It was off to the seaside for Simone and Alex’s wonderful Bournemouth Wedding day. A superb venue with a historic artistic twist at Russel Cotes museum, musical performances from numerous guests, walk on the prom……lots of great photo potential…..read on
The day started at the Highcliff Marriott Hotel, with Simone and her bridesmaids making their preparations. The atmosphere was lively and tingling with anticipation. Things hotted up further with the arrival of Simone’s sisters, all dressed to kill carrying some cans of Pimms. The bridesmaids all received a necklace as a gift from Simone, which they put on for the day.
I then moved on to Russel Cotes, which is totally unique and stacked with a staggering amount of works of art from the Victorian era and beyond. The ceremony room has a splendid window backdrop, with views to the sea. Alex was focused on the task in hand. I loved the button hole flower with musical notes detailed on the petals within. Music is a great passion for the couple and friends had started to play on the piano and double bass to set a nice atmosphere.
Simone arrived looking beautiful and the bridesmaids led the way, down the magnificent staircase (mind your step!) to approach the ceremony room. Alex was visibly moved at the sight of his lovely bride and Simone’s radiant smile lit the room up, even more ! After a touching ceremony there was a surprise in store for Simone and Alex conducted some musicians through a piece that he had composed specially for the occasion – wow ! (most of us grooms just about manage to comb our hair to impress our brides!). We then had time for photos around the museum and outside in the lovely gardens, with lots of amazing backdrops.
The walk to the Marriott hotel for the reception was sort of…’interesting’ ? We set of in lovely peaceful sunshine and entered a new (or maybe familiarly British) world of darkened skies, gusts of wind and driving rain. It was quite hilarious and we got some fun shots without getting drenched.
The reception flowed nicely with more background music and piano pieces for the meal – with chosen guests taking turns. It was a great occasion with speeches, party poppers and general mucking about.
The first dance started fairly traditionally and romantically, when abruptly, the music tripped and jerked into a more lively number with Alex & Simone breaking into a fantastic synchronised cheeky bit of choreography !! A giant balloon was burst scattering streamers over the dance floor as guests spun their moves. Later Alex and his band played and Simone sang beautifully.
A pleasure to be a part of this truly memorable Bournemouth Wedding day for this very talented and lovely couple. To see their whole day in my galleries, please click here
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Thanks for an amazing day and truly fantastic photos Bill! Wonderfully summed up in words there as well! 😉 x
I just want to say a HUGE thank you to you, Bill for our wonderful wedding pictures. I have been looking at them constantly, just can’t get enough of them! You really captured the magic of our special day!
First of all, your style on the day was so relaxed and you made us feel at ease. You were not like those typical pushy photographers that get in the way and boss everyone about, in fact we hardly noticed you, yet you captured so many wonderful shots. And our favourite ones were the natural unposed ones.
You were also very professional and clearly know a lot about what makes a good photo. At one point you noticed the light was perfect for some outside evening shots and we happened to get the best sunset we’d ever set our eyes on that day. That sunset pic of us staring out into the distance is our favourite shot!
Thank you also for being so friendly and easy to work with. It was such an emotional, special day for us and it shows in each and every photo.