south wales wedding photographer Archives - Joe Lewis

May

Sam & Caitlin’s Gower wedding – sneak peek!

Hello! 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. There are a lot more photos to come but until then, here’s the 15 photo sneak peek!

If you want to chat about your wedding plans, please say hello over on the contact page! You can also check out my work on Instagram & Facebook.

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.

Dec

2018 wedding highlights!

Hey everyone! 2018 is now nearly at an end, and I wanted to reflect and reminisce over the year I have had in wedding photography. It has genuinely been a great year. I have learnt a lot as a photographer and as a person. This year I went part time in my job this, to give my wedding photography more time. It was the best decision I could have made. I have had the most fun this year at the weddings I have photographed. I’ve put together some images below to show just a few of my favourite moments of my wedding photography in 2018.

I just want to say a big thank you to all the couples and families I have worked with this year. Taking photographs on the most important days in peoples lives is the best. I mean it when I say I get to work with the sweetest people in the world.

If you are engaged please feel free to send me a message so we can chat about your plans. Also check out the gallery for more of my work.

See you in 2019!

Joe

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Shot for Ryan Welch Photography

Shot for Ryan Welch Photography

Aug

Tamara & James – Oldwalls wedding

Hey! I have blogged again, woo! I admit, I am not the most prompt blogger. Here is Tamara and James’s Oldwalls wedding that I photographed last October! Oldwalls is located in the Gower area of Swansea, which is a beautiful part of the world to get married. Tamara & James’s wedding day was a lush, relaxed day with love and laughter all day! Tamara & James were so much fun, we spent all day laughing. You can tell that they adore each other, I think you can see that in the photos because they don’t stop smiling which makes my job pretty easy! Superhero table decorations, birthday cakes & this was the first time I met Adam Reeves, by far the best magician I have met whilst shooting weddings. That guy is so good! As always, send me a message to say hey and check out the gallery for more of my work!

Aug

Coldra Court Wedding – Rachel & Karl

Hey! I am finally getting around to blogging Rachel & Karls Coldra Court wedding in Newport tonight. I have known Rachel for years, having been friends in school and then working together as teaching assistants together years later! Karl and Rachel planned an incredibly sweet and relaxed wedding day that reflected them as a couple, and their family. Tables were named after their favourite bands (I secretly wanted to be on the placebo table, I love placebo!). I asked Karl to throw the wedding rings in the air before the ceremony, as I had this cool idea to capture the rings in mid air. Karl told me that he had already lost the rings once that day! Check the shot out below, its one of my favourite detail shots i’ve taken. Hope you enjoy! Please check out more of my images in the gallery!

Jul

Jenna & Tom pre wedding shoot Penarth Pier

Hey! As always, if you are reading this, then thank you for checking out what I do and today I have posted photos from Jenna & Tom’s Penarth pre wedding photoshoot. I am so excited to photograph their wedding in November. We met in the early evening at Penarth beach, took a stroll along the sea front and pier, catching up and taking some photos! The guys told me they had one of their first dates at Penarth, so it was really nice to be able to do this shoot there. They are really lovely people! Tom also runs Not Broken, an awesome company specialising in enhancements and adaptations for bike riding, a really positive movement, check it out if you can! Pre wedding shoots are available with all of my wedding packages, however you don’t have to be getting married to have one. Visit the contact page and send me a message for more information.

Jun

Emma & Chris’s Cardiff theatre wedding – Royal College of Music & Drama

Hello! If you are reading this, well thank you very much, some Cardiff wedding photography fr you today!. In this blog post, i’m writing and showing you some images from Chris & Emma’s Cardiff wedding at the Royal College of Music & Drama Cardiff.

This was one my favourite weddings. I mean, they got married in an actual theatre. Thats awesome! The whole day was so relaxed and being a Cardiff wedding photographer, you deal with your fair share on bad weather. However, the weather was perfect, as was the setting, as was the couple! Also, I feel this Cardiff wedding reignited my love for shooting weddings. Spending all day with Chris & Emma reminded me why I love doing this and my brain went a little bit crazy with creativity.

The Royal College of Music & Drama backs onto Bute Park. If you are not familiar with Cardiff, Bute Park is the park which is right in the middle of the city centre and surrounds Cardiff Castle. This gave us some great opportunities for photographs and the light was just perfect throughout the day. Emma & Chris are so easy to photograph and such lovely people, I felt so lucky to be asked to be a part of their wedding day. Also, this was the first time I tried light trails and this wedding ignited my love for night time portraits. You can check out more welsh weddings in the Gallery page on this site!If you are getting married in Cardiff and are looking for Cardiff wedding photography, send me a message here and lets talk about your wedding plans.

Mar

Emma & Gareths Pre wedding Shoot Belle Vue Park Newport

Hello there! If your reading this, well thank you very much! Today, I am posting some images from a pre wedding shoot I did for Emma & Gareth at Belle Vue Park, before their Newport wedding in Tredegar Park golf club. So, I met Emma at the first wedding I ever photographed, where Emma was a bridesmaid (Check out the Gallery to see some of those images). I’m really excited to photograph their big day and I know its going to be a lot of fun! Also, Belle Vue park is favourite place to have a pre wedding shoot, especially before a Newport wedding. There is so many interesting parts to the park and Parc Pantry has the best cakes & hot chocolates (my pre wedding shoots may be arranged around places that have the best cakes & hot chocolates). Pre wedding shoots are such a good way to get used to having your photograph taken before the wedding. I offer these shoots free with all packages and really recommend doing it! its a great way to get to know me, and for me to get to know you and hopefully feel a little more comfortable! I really try not to ‘pose’ or ‘stage’ photos to much, trying to capture those natural moments and the general fun that we have during these shoots! Hope you like it!

Mar

Rachel & Karl Pre wedding shoot at Tredegar House

Hello there! Today I am posting some photos from Rachel & Karls pre wedding shoot at Tredegar House. I am photographing their wedding next month, its come around very quick, so was a lot of fun to catch up and take a few photos! We were pretty lucky with the weather, it was freezing but lovely and sunny. I also love pre wedding shoots because not only do i get to eat cake in the cafe and get to know the couple a bit better, but I also get to try out some different ideas and hopefully you can see that in these photos!
Anyway, have a good one!

Dec

DIY Farm wedding in the Welsh Valleys – Mike & Tiff

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas! Today I have blogged one of my favourite weddings of 2017, Mike & Tiff’s Welsh valleys DIY farm wedding. As soon as I met Mike & Tiff, we got on and it was like I had known them forever, they are both lush! This wedding was so much fun, from the dogs walking down the aisle with the rings too the chinese food cooked by the dude who ran the restaurant in the village where they had their first date (aww!). The best mans speech was as it should be, brutal! The weather was pretty awful, and I spoke to Mike the day before as he was pumping the water out of the marquee as it had flooded! However this did not dampen the day at all, if anything, it gave us an awesome rainbow! As always, check out the Gallery for more wedding images!