Lloyd Dobbie Wedding Photography

Lloyd September 28th, 2009

Another gorgeous day in London and another fun wedding. Jessica and Paul first met at Uni and 12 years later here they are getting married!
I started the day with the bride at her parents house in Kent. Once she had finished getting ready, with the help of her five bridesmaids, we all set off in a gorgeous red 1950′s bus and headed up to Westminster for the wedding ceremony.

The wedding ceremony and the wedding reception were held at One Whitehall Place, one of London’s grander wedding venues. On arrival in we encountered a small hitch; the road leading to the venue was closed off because of the presence of one of the biggest cranes you are likely to see. So, we all disembarked around 100 yards down the street and the girls, pulling their overnight bags behind them, made their way to the wedding. As you can see from the photograph a group of workman looked on with interest (but not enough interest to help with the bags!).
Jessica didn’t grumble though, she just picked up her dress and marched on in her siver ‘LK Bennets’.

During the ceremony there were two readings. One of them, a poem called ‘The Invitation’, was particularly touching and you can read it on the web site of the author, Oriah Mountain Dreamer.

After drinks on a terrace that over looks Embankment the wedding breakfast was served upstairs in the Library and followed by a night of dancing.

The newlyweds are now off on a 3½ week honeymoon taking in various destinations including Las Vegas and Hawaii!

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Lloyd September 27th, 2009

Lucy and Charlie were married in the Rossetti Room at Chelsea Register Office at 2pm. The weather in London was beautiful with temperatures in to the 20′s and a warm, late summer, sun putting a smile on everybodies face. Perfect weather for a wedding!

The Rossetti Room (named after the local Victorian artist, Dante Rossetti) was the perfect setting for the Bride and Groom and their twelve guests. There was a Stevie Wonder theme in the music chosen for the wedding ceremony; the Bride walked in with her Father to ‘I was born to Love Her’; as the marriage certificate was signed ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered’ was played (natch!) and as the newlyweds left the ceremony room we could hear the uplifting ‘For Once In My Life’.

We then drove out to the suburbs of West London for the wedding reception at Cambridge Cottage which sits on the edge of Kew Gardens. Before a further forty or so guests arrived I was lucky enough to take the Bride and Groom for a walk around the gardens where we got some fabulous shots in the late afternoon light. Lucy looked gorgeous in her Vera Wang dress and Jimmy Choo shoes and she was wearing a fluffy throw that I couldn’t stop stroking (is that wrong?).

The wedding now over, the happy couple are off for a short break in Paris with a longer honeymoon planned for the New Year.

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Lloyd September 23rd, 2009

It seems a shame to hide a funky pair of shoes under a long wedding dress so for next season I’ll be suggesting a hem line just above the knee.

When you check out the bridal shoes below you’ll see why:

And for those who can’t resisit the temptation of something a little different for their wedding here is the roll call:

1. ‘Butterfly’ by Terry de Havilland (as seen on the Brides web site)
2. ‘Lady Dragon Shoe with Heart’ by Vivienne Westwood
3. ‘Mary Jane’ by Vivienne Westwood
4. By Christian Louboutin (as seen on the Brides web site)
5. ‘Mrs Fairy’ by Feet Fairies
6. ‘Gale’ by Jimmy Choo
7. ‘Pewter Suzi’ by Terry de Havilland (as seen on the Shoeper Woman web site)

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Lloyd September 19th, 2009

On Thursday evening there was a networking night hosted by the United Kingdom Alliance of Wedding Planners and held at one of London’s more intimate wedding venues, 30 Pavilion Road.

Those nice people at UKAWP asked me if I would come along and take some photographs for them and I’m really glad I agreed because it was a great chance to catch up with some of the wedding planners I have worked with in the past and others who I hope to in the future.

There were almost 50 of the industry’s ‘great and good’ there so too many to name check everybody but it was great to see, amongst others, Kathryn Lloyd, Kelly Chandler, Bernadette Chapman and Mark Niemierko. I had chance to chat to few people about Twitter and Facebook including: Penelope Merricks of Tigerlily; Lester Gethings of No.10 Wedding Design and, somebody who has featured on this blog before, Peggie-Anne Savage from Vow Perfections.

A special mention to Paul and Sinead from 30 Pavilion Road for looking after everybody and making sure we all had plenty of Champagne to drink and yummy canapès to eat.

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Lloyd September 15th, 2009

Wedding Nouveau is a beautifully designed blog created by Los Angeles based Creative, Fri Bailey. The blog is… well, I’ll let Fri speak for herself, shall I?:

“WEDDING NOUVEAU is a cross cultural style guide for today’s bride.
It features images taken by some of today sought after photographers documenting real weddings of interracial/ multicultural couples that dare to dream outside the box. Along with tips on different traditions, trend breakers, new wedding fashion styles that merge modern with tradition and creative ideas, Wedding Nouveau captures the unique essence of Fusion weddings.”

Anyway, her article from the 14th of September features some of my work so that just underlines her good taste as far as I’m concerned…

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