south wales wedding photographer Archives - Joe Lewis

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.

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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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!