Issy & Rock n Roll Bride

As I said yesterday Issy's Love your dress shoot was featured on Rock n Roll bride.



It's a big honour to be featured on any bloggers site, and I know how much Kat is inundated with fabulous wedding photographers shoots every day.


Issy's fabulous 60s style wedding dress is by Ugo Zaldi makeup was by the wonderful Edith Prouchandy www.edithprouchandy.com

Rock n Roll Bride

Kat, aka Rock n Roll Bride has done a very lovely blog post on me today! Very exciting - featuring Issy and in a "love your dress" shoot....

I will blog all the shots myself tomorrow! Head over to Rock n Roll Bride to see the post today...

Props for weddings and engagement shoots

On engagement shoots, and sometimes at weddings, it can be good to add props. Things that help frame the picture or tell a story. Decorations from your actual wedding can easily be used on the day.

Or they could be used at the engagement shoot before, this stunning wicker and bead heart makes the perfect picnic shoot prop.

Sweets, make great wedding favours as well as good props.

Bunting is very popular... I have a few different varieties!

If you have a special themed style engagement shoot, bespoke props make the shots. Emma and Rays cinema popcorn was great (they got engaged in a cinema and they're having a film themed wedding!)

I can never resist a vintage camera! (or taking photos over guest shoulders into their camera or turning round and capture guests taking shots)

I had parasols at my wedding and they are my favourite photos of me and my sisters so now I take them with me to shoots!

Flowergirls love the parasols!

Wedding umbrellas can be necessary, as they were at Sherna & Andrew's wedding but make for great shots

Ellie & Mark brought their gorgeous dog, Rupert along to their engagement photographs. Umbrellas were needed, but no other props are required!

Ellie and Mark preview

Last weekend I was out shooting Saturday and Sunday, then back to WEDDING magazine's head office on Monday for another busy week. Sadly it means my free time (evenings) is being devoted to editing rather than blogging.

Saturday's wedding will appear on the blog soon, in the meantime I couldn't resist adding this picture showing just how much Ellie and Mark are in love. They are a truly lovely couple and I hope they are having a wonderful honeymoon as I type!

For all the guests at their wedding a LARGE selection of their photographs are now online (if you go to my website www.modernphotographic.co.uk and select the client download gallery). The cards on the table indicated their username and password however if you've lost it drop me and email and I will give you the details julia@modernphotographic.co.uk

Enjoy!

Sneeky peek

A sixties style Ugo Zaldi wedding dress, fab nude platforms and the very cool Issy... more to come I promise!!

Graffiti engagement shoot

With all my engagement shoots I let my lovely couples pick a location that suits them. Last weekend I did a shoot with the lovely Jenna & Joel... and we all headed to Shoreditch in their purple jeep! Their wedding is going to be "purple" themed too

More from our Safari honeymoon

As I said in our previous post, being photographers after our wedding Safari was the perfect honeymoon destination for us!

For the Wedding ideas girls on Twitter... another giraffe of course

The view from our private jeep! We safari'ed in style on our honeymoon.


We were amazingly lucky to see zebra migration. It is a rare event, and people who left the day before sat by the river all week to see something we saw on our first day!

Lioness jealousy!

At the end of a hard day, we had sundown cocktails and listened to an old record player and watched the world go by!

No camping for us! Sanctuary Olonana was luxury all the way, four poster beds and molton brown goodies

Asha cottage in Diani beach, was the perfect relaxation after the safari. Its quiet and deserted and run by the lovely John, Dominique (and Anthony Owen). Who treat all guests as part of their family. Its just stunning

(OMG- you will have to show Mr OMG and show him there's nothing rough about safaris)

Now I've bored you all with our honeymoon pictures I'll be back to Wedding, engagements and portraits next time!