I love doing creative couples portraits and engagement shoots in London but normally my couples want them out and about on the streets of London. When Elisa & Fabio got in contact and wanted to do some photos at home I jumped at the chance.

In your own home, your own environment, surrounded by the things you love, you relax, you let your guard down and are just yourselves.  As a photographer, that is perfect. For me, that is what I am aiming to do with every couples shoot. I’m trying to tell your story and capture who you are as a couple but also as an individual. I always want my couples to look back and see themeselves in their photos. Capturing the way they hold hands, the way they lean on each, they way they hug and the way they look at each other when no one is watching.

Elisa & Fabio let me into their home and just did what they always do on a Sunday morning, open up the balcony doors, drink tea and snuggle up on the sofa.

I am so excited to be heading to Brighton and Glasgow next week to do a talk and also do some shoot sessions as part of The Photography Farm. The shoot sessions have limited places but I will be talking other photographers through a typical shoot and showing them how I get my couples to relax. They will get to see how I work and also see how I get close to get the portraits my couples book me for.

There are still a few spaces available if you want to get involved. More info here!

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This is it, don’t get scared now!

So yesterday was one of those days when something I’ve dreamed of and something I’ve been working hard on took one step closer to becoming very real. Months of preparations, months of nervousness and self doubt, lots of chats about whether I should be doing it and if anyone would come along have lead to the announcement of my FIRST exhibition.

The amazing people behind Hawkhurst Vault have invited me to be their artist in residence and yesterday the event went live on facebook.  After the event went live and invites were sent to people, I sat nervous, waiting to see if anyone would click to attend and by the time I went to bed last night I was blown away by the response.  It is always difficult to put yourself and your work out there for the world to see and while I do it every week with my wedding photography, it feels completely different when it is work that sits a lot closer to your heart.  I am nervous and excited and full of apprehension. I am still scared no one will turn up for the opening night.

Once the exhibition is up and running I am hoping to do a couple of blog posts about the images and what they mean to me, as well as talk about the process of photographing the house I grew up in. I think I need a little bit more time to process it all and get my words in order.

To everyone who has clicked on the event, clicked that they will attend, liked the photos on facebook or left a comment….THANK YOU.

It really does mean the world to me.

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So 2014 has come to and end and what a year it has been!

2014 was my busiest year in terms of photography. It was a year which brought new challenges, new friends, new adventures and lots of lovely new couples.  I am grateful to every couple who put their trust in me to tell their story, let me run with my crazy ideas and who let me dance the night away with them, their friends and family.

This is the first in a series of 2014 posts.  First up is a blog dedicated to all the amazing weddings I have been a part of.

Grab a cup of tea, a teacake and get ready…this is my 2014 Wedding Adventure!

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When I went to The Farm, I never thought I would end up back there, 3 years later teaching….but guess what I AM and I am beyond excited.

I am lucky enough to be teaching a Beginners Boot Camp at Farm Week in February. I know how daunting it is to start a business, so I am really excited to share my journey, my  knowledge and advice on how to make your business kick ass. We will be looking at business basics, customer experience, work flow, editing, staying positive, getting inspired, finding you voice amoungst other things.

If you are thinking of making the leap to full time photographer, feeling a little lost with your business, or need some advice on how to get started, then this is for you.

This is some of the stuff we will talk about and this is an open session, so nothing is off limits.

• business basics
• workflow
• editing
• style
• social media
• websites
• blogging
• getting featured
• getting the right couple
• kit
• software

http://www.photographyfarm.co.uk/product/beginners-boot-camp-photography-workshop-lisa-jane/

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What I will remember most about Sarah and Adam’s day is the laughter.  From the moment I stepped into the hotel room to the moment I left, they were surrounded by it.

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Every time I think about their day, I can’t help but smile. I shed a few tears during their ceremony, sung my heart out as they walked down the aisle, cried and laughed so hard during their speeches, did a shot of rum during the toasts,  danced the night away and I walked away feeling like I had made friends for life.

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I can’t believe I have finally pressed go on the site.

I’ve been busy behind the scenes, pulling together galleries, spending  a lot of time in photobooths and doing a  lot of writing to make sure the site was perfect.  There has been a lot of blood, sweat and tears and I am so happy to finally be able to show every one what I have been up to.

There are lots of unseen photos on here. I can not wait to share the amazing weddings I have been a part of.

Feel free to take a look around!

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I am pleased to announce that ………

Joe & Nikki are the winners of the competition!

Congratulations guys, I am so excited to be shooting your wedding….Let the wild rumpus begin!

I wish I could shoot all these weddings, all these couples have a little place in my heart so I decided to offer a runners up prize to the couple who came in second. Rachael & Tom, check your email 🙂

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Dan and I both work in the film & TV industry he as a feature director and myself as an Art Director. As you can imagine our ideas are pretty wild and we have some great ideas for our day which we intend to do DIY!!

Our theme is as follows: a rainbow fairground 🙂

We are having the reception & dancing in the centres marquee which will be decorated with fairy lights, pom poms, lots of sweeties and lots of colours!! I’m not having flowers as I’m not a flower kind of girl BUT there will be lots of cool things to make up for it like balloons and yarn balls and all the bouquets I intend to make from buttons 🙂

Daniel is organising the evening entertainment but we already know there will be candy floss & popcorn stands (I’m still trying to twist his arm into hot dogs & ice cream) games, a DIY photo booth which we’ll set up and Dans going to make a film compiling our favourite movie moments which everyone can enjoy while they boogie on down to our mix of cheese and rock n roll music.

I’m already 99% sure that I’ll be wearing a white Vivien of Holloway Dress and my bridesmaids will each be dressed in a colour of the rainbow. Guests are also going to be seated by colour 🙂 I want favours to be little jars of sweets and also for each guest to have a little party pack including photo challenges and dressing up stuff 🙂

Obviously it’s a while away so I’m sure our ideas will evolve and change but I think one things for sure: it will only get more awesome!!

I guess for a better idea you can check out my pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/sallym0nster

2. Liana & Patrick

OVERVIEW OF THE DAY

We plan to have a ‘Jumble of Love’ day (basically a day where we get hitched infront of our nearest and dearest, full of lots of things that we love – which we hope will all go together by virtue of the fact we love them!!).A mix of classicly romantic elements-with some more 2012 ones; and a mix of literature/theatre with music.

THE PLAN

The day begins on Richmond Hill (in richmond-upon-thames) – though I grew up in Cyprus (I’m half greek/half irish -so, if you believe the news, financially f***ed either way!!) my english family home is just outside richmond . Our ceremony is in a beautiful bright room at the Richmond Gate Hotel on the hill, decorated with a combination of classically red roses and beautiful paper ones (see: http://www.etsy.com/listing/91091723/12-book-page-paper-roses-by-bookcraft as an example). My bouquet will be a combination of the two too – as will the boutonieres. Other details:custom made wedding rings (my sister is a jeweller and her partner a goldsmith – RIDICULOUSLY lucky us)and I’m wearing two dresses.

Hate to blow our trumpets – but our reception venue is THE BOMB!!! We hope it’ll make the day. It’s Kew Bridge Steam Museum (just down the road from richmond) with (working – if we want!!) 1960’s steam engines all lit up by a friend of ours (who works for stage electrics) and decorated with green glass bottles I’ve been collecting all year,sunflowers and aselection of hard back red classics I bought from the second hand shop down the road.We are having Patrick’s 1930’s swing band for entertainment – they are called King Candy and the Sugar Push (http://www.kingcandyandthesugarpush.com/) and scene from shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew by a couple of my Globe actor friends out in the yard in front of the waterwheel. And cocktails and dancing and hopefully fun – come whatever weather!!!

3. Jude & Dan

Venue: Victoria Baths, Manchester (an old Edwardian swimming baths that has been restored, it’s beautiful and we are getting married in the actual pool! No water unfortunately, but the money from the hire of the place goes to getting it up and running as a working baths again, and as we are both swimmers, and I come from a family of competitive swimmers it means a lot to us!) http://www.victoriabaths.org.uk/ Reception is there too.

Ideas: It’s all about the music! Dan and Jude are both musicians and met whilst playing in rival bands, so it makes sense for their wedding to have a rock ‘n’ roll theme. From using 12 inch records in the decorations to making sure there’s an amazing playlist, music is the main thing that links all the elements of their wedding together. Keeping it totally DIY, their family and friends are beavering away making decorations and the Victoria Baths is a totally unique space to have a beautifully scruffy wedding!

4. Rachael & Tom

We’re holding our wedding at Plymouth’s Barbican as this is where Tom proposed and it reflects our love of the sea and all things nautical. The ceremony itself is going to be held at Plymouth Gin Distillery – we chose this as we wanted somewhere quirky (we aren’t really church or registry office type people) and this place is stunning with a huge glass wall contrasted against all of the old distillery equipment – we are suckers from curious treasure / old tat! It’s actually going to be the last ever wedding held there, which makes it all the more special in my opinion!

After a swift gin and tonic in the swanky Gin Distillery bar, it’s going to be off (by foot as it’s only up the road) to Duttons restaurant where we are having a gormet BBQ – we’re not really format dinning people and want to keep the feel of the day fun and relaxed. Dutton’s is a small family-fun restaurant, on a little cliff overlooking the Barbican – they’ve only ever catered for one wedding before and are really excited about it. We are having a marquee in the garden and I’m currently making miles (literally miles) of nautical themed bunting to decorate the marquee and restaurant with. This is going to be given to two of my best friends who are theatre set designers and are doing the rest of the decorating as a wedding present – they want to keep it a surprise from me though so I can’t tell you what it’ll be like, although I know they’ll go to town on it! Tom’s brother’s band (punk rock) are going to play some covers while everyone has a nice time in the (hopeful) sun afterwards. Our dog, Poppy, is going to join us for something to eat too. 

We are sending our Save The Date cards in a few weeks time, when it’s a year to go – we’ve commissioned a local illustrator to draw a map of Plymouth’s Barbican with all the places special to us marked on, in an Sailor Jerry tattoo style. It looks fab and I’m looking forward to sending it. I’m making the rest of the stationary myself, Tom’s making our cake as a token of his affection (bless him -he’s not really into cooking…) and I’ve been taking silversmithing classes for the last six months as I’m building up to being able to make our rings myself!

5. Joe & Nikki

No words from Joe and Nikki, just this visual aid!

6. Elena & Gabriele

My name is Elena and I’m going to marry my beautiful fiancé Gabriele on our 8th anniversary!, in Fortunago, a lovely medieval village in Lombardy.

We’ll have an outdoor civil ceremony under a tree with an amazing view on the hills (if it doesn’t rain, of course).

We chose a 50s rock’n’roll theme because we love the fifties and 50s style weddings always look so joyful and fun and that’s exactly what we want for our big day.

Think bold colours (red, white and black and maybe a touch of tiffany blue), music from the 50s and the 60s and a bride in a red short wedding dress.

Also, I don’t want any floral decorations, but we’ll have plenty of pom poms, paper flowers, buntings and lots of DIY details. I’ll also have a non floral bouquet, maybe a button bouquet.

Gabriele is very good at graphic design and he’s in charge of the wedding stationery. Can’t wait to see the results!

I’m a wedding enthusiast, I love reading wedding blogs (but Rock’n’Roll Bride is my favourite) and I recently started a little wedding blog in Italian.

Alternative weddings are very rare in Italy and outdoor ceremonies are uncommon, so I’m sure our guests will remember our wedding for a very long time.

I attach a picture of us taken in London. This is my wedding inspiration board on Pinterest: 

http://pinterest.com/vintagebride/my-wedding-board/.

7. Sarah & Ewan

Me and my partner Ewan are getting married next year, we are planning on a New York wedding, in Central Park.

We decided on a New York wedding as we love the city, and we thought that NYC would be an amazing backdrop to our wedding – the whole city is so iconic, it would be like getting married on a film set! Our photography plan would be to cover the prep on the day, the wedding, and then for the two of us to disappear with the photographer on a whirlwind trip of NYC, getting wedding photos in the best known spots around NYC – Times Square, the Flatiron Building, Brooklyn Bridge-that sort of thing! 

I have been with Ewan for 5 years now, and he proposed to me last November, in the middle of some boggy ground, just outside Hardknott Roman Fort, in the Lake District. I had wondered why he got grumpy about people turning up just as we were leaving the fort (after all, we were leaving!) but it turned out his plan had  been to ask me at the entrance, overlooking a beautiful view of the surrounding hills. He decided not to do it then – wanting some privacy, and asked as we tramped back to the car through the mud, as he obviously couldn’t keep it in any longer. We chose my engagement ring a few weeks later, in York, in an antique shop. He knew I wanted vintage, so let me pick myself (although he spotted it) – it is from the 1920s or 30s, and it is a sapphire and diamond gold ring, I love it! 

I am planning a mainly DIY type of wedding – I have plans to make my bridemaids dresses myself (I have three bridesmaids, all called Kirsty!) This will prove to be a challenge, as I have only recently started learning dressmaking, but feel that the end result will be all the more special to me that way.

I am a bit of a crafting fiend, so I’m also planning to make my own brooch bouquet, and I am currently sourcing patterns to knit my own wedding shawl (if I get ambitious, I might even make ones for my bridesmaids). All little details that I hope will photograph well all the day, and will tell a lovely story.

The wedding party itself will be eclectic too – Ewan is going to wear a kilt in his clan tartan, as will a few of the other guests, and his best man is a Captain in the Army, and he will be wearing his dress uniform, hopefully with ceremonial sword.

So that is all 7 finalists, which couple is your favourite?  I honestly can not decide who should win, these couples are planning some amazing weddings, completely centered around their love and their friends and family. Every couple said that all they wanted was to be surrounded by their friends and family and for everyone to have an amazing time…what more could any couple hope!

Get voting people…these guys need your help!

CLOSING DATE IS AUGUST 5TH 

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I am still looking for people to photograph so if you want to get involved, I would love to hear from you.
Just drop me an email and I will get back to you.

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