13th July 2010
After a church wedding at The Church of the Holy Cross, Sarratt, Hertfordshire, Louise and Graeme held their wedding reception at home in the sweetly named Cakebread Cottage. Louise had spent all year doing all the preparations for a home wedding and as you will see from these pictures, it definitely paid off! Graeme is a pilot for Easyjet and his Scottish heritage was worked into some of the details of the day from the Scottish piper that piped them into marquee to the Ceilidh dancing, and of course Graeme’s kilt!

Louise looking radiant in her dress

Louise and Graeme were married at The Church of the Holy Cross

Gorgeous pinks and purples used in the bouquets

Making their way to the reception

The reception was held at home in Cakebread Cottage

What wonderful colours in the decorations!

The guests make their way to the marquee in the field behind the cottage

Scottish piper piped them into the marquee

Top tier of cake made by Graeme’s mum

Ceilidh dancing in full action!

The marquee lit up at night
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7th June 2010
We couldn’t wait to post the photographs from our wedding at the weekend. Although not all are quite ready, here is a taste of a very special day.
The wedding took place at the stunning Jersey venue, Longueville Manor. Gemma, our bride, was inspired by vintage Portuguese lace for her day and chose the talented London based stylists Grace & Tailor to help create the day. Enjoy these photographs and a full post with details and photographs will follow shortly.

Longueville Manor, Jersey

vintage styling

Portuguese lace dress

gorgeous fans for the guests
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25th May 2010
Our previous blog was about Victoria and Ben’s wedding in Hertfordshire. The details and colours that made up their wedding were so beautiful that we thought they deserved to be showcased in a separate piece.
They chose to use colours of silver and white with a dash of aubergine. This was worked beautifully throughout: in the flowers, decorations and accessories, with the aubergine colour appearing in subtle ways. The top table had aubergine chiffon around their chairs whilst the rest of the chairs in the marquee had silver chiffon. Little bridesmaids complimented their ivory dresses with the same aubergine chiffon tied as a waistband. Even the cake had a slight colouring of aubergine on the fondant petals.
Andrew Fleming was the florist and he produced beautiful bouquets and amazing table centre pieces, as well as decorating the church with his wonderful displays. Again aubergine effectively featured throughout. Tall, silver candelabras were stunning when lit, giving the marquee such a warm glow.
Other lovely touches were the white grand piano, being played throughout the meal; the white dancefloor with sparkly lights; and decorative trees which surrounded the dancefloor with blue fairy lights.
Finally, we have to comment on the favours, as they were so very clever. Each guest had been bought a lottery ticket! Let’s hope someone went home richer that night.

Bouquet and confetti

Flowers in the entrance to the Church


Chair covers and lottery card favours

Marquee showing silver and white colour scheme

Centre piece and cake detail

Glowing candles and sparkley trees
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17th May 2010
Victoria and Ben were married on May 1st at Christ Church, Chorleywood. Their reception was held at one of our favourite venues, Micklefield Hall in Hertfordshire. The bride looked stunning in dress made for her by her Godmother and the colour scheme for the day was predominantly silver and white with a dash of aubergine, simple but very stylish. The weather had been predicted rain but it held out until just after everyone was inside the marquee – perfect timing!
The wedding was kept on schedule by the toastmaster, Vanessa King, and the moving images of the day were filmed by the lovely Damo at Reel60. If you want to see more of the images from the day, please take a look at our Flickr page.

Victoria getting ready

Outside Christ Church, Chorleywood

Victoria & Ben at Micklefield Hall

Guests in the gardens at Micklefield Hall

The group shot

Beautiful table flowers and the cake

Father of the bride and Ben giving their speeches

Granny on the dancefloor!
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9th March 2010
Savoir Weddings organise boutique weddings for contemporary couples.
Run by Josie and Dan – oh yes grooms-to-be, you can have your very own male planner – Savoir Weddings work with couples who want to do something a little bit different and step away from tradition. “We felt there were many companies catering for more conventional weddings but we wanted to offer something for those who wanted to do things differently” says Josie. In particular, Savoir specialise in planning festival style weddings (both Josie and Dan have a background in music events), green/eco friendly weddings, home receptions and weddings abroad.
Savoir Weddings can come in to help couples at all stages of the planning process. They offer a variety of services from sourcing creative and unique wedding suppliers to consultancy in a particular area, to full planning. “We like to think we make the planning process and day as smooth, relaxed and stress free as possible for all our brides and grooms and help them have a wedding they didn’t even know was possible!” concludes Josie.
http://www.savoirweddings.com
The following are some photographs from weddings Pearl Pictures have photographed in the theme of festival, eco and home reception weddings.

cool musicians

making use of existing materials

home reception

teepees - festival style

flowers from the garden
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18th January 2010
Sasha and Christopher Morphitis were so lucky with the weather for their Christmas wedding – it snowed! They were married in Camden Registry Office, witnessed by their families, and then went on to enjoy an entertainment-filled evening at the Old Crown in Highgate, North London. Here they were joined by all their friends. After the speeches, the bride took centre stage and sang for her new husband. She was followed by her husband, Christopher, who entertained the guests with a musician friend with wonderful cultural music.

Sasha before the ceremony

Sasha & Christopher Morphitis

Sasha sings at her reception

Christopher Morphitis

Wedding cake made by Sasha's mother
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22nd December 2009
Ben and Holly recently married at the picturesque tudor hotel, The Swan, in Lavenham, Suffolk. A December wedding brought with it a Christmas theme, and the couple brought sparkle to the occasion with clever details, flowers and colours. All that was missing was snow to complete the Christmas fairytale theme!

The picturesque tudor hotel, The Swan

Holly's cape and bouquet perfectly complimented the winter wedding

A traditional ivory rose is turned into a stylish Christmas button hole

The bridesmaids wore a lushious green with corsages in ivory & green

Original and fun, the favours were Christmas tree decorations

With fairy lights adorning the room, the couple take their first dance
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9th November 2009
Early in October Pearl Pictures shot a wedding at the stunning location of Orchardleigh in Somerset. The bride and groom were Vicky and Gordon Duncan, who were accompanied by beautiful bridesmaids including their 1 year old little girl, Daisy. Vicky’s vintage dress was decorated in streams of beads and pearls, and styled in the 1940’s. The whole style of the day was very ‘vintage glamour’ with Orchardleigh being the perfect backdrop.

Guests arrive at the church

The bride wore a vintage dress found by her mother

The newly married couple

Orchardleigh House, Somerset, England
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15th October 2009
Our very own Director at Pearl Pictures, Lucy, got married to Matthew Barbour on 5th September this year with an English country garden wedding in Wiltshire. “We wanted a wedding that was truly personal, so chose to have a marquee in the garden where I grew up” says Lucy. “The idea was to start with a very english, country feel at the church and move the day through to a chic and contemporary styled marquee to reflect our life in London, where we have lived for the last 10 years.”. With guests transported to the quaint country church by a red London routemaster bus, Lucy and Matthew opted for a horse and carriage. Once back at “The Chestnuts” the champagne flowed and guests mingled in the garden to music by the “Stickey Bass Jazz Trio”. Once in the marquee the guests sat at tables named after trees in the garden and dined on cannon of lamb with summer vegetables, followed by lemon and passionfruit tart. At 9.30pm, one of the Ushers, Nick, played with his band “The Black Hats” and the guests danced the night away until carriages at 1am. Photography by Graham Morgan & Jemma Watts.

Guests arrived at the church in a red London routemaster bus

The two bridesmaids wore taupe chiffon dresses by Dessy

The bouquet was made up with ivory, champagne and pale pink roses

Lucy's lace gown was from Caroline Castigliano, while Matthew's suit was hired from R.Scott & Co in Cirencester, Glos.

Fresh rose petals were thrown as confetti

The reception was held in the garden of Lucy's parents home

Inside the marquee

The happy couple cut their wobbly cake!
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1st October 2009
When photographing a wedding, it is important to capture all the small details of the day. It is the details that complete the overall vision of the day’s event and can make such a difference. When Pearl Pictures photograph a wedding we always make sure we have gone around and photographed everything from important aspects such as the bouquet, table decorations, and wedding cake to smaller details such as the embroidery on the wedding dress, champagne bottles, the ladies’ hats and garden decorations. Once we even photographed the loo roll as it was printed with a wedding themed cartoon!

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