Marianne Taylor Photography | Portrait & Family Photographer in Cornwall
On-location portrait and family photography in North Cornwall. Siren of the Sea sessions, couples, families. Soft, romantic, coastal.
Hello, my name is Marianne and I’m a field addict… I’m sure this will pass (in time with the seasons), but at the moment I just can’t get enough of dragging couples out into fields for some portraits! Sophie and Henry got married in Solihull on Saturday and at Sophie’s request I have whipped up a little super speedy sneak preview. More to come (quite a bit) later…
Funnily enough Helen & Tom’s wedding was the first ‘local’ wedding I’ve ever been a part of. I cover a lot of weddings in central London, and all over the UK, but for some reason I’ve never gotten a lot of enquiries for south west London where I’m based. So in that sense, this wedding holds a special place in my heart.
Helen and Tom got married at the Holy Trinity on Twickenham Green and the reception of their wedding was held at the beautiful Richmond Hill Hotel. The sun was beaming down with all it’s strength all day and the wedding had a real fun and warm atmosphere to it. Helen is one of those uber-organised brides, and I have to say that the schedule at this wedding ran like clockwork (which is a rare thing)! I also have to mention the photo booth, provided by Groovybooth, which was a real blast. I’m not normally a huge fan of photo booths, but this one definitely worked well and looked like a lot of fun – not to mention the resulting pictures were really cool.
I’d like to thank Helen and Tom for finding me so early on, and for being totally awesome, I really loved getting to know you and your families. I wish you all the best for your future together!
Here’s a little sneaky peek from Anna & Chris’ beautiful Surrey wedding from a few weeks back. You might remember their engagement session in Richmond Park from last year. I’ll be down in Cornwall for the next week, but hopefully I’ll be able to finish this wedding and post some more pictures while I’m there. Depends entirely on whether I’m too busy sitting on the beach, reading the huge stack of books I’ve been hoarding for this trip!
I just can’t resist posting a very sneaky peek from Anna & Russ’ adorable vintage-flavoured tea party wedding, just because Anna looks so absolutely stunning getting into her gown! I’m still editing the rest of the pictures, so it will be a little while until you can see more, but I will share a gorgeous Oxford hill top wedding this weekend. Stay tuned!
A little sneak peek from Anna & Andrew’s beautiful Colchester wedding at Layer Marney Tower last Saturday. Stay tuned!
Here’s a little sneak peek from Lucy & Jeremy’s wedding, which took place in the STUNNING St. Bartholomew The Great, with a reception at The Royal Exchange. Full blog post coming some time next week (I hope!).
I should also mention that my blog is experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment, mainly the categories are not loading properly. I will be moving over to a different blogging platform this weekend, which will hopefully make everything better, but in the meanwhile you can still browse via the archives. Sorry for the inconvenience!
I just had to share this shot from Caroline & Ben’s wedding from last Saturday, as I think it’s one of my favourite pictures I’ve taken so far this year. I still have another wedding to edit before I get to the rest of the images from this one, but I just couldn’t resist having a peek to see whether this came out like I thought it did when I took it.
A full blog post on Simona & Dan’s Andaz/Gherkin wedding coming later this week.
Katie & Sam’s wedding got featured on The Wedding Chicks. I love how pretty the images look on there, almost like it was meant to be. :D
Fiona & Peter’s wedding at the start of January kicked off the 2010 wedding season for me. At the time, UK was in the grips of the biggest snowfall I’ve ever seen in my 10 years here, and in the days of snow mayhem leading up to the big day I was more than a little bit worried about how we were going to get to the wedding! In the end, while there were some scary moments on the icy roads where my heart was in my throat, we did manage to get around to everywhere we needed to be. The wedding took place at Stoke Place, which I have to say is absolutely g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s! I really hope I get to go back there again.
Fiona was a gorgeous bride and this wedding was filled with beautiful details, laughter and good food. Thanks for having us guys, it truly was a pleasure!
Yesterday Katie and Sam got married at Hassop Hall in Derbyshire in what was my last wedding of 2009. It was a long old day of travelling half way up the country and back again, but certainly worth it for the chance to be a part of this beautiful winter wedding. Katie and Sam are now off on their honeymoon, and I will be leaving for the airport in about 5 minutes to catch my flight to Finland where I’ll be ringing in the New Year.
See you all in 2010!
After my little break, I couldn’t have wished for a nicer wedding than Emily and John’s to get me back into the swing of things. Winter weddings are always a bit of challenge when it comes to available light and the weather in general, and this one certainly wasn’t an exception. The ceremony of Emily & John’s wedding took place at Woodstock Town Hall in Oxfordshire, at 3pm. The sun set at 3.35pm. And let me tell you, when the sun sets outside of London, it actually gets dark. Like really dark. :D Despite the darkness, and the constant rain, I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed recording the warm atmosphere of this wedding. The reception, at The Great Barn in Aynho, had such a joyous and christmassy feel to it that I felt compelled to put my own Christmas decorations up the very next day!
Thank you so much Emily & John for letting us share your gorgeous and fun wedding day with you!
A little teaser from Emily & John’s wedding in Oxfordshire last Saturday. A girl can’t help but drool over Emily’s Louboutins…
I have now officially closed 2009 for wedding bookings (I was supposed to do this aaages ago, but got seduced by all your lovely weddings!). I’ve also moved over to 2010 prices and have a brand spanking new price list to go with it. If nothing else, it’s certainly at least nicer to look at than my old one. :) If I’ve consulted with you about a 2010 wedding, and you have been given the old price list, I will hold to those prices until the end of 2009 (although you might not want to wait until the end of the year to book as next year is booking up pretty fast!). If you would like to have a look at the new price list in any case, do drop me an email and I’ll send one over.
Below is an overview of my current booking situation.
2009
Fully booked
2010
January – Limited availability
February – Limited availability
March – Fully booked
April – Limited availability
May – Fully booked
June – Limited availability
July – Limited availability
August – Limited availability
September – Limited availability
Tiny little teaser from Trinh & Alastair’s wedding last Saturday. Still a looong way to go until I’m done with these babies.
A fact. Magali & Jeff are made of awesome. More to come soon once I manage to conquer the editing of this wedding without constantly having to tackle other urgent and distracting issues.
Currently editing the most awesomest of awesome (can you tell I’m running out of superlatives here) weddings and couldn’t resist posting a little sneaky preview, even though it will still be a while until I get rest of these babies edited. Also have an engagement shoot that I need to post at some point. If only there were a few more hours in a day.
The ceremony of Sarah & Dan’s wedding took place at St Margarets Church in Edgware. From there I got to ride with the bride and groom over to the Landmark Hotel where the festivities continued, while Susanna travelled with the guests on an old routemaster bus, which seems to be a big trend for this summer’s weddings. This particular bus came with an actual conductor and some knees-up music to keep people in good spirits. I on the other hand got to drive along Abbey Road and managed to make a bit of a faux pas when I enthused how comfortable the seats were ‘even better than in my car!’. ‘Well they ought to be, it’s a Rolls Royce!’ came the aghast answer from the driver and I was quite lucky not to have been out on my ear right then. :D
On Abbey Road, about to pass that crossing.
Sarah & Dan got married at St Margarets Church in Edgware, north London, and their reception took place at the fabulous Landmark Hotel. In the morning I tagged along as Sarah and her little bridesmaids got ready at Sarah’s parents’ house, while Susanna went to take some (pretty awesome) portraits of the boys at the nearby Edgware football club.
I shall show you more of this gorgeous wedding as I get further along in my editing. Phew, this time of year is certainly not called the silly season for nothing!
I’m not very far into editing Eleni & David’s wedding from last weekend, but just had to share this image. Usually church layouts, and photography restrictions, make it hard to get into a good angle for the first kiss, but St Marks in Teddington was perfect for this! Love this picture. <3