Urban wedding photography

Somali bride’s wedding shoes

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Eastern Pearl Hall One Asian wedding venue in Manchester

The staff at Eastern Pearl are all friendly and helpful, so most Asian weddings here are very happy events.  Pictured is the entrance to hall one, and the inside of the same banqueting  hall, before the arrival of the Somali wedding guests.  The venue is in a pretty area, so you can always walk to trees across the road for outside wedding pics. Hope this helps you to imagine having your wedding reception here. You can see more pics from another function – a Mehndi – here: xx Elaine (wedding photographer)

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Wedding dress, bouquet and shoes

The bride didn’t want any pictures taking of her getting ready, but I did manage to get these few of her dress, shoes, and bouquet.  Note the sixpence in her shoe, to fulfil the traditions of the old rhyme:  “Something borrowed, something blue, and a sixpence in my shoe…”

The groom’s family invited us to cover Rachel and Petar’s wedding, and as we had to travel from Dewsbury, the groom’s family arranged for us to stay over the night before at the Rising Sun in Cheltenham.  The views from outside the hotel are wonderful, right out across the valley below this second picture.  Just imagine endless green fields and a sun filled sky …

Bride’s mother with the groom’s father on the morning of their respective children’s wedding

Groom and his father

Entrance to The Rising Sun Hotel in Cheltenham

Hindu wedding party in Barnsley , South Yorkshire, DVD cover design from HD  video stills

Hindu wedding ceremony pictures with Miyaan , ( Mayan) and Sangeet in South Yorkshire.

Hindu Baraat wedding ceremony in Birmingham

Hindu Sainth – pre- wedding ceremony by the priest

This is the second wedding we’ve videoed  for this beautiful family in Barnsley, and are now looking forward photographing and videoing the first birthday party of the first groom’s son!

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I’ve always wanted to photograph a gypsy wedding – way, way before all the TV programs started.  Having been a professional wedding photographer since 2000, travelled to wedding venues as different as the Ice Hotel in Sweden, a beach wedding in the Seychelles, a luxury liner sailing round Sydney, high society and grass roots African weddings in The Gambia, an Orthodox wedding in Egypt, many Asian, Hindu and Sikh weddings, weddings in Pakistan and Nigeria as well as a Bedouin wedding in black tents in Jordan, I have now had my wish come true.

Traveller wedding dress is being fluffed up by the bride’s family

Love the story going on here, as the family wait in the bar before heading off to the wedding, and the bride’s little sister is doing up the shoes.

After waiting nearly an hour for the groom and his family to turn up,  they suddenly realise they have forgotten the rings!  The bride, in the meantime, has already arrived, but the limo driver is told to keep driving on past the church.

The groom arrives, at last, with his pint of beer in hand.

The groom ‘s family are celebrating gypsy-style, with a good natter and a pint, before the church ceremony has even begun.

Two gipsy boys lean out of the windows of the wedding limo as it pulls up outside the church

This little gypsy pageboy has had enough! The wedding car arrives, not a moment too soon for this little page boy, who is being consoled by his cousin.

Gipsy bride at the door of the church with her father at the start of her wedding

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Just back from a Bengali wedding in Manchester .

Bengali groom's Asian wedding outfit on the bed

Sunlight pours into the entrance to the Asian wedding venue in Manchester called the Sheridan Suite