Jennie and Paul at Gatton Manor - a trip to Surrey

August 24, 2008 | 1 Comment

Grand prix roses at Gatton Manor by top wedding photographer Jonathan Ryan

You know me, I’m primarily a Kent wedding photographer. But I do travel quite a bit for my work. As well as wedding photography in London, Essex, Sussex, Wiltshire and even Birmingham I also occasionally take a trip round the M25. This weekend I was over at Gatton Manor in Surrey for the wedding of Jennie and Paul.

Where they had the most fabulous roses ever. Grand Prix since you ask complete with little sparkly jewels and what could only really be described as fairy dust.

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Grant and Fiona - all the pictures from a real wedding

August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Grant and Fiona are back from honeymoon and that can only mean one thing.  All their pictures are now online!

There’s a highlight show below and if you want to see more then you can jump on over to the client site where you can see every picture from their wedding at the London Golf Club. Read more

Becky and Allen - more real wedding pictures

August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Becky and Allen came round the gallery yesterday after their honeymoon in Thailand.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard so much laughter at a viewing!  There were plenty of oohs and aahs too though and they seemed pretty pleased with their pictures :).  Now they just have their album to choose.

There are some highlights below and if you want to see more then all the pictures from their Kentish wedding at Garlinge Methodist Church and Saint Augustine’s at Westgate are on the client site. Read more

Becky and Matt at Courtstairs - details matter

August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Becky's bridesmaids help her into her dress

I ran some adverts a while ago with the tag line “Details Matter”. If you come over to the gallery then you’ll see some examples of what I mean. A wedding is full of details from the favours you agonised over to the table plan to the colour of the flowers and on and on.

Becky and Matt’s wedding at Courtstairs was no exception - in fact they had come up with some great ideas of their own. Once the full day goes into the client area you’ll see loads of them. In the meantime here is the story of the day.

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Emily and Astrit - a rainy day wedding

August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Remember Emily and Astrit?  They were married just over a week ago.  Beautiful bride, beautiful setting, handsome groom.  Horrendous weather.  Really, I always say that I’m lucky with weather.  Last week I was lucky in that the marquee didn’t blow away :).

Anyway, they fly out to Kosova tomorrow to get married all over again next week.  So I hustled the pictures through processing.

There’s a highlight show below and if you want to see more then you can jump on over to the client site where you can see every picture from their wedding at Farringtons School Read more

Emily and Astrit at Farringtons “the whole country was crying”

August 12, 2008 | 3 Comments

Astrit Morena - evangelical preacher

Most pictures of wedding start with the bride. Instead, here’s Astrit. Kosovan, groom for the day, evangelical preacher and all round cool guy. He also has a bit of a way with words.

We got a little wet at his wedding to Emily. OK, we got very wet. The heavens opened and what could have been one of the most beautiful days ever turned into one of the wettest. It was so bad that a couple of the guests were even heard to say that it was a pity and that it might spoil the day a little. Then Astrit stood up for his speech and explained. He’s been in England for 5 days and everything was wonderful. Now the whole country was crying because he had the best girl. And all of a sudden the rain didn’t matter at all.

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Julie and Terry - all pictures from a real wedding online now

August 8, 2008 | 1 Comment

Remember Julie and Terry? They got married at Sittingbourne Register office 8 days ago. Since they weren’t having a honeymoon, I knew they couldn’t wait to see their pictures.  Just over a week later, all their pictures are now online!

There’s a highlight show below and if you want to see more then you can jump on over to the client site where you can see every picture from their wedding in Sittingbourne and the pictures from Great Higham Barn. Read more

Julie and Peter - slideshow and gallery

August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

All the pictures from Julie and Peter’s wedding are now online.

You can watch some of the highlights below and below or if you want to see the whole thing (and maybe buy some copies) then there’s a link to their personal gallery. Read more

Becky and Allen - a perfectly planned wedding

August 3, 2008 | 2 Comments

Becky Ogden all ready for her wedding - beautiful portraiture by Kent Wedding Photographer Jonathan Ryan

Meet Becky. Becky likes to plan. A lot.

In fact, I first met Becky nearly two years ago when she booked be to photograph her wedding to Allen. When I met her a few weeks ago to finalise arrangement she had a huge bag full of paper planning her wedding. But you know what? It all worked out perfectly.

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Small can be beautiful - Julie and Terry at Sittingbourne registry office

August 1, 2008 | 14 Comments

Julei and Terry and guests at Sittingbourne register office

If you take a look in the galleries then you’ll see that I’ve shot some pretty big and elaborate weddings. The “record” is somewhere over 800 guests (really - nobody knows exactly how many were there).

But less is more and smaller weddings can be a lot of fun. Like this Thursday - I was over at Sittingbourne Register Office for Julie and Terry’s wedding. That’s pretty much all of the guests plus celebrant in the shot there. The only person missing is the registrar Sarah who is right behind Terry.

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