Joy and Richard’s wedding was my first as a St Audries Park Wedding Photographer. Originally I was due to meet Joy at St Audries Park in the morning to photograph the bridal preparations, however just two weeks before the big day Joy’s hairdresser cancelled, forcing her to make some last minute alterations. All the girls in Joy’s office immediately rallied around her and they quickly found Victoria Wyatt Hair and Beauty, a trendy Salon in Bridgwater, 15 miles away from her wedding venue near Taunton.

Joy arrived at the Salon with her sister, two best friends and a cheeky bottle of wine, and we took some wonderful reportage photographs there before moving on to St Audries Park for the rest of the preparations. En route I found myself stuck briefly behind an inevitable (but rather annoying) slow moving tractor, so I was pleasantly surprised to find I was the first to arrive. Joy and her friends joined me around 20 minutes later following a brief but necessary McDonald’s pitstop, enough time for me to meet Claire, the friendly front of house manager, and to grab a few photographs of the outside of the venue.

The rest of the day went smoothly. The venue was fantastic, the weather was fantastic and the guests were fantastic, so I will leave it to my documentary wedding photography to tell the the story of their St Audries Park wedding day.