Gambian wedding pictures of UK bride to Gambian Groom in West Africa
Denise and Bax’s wedding in The Gambia
Denise and Bax’s wedding was great fun – sand, sea and sun as well as African percussion, happy chaos, and beautiful Gambian headdresses/costumes and DANCING!
I (Elaine - a UK based international wedding photographer) travelled all the way to The Gambia from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire to cover their wedding photography, and was introduced to a whole new world in West Africa – where a bucket serves as a shower and rags knotted together become a rope for a well – yet there is a smile on every face.
One of the ladies in my compound was up before dawn everyday, pounding beans to powder, which they then fried to make a crisp fluffy fritter and sold along with spicy beans for local people’s breakfasts.
Other enterprising families made Baobao juice – from the dried fruit of the tree shaken with water and flavoured with banana and coconut with milk – which they put into re-used plastic bottles from banana milk and sell from home.
Will be uploading more travel pics from The Gambia soon too, as these pictures tell a story of the real Africa!
Denise met Bax while working out there a few years back, and she fell in love with The Gambia, and all her people.
Denise gives a twirl on beach after Gambian wedding
We’ve all been looking forward to Denise and Bax’s exciting wedding in Africa for months, and now the time has nearly come for all the Northern guests to board a plane from Manchester to fly to Banjul. Denise found us on a lovely website run by a talented guy called Jim. He will be covering the run up to the wedding as well as publishing pics from his site that we send him so to avoid duplication initially please have a look on his site here: http://www.weddingphotographyworld.co.uk/#/reellife-photos-africa/4539836158
Then big group shot is usually one of the hardest to get as everyone wants to wander off and take their own pictures. I try to take this as quickly as poss after any confetti or parents shots and clown around a bit on a wall or other vantage point to get everyone smiling… I take it as one shot, then often crop the top half off so it shows all the faces at a larger size over a double-page spread.
about a bride and groom whose wedding video was a disaster – very dark and horrendously wobbly.
Their photos were just as bad – not even properly framed (heads chopped off when camera held overhead) or any attempt at professional colour and exposure correction. I’ve also been sent this link with other comments from fellow professional photographers who have all made good advice for brides and grooms wishing to avoid the pain and sadness of a total disaster with the visual record of their precious wedding memories
Just so you can see which category we fall into with our video – here are a few links as Jorge spend weeks and months editing our wedding DVD or Blu Ray videos as he cannot bear to just do the same for everyone as his background is with whole TV series and dramas in his own country Cuba: I dragged him away to from his love so apologise for that when I suggested he come to the UK to work and to marry me!
Hope this helps. We are members of the SWPP and have obtained offical recognition through their qualification system, though do of course have full Public Indemnity (in case anyone trip over our legs or anything – though always shout warnings if kneeling down) and Professional Liability insurance (though no-one has ever needed to claim on this!)Enjoy your wedding research! You are always welcome to visit us here anyway and we have more than 200,000 whole wedding images online – enough for even the most curious and thorough bride and groom to be to learn what its all about…
This is the image the bride and groom chose for their album cover. I would have liked the one below best, but its always the couple’s choice as it is their album first and foremost, not a just piece of personal art and design for me! The red line is not part of the design, but denotes the safe area as the Graphistudio usually needs to crop part of the pages to ensure correct edge to edge printing.
So I used this image at the end of the book instead – if you scroll down to the last double page spread you will see how it ended up…
Here the bride and groom’s black cat is all dressed up for the occasion on background of red bridesmaid’s bouquets, further decorated with the bottle opened to celebrate the occasion with the bride’s Dad and bridesmaids.
The bride looks into the mirror, getting the first glimpse of herself on her wedding day while trying on the veil.
Such funny speeches – all day wedding photography comes as standard as we love sharing your day!
Wedding pictures during the evening light outside by the infinity pool at the KP Club in Pocklington
Sorry about the word “Proof” spoiling these lovely images of Martin and Leanne’s wedding at Waterton Park Hotel near Wakefield! They have their album already, as their wedding was earlier this year – 31 May - and I invested in a copy for us too, so you can see the real thing if interested!
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Martin & Leanne have chosen lots of posed family pictures from a selection of the literally hundreds of reportages shots taken on their wedding day. We don’t mind which pictures the couples choose so long as we have covered everything to give them those choices – sometimes even choices they didn’t ever imagine in advance – but in this case Martin & Leanne had it all planned out!
