Leanne & Matt | Highcliffe Castle Wedding
Highcliffe Castle Wedding Photography
Here’s one more blog post about Leanne and Matt and their Highcliffe Castle wedding. You might have caught their wedding preview, but I wanted to publish the whole story of their wedding day in all it’s winter glory. They had a wedding which was styled to perfection with help from Brighter Productions and Made from Paper. Do check out their incredible black tie stationery.
I started photographing Leanne’s bridal preparation in Bournemouth which isn’t too far from Highcliffe Castle. She, along with her bridesmaids and family got ready in a beautiful room with nice big windows. This made all the difference to getting some great images. She wore a White Rose bespoke design gown from College Green Bridal in Bristol and accessories from Bridezillas.
We then made our way to Highcliffe Castle for the wedding ceremony. Matt appeared incredibly relaxed and the ceremony, was, as always the highlight of the day. It’s a great venue, and the fact that it’s a few minutes from the beach makes it even more special. Winter weddings are always a little trickier to photograph. There is the risk of poor weather but also the fact that it gets dark quite early. We had time for some couple photos before it got dark and were blessed that it stopped raining! We only had a small window of time to walk along the shore but it was so worth it.
That said, due to the bad weather we postponed the family photographs until later in the day. I always love the moments after the ceremony – there’s so much happiness, hugs and smiles that it sometimes seems a shame to interrupt the flow with family photos. As it was raining we decided to postpone them until it stopped, and whilst I don’t normally highlight family photographs in my work I thought I’d show you a few here. They are a good example of the problem solving that I encounter as a wedding photographer as plans do change during the day. It wasn’t until after the speeches that we started photographing groups and I decided to do this outside. They look a quite a bit better than they would have done indoors and I thought the black background worked well with the black tie wedding theme.
It was also fun to get a few more photos of Matt & Leanne whilst we waiting for the wedding band to setup.
Thank you SO much for having me along to celebrate with you. Do keep in touch and I wish you both all the happiness for the future!
Stunning! So nice to see a wedding shot in the winter here and so nice to see how beautiful you make the images, gorgeous couple x
Phenomenal work Albert, you captured and told their wedding story beautifully!
Love it! A great wedding Bert. Gorgeous beach & night portraits too.
Gorgeous. The shots on the beach and the portrait with the light behind the B&G are stunning.
These are seriously stunning. You really did a fantastic job capturing the day.
Great work. I love the one with black background and only a small light source.
I really love your style and myself is a photographer too, I learned a lot from your style and I feel if I have more chance to photograph people’s wedding as you, I will have change to communicate with you more.Lol!
Awesomely luminous portraits. What are those funky blue lights at the reception? Black lights?
Really great as always Bert, love the off camera light, you just go from strength to strength.
Love the rim light in the night portraits…adds so much pop. Brilliant work with the whole set…nicely done.
I love how clean and classy your photography is. This is storytelling at its best!
Wow, amazing wedding! I love their style and reception venue and the whole day looks incredible!
Stunning work as ever Bert
Love the beach shots, so great that they just embraced the weather and ended up with memories for a life-time. Great work Bert.
Amazing wedding and amazing coverage! Venue is so cool…
This is one of my favourite weddings you’ve shot Bert! I love how clean and bright each shot is and all the expressions you have captured
Wonderful storytelling going on here! Great looking imagery!
WOW Albert… these are fantastic shots… your photography is fantastic.. very inspirational.
Well done Palmer! what a cool venue and so well photographed!
Absolutely stunningly beautiful Albert 🙂
Gorgeous work! 🙂
Gorgeous, simply stunning.
Such a beautiful wedding – and I love the card from Leanne’s sister. It brought a tear to my eye.
Beautiful images, thank you for sharing!
Fab work yet again Albert – makes me want to shoot a wedding in that amazing location.
Beautiful documentary coverage as always Bert. A pleasure on the eyes.
Beautiful photos! What an amazing wedding. I love your detail shots!
These are stunning Albert. Really gorgeous couple shots on the beach.
Simple, yet beautiful story tell photos. The couple must be super happy about these.
Absolutely breathtaking!
Great set of pictures, love all the getting ready shots.