Barber Photography

Barber Photography Blog

Category Archives: Weddings

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Tory & James – Marquee Wedding Ripon

Posted in Weddings

We recently spent a fantastic day at Tory and James’s wedding in the beautiful countryside around Ripon. The ceremony was at the village church in Bishop Monkton and the Marquee reception was on the banks of the river Ure on James’s farm. It was a really stunning spot and gave us loads of fantastic photo opportunities.

As usual I spent the morning with the girls while Lou hung out with the guys at the farm where James was whizzing about on his tractor putting the finishing touches to the marquee site. After a lovely ceremony (and a few drops of rain) everyone made their way back to the reception for drinks ad photos by the river. We were joined by two extra special guests, Tory & James’s dogs Fergus & Millie who managed to sneak into a few photos themselves.

As a surprise to Tory, James had arranged for a fantastic fireworks display to be set off from the opposite bank of the river. It was an amazing end to a great day and we’d like to thank Tory & James for inviting us to be a part of it.

Lou & Phil xxx

What all Groom’s should do on their wedding morning – Drive Tractors! Love it.

We have also just created our own video channel on Vimeo – Were we will be putting up highlight slideshows from the day and also pre-wedding shoots. So keep checking it out for more weddings in the future. In the meantime take a look at Tory & James highlight slideshow of their wedding day below.

Tory & James from Barber Photography on Vimeo.

View full post »

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Marissa & Ian : PapaKata Tipi Wedding

Posted in Weddings

My first post for a while – I have loads of pre wedding shoots and wedding to blog about going back to April (where is the year going?), but I though I’d start with the wedding I’ve just finished editing – Marissa & Ian’s. It was a great day, and it was nice to meet up again with our friend Mark Lenik who videoed the day for Marissa & Ian.

Marissa & Ian both live and work in London, but chose to get married up in Yorkshire where Marissa’s originally from. I spent the morning with the girls in Halifax at the home of Marissa’s Godparents who were playing host to the beautiful PapaKata Tipi which was set up for the reception later. Lou met the boys in the pub (she always seems to wangle pub trips somehow..) The pub was next door to the church in Ripponden where the ceremony was held, which was also the church where Marissa’s parents had been married too.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an excited bride as Marissa when the vicar pronounced them husband and wife, and the smiles never stopped all day after that. Back at the reception the guests mingled in the sunshine while we took photographs, and a highlight for us was Hook a Duck, where the gentlemen guests had to fish a plastic duck from the pond to find out which lady they would be escorting into the wedding breakfast – great fun and another fantastic photo opportunity.

Our friends at Papakata had once again done an amazing job of setting up the tipis. Everything looked amazing with beautifully decorated tables, a chill out area and a fantastic wedding cake as centrepiece with mini-me’s of all everyone one the top table including identical wedding outfits – amazing. The speeches were rounded off with a great best men double act who had everyone in stitches with tales of Ian’s murky past. After that things really got going with the evening reception – Ian & Marissa’s friends and family really knew how to have a great time (I’m not even going to mention sumo suits…). Then as the evening drew to a close everyone stepped outside to set off dozens of chinese lanterns into the sky.

It was such a lovely day to be part of, and we’d like to thank Marissa & Ian for including us.

Phil & Lou xxx

View full post »

Posted in Weddings Tags: Barber Photography, Barber Wedding Photography, Leeds, Leeds Wedding Photography, Louise Barber, Marquee Wedding, Papakata, PapaKata Tipi, Phil Barber, Wedding Photography, Yorkshire Wedding Photography

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Charlotte & Paul: Wedding at Oulton Hall

Posted in Weddings

Charlotte & Paul tied the knot on 14th May at the beautiful Oulton Hall Hotel. I was joined for the day by my fellow 3b chum Rob Booker who was helping out in Lou’s absence.

It was another really relaxed day with everything taking place at Oulton Hall. The dress code was Black Tie so all the men looked superb (afterwards Lou was v. perturbed she wasn’t able to be there as she loves a man in a dicky…). The black and white theme ran throughout the day with really stylish decor in the ceremony room and afterwards for the wedding breakfast.

Charlotte, of course, looked amazing and was fantastic to photograph – we love brides who can’t keep the smile from their faces!

Thanks Charlotte & Paul for sharing your day with us – we’ll see you very soon for your viewing!

Phil & Lou xx

View full post »

Posted in Weddings Tags: Barber Photography, Barber Wedding Photography, Leeds, Leeds Wedding Photography, Louise Barber, Oulton Hall, Phil Barber, Wedding Photography, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Wedding Photography

Friday, June 4, 2010

Bridget & David: Wedding at Allerton Castle

Posted in Weddings

Last week saw us back at one of our favourite venues, Allerton Castle, for Bridget & David’s wedding. We love working there and really feel part of the Allerton family. It’s lovely bumping into friends we’ve made within the wedding business - Bridget & David had chosen our friend Fiona at Firenza to produce their beautiful (and gorgeous smelling) floral displays, and Chris & the guys from the Event Music Company provided the music for the day. Lauren Sally was Bridget’s fab make up artist (got a sneaky pic of here below!). We’ve worked with Lauren before last year at Laura & Jamie’s wedding so it was lovely to see her again.

We met up with Bridget & David at Allerton for their preparations and as usual I joined the girls while they sipped champagne and had their make up done. Lou hung out with the guys in the billiard room until the ceremony started. We managed to get outside for some photos and Bridget & David really entered into things despite the windy conditions so we ended up with some ace shots.

Bridget & David are probably sunning themselves on a tropical beach at the moment, but we wish them both loads of happy times.

Phil & Lou xxx

View full post »

Posted in Weddings Tags: Allerton Castle, Barber Photography, Barber Wedding Photography, Leeds Wedding Photography, Louise Barber, Phil Barber, Wedding Photography, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Wedding Photography

Monday, April 19, 2010

Carly & Jay: The Hospitium York 10th April 2010

Posted in Weddings

OK once again my blogging has slipped in a big way recently due to one reason or another – setting up our new 3Bmedia website then Easter holidays (trip to Disney World – amazing and I will be blogging at some point and boring everybody with an updated version of the 1970′s holiday slideshow evening. I may even prepare a cheese and pineapple hedgehog to accompany it).

Anyway we’re back into the swing of things and I’ve got loads to update you all with. I’ll start off with a recent wedding we did – Carly & Jay’s. It was a couple of days after we got back from Florida so we were feeling all fresh and raring to go after our break – it’s a good job our holiday wasn’t a week later when Mount Eyjafjallajokull [copy & paste FTW!] started causing chaos..

Carly & Jay’s wedding took place at the Hospitium in the Museum Gardens, central York. It was a beautiful location and the weather was amazing on the day which was fantastic for Carly and Jay as we could use the gardens for their photos. The daffs were in full bloom and all was very springlike (about time too!)

Carly looked amazing and Jay got quite emotional as she walked up the aisle. After a lovely ceremony (including a particularly fantastic reading from young flowergirl Phoebe) everyone spilled outside into the gardens to enjoy drinks in the sunshine – it was all very chilled.

The wedding breakfast was upstairs in the Hospitium then it was back downstairs for a very nicely choreographed first dance followed by a lot of rather less coordinated boogying by happy guests.

Carly & Jay, we had a blast with you on your day. Thank you for asking us to share it!

Phil & Lou xxx