Clanger Wood Family Shoot // Brendon + Heidi, Milly + Vi

Clanger Wood Family Shoot // Brendon + Heidi, Milly + Vi

This weekend I had the joy of meeting up with this sweet family again for Brendon and Heidi's wedding! The weather behaved as best it could (from a forecast of rain all day, to mostly sunshine instead with a crazy downpour of hail and thunder in the evening when we were all safely tucked inside), I'd say we did pretty well!

The last time we met up we went to a perfect Spring stroll in Clanger Wood in Westbury.  It feels so funny thinking about Spring at the moment, when everything was coming out of hibernation and the flowers were blooming to right now when we're on the cusp on autumn and the leaves are turning red and we're all getting ready to curl up with blankets again for Winter!

The pre-shoot, or family shoot was such a great time to get to know these guys a bit better and hang out with their family. We had a little play in the bluebells whilst Heidi and Brendon filled me in on the plans for the big day, Milly was an excellent camera assistant and Vi, Vi munched happily on rice crackers! All in all it was pretty awesome. Here's some of my favourites - and if you keep an eye on the Facebook page: I'll be popping out a sneak from the wedding in the next day or so :)

Bristol Balloon Fiesta Shoot - Darren + Georgia

So what do you do when you live in a city renowned for it's annual balloon fiesta... Well only drag your darling couples of of their cosy beds at a ridiculously early time of morning to go and play with the balloons!!!

My goodness - Darren and Georgia (not to mention Chester and Cooper) were absolute legends and rose bright and early to go on our early morning, first flight of the day adventure to Bristol's Balloon Fiesta! It was a really special thing to be able to do, with these guys being local - they used to come to the fiesta regularly, and for me - it was my first fiesta!

There's definitely something a bit magical about hot air balloons - I can't put my finger on it - but it seems to bring our the inner child and wonder in everyone.  

Are you starting to miss summer? Kick back, have a peruse through these because this morning couldn't have embodied the Great British summer morning in all it's warm sunny goodness!

David, Georgie and Winnie - Bedminster Pre-Wedding Shoot

AHHH - Tomorrow I get to hang out with this awesome little gang again for their cider farm wedding! I'm pretty excited about it, as I have a feeling it's going to be a feast for all the senses with a whole shed load of home made DIY touches.

I was introduced to this little family through the joys of email by my friend Cris, who I work with in my part time day job. Amongst other things he mentioned that David is an artist, how they were DIY-ing everything for the wedding that's going to be held on a cider farm (he was very excited at the prospect of all the cider) and how down to earth they were. I've got to say when I first met David, Georgie and Winnie at their home for a pre-wedding meeting and shoot, I felt as though I already knew them!

These guys are incredibly warm and genuine, and I can't wait to shoot their wedding. 

In the meantime however, here's the rest of their pre-wedding shoot, all taken place in their own Bedminster home and garden!