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Love is NOT cancelled - In Praise of the Teeny-Tiny Wedding and a Wedding Photographer's Perspective
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Love is NOT cancelled - In Praise of the Teeny-Tiny Wedding and a Wedding Photographer's Perspective

2020 has been a year of re-birth, of re-incarnation, of re-setting. And like all birth stories, it’s been violent and messy, terrifying and enlightening. As wedding suppliers we’ve had to adapt our offerings - adapt or perish in the most dramatic of fashions. 2020 has been a rallying cry for the thousands of makers and creators, suppliers and chefs, servers and artists and entertainers, heavy-lifters and calm-the-bride-downers, planners and coordinators and magicians and dress-sellers, light-the-room-uppers, cleaners and every single large and small (but no less freaking important) human YOU rely on to create the fairytale ballroom or intimate woodland wedding of your goddamn dreams.

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Alice & Oliver - A Beautifully Windswept St. George's Hall Wedding - Liverpool Wedding Photography
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Alice & Oliver - A Beautifully Windswept St. George's Hall Wedding - Liverpool Wedding Photography

St George’s Hall is a behemoth of a columned building, situated just opposite Lime Street Station. This icon of a space (and Liverpool landmark) provided a STUNNING backdrop for Alice and Oliver’s nuptials and, despite the many restrictions in place (the masks are particularly timely!), nothing could overshadow the utter delight and romance of these two wonderful humans.

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Tom & Maria - An intimate, emotional Hillbark Hotel Wedding - Wirral Wedding Photography
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Tom & Maria - An intimate, emotional Hillbark Hotel Wedding - Wirral Wedding Photography

Perhaps not the big jolly day initially envisioned, yesterday’s very intimate Hillbark Hotel ceremony and backyard ‘covid-kosher’ mini-celebration was no less joyous…if anything the joy and love were palpable, wrapping our lovers in a snug cloak of happiness as they said their vows before a pared-back guest list of only dearest friends and relatives (less than thirty, I promise).

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Akash & Paneesha - A Warm & Wonderful Traditional Hindu Wedding at Tatton Park - Indian Wedding Photography
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Akash & Paneesha - A Warm & Wonderful Traditional Hindu Wedding at Tatton Park - Indian Wedding Photography

Akash & Paneesha chose to get married at the epic, sprawling Tatton Park - we began with a civil ceremony in the morning in the mansion foyer before hiding out from the weather and capturing portraits in the lush green orangerie. Original plans to have their mandap for their Indian ceremony outside were scuppered by the rain but an easy shift by the flawless Tatton Park events staff brought us into Tenant’s Hall…

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