Wedding pics from the Ice Hotel in Sweden, Cap Lazare in the Seychelles, and an Asian wedding

I love all kinds of weddings, anywhere in the world, and have been fortunate to have shared many, many interesting couples exciting weddings from Australia  to Pakistan to Scotland, and many countries in between in 5 different continents. Just a glimpse of possibilities… am sure your wedding would be amazing too, so get in touch if these pics inspire you. xx Elaine

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PS we also create interesting wedding videos, so can come as a team.

So much love went into preparing for this exotic beach wedding in The Seychelles

natural and fun wedding photography

Sierra Leone couple's wedding at Coco ocean Hotel in The Gambia

Traditional cultural wedding in Nigeria

Arty Asian wedding pics

Collage of Asian wedding pictures

Wedding bangles

Modern Asian weddings can be personal to you, and have artistic wedding photos to reflect your contemporary twists on ancient traditions. Contact Elaine if you would like this kind of wedding photography for your Muslim, Sikh, Hindu or any other kind of wedding…

Detail of the decorative panel at the top of Saima's wedding dress

details from the full skirt of a modern Asian wedding dress

wedding shoes

These are pictures of the bride and groom, taken around the hotel  – Mercure Dunkenhalgh hotel, Blackburn Road, Clayton Le Moors, Lancashire, BB5 5JP  – and in the nearby countryside. You can also see some of their engagement photos  in an earlier blog.

Bride by the window - how beautiful!

wedding invitations in Arabic

Iraqi Arabic wedding invitations

Oooh, Jimmy Choos...

This wedding invitation spells the bride and groom's names in Arabic, even though it masquerades as just a rose!

The lacy wedding dress and veil act as a foil to this magnificent bouquet of pale yellow roses.

All ready for the wedding!

Bride by the window at Mercure Dunkenhalgh hotel near Blackburn

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Wedding fun with Silly Strings

Time to cut the cake, but Bengali style!

cutting the cake - Bengali style

Silly strings fly over the bride and groom's heads as they withdraw the knife from their wedding cake.

Such fun!

Time to fed each other soft creamy wedding cake!

Feeding wedding cake

Bride feeding wedding cake toher husband's family

Dig in everyone...

Cake fights...? Fun or what!

Time to take the cake away!

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This is the second wedding we have covered for the same family of boys in the South Yorkshire town of Barnsley, so now we feel part of their extended family: many hours work – but all great fun.

Its a bit like a Stag-Do where the bridegroom is smothered in a turmeric paste and coloured powders, but in front of all his family and close friends in the garden of their family home.

Vibrantly coloured pigments ready for use in creating a Mayan wedding design

Wonder what this is going to be used for...

Let's start with a little snack before the ceremony starts

Such rich colours...

beautiful henna designs

hands fit for a magazine..

more beautiful henna designs

The women start to get ready for the ceremony.

The arty bit begins...

beautiful little detail...

birds-eye view of the art in progress

Art in the making...

Almost ready...

One of my favourite shots of the artists at work

Now we see the artists too...

All set!

The groom's mother make the first move. Here she is about to smear him with thick turmeric paste

Oh how they are loving it!

The groom's torment hots up!"

Oh such fun!

How carefully they avoid his eyes and mouth. Seems they all love him!

Ooh this is getting a bit daring!

I actually won first prize in an international  wedding  photography  competition – $1,000, from the Professional Wedding Photographers’ Network and was awarded the top wedding photographer excellence award for pictures from this couple’s Hindu wedding this year 2012, just days after the wedding had taken place!

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The first Asian wedding we ever covered was a massive event with 2,000 guests on the final day’s Walimah.  Roll on nearly 10 years and that very same family was organising another wedding, for one of the brothers this time, so the family was happy to invite me to Pakistan. The visa and flights came to over £700, which I  paid myself, so you can see my motive wasn’t financial, but to experience a real Pakistani wedding.

Asian wedding treats of sweets

wedding gifts laid out on the bed for all the guests to see.

wedding gifts at The Groom's family home in Pakistan

The Groom's blind grandmother, in a beautiful lacy hijab, sits on the bed with her relatives

entrance to the bride's house in the village decorated for the wedding

The wedding chapati maker

Chapati maker with big chapatis

table layout

Top table

wedding food will be served first to the men here

The Yoghurt maker

The salad maker...

The bride's family on the wedding day

bride's family in their village home

Father of the bride

purple wedding marquee

entrance to the wedding marquee

The women's decorative headdresses

Groom's mother with traditional wedding headdress

The groom's father hands out money

more money being handed out by the groom's father

Traditional money garlands for the groom

The groom's brother with their blind grandmother

The groom's horse and all the onlookers

The groom on horseback outside his family home in Pakistan

groom's cousin on horseback

Shafkat riding to his wedding on horseback

Shafkat riding past Sadia's mother's family house

Outside the bride's family home in the village of Bhamber

Shafqat and his brother Saffi

The men on stage celebrating Shafkat's wedding in Pakistan

Sadia, the bride, arrives covered from view

The bride revealed!

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I had always wanted to travel to India or to Pakistan to photograph a traditional village-style Asian wedding, and last week I got such a chance. My head is so full of images and the overall experience of being immersed into such a different way of life, where I was the only “white” woman the locals had ever seen, that I know I will struggle to choose the right images for this page, knowing that I cannot show you all that is exciting, that depicts even the first day’s travel from Islamabad to the village of Bhamber, 35 kilometers outside Jhelum, without totally crowding out this blog, so here are just a few photos  that might entice you to look further.

Colourfully decorated lorry in Pakistan

The first day involved a 3 hours drive from Islamabad airport, squashed two to a seat , as I clicked away at all the colourful lorries  and buses which, unlike our beasts, look for all the world like elegant gypsy wagons, complete with curves, tiny patterns and shiny chrome.

such beautiful designs and colours - and all different!

Outside Islamabad airport, the desperate, but highly skilled, beggars plead and badger you till you either give in or are rescued by your transport.

Pakistani bus with its ladder to the "top deck"

This lorry is a bit different with is large flower on the back

Pakistani bus and wagons

Even the most basic are works of art!

detail from a decorated lorry in Pakistan

typical dry landscape near Islamabad. They also seem to be removing much earth from the soil all round here, maybe for building materials...?

colourful Rickshaw

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To see the pages properly, just click on them, one by one, as these thumbnails only show the middle of each page. We have loads more info on our site too, and love travelling to any wedding venue, be it in the UK or an exciting wedding destination abroad. We have more than 8,000 wedding photos on our Facebook Page , selections of wedding galleries, and other wedding storybooks , so have fun looking at some of them, and get in touch with Elaine if you are keen to secure her as your wedding photographer, or just need a bit more info. http://www.reellifephotos.co.uk.

To see the pages properly, just click on them, one by one. We have loads more info on our site too. www.LeedsWeddingPhotographers.com