Monthly Archives: May 2011

Manchester Monastery wedding photography │ Cheryl and Paul

28th May 2011

I had been looking forward to being a Manchester Monastery wedding photographer ever since the restoration to this famous landmark building had been completed.  The Monastery’s decline is well documented and with the building falling into disuse some twenty years ago it became the target of thieves and tinkers.  That was then and this is now.  The Monastery has been transformed into a unique and very special wedding venue that also caters for conferences, meetings and formal dinners of all sizes.

Cheryl and Paul chose me to be their Manchester Monastery wedding photographer after seeing my website and loving my blend of natural and informal photography.  My prayers for good weather were answered, and when I arrived at her mother’s house for the getting ready pictures I was happy to find that Cheryl was as bubbly as ever, so looking forward to the big day ahead.  This was going to be a great day!

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Adlington Hall wedding photography │ Katherine and Paul

1ST May 2011

Katherine and Paul chose me to be their Adlington Hall wedding photographer on 1st May.  Like Laura and Ben whose Statham Lodge wedding photographer I had been the previous month, Katherine and Paul had been at both of the Cobley weddings (your cheque is in the post guys!) so we already knew each other quite well.  At our pre-wed meet I also discovered that we’d both been on holidays to New Zealand and were knocked out not only by the landscape, naturally, but also by the little things such as the live green-lipped mussels you could buy in many supermarkets, and by the great coffee you can get at anywhere, with not a Starbucks or Café Nero in sight.

It was another warm and sunny day, though a little hazy cloud cover to soften the harsh light would have been welcome. (Some photographers are never satisfied!).  I don’t normally mention flowers but I thought the colour combinations in Katherine’s bouquet were particularly lovely. After the wedding at St. Anne’s in Sale the bacon butties came round to keep everyone fuelled up, a brilliant idea when the ceremony falls around lunchtime and eating beforehand would have been just too early for lunch.

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