We had a gorgeous wedding filled Saturday which started with an early Macdonalds breakfast (note to self: This will not help you looked toned and beautiful in your wedding dress!) and then drove, in the absolutely freeeezing weather to Hampton Court Palace for our Engagement photo shoot with our Best Main: Iain and his photograph buddy Greg.
Iain is an extremely good photographer, he has all the kit and has done lots of photographic work for a variety of different clients. He'd never done this before and him and Greg are looking into doing weddings professionally so we were more than happy to be guinea pigs.
We chose Hampton Court Palace as it's a beautiful location and it's also somewhere we went to fairly early on in our relationship with Mum and Dad. Tom's mum and dad used to bring him there lots as a child and I'm really interested in Kings and Queens of England - so it was the perfect location for us.
I'll give you photos later but suffice to say that it was so much fun! We took several changes of clothing and just messed around. I was quite nervous at first as it's a strange feeling to have a camera pointing at you the whole time and kissing and hugging in front of it - but it didn't take too long to relax and start to enjoy the experience (kissing and hugging Tom for hours isn't too much of a chore actually!)
Iain and Greg did a GREAT job - we've had a sneak peak at some of the photos and they are amazing, I'm really happy with them and it will be so lovely to keep them for the future.
In the evening Iain and Jenny and our neighbours Rob and Heather came over for a wedding wine tasting evening. At our tasting night, we bought a selection of their reds and bubbly so that we can decide on what to drink for the meal, reception and toasting drinks. We'd also bought a selection from various supermarkets so that we could decide if we wanted to pay corkage and bring in our own choices.
The results were really surprising and we've now decided on our bubbly selection - the reds need a little bit more trialing but I don't think that will be too difficult for us at all! I think we're almost there with the whites too so that's another tick on my list.
Helen xx
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