A very proud wife and an interview in "The Independent"

Ian gets to do all sorts of wonderful events and meet great people and a-list celebrities on a daily basis... not that I'm jealous. A short while ago "The Independent" ran an article on the unsung people behind the scenes at the Oscars and of all the photographers that are fortunate enough to be asked to attend, the decided to include Ian. As usual I am one very proud wife...

Prince William and Catherines wedding - by my hubby Ian

Ian, was very privileged to be asked to photograph Prince William and Kate Middleton (now Catherine) meeting all the leading dignitaries on their wedding day, before their reception.

On April 29th 3.30am he left home to head into London (the roads in London closed at 5am) - he had to be at Buckingham Palace for 7am.

On the day he was very fortunate to be able to sit and watch the wedding unfold on a television in the palace - I however was watching it over brunch with our friends Jen and Laila! Sadly no assistants were allowed!

After the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's stunning wedding, and that balcony kiss they came down for their stunning reception where Ian was very lucky to be waiting to take official receiving line photographs.

He was the only photographer, invited to do so... so as you can imagine I am very proud.

Amusingly the Sun ran a pull out feature by "their photographer" Arthur Edwards. With a great double pages spread of the couple meeting the dignitaries. It didn't say that Arthur had taken the shots but neither did it say he hadn't, it certainly never mentioned that the images were taken by Ian!

Ian's agent sold the shot to the Sun to use without credit so they have done nothing wrong, so ultimately it is a huge compliment... clearly Ian and other photographers used in the supplement are clearly very talented, otherwise surely they would have just used their own photographers work

Before the big day post

We are very honoured that BEFORE THE BIG DAY, a leading wedding blog, featured Ellie & Mark's wedding last week. Georgia, founder of the blog interviewed Ellie - click here to see the full interview and lot more imagery.



Later in the Spring we are planning to do a fantastic engagement shoot with Before the big day- so keep an eye out for that! See you soon Georgia xx

Jimmy Carr by Ian West

Before Christmas Ian was invited to take some promotional shots with Jimmy Carr for his new video. Like all the comedians Ian is fortunate to photograph with Jimmy is great to work with, so I thought I'd share some of the shots taken...



With thanks to the press association, Ian's agent. These images cannot be reproduced without their permission. If you wish to publish any of these images please contact www.pressassociation.com

Ian at MTV Europe

Ian gets to jet all over the world taking photographs of some amazing events (sometimes I get to go too!) Last month he jetted off to MTV Europe and here are some of his amazing shots...






Ian West is chief celebrity photographer at the Press association, if you would like to use any of his images please contact his agent directly. No images can be blogged or replicated without permission

OUR WEDDING

At last our wedding is out in print in WEDDING magazine, it looks fab. Here's a small preview...


Thanks again to our stunning flowergirls Annabelle and Laila

And of course all our wonderful suppliers:
Photographer: Emily Quinton (0844 800 3480, www.emilyquinton.com)
Venue: Beauberry House (020 8299 9788, www.beauberryhouse.co.uk)
Venue flowers, styling and candy bar: Gulsen Gray (07564 028599, www.bloomingposhnosh.co.uk)
Bride’s bouquet: Pesh Flowers (020 7703 9124, www.peshflowers.co.uk)
Dress: Pronovias (020 7518 8470, www.pronovias.co.uk)
Hair and make-up: Kate Hughes (07802 819508, www.itsallaboutyou.uk.net)
Hair decoration and cuff: Flo & Percy (01277 637143, www.vintagetiaras.co.uk)
Flowergirls’ dresses: Next (0844 844 8333, www.next.co.uk)
Cookies and cupcakes: Sarah Moriarty (07786 832364)
Stationery: Designed by Julia, printed by Moo (http://uk.moo.com)
Videographer: One Take Media (www.one-take.co.uk)
Entertainment: Simon Henderson (020 8302 1205, www.bestdjintown.com); Chinese Elvis (07956 255374, www.chineseelvis.com)
Cake cases: Lindy’s Cakes (01296 622 418, www.lindyscakes.co.uk)
Parasols: Paradise Parasols (020 7371 1395, www.paradiseparasols.co.uk)
Wooden letters: Not On The High Street (www.notonthehighstreet.com)
Vases: C Best at New Covent Garden Flower Market (020 7720 2306)

Anyone whose hasn't seen it- go buy a copy!!!

The Welsh wedding PART ONE

Mel & Charlie's wedding is nothing short of Wedding DIY wonderfulness. LOTS of gorgeous details, made even better by the fact the bride made them all herself! She isn't really a WEDDING magazine devotee and tends to avoid the the net, so whilst she was inspired by felt bouquets (I blogged hers yesterday) someone showed her she then created the whole bright colour bursting wedding from herself.

Mel is an art teacher so I guess it comes naturally and to be honest the whole wedding reflected them both so well. Their home is full of colour and craft too!

Mel asked all the ladies to wear gloves. The vintage outfits were amazing, not surprising as one of the brides oldest friends is Laura founder of vintage and bridal store Fur Coat, No Knickers!!!

I dont want to sit there mum!

Two of her closet friends wowed guests in the church


The light in the church was amazing - I couldnt pick between colour or black & white



The sunlight was just stunning across the bay

Another of Mels amazing felt bouquets for her youngest bridesmaid Ffion, her stunning step daughter

Congratulations to the Wood family... more to come