London wedding photography at the May Fair Hotel

The marriage of Charli Hendley and Ash Kumar at the Mayfair Hotel, London on Saturday 6th November 2010

So who enjoys a challenge?  We do… and today I’d like to show you Charli and Ash’s wedding which gave us more than our fair share of challenges to photograph!  Charli and Ash had chosen the Danziger Suite in the May Fair Hotel for their wedding ceremony and reception – a superbly impressive and opulent room opening out onto the Atrium  – but being surrounded on all sides by mirrored walls lined with glossy black trellis, worked in funky art deco swirls this was going to be a challenge indeed to photograph.  Still too easy?  Ok… how about if we were to add a low-light wedding ceremony featuring a candle-lit aisle for our bride, followed by the wedding breakfast also held under some wonderfully atmospheric (but ultimately very dark for our cameras) lighting too?  I think it’s probably fair to say that this was to be our most technically challenging wedding of 2010 and we’d need all our skills on top form to capture it!

Lighting and challenges aside, this was a really lovely wedding.  Charli and Ash are perfect for each other and were a joy to work with on the day, as was everybody else we met on the day too.  It was also really nice to bump into a few familiar faces – Ash had two best men for the day – including Paul, whose wedding to Kamila we photographed at the Stanhill Court Hotel last year.  Paul had been kind enough to recommend our services to Charli and Ash, so many thanks for that – and congratulations on the impending baby in the New Year!

So enough of my rambling… let’s look at a few wedding photos then!

Mirrored walls and low-light… a joy to photograph!  I love how you can see the guests in the reflections of this shot though 🙂

An amazing surprise suite for Charli…

The wedding cakes looked scrummy… and we enjoyed some of the best speeches I’d heard all year!

So there you are.  An interesting wedding to photograph for sure and I was certainly glad that we use only top equipment and know how to use it… which allows us to create top notch photos that would otherwise be impossible with cheaper equipment and less experience.  I hope you’ve enjoyed the photos… and, as always, your comments are welcome below.

All the best for now.

Rob.

London wedding photography at the May Fair Hotel