It was so nice to see Laura and Richard again when we met up for their engagement session in central London the other week. We started off at Bank station in the City, and then strolled over the river, finishing up at Bermondsey Street, which is a really lovely area of South-East London with it’s cute shop fronts and splashes of colour. It was such a lovely and sunny day, and I had so much fun with Laura and Richard – really looking forward to their wedding in September!
Jill and Gareth live in Washington DC, and have been planning their wedding in the UK remotely, hence I’ve been waiting to meet them for what seems like forever! While they were over here in June, sorting out details for the October wedding, we finally got to hang out together for their engagement session. And it was so so much fun! I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone with as a gorgeous laugh as Jill has, and it was a joy to capture her boundless energy and the beautiful interaction between Gareth and her. The timing was also perfect for the rose garden in Regent’s Park, which was in full bloom and a great backdrop for pictures.
It was such a pleasure spending time with you guys, I’m really looking forward to the wedding now!
I’m off to Paris for the weekend for what should be a very exciting wedding, but I shall leave you in the good company of Sophie and Jonny and their sunny London engagement session. It was a lovely summery day when I met up with Sophie and Jonny in Green Park for some fun amongst all the glorious green. After a quick change of clothes for Sophie, we made our way onto the streets and alleyways of Mayfair where she could really show off her fantastic heels! These two are super cute, and their wedding in September is promising to be pretty damn cool, if mentions of ‘burlesque’, ‘black & white theme’ and ’1951 red Pontiac Cheiftan’ are anything to go by!
Oh dear. I just realised the blog is feeling a bit unloved! I’ve been so busy catching up with editing that I kind of forgot to blog.
I was so happy I made it back to the UK just in time for Kristy & Peri’s Greenwich engagement shoot. I have to say it was a bit of a shock to the system to return to what seemed like full-on summer, when it had just been sleeting in Finland the previous day! The day of our shoot was absolutely gorgeous, and I had a blast getting to know a part of London that hasn’t really been a part of my usual haunts. Kristy and Peri are getting married in their native Australia this winter (alas, summer for them!) and I wish they’ll have a beautiful wedding day and a wonderful life together – what with them being such sunny personalities I’m sure that’s all a given!
Thanks guys, I really had a fun day traipsing around Greenwich with you!
Sooo I finally made it out of Finland last Friday and came back home to a huge backlog of work that had been piling up while I was stuck over there. I’ve hit the editing with a vengeance and can now finally start showing you something new.
Rachel and Ben’s original engagement shoot got rescheduled due to horrendous weather, and even though that meant that we weren’t able to do it until just a week before the actual wedding day, it turned out to be a lucky thing as that was the weekend when all the trees started blossoming! Battersea Park was full of colours, which provided a beautiful backdrop to the very windy day.
Look out for pictures from Rachel and Ben’s beautiful Oxford wedding soon (well, as soon as I get through them!).
Helen is one of those very organised brides who booked me for her and Tom’s May wedding well over a year ago. She came to our first meeting with a thick stack of printouts for me, with information and pictures of all her wedding venues and plans. I love that! It’s so nice to share in on the excitement of the planning stages, and really get a feel for what the couple wants their big day to look like.
It was so nice seeing Helen and Tom again after such a long time. We did their engagement shoot in the beautiful gardens of Hampton Court Palace and the weather really couldn’t have been nicer. And even though Tom was absolutely dreading the experience, he proved to be a real natural in front of the camera!
Really can’t wait for the wedding now, I’m pretty sure it will be lots of fun!
Here are a few shots from Rubbina & Louis’ South Bank engagement shoot from a few weeks ago. Despite the lovely sun, the temperature on the day plummeted due to the freezing wind, and I don’t think any of us could feel our fingers by the end of the shoot! But we did still have a good time, which is all that matters. Fingers crossed that was the last properly cold day of the winter. I’m really looking forward to seeing Rubbina & Louis again at their wedding, hopefully in much warmer conditions!
Rose & Brendan’s Southwark engagement session was so much fun. It was the first truly warm day of this spring (even if the temperature has taken a turn for the worse since then) and we even had a few rays of sunshine to brighten up our day. After the looooong, dark and cold winter we’ve had in London, it really felt good to be out and about without being dressed for an arctic expedition. I’m so looking forward to Rose and Brendan’s wedding in June, which, with Rose’s fashion designer credentials, is bound to be absolutely beautiful.
Oh yes, I almost forgot to mention, they also get a gold star for being the first couple ever who jumped perfectly on the first shot! :D
Rose & Brendan’s engagement shoot yesterday kicked butt. I really enjoyed traipsing around Southwark with this couple, and we even managed to capture some sunshine! Honestly, it was so very strange seeing sunlight through my camera for the first time in months…
To be honest, I really shouldn’t give you any more sneak peeks of anything until I’ve actually finished editing all the weddings and sessions I need to finish, but I just couldn’t resist testing out my new blogging platform. It’s been a long day of moving everything over to WordPress, but I think things work more or less normally now – or actually, even better than before. Do let me know if you experience any glitches and I’ll get on it!
Oh and do remember to update your RSS feed for Marianne Taylor Photography.
If there was an award for the craziest engagement shoot weather ever, Simona & Dan’s shoot would win hands down. Oh. My. God. Gale force winds and horizontal rain made this one of my most challenging shoots to date. I have to say that Simona and Dan were absolute troopers, and despite the slightly ‘windswept’ look, Simona managed to look absolutely stunning throughout! They are one of my (many!) couples getting married at the Andaz next year, and as if that wasn’t exciting enough prospect, their evening party will take place at the Gherkin. I can’t wait!
As a rule us photographers generally have a very turbulent love affair with light. More often than not dark clouds and gray skies try to come between us (unless you’re lucky enough to be a photographer in California), but sometimes we just manage to be in the right place at the right time. On those days, when the sun comes out to play and it’s all good, you know that you and light are as tight as can be.
It was pretty much the perfect autumn day when we went to Primrose Hill for Erika & Jon’s engagement shoot on the last weekend of October. The gloriously warm and beautifully low autumn sunshine made me a bit giddy, and all the colourful leaves were like sensory overload. If only every day and every shoot could be like this!
October was all about the engagement shoots. I did so many that my head got a bit dizzy. Now in November I actually have at least a couple of well-deserved weekends off (woo!) until my weddings pick up again in December.
For Fiona and Pete’s engagement session we tried to think of something a bit different from the standard wandering-around-the-streets-approach. I got the idea of using the spaces at Andaz Liverpool Street, as there are so many different nooks and crannies with completely different atmospheres, and kindly we got a permission from the hotel to do our little shoot there. In the end I think that all the logistics and organising that went with this shoot possibly made it a bit more highly strung than the average engagement shoot, so I think in the future I’ll be sticking to the old trusted wandering model. But still, once we got going, we did have a blast shooting our way through the hotel.
Thanks so much Fiona and Pete for your patience on the day. Not long to go until the wedding and I for one am really looking forward to it!
Sam hates being photographed. I mean really hates being photographed. So his and Katie’s engagement session certainly required some cunning methods on my part in order to try to capture some of the relaxed and loving interaction they fell into when ever the camera wasn’t pointing at Sam. Katie and Sam are a thoroughly lovely couple, and we did have a lot of fun, but boy did Sam make me work for my pictures! :D Having said that, he did swear that he’ll be on his best behaviour on the wedding day in December. I’m holding you to your promise Sam! :P
We started our shoot at Borough Market and then made our way over London Bridge into the City. Ever since Carolyn & Marc’s wedding, when ever I’m doing a shoot in the City I just cannot resist going back to Leadenhall Market! I went to see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus recently, and was so excited to see that Leadenhall featured quite heavily in the film – so cool!
Sam & Adam SO belong on Rock’n Roll Bride – they’re just too cool for school (however, using that turn of phrase probably puts me right in the opposite category :P). Sam’s Diana wasn’t just a prop by the way, unfortunately there is evidence of that fact on film…
This engagement session felt somehow very special to me as I’d been waiting to meet Sam and Adam for what seems like aaaages. Due to them being busy posh designers, plus living in Italy, it wasn’t the easiest job trying to schedule their shoot at a time when they’d be in London and all of us would have space in our calendars. We headed to Spitalfields for their session, as this is Sam’s favourite part of London, and certainly managed to have quite an eventful afternoon! Among other things, we managed to stumble onto a society wedding, which was quite exciting as there were masses of paparazzi there pouncing on the celebrity guests.
It was so great finally meeting Sam and Adam, I can’t wait for their wedding at the Andaz next year!
