real weddings Archives - Joe Lewis | South Wales Wedding Photographer

Feb

Nat & Marian – Polhawn fort wedding photographer -Joe Lewis Photography

Hey there! Today on the blog is Nat & Marians beautiful wedding at Polhawn Fort in Cornwall. Polhawn Fort is quite a unique wedding venue, in that the whole place is yours! Its right on the coast with its own beach and the girls did their wedding their way. An outdoor ceremony, Cornish pasties and cream teas for lunch and a wicked party! The girls wanted a relaxed wedding with family and friends with a DIY feel. The weather was on our side, allowing for a beautiful ceremony within the grounds, overlooking the Cornish coast. In the evening, myself, the girls and a few of the wedding guests took a stroll down to the beach which is a part of Polhawn fort to watch the sun go down and take some photos. I was really pleased with how they came out and you check them out below. If you are getting married at Polhawn Fort and fancy getting some photos on the beach, my only advice would be to try and do this before yourself and the your guests have had a few drinks! It was a lot easier to get down to the beach than it was getting back up. I can’t wait to come back to the Fort in 2020 for another awesome wedding. Hopefully the weather will be on my side again for that one.

This wedding was also recently featured on the amazing One fab Days Saturday Selection, check it out here! I am really pleased to be featured on One Fab Day, it is an awesome wedding blog and hopefully it will be the first of many!

I would love to chat about your wedding plans, come say hello! Although I am based in South Wales, I can travel all over to capture your wedding. You can also checkout more of my wedding work in the Gallery.

Hope you enjoy the photo’s.

Joe

Nov

Jenna & Tom – Decourceys Manor autumnal wedding

Hey there! I have finally got round to blogging about Tom & Jenna’s amazing wedding at Decourceys Manor. Tom & Jenna are quite possibly the nicest people on plant earth and their wedding reflected that! Decourceys Manor is one of my favourite venues to work at too, if you are looking for a Decourceys Manor wedding photographer hit me up, I love going there. The food is amazing and there are so many cool places for photos.

Jenna & Tom got married on a crisp November day in beautiful Ceremony room at Decouceys. It was so lovely to get to know Jenna & Tom a little before their wedding. I met them at Penarth Pier for a pre wedding photoshoot which was lovely and we discussed their plans for natural wedding photography. I just wanted to mention that Tom runs an amazing organisation called Not Broken, looking at accessibility for bikes and adaptive solutions to ensure that no matter what the accessibility everyone is able to access a bike. I won’t ramble on too much as the photos from the day are below and they tell the story of the day far better than I can. Please check out the gallery for more of my work. If you are getting married and feel that my work would suit your wedding day, come and say hey! I love to chat about wedding plans and would love to photograph your wedding. 2020 is looking to be my busiest year yet, so if you are reading this and are thinking of getting in touch about your wedding photography please don’t wait on it.

I am also very proud to be on the Decourceys Manor wedding photographer recommended list. I’m so excited to return to Decourceys next year and capture some more beautiful weddings for the awesome couples I get too work with.

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May

Sam & Caitlin’s Gower wedding – sneak peek! Gower wedding photographer

Gower wedding photographer time! Hello everyone! Todays blog post is a sneak peek at Sam & Caitlin’s Gower wedding I recently shot. This is my first attempt of doing a sneak preview on this blog, I am aiming to preview 15 images from each wedding. I hope you like it.

Sam & Caitlin are in incredibly sweet people and it was a very special day for many different reasons. Sam & Caitlin got married at St Gwynours Church with the reception at Stout Hall, Gower. Sam & Caitlin wanted a relaxed day that reflected them as people, so lots of laughs, home made table favours from books and a fair bit of beer. Sam delivered a lovely speech and the guys had practiced their first dance which was awesome. We took some time after the first dance to go up to a view point in the Gower for some photos and it was totally worth it for the sunset. There are a lot more photos to come but until then, here’s the 15 photo sneak peek! We also did some photos in a wild overgrown meadow within the grounds of Stout Hall. I got down within the white flowers to take a photo that I thought would look pretty awesome with the flowers in. The main problem though was that the white flowers were not actually white flowers, they were wild garlic! Its safe to say that I smelt quite distinctive for the rest of the day. We had an awesome time and I hope that is shown through the photos.

If you want to chat about your wedding plans, please say hello over on the contact page! You can also check out my most recent work on Instagram & Facebook. I am a Gower wedding photographer and would love to photograph more weddings in this area, so come say hey!

Sam & Caitlin – Gower Wedding

Jan

Katie & Rhys – Emlyn Hotel

Hello everybody! How are you? I know you can’t respond but i am going to assume that you are great. Today I am blogging Katie & Rhys’s Emlyn Hotel wedding in Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, West Wales. I shot this wedding on the August bank holiday and it was a beautiful day. I remember being so worried about the weather, as the forecast was so bad. It said 100% chance of rain for most of the day, however the met office website is a dirty liar. The weather was actually pretty good and even the sun came out.

Katie & Rhys are the sweetest people. I think the thing I love the most about photographing weddings is how quickly you get to know people. It starts to feel like you have known each other for years. I defiantly felt that way about these guys.

Katie & Rhys planned a wonderful day from gift giving to closest to them during the morning preparations, to the details of the venue and heartfelt speeches. I was a big fan of the doughnut tiers, rather than a cake. I think i was the first person to delve into the doughnuts, my excuse is all the running round makes me hungry.

Also, I just want to give a shout out to Matthew the Vicar at Felin-Fach church where Rhys & Katie got married. Matthew was so welcoming and I loved his approach to the service. He started the ceremony with jokes about buying the vicar a drink in the pub afterwards, and was generally a good dude.

Thank you for reading and having a look at this post! You may want to have a look through my post showing my highlights of 2018, the gallery for more wedding images or send me a message so we can chat about your wedding plans. If you are having a Emlyn Hotel wedding yourself, send me a message, I would love to come back and shoot your big day.

Suppliers:

Venue – Emlyn Hotel, Hair & Make up – Bianca’s Salon, Videography – Teifi Films, Band – The Grade.