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Michaela & Lee’s Wedding, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire
I’ve had a really hard time with my website overthe last 3 weeks. Without boring you all stupid my website wasn’t allowing me to upload any images…being a Wedding Photographer – I’m sure you will agree that this is the worst thing that can happen! I totally believe that my website is my shop front and if your shop front doesn’t look great people will not spend long looking at your site – simple as that. By the beauty of technology, my website is now fixed! and so I have a 3 week backlog of uploading…I’ve been itching to blog about all my recent weddings and has really depressed that I wasn’t able to, but now that I can ….I am over the moon. I will also be updating my slideshow over the next few days so keep a look out!
Right so a couple of weeks ago I shot Michaela & Lee’s wedding. You may remember I blogged their pre-wedding shoot a few months ago and at last the wedding day arrived.. Michaela was a stunning Bride and Lee was a dashing Groom… He was proud as punch to be marrying Michaela and embarking on their married lives together..take a look at some of my favourite photos of their wedding…. Click here to see the whole album
Churmstock… Camping, dancing and beautiful people.
I was lucky enough to be a guest at a wedding last weekend.. The invitation said ‘Churmstock’ – the bride & groom, run an events company – Churmstock Events. They organised the whole thing…They hired the Herfordshire Young Mariners Base in Cheshunt and they totally decked it out – Gerry the bride worked for months making home made bunting and flags and they spent days putting up Marquees, organising food and music and tonnes of entertainment for the kids. The attention to detail was amazing even down to baby sitters for the children in the tents so party goers could carry on into the night and early morning!
Gerry and I are great friends, we both had our first child at the same time – now both are at school…where did the time go Gerry? We lived just a few doors away until I moved to Cambridge last year and now sadly we don’t see as much of each other as I would like. Its not often in life that I see a couple and I know that they are perfect for each other… and when I took these lovely photos of Steve & Gerry I saw how much in love they were, it is such an honour to spend intimate time with my friends on their wedding day!
Thanks Gerry & Steve – it was a fabulous wedding weekend….I’m still catching up with my sleep! To see all the photos from this wedding click here
Favourite Weddings of 2010
Hannah & James Rice
September 2010
I met Hannah and James at the beginning of last year, aparantly they had been looking for a wedding photographer for some time. The reason for their delay was that they wanted an informal unobtrusive approach and wanted someone who would fit in with their intimate wedding. The guest list was small but it was quality not quantity and there really was a great deal of Love in the room.
Often at weddings, I feel like ‘part of the family’ but never more so than at Hannah & James’s wedding – their family came from far and wide – James’s brother had flown in from Japan for the wedding, and Hannah’s family had come to Cambridge from Wales. 
It was a lovely group of people all there to share in the Marriage of their daughter, sister, son, brother or friend and it really did feel like a celebration.
I met Hannah & James earlier in the year at the venue which was ‘The George’ in Buckden, While we were there we had a walk around and stumbled accross ‘Buckden Towers’ which is a Christian Retreat and Conference Centre, but is absolutely stunning and open to the public!
We had an informal pre-wedding shoot, where I got to know Hannah & James and more importantly they got to know me, and my way of shooting couples. I felt I captured their love and excitement for their pending celebration.
So later in the Year I met Hannah & James for their big day! Hannah was so happy and greeted me like we were old friends. Logistically the wedding day couldn’t have been easier, Hannah got ready in The George Hotel, she merely needed to walk down the stairs to get to where the ceremony was and after the Ceremony we went over the road to ‘Bucken Towers’ to do our family photos and our couple photos. have a look at my favourite photos from the day! …now where to start choosing my favourites…..Help!
Favourite Weddings of 2010
0ne of my favourite weddings of 2010 – Philippa & Barney at Longstowe Hall, Cambridgeshire
Philippa & Barney live in Dubai and came home to have their wedding at a beautiful Elizabethan Country House in Cambridgeshire. Click here to see the Longstowe Hall website I have chosen a few of my absolute favourites images from the day. I remember this wedding very well because something happened that happens very rarely – I bumped into someone I knew at the wedding! A guy who I knew from University 15 or so years ago! I managed to have a chat with him toward the end of the day and we realised we were both going to another friend’s wedding this year. – Small world 
Philippa wore a beautiful dress by Ian Stuart and she looked totally amazing in it – lucky for her she is beautiful, slim and tall 
Barney looked very proud and not at all nervous. The ceremony was lovely and inside the stunning Longstowe Hall. It was a gorgeous room with tapestries draped on the wall – a fabulous place to be married. The ceremony room itself can only carry 40 people so after, Philippa and Barney walked outside to be greeted by more guests waiting in the sunshine! I really felt the love in the room, not only because people really love the couple, but because they had travelled half way across the world to be married. The sheer beauty and History of the Hall added to the drama of the day. The building and the grounds provided me with loads of ideas for beautiful shots and their album is packed full of stunning images!
Longstowe Hall is a private residence and the family live in the house, they are a lovely family and warmly open their grounds and home for weddings! It is such
a beautiful location with beautiful flower borders, a Rose garden and a lake – perfect backdrop for wedding photos! – It makes my job so much easier when I shoot a wedding at a lovely venue such as Longstowe Hall, also Philippa & Barney were such a lovely couple, very easy to pose and so much in Love it wasn’t hard to capture their feelings in the photos!
Cambridge University Weddings
I just thought, that I had mentioned below on my blog about Michael & Sarah’s wedding that I am doing in August this summer, that I had done a couple of other weddings that involved a shoot at St. John’s College in Cambridge. I thought I would add a couple of photographs that were taken at St. John’s College that I have taken in my past…
This was a wedding I did yast year – Katy & Tom they are a lovely couple both me while at University in Cambridge, Katy was from the USA on a post-grad and Tom also a student met at the Uni. They now live in the States but decided to come back to where they met to get married. Tom’s family live in the UK but about 100 of Katy’s friends and family made it over from the States for the wedding! It was a beautiful day – filled with lots of love and laughter. I absolutely loved Katy’s hair it was so simple – tumbling curls half up half down with some simple white fuchsia’s pinned in. These same flowers were used throughout the day in the bouquets, the button holes and the table decorations! I absolutely loved that Katy had a lime green stole which really went with the pinks in her bouquet..pink and lime green looks great together – very creative.
Welcome to Joanna Hudson Photography
I am Joanna Hudson I am a Professional Photographer working in the Cambridgeshire area. I cover the whole country and I have had a few weddings abroad too so don’t get put off if you don’t live in Cambridge or Cambridgeshire, my moto is ‘Have camera will travel!” Look at my site click here
My most recent pre-wedding shoot was before Christmas and was shot in Milton Country Park with Michael & Sarah. They have booked me as their Wedding Photographer as they are soon to be married at St John’s College Cambridge in August 2011. I absolutely love doing Weddings in the colleges an Cambridge, not only is it just down the road from my home but they have the most amazing architecture and help me make stunning wedding photos.
I was lucky enough to shoot a wedding at St. John’s College Cambridge last year, as you can see in my Wedding Gallery there is a stunning Chapel and beautiful scenery to compliment your wedding photography!