Sian & Paul | Relaxed Farm Wedding Wales

28 Mar

I shoot about 10 to 15 weddings a year. I don’t heavily market it but at least hope to put myself out there enough to attract the right couples for my approach and style. When I match with a couple it feels like a comfortable and right fit; they trust me and I’m given their trust to get on with it and capture the day as it unfolds naturally. They relax and enjoy their day fully and authentically and this radiates through the images I create. I’m a real romantic, I love love. In fact I live for it. I don’t just mean the love between a husband and wife, but the web of connection and community that a wedding celebrates.

I would say that I learn a lot about love, connection and community shooting weddings. I see relationships, between mothers, fathers, siblings and friends on the most intimate of days.

This was incredibly true whilst capturing Sian and Paul’s wedding. The joining of two, plus Sian’s three daughters, son-in-laws, 5 grandchildren (1 in the belly), old friends of both sides from years before, from previous lives and the new life they’d created together in rural Wales. They congregated on a farm with a field, river, in a glorious setting, ran by a fabulous couple Barney & Charlotte who were equally authentic and genuine, expressing themselves through what they had created on their farm.

Sian, had befriended the couple, sang with a choir at the farm and practiced yoga in their barn on Tuesdays, it fitted them like a glove. They created a day that expressed them so fully, they just radiated joy and love and just seemed so wise and knowledgable about the meaning of their commitment and the power of ceremony. Sian being a celebrant, designed the most beautiful and personal ceremony with a celebrant friend, friends gathered in camper vans, bringing their own camping chairs, people brought a dish to form an epic delicious and vibrant buffet and one of her daughter’s friends made the beautiful cakes I’ve featured in the photographs below.

Kids ran wild, there were speeches, poems, inpromtu words invited to add to the ceremony and just some much love and nucleur family dynamics. Inspiring, heart warming and important to capture.

I don’t think they would mind me pointing out it was the wedding of people with a little more age and wisdom on their sides and it was truly a wedding that I felt so lucky to be part of and capture for them.