Baughan Photography Blog

I don’t often get much time to do some personal photos as im always busy with weddings, but here are a few examples of my work in California this year.

I have finally got around to adding some new testimonials from the first half of 2011 onto the website. Check them out:

Pete & Agnes Goodrich
Langley Castle
Date of wedding: 8th July 2011

We were extremely happy with your photography on the wedding day, and with the way you worked as everyone felt so very comfortable. thanks again.

Alanna & James Nipper
Middleton Lodge Hotel, Richmond
Date of wedding : 18th June 2011

Very professional. Love all of our images. Many of the guests have commented about how good the photographer was and that he made everybody feel at ease.

Laura & Ben Steele
Priory Cottages, Wetherby
Date of wedding : 16th June 2011

Jason was fantastic. He absolutely exceeded our expectations on the day. I have attended many weddings were the photographers have turned up scruffy, but Jason looked really smart so he blended in with the guests. He said to me to pretend he wasnt there and I really hardly ever knew he was. So much so I was worried we wouldnt have any pictures. I am not sure where you were hiding through the day Our wedding planner told me Jason was so dedicated to getting a good picture that he knelt int the middle of Ripon road and stopped the traffic to get a picture of the car getting to the church. Thanks for everything, we were so pleased with the photos.

Amanda & Shaun Brown
Embleton Hall, Morpeth
Date of wedding : 21st May 2011

Absolutely excellent. I have been passing your details onto people recommending you. Thanks for capturing our day so brilliantly, we are really pleased
 to have so many fab pictures.

John & Jacqui Mawdsley
Wentbridge House Hotel, Wentbridge, Yorkshire
Date of wedding: 6th May 2011

Once again thankyou for the great photos from our wedding day, we felt you were really professiona and everyone commented on how relaxed you were with them. The wedding guide which had our photos in has been circulated around Jacqui’s place of work and all of her colleagues are very impressed with the photos.

Michelle & Richard Chandler
Hazlewood Castle, Wetherby, Yorkshire
Date Of  Wedding: 29th April 2011

We were very pleased with the photos, lots of natural shots as well as some formal ones of the key people. You were very unobtrusive on the day sp people didn’t notice you were taking pictures. Great value for money for the quality of photos. Thank you.

Gisborough Hall, Teeside
Date of Wedding : 20th November 2010

Sorry its taken so long  to choose our photos, we were delighted with them. They were just what we wanted, natural, unobtrusive and perfectly captured our day. thanks again.

We are pleased to anounce that we will be at the UK wedding show in Harrogate on both 24th and 25th September 2011 stand number 62. The UK wedding

shows are the biggest and best wedding shows in the UK, checkk out the website: http://www.theukweddingshows.co.uk/

This year will will be offering bride and groom’ s the follow great freebees if they decide to book with us using a voucher they can get from the show:

• A free 1 hour prewedding (engagement) photoshoot at a location to suit them.
• A DVD copyright free, containing all the edited images from the shoot .
• A choice of either a guest book or guest board containing pictures from your engagement shoot.

Such a great offer.

See you there.

Great wedding yesterday, here is a taster of some the night time photos. Congratulations to Micheala & Carl who were married at a lovely church in York and then had a great time at the York university.

Check out some of the images from a recent wedding in June at Priory Cottages near Wetherby:

Lovely informal venue : http://www.priorycottages.co.uk/

Great news I have just qualified as a Licentiate with the BIPP.
This was after submitting a panel of 20 prints from weddings I have done in the last 2 years and then having them assessed by a panel of 5 professional judges.

The institute is there to recognise the best photographers in the UK and give customers the assurance that photographers qualified with them are competent and qualified.

Take a look at their website:

http://www.bipp.com/

Check out some pictures from a very recent wedding in North Yorkshire,  Alanna and James Nipper, congratulations.

Another Spring Wedding……..and will be a feature in the wedding guide in June -

Bride’s name: Jacqui Mawdsley (was Dunn)

Groom’s name: John Mawdsley

Wedding date: Friday 6th May 2011

Venue: Wentbridge House Hotel, Near Leeds, Yorkshire

How did they meet?

“We went to school together, but weren’t quite childhood sweethearts! We didn’t really get on at school, John was the class clown and I found him quite annoying! But after one year at York university for me and an adventurous gap year for John, we met up in our hometown for a drink and the rest is history!”

What was the proposal like?

In November 2009 we went on a trip of a lifetime holiday to New Zealands north island, it was a dream holiday for me and a chance for John to show me where he visited during his gap year. We stayed at the luxury hotel in the bay of islands where John had worked, we had a room overlooking the ocean & thats where John proposed…a complete surprise for me; when he asked if he could ask me question I thought he was going to ask what I wanted to do for dinner!

What was the weather like on the day of your wedding?

Lovely, it was fresh and warm. we didn’t get clear blue skies but it did stay lovely and bright all day & into the evening.

What was the ceremony time and where was it held?

The ceremony was at 1pm, in the leatham suite at Wentbridge house hotel

Where was the reception?

The reception was also at Wentbridge house hotel, but in the gorgeous crystal suite.

What was the main reason you picked the venue?

Because they only cater for one wedding a day, if there’s one day when you want to feel important and well looked after then your wedding day is it. The staff at wentbridge are brilliant, nothing was too much trouble and our master of ceremonies, Malcolm, was an absolute star, he’d pre-empted every request we asked him, meaning we were very relaxed all day.

Who supplied you with the following (please supply telephone numbers or email address);

a. Your dress: Designed by Enzoani, Purchased from the lovely ladies at Elizabeth of York.

b. Your bridesmaids dress: Designed by Alfred Angelo, purchased from inizi bridal in Derby

c. Menswear: Both groom and Best man wore morning suits hired from york hire wear, who also provided colour matched ties for the fathers.

d. Hair and Makeup: Bride, bridesmaids & mother of the brides hair done by Sammy and Alex from Moda hairdressing of york, make up was done by bride & bridesmaids themselves.

e. Flowers: Bride/bridesmaid bouquets: Custom designed dried flax woven flowers from Artiflax in New Zealand, all designed by email but matched perfectly into the day. and as they are dried they will last as a permanent momento of the day Flowers on the tables were by Mel from Passion Flowers florist of Upton near pontefract.

f.  Cake: Fruit cake designed & made by grooms mother, cake topper made by the bride, and chocolate, lemon orange & sticky toffee muffins provided by BB’s Muffins from J32 Outlet at Castleford

g. Invitations: Handmade by bride

h.Tiara: didnt wear tiara but veil was also Enzoani and from Elizabeth of York, as was flower hairpiece for evening and earrings. Bracelet belonged to brides late grandmother.

i. Photograph Jason Baughan of Baughan Photography.

j. Transport, none needed we were at Wentbridge all day

What were the moments that you remember most?

Bride: The music starting for me to walk down the aisle (acoustic everlong by the foo fighters) thats when I felt nervous, but then

I walked down the aisle and saw John beaming at me which made me feel amazing.

Groom: Walking into our reception room as man and wife to the applause of family & friends, I even practised my royal wave to everybody!

Do you have any advice for future brides?

Do everything as far in advance as possible, then by the time the wedding week comes around there is nothing to worry about and you will have time to relax and treat yourself & your bridesmaids.

Where did you go on your honeymoon?

We went to Loch Lomond in Scotland immediately after the wedding, we are having our full honeymoon in November 2011 to New Zealand south island.

Nice to do some weddings abroad from time to time, but here are some non wedding pictures I recently took while I was not at the wedding.

Spring at Hazlewood Castle, on Royal Wedding Day, April 2011.

Happy to be married...

together for life...

kiss....

beautiful light...

blossoms.....

kiss again....

the croud..