CLAIRE AND JAMIE'S PRE-WEDDING PORTRAITS ON THE BEACH

Claire and Jamie are being married at Redworth Hall, a wedding venue near Darlington in County Durham this week and I spent some time with them a few weeks ago to have a chat about their big day and get to know them a little more.

I hadn't seen them since we met almost a year ago with their parents when I was pitching to be their official photographer at their wedding.

We got on well then, and I enjoyed being with their family as well, so it was good to hook up again and talk life, love and weddings.....

Jamie had injured his ankle, so I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have been too happy being dragged across the sand dunes and beach - but he took it in good heart and spirit, and Claire just laughed!

A pre-wedding portrait session gives my brides and grooms and myself a chance to bond a little so that when it comes to the wedding day, we're not strangers and they and their families will be confident that I can record the biggest day of their lives and create some lovely photographs at the same time!

I hope you enjoy a few of the images we created on our walk on the coast near Hartlepool - look out for a selection of their wedding photographs next week!

DIRK VAN DER WERFF

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INDIVIDUAL WHITE CHOCOLATE WEDDING CAKES........ Mmmm

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This is one of the more spectacular wedding cakes that I photographed recently at Nicola and David's wedding at Hardwick Hall.

Supplied by Celebration Cakes at Horden it was a real beauty, or rather they were real beauties!

Unfortunately, they all disappeared before I made a convincing argument as to why I deserved one more than anyone else ....

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Proposal Photography

Proposal Photography is becoming more popular in the USA according to the New York Times in a recent article.

I think that as long as the fiancee-to-be and the photographer think it through properly this could work out really well for a couple - especially if we create a small hardback photobook from the event.

Pre-wedding commissioned photography comes with all our wedding photography options and these have always proved popular, whether they are with just-engaged couples or prospective brides and grooms who have been together many years.

It's a time for us to bond a little, get to know more about your hopes and dreams for the big day, and also to create some really nice relaxed images of you both together.

BUT, if you fancy having your big moment when you propose to the love of your life captured forever, I'd love to be there!

Ring photograph (what a ring!!) courtesy of Teedah and Ajey's wedding at Slaley Hall in Northumberland!

... AND, according to a survey - doncha love surveys.... :) Ernest Jones Jewellers says that 67% of under 29 year olds popped the BIG question with a ring, aaaahhhhhh, romance isn't dead!

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Victoria and Jaeger's Wedding at Topcliffe and The Crab and Lobster / Crab Manor

I love photographing weddings in Winter as much as Summer, and in past years I've probably covered as many in each season, and been lucky enough to have snow on demand a few times too!

I travelled to Victoria and Jaeger's wonderful wedding at Topcliffe Church and reception at Crab Manor (Crab and Lobster) at Asenby, North Yorkshire. The wedding was brought forward from March so that more relatives and friends could travel from Italy and Sweden (and London!), and originally it was supposed to be in Rome ......

It was a bright (at times) and crisp February day and very windy and cold at times, but I worked quickly inside and outside so that everyone stayed as warm as possible and I managed to create some nice images in the daylight time we had.

Like all brides, Victoria was worried initially about her photographs, but after a couple of meetings in August and chatting on the phone and by text until Christmas we met up for a pre-wedding shoot during the festive season to bond a little - and for me to finally meet with Jaeger.

Another meeting with Victoria when she travelled from her London base to her family home in Hartlepool a few days before the wedding pinned things down and she was then free to panic about everything else!

I met with Victoria and her mum about two hours before the ceremony when I was walking around Crab Manor and helped unload the car to their room so that they could get changed, and it wasn't long before the bridesmaids arrived too, while Jaeger and his family from Italy and his son from Sweden were chilling out in another room before preparing to head to the Angel Inn for a coffee and a beer or two.

Victoria's designer wedding dress was by DEMETRIOS and bought at the LONDON BRIDE AND GROOM shop in Walworth Road London

We had a great day!

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