Jacqui & Dave (and Mabel pup!)- An Intimate Mid-Week Summer Micro Wedding at Rowton Hall - Chester Wedding Photographer
“Listen, whatever you see and love—
that’s where you are.”
I’m caught out of breath more times than I care to admit by the beauty of this new world. How every gesture, every touch, every small moment and large celebration is an exhuberance of JOY now. The joy to be held once more, to share a grin in giddiness, the unabashed and un self-conscious joy of our children meeting once more and the lack of fear surrounding the contact. I’m greedily drinking this joy in, feasting upon it with gluttony whilst I can because, as I have learned all too harshly in the past 18 months, this life is wild and precious and our only one so we MUST go out and travel to far off places and live beside the sea and find SOMETHING, anything, to make this world a more beautiful place.
So it’s been a jump-in-headfirst kind of summer so far and mid-week weddings are now just as common as the weekend worldies and I’m so so so in love with them all! Smaller, undeniably quieter and yet no less joyful, the micro wedding is mainstreaming into our lives as a welcome post-pandemic addition. I love these couples who trust me to capture the vows even their dearest friends won’t bear witness to and exploring new and more intimate venues or even seeing my usual haunts in a totally different light feels like stumbling onto a secret.
Yesterday the effervescent Jacqui married her sweetheart Dave in the Inglenook Suite of the GORGEOUS Rowton Hall in Chester with just a few very close family members faithfully looking on whilst their labrador (and ultimate flower girl) Mabel Pie bounded around greeting all her new best friends with her very own flower collar and goober-dog grin. Following a short and sweet ceremony, we made our way out to the STUNNING landscaped gardens for fizz and photos and I truly mean it when I say the short time we spent together was perfectly magical and contained all the glee and giddiness of the grand soiree. Jacqui & Dave are so so beautifully in love and their adoration for each other is so infectious you can’t help getting wrapped up in it.
I loved our wedding yesterday, I loved immersing myself in all that delicious wedidng joy and I look ahead to a year of more (and more and more!).
Here’s a sneak peek of what we got up to - with an emphasis on Miss Mabel, the true star of the show!
