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.

The wedding day!

Sam & Caitlin are in incredibly sweet people and it was a very special day for many different reasons. Caitlin & Sam got married at St Gwynours Church with the reception at Stout Hall, Gower. The guys 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!

Smells like garlic!

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

Emlyn Hotel Wedding Photographer

Hello everybody! Today I am blogging Katie & Rhys’s Emlyn Hotel wedding in Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, West Wales. I have been a Emlyn Hotel wedding photographer a few times now and I love working there. The wedding was 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.

The wedding day!

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.

Shout out to the Vicar!

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.

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 – Penarth wedding photographer

Hey! As always, if you are reading this, then thank you for checking out what I do as a Penarth wedding photographer 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 for a Penarth wedding photographer.

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.