There are wedding venues where you can get married outside. There has to be a covered area which must be licensed with your local registration office in order for you to get married outside.

There are at least 3 wedding venues I have worked at recently, in Cornwall, that are licensed for outdoor wedding ceremonies: Tregenna Castle at St Ives, Boscundle Manor at Par near St Austell and The Rose in Vale Country House Hotel near St Agnes. In addition if you would like to get married outdoors with sea views Tregenna is the place and is close to some fabulous beaches.

The Rose in Vale is near St Agnes and there are mine workings, cliffs and sea views a short drive away. I have taken couples to locations nearby which make  great wedding photography back drops.

I photographed a crazy civil partnership at Boscundle Manor. The ceremony was held outside and a marquee had been set up for the wedding guests – it worked really well and the couple were delighted which let’s face it is most important.

Can you have a wedding ceremony on a beach will be the subject of another post.

This year is flying by and August has been an extremely busy, successful month. Having covered weddings at venues such as Boscundle Manor, St Austell, Tregenna Castle Hotel, St Ives, St Buryan Church, St Gluvias Curch, Penryn, Lands End Hotel, Porthminster  Hotel, St Ives, St Michael’s Hotel, Falmouth with marquees that have been supplied by Absolute Canvas and Bodmin Marquees –  lots of hours photographing weddings and many hours spent by Leon post processing all of the captured images. We have worked to within our quoted time schedules and in addition we have received orders for our designer wedding albums, so the pressure has most certainly been high but we have delivered.

Thanks to all of our brides and grooms whose weddings we have covered, it has been such a pleasure to work with you all and many many thanks for all the appreciative emails and phone calls – always good to receive feedback.

September is probably going to be even busier than August as there are many couples who have yet to make their selection of photographs for their wedding album page designs – I have a feeling we are going to receive lots of orders which when added to the number of weddings that I shall be photographing – well all I can say is it’s going to be a mega month! Leon and I look forward to it.

Boscundle Manor is a country house hotel near St Austell in Cornwall where I had great fun photographing Emma and Joe’s wedding. The food was fabulous, thanks Sharon for the gorgeous fillet steak – much needed and enjoyed!

I met Emma and Joe about 18 months before the wedding and again about a month before. It really is scarey how quickly the time had passed between the meets. I remember thinking that it only seemed that we had met a few weeks ago not 16 months.

The guests were from all parts of the globe and were great fun and obviously had a great time at the wedding. Emma and Joe did not want too many structured photos so I did a few groups and then caught expressive photographs of Emma, Joe and thier guests. They have a big collection of images from which they will make their selection of photographs for their album. We managed to get some groups and more random photographs taken outside prior to a deluge