portrait above is lovely… and the one below is just the kind of natural moment I like to take.  Kids are great – an absolute nightmare to pose, but they’re so genuine that they’ll give you great shots all day!

Now here’s an exception for me… although we take a handful of formal photos at mostly every wedding, I don’t usually post them on the blog (I’m a sucker for posting the creative photos first)… but Karen and I both thought this was so lovely we just had to post it up.  Who says formal photos have to be boring?  This is just so smiley I can’t help but smile back at everyone in this photo!

Kids love me.  Honest.

I wondered where Karen had got to during the speeches… turns out she wasn’t impressed with my bridal bouquet photos – so she went off to take her own

“Wow” gorgeous rings.  Another of Karen’s ideas here – staying colour co-ordinated to match the wedding colours!

So many pictures to choose from, and I haven’t really even shown you any bride and groom photos yet!  Let’s take a look at a couple from a later session we did with Lindsay and Joe after the wedding breakfast.  Here’s Lindsay, still looking fantastic.  And where exactly was this taken?  Hehe.  Oh, we do have some fun

Aah… first dance.  Lovely.

Ok, and one final photo for now:

…and that’s the wedding previews for you.  What a fantastic couple!  Thank you so much Lindsay and Joe for being such a great couple to work with - it really does make all the difference.  We had a blast!  Absolutely great wedding day, and we even (somehow) managed to avoid the rain.  I hope you enjoyed looking through the preview photos everyone, and do leave your comments below – I know our brides and grooms love to read them!

All the best,

Rob.

Modern wedding photography in Kent at the London Golf Club