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Back in July, we photographed the wedding of Helen (nee McNally) and Lee Butcher at St Michaels Hotel and Spa in Falmouth, Cornwall. It was a gloriously sunny day(one of the few in that month, this year), the sky was as blue as I’ve ever seen it and the temperatures soared.

RAF serviceman Lee, wore his uniform for the occasion whilst Helen was in charge of the rest of arrangements, and she was determined to have a very pink wedding… and it certainly was PINK!! The colour shone out to give the whole day a wonderfully vibrant feel. So vibrant indeed that Wed magazine have featured their wedding in their latest edition complete with a nice selection of some of our wedding photography.

Lee and Helen originally met at Primary School, lost contact and rediscovered each other through a popular social networking site. The rest, as they say, is history.

It was a wonderfully happy day and along with his two best men. Lee kept the guests and family royally amused. Catalogue style poses and a pythonesque sense of humour were the order of the day. Sunbathers on the crowded beach were amazed and thrilled to see the bride, groom and various members of the wedding party stroll along the beach, picking their way through sandcastles and bikini clad bodies.

Lee was very much the star (or was it victim) of a slideshow featuring, amongst other photo’s, some images from his recent deployment in Afghanistan. The couple were a joy to work with and as the day slipped into a balmy summers evening, Lee and Helen hit the dance floor which, obviously inspired by Lee’s uniform, soon filled with friends and family performing an impromptu battle of Britain display. All in all, a wonderful day worthy of a magazine feature.

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Big congratulations to Sarah Pryce-Hughes & Andrew Barnard, the winners of our  competition held at the recent Cornish Brides Wedding Fair at the China Fleet Club in Saltash, Cornwall.  Winning the prize – £850 worth of wedding photography – came as a bit of a surprise to Sarah, who admitted that she’s never won anything before!  Their wedding takes place next May at the fabulous Barclay House Hotel in Looe.  We ran the competition at the recent Cornish Brides wedding fair at the China Fleet Club in Saltash.  The response was brilliant and we’re really sorry that there could be only be one winner.  But there is still good news as we’ll happily give a 10% discount on our wedding photography coverage to everyone else who attended the fair.

As wedding photographers in Cornwall and on a personal basis, Iconik Photography have a long association with the Carbis Bay hotel near St Ives in Cornwall, so we were overjoyed to hear that they were voted the winners of the Westcountry Wedding Award’s best wedding venue in Cornwall. Victoria, Carbis Bay’s wedding co-ordinator, works tirelessly to ensure that the day goes exactly to plan for the Bride and Groom with an incredible attention to even the smallest detail. We count Victoria as a personal friend and she has a magical way of making everyone feel special. 

Carbis Bay Hotel is a family owned business and the high standard of service  and comfort insisted upon by the owner, Malcolm Baker and his son Stephen Baker are evident throughout. All of the staff at the Carbis Bay Hotel contribute enormously to the seamless running of events dealing with the large number of guests with a wonderfully courteous ease.

As wedding photographers the Carbis Bay offers us many wonderful photo opportunities. Built in 1894 by the famous Cornish architect, Sylvanus Trevail it’s a wonderful building with manificent features from the elegant marble corridors, the beautifully decorated main dining room, the wonderful conservatories, award winning gardens and, of course, the stunning beach which is owned and maintained by the hotel. There aren’t many beaches in the UK  that can boast such a wonderful expanse of golden sand and truly blue sea.

As the next bay on from St Ives, Carbis Bay  shares the same magical light that has enchanted and attracted some of the world’s greatest artists and inspired authors like Virginia Wolf and Rosamunde Pilcher immortalised the hotel in her novels ‘The Shell Seekers‘ and ‘Winter Solstice‘.

Carbis bay Hotel is richly deserving of its accolade of Westcountry Wedding Awards best Cornwall Venue, and we look forward to maintaining our special relationship with them for many long years to come.

When we got married a few years back, Natalie had a very definite idea of what she wanted from a wedding photographer. She didn’t just want a bunch of formal group shots, she wanted the whole day captured in a way that reflected and documented the occasion. She wanted a mix of natural and formal shots to convey the magic of the day. Unfortunately, at that time, there wasn’t a lot of choice in our price bracket, and the only photographers who offered the style she liked were all based in London charging astronomical prices. Attracting them down to our Cornish wedding would have added an extra premium to cover their travel and accommodation expenses. We eventually got a very competent local photographer but he was of the old school, formal approach. We got technically well taken shots of lots of groups, but they were so boring! None of the joy of the celebration came through and everyone looked ill at ease and un-relaxed in their poses. We rarely look back at our old wedding album these days because it just doesn’t inspire us any more.

Partly as a response to the blandness of the photographs of our own wedding , Natalie was inspired to do something about the lack of choice and, together, we started our own wedding photography business – Iconik Photography. Our approach to wedding photography is all about capturing the essence and magic of the wedding day so, instead of concentrating purely formal groups we incorporated reportage into wedding photography. Reportage is a photo journalistic approach to photography where people are captured in a naturalist, candid way. The subject is relaxed and behaving in a natural manner which helps to convey the mood and record the characters of the event. The energy jumps out of the page and, instead of staid grouping that would look more at home at a wake, you get a real feel for the celebration of the wedding – a snapshot of a particular time that will spark memories every time you look at them. We still take the formal shots but they seem to be more relevant when set against the informality of the reportage shots – We didn’t get the opportunity to have such a stunning keepsake for our wedding, but Iconik Photography is determined to give our customers the standard of style and service that we sadly missed out on.