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The marriage of Andrea Weightman and Peter Ward at St George’s Christian Centre in Ashstead, Surrey and wedding reception at Tyrrells Wood Golf Club in Leatherhead, Surrey.

Well, after a long and amazingly busy wedding season we finally shot our last wedding of the year just over a week ago. We’ve had such a fun time shooting this year that in some ways it’s going to be a case of “what am I going to do with my weekends” for the next month or so… but on the other hand we’ve been so busy it’ll also be great to take a breather before kicking off again in next year. In the meantime, I’ve also been shooting a few more portraits, and even pet photography recently so I’ll try to get a few examples of those online soon enough too.

So, Andrea and Pete – what an amazing and totally lovely couple. Andrea is a priest and Pete is deeply religious… so when they initially came to see me with a view to booking their wedding photography, they were obviously very keen to ensure that their photography would be as discreet as possible during the church service – particularly during prayers and the wedding vows themselves. We’re always happy to reassure people that although our priority is taking the best pictures we can, we also agree that the wedding vows and prayers should remain as undisturbed as possible. Fortunately, Andrea had already spotted a few of her colleagues in some of my previous wedding photos, and hadn’t heard any scary stories about me… so we were good to go!

As well as his religious beliefs, Pete is also known for being something of an amateur photographer himself – so he was keen to have a great set of pictures taken during the day. Let’s kick off with a selection of my favourites plucked from the day so far then. Do you think the kids were happy to participate?

Karen did a sterling job from the back, as ever 🙂

Of course, we weren’t the only photographers at the wedding 😉

So there you have it…

We have lots more photos to show Andrea and Pete once they return from the honeymoon and I know this is going to make a beautiful wedding album. Thank you so much for inviting us to photograph your big day – and for trusting us to be discreet – I hope you enjoy the results! In fact, I understand we had about 14 priests attending Andrea and Pete’s wedding in total, beating my previous record by about 6 – so I hope we did a good job, or we’ll probably never work again!! 😉

Surrey wedding photography at St George’s Christian Centre and Tyrrells Wood Golf Club