A couple of funky weddings and ... wedding porn?

Maybe they deserved a better band, but just how cool is Kyla 'n' Dylan's wedding in Colorado a fortnight ago?

There's 71 shots from Lucid 'n' Eenor's to check out here on Flickr ...

And the Wedding Porn site is here

We particularly like that idea of the bride's overdress that's featured in the "Wedding porn: cream and black wedding dress" post (if you click on that picture of the Scottish couple, it links to their Flickr album of 30 more wedding photos)

Fancy signing a petition?

As most of our clients are well aware, the question of whether if, on the day, we will actually be allowed to take photos during the ceremony is something of a lottery. As far as civil ceremonies are concerned, that's because it's entirely at the discretion of the celebrant, from which it follows that you never really know until just before the bride walks down the aisle whether she'll get the pictures she wants.

Our colleague Duncan Kerridge has finally got so fed up of this situation that he's got approval for an official petition to the Prime Minister calling for the government to issue guidelines instructing all registrars to allow professional photography during civil ceremonies.

If you'd like to lend your support, you can sign the petition here

Ann's Pudding Picture #17

I have no idea why he's looking at Ann like that, but this is five summer puddings with clotted cream on their way to table at Marilyn and James' wedding breakfast last week.

Hats #12

Just realised that we're overdue for another hat picture ...

What happens if it rains?

Ann and I get wet! Seriously though, what difference rain might make to your wedding day depends on three things: what your contingency planning is like, how you react to it, and how your guests react to it.

We had rain at last Saturday's garden-party type reception, but fortunately Matilda had had the foresight to hire in a load of brollies. Equally fortunately, she is not the sort of girl to make a big deal of a bit of mud on a wedding dress or a pair of shoes, and her guests weren't either.

Net result: down came the rain, up went the brollies, out came more champagne and canapes on the lawn, and the whole thing carried on as normal ...

Ann's Pudding Picture #16

Two for the price of one this week! Top picture is the lovely Carolyn Barnett's assembly line for her 'Slice of lemon glazed tart with strawberries and raspberries and a shot of chocolate mousse', and bottom picture is the start of the serving of it at Matilda and Danny's reception.

Carolyn's one of our favourite outside caterers, and not only because she kindly gave us a delicious pud each last week. She's based in East Sussex, caters for up to 100, has no website because she's busy enough without one, and you can get her phone number from us!

The next big thing?

Well OK maybe not, but to me it's surprising that the picture idea known in the biz as Trash The Dress has made it to today's New York Times. By way of a demo, here's a little video of a high-energy photoshoot by Kelly Moore of Los Angeles that ends in a dress trashing ...

Anybody up for this kind of thing? :)

The bells! The bells ...

at St Mary Magdalene at Cowden in Kent a couple of weeks ago, showing the whiteboard with the changes on that they rang and also what happens to the ropes when they've finished ...