Fawsley Hall Wedding – Sophie & Leon

Fawsley Hall Hotel with an awesome Anglo-Chinese fusion wedding!

Fawsley Hall Wedding – Sophie & Leon:  I so wanted to shout ‘action’ at so many times during this wedding.  Leon is an actor and has appeared on TV including the BBC and E4, plus many theatres across London, also a few films. I resisted though, Leon although having an awesome set of groomsmen supporting him, I could see he was a bit nervous and wanted to focus on getting ready to meet Sophie at the altar. Sophie was having an awesome time with her family getting ready, mum and dad were helping with the couples kids, sorting flowers, making sure that Sophie was running on time.

Sophie’s father is Chinese, such a lovely man and great to get to know him during the day. A lot of his family had come over to Fawsley Hall for the wedding and both as a surprise and a blessing for the entire wedding party, Sophie had arranged for a Chinese Lion Dance to take place. I’ll be honest, I had to ask the meaning of some of the parts of the dance, at one point oranges were being thrown from the Lion to the happy couple, plus to a few of the guests, with Sophies Uncle throwing some Kung Fu shapes as a celebration when he caught his. Catching the orange denotes good luck I’m told.

Before the couples entrance in to the wedding breakfast, I took Sophie & Leon for a walk away from their guests. This of course is to capture some portraits of the newly weds, however importantly also to give them some time to themselves to have a chat and a catch up, and although I’m taking photos I try as little as possible to intrude just giving a bit of direction where needed. They were brilliant, very natural together, you made my job easy guys!

Speeches were not just in English for the sake of the Chinese guests, so well done to Sophie’s Dad.  After a quick room turnaround and some random snaps of the guests chilling, first dance was followed by some awesome dance off time between the wedding crew.  If you know what Fortnight the game is, then you can probably guess what sort of moves were being thrown!  Sophie and Leon also turned up wearing traditional Chinese outfits for the evening, such a surprise to everyone! We had to shoot some extra evening portraits with them looking so cool!

This was such an awesome day and I’m so glad that Sophie and Leon chose me as their wedding photographer.  Sophie and Leon, congratulations guys, it was an absolute pleasure to be a part of your wedding!

I’ve mentioned this before, in this blog (link), Leon & Sophie originally booked Neil Bowler for this wedding, however he was sadly taken before his time and I was chosen to cover this wedding. This is my last wedding I’m to cover for Neil, again I just hope I’ve done you proud sir.

If you enjoyed reading this blog and you are planning your own wedding day, I would love to hear from you!

Marcus
07778 919589
Marcus Charter Wedding Photography
marcus@marcuscharterphotography.co.uk