Joey and Eric, a Hong Kong to London Engagement Shoot

When Joey and Eric travelled all the way from Hong Kong to London to have their engagement photos taken they weren't banking on days and days of relentless rain to give their pictures that authentic British look. Both Joey and I spent the days leading up to their shoot obsessively refreshing the weather forecast, hoping for a break in the constant drizzle and as if by divine intervention, we got it; at 2pm as we were due to meet in a car park in Hampstead, the rain stopped. Miraculously, it stayed stopped until ten minutes before the end of our shoot two days later. 

Joey and Eric lived in London many years ago and they wanted to revisit some of their favourite places - Tower Bridge, Southbank, Westminster and Trafalgar Square, as well as to discover some new spots that they didn't know. To that end we spent our first day together in Hampstead, first at the beautiful and otherworldly Hill Gardens and Pergola, a well hidden gem just a little west of Hampstead Heath. The Heath is where we headed afterwards, to take some photos with London's spectacular backdrop behind us.

The next day posed unforeseen challenges as every few minutes we were stopped by someone who wanted their photograph taken with Joey and Eric in their amazing Chinese wedding outfits! But despite the admiring hoards we managed to find a few quiet spots to take some pictures and we ended the day in the bustling Trafalgar Square. 

Delia and Chris {A London Rowing Club wedding}

Delia and Chris were the first couples that we met with when we moved to London. As their wedding finally rolled around early in May in seemed like a lifetime ago that we met them in a cafe by the Photographer's Gallery in central London although it was actually almost exactly a year. 

It was a perfect May morning as I arrived at High Road House in Chiswick to photograph Delia, her mum and her bridesmaids getting ready for the wedding. The light poured into the beautiful white room at the top of the building and it was the perfect backdrop for the palette of blush pink flowers and the hint of sparkle that glittered from Delia's Jimmy Choo platforms and stunning Cymbeline dress from Blackburn Bridal. It was no wonder that Delia's dad had a proper cry when he saw her coming down the stairs! 

Meanwhile Nye was with the groom and his family and ushers at the Temperance in Fulham, just around the corner from the church where the wedding ceremony was to take place. The Temperance not only has a great name but is a beautiful, sparkly place to have a pre-wedding sausages and mash! Everyone then made their way on foot to All Saints Fulham, a stunning church that was a joy to revisit after Sophie and Toby's wedding there last summer. The church itself is magnificent but its surroundings are so special, nestled in amongst the trees and sitting by the river Thames.

After the ceremony all of the guests walked in the sunshine from the church to London Rowing Club on the other side of the river. We stopped on Putney Bridge to take some photographs of Delia and Chris with the beautiful river in the background before we finally arrived at the Club to commence the celebrations. The Rowing Club's dining room is a perfect, elegant, quirky setting for a wedding meal with the walls dripping in portraits of notable members, beams and a boat lining the ceiling, fireplaces begging for arrangements of beautiful flowers and views out across the river. 

After a beautiful dinner the celebrations continued with a champagne fountain and dancing into the night, while the lights of the boats on the Thames twinkled in the distance.