UK wedding photographer in The Gambia
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Denise 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 Baobab 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.
See their finished storybook wedding album here!
The second Gambian wedding I photographed was at Coco Ocean Hotel, plus a cultural ceremony at the bride’s mother’s house. You can see some of those wedding photos here, and the Coco Ocean storybook wedding album here.
If you are planning your wedding in the Gambia, visit Reel Life Photos website and say hello to me on Facebook
xx Elaine