I met Devri & Michael for their London engagement session on a chilly, but beautifully bright, February afternoon . The couple were visiting from the US so they wanted to have some of the more well-known sights of London as their back drop. We braced the biting wind on Westminster Bridge, walked along the South Bank and warmed up with some jumping and laughing in St James’s Park. It was such a pleasure meeting these two and witnessing how head over heels for each other they are!
Sally & James live right next to Smithfield Market in London, and are getting married in their local church in the spring, so it made sense that we started their engagement session from the area. We then strolled down to the river, nipping in and out of cute alleyways (oh, I do love a good back alley!) on the way. There’s nothing I like better than getting to know my couples, and hanging out with Sally and James was such a joy. Can’t wait for their wedding day!
I bet Californian photographers’ blogs don’t talk about rain quite as much as mine does… It’s just a fact of London life that with every session there’s that element of excitement about whether it will bucket it down on the day or not. When it came to Nirali & Kunal’s engagement session, the pressure was really on, as between the days they were visiting London from New York and my availability, we had such a narrow window of opportunity to do our session. And of course, as if on cue, it started absolutely peeing it down an hour before our session… Luckily the rain shower was hard but short lived, and afterwards we got to have beautifully gleaming wet pavements to add a bit of London flavour into the shots.
I’m so glad the weather worked out, and despite the rain, I do love London in the autumn! It was such a pleasure meeting you Nirali & Kunal, and I hope your wedding back in NY will be absolutely fabulous! x
Remember last year when we went to Paris with Wendy & Martin for ‘part I’ of their engagement session? We always planned to do ‘part II’ in London, but it took nearly a year of arranging and re-arranging dates until we finally got together again. It was so nice to see Wendy & Martin again, and we spent a thoroughly lovely afternoon traipsing around South Bank and catching up on what’s been happening in their lives in the past year. And I just have to say, I love Wendy’s new hairstyle, sooo cute!
Huiting & Victor, who live in Singapore, got in touch with me nearly a year ago about organising their engagement session in London. The plans changed a couple of times along the way, but there was always talk about Borough Market and the Southbank area, which is where we ended up for most of the session. I know I always talk about the weather like I’m obsessed (well, as an on-location photographer it is something to obsess about, really) but I can’t not mention it on this occasion, since the rain was absolutely torrential on both sides of Huiting & Victor’s session, apart for the time that we were together when the rain miraculously stayed away! I hope it doesn’t mean I chipped in all my good weather karma in one go…
It was fun trawling the streets of London with these two (and Kate Hughes who was in charge of hair and make-up). One of the highlights was when Huiting changed into her beautiful wedding gown and people on the streets went literally a bit loopy. It was amusing watching people crane their necks trying to get a glimpse of a beautiful bride in the middle of London rush hour!
