Coffee and the city....

We didn’t have a wedding last weekend so we spent it in London with four lovely couples. Our style of observational wedding photography doesn’t really lend itself to pre wedding shoots, or as Steven still calls them, engagement sessions. We normally like to photograph real life wedding days as events occur. Whereas the only reason for being photographed at a pre wedding shoot is to have your picture taken. It is inevitable then that pre wedding pictures are contrived. That said it is a perfect way to get to know your photographers. So, Steve, the couples and me are wandering the streets of our capital inventing real situations that look natural. We do like the results though.

Steve and Gosia are getting married in April in Islington and then they are having a reception in South Kensington. We met them on Saturday morning in Islington (coffee no.1) and had a walk on to the old Islington High Street where there is an “Arty” market place.





We had finished shooting with Steve and Gosia by 12 and we were not meeting Lenore and Andy until 1. As we had arranged to meet them on Upper Street in Islington we had a little wait (coffee no.2). We walked on to Highbury with Lenore and Andy, who are coming to the Miller Howe, just up the road from our studio, for their wedding in October. Arsenal were playing at home but it was a late kick off so we managed to avoid the crowds.





As is often the case at the moment there was a lot of engineering work on the Underground. The Jubilee line was closed right in the middle section so we skirted round to pick up the DLR …Nah! That was shut too. So after a little bit of ducking and weaving we got our selves back on an open section of the Jubilee line to find our way to Canary Wharf and meet up with Svetlana and Martin. With time to spare we opted for coffee no.3. We met Svetlana and Martin in their home. With true Australian/Russian/Irish hospitality they poured our 4th coffee of the day. Svetlana and Martin are planning their wedding in Tuscany for June 2011.








Once we had finished we were able to fly under our own power back to Cricklewood.

Sunday morning was much less frantic. We drove to East Finchley where we met Ola and Alex in their, new apartment. Just the one coffee and Viscount biscuits. Ola and Alex are getting married in East Finchley in August this year. We went to the Church first and then to the reception venue around the corner where we made these pictures.







We have been offering pre wedding shoots for quite a while. Now that we have shown these perhaps we will get taken up on the offer a little more.

It was lovely to meet you all after much E mailing and many phone calls and we are looking forward to all your weddings, maybe just the one coffee though.