Birthday BBQ...

So we had a birthday in our family on thursday...our gorgeous Meganne turned 15...

Her one request was that we have a bbq on the beach for her birthday...unfortunately, gail force winds and rain meant that we wimped out and had to do it last night instead!! It was definitely worth the wait...in true British style we huddled behind windbreakers...shivering after an hour of bodyboarding...and cranked up the barbeques!

One bbq collapsed as soon as it was set up...epic fail...but Jon managed to redeem it with his Jonny Rambo skills...burning himself in the process!! By the time it was all cooked we had purple lips and had lost all feeling in our outer extremeties but we kept calm and carried on...giving the kids the line 'it's a memory maker'!!!

So here's my boys...even the dog who managed to get himself a burger!

and finally...camera shy Ethan!

And lastly Abi...

We had a great time...and to top it off we had the most amazing sunset...followed by a couple hours of thawing out with a cup of tea!

Hannah & Ali...a sneak peek!

Just wanted to show you a sneak peek of one of my recent weddings...captured by my good friend Jade. This wedding was so much fun...full of personal details by the bride and groom...I can't wait to show you the rest of the images but for now here's a little sneak...

An outdoor vintage office...

I had such a lovely evening a few weeks ago with the always amazing photographer Jade Alana, styling this gorgeous little shoot for Carmen Weddings. Carmen Yuen-Stevenson offers a boutique wedding planning service for brides throughout the UK. Having recently created a brand new website...which is beautiful...Carmen wanted me to create an outdoor, vintage style office to reflect her style and services for the new site. I think Jade's images are incredible and captured everything I envisioned for the shoot...Carmen looks stunning and I wish her all the best in her business. So here are some of my favourite images...isn't this sign amazing??...custom made by Cherry Pie Lane...

I put together some old furniture that I have to create the office including some vintage drawers that I was recently given, which were perfect for this shoot!

I adore this soft bouquet of pale pink astilbe...

My dream office would look like this...an organised chaos of lovely bits and bobs tumbling out of drawers...and a field for inspiration!!

Carmen also asked me to create a little wedding table to compliment the pink and brown theme of her new website...so here's what I came up with...

I used a gorgeous mixture of pale pink roses, astilbe, dahlias and orchids with rich cotinus foliage in vintage cream containers...

I also created a cute little fence around the table of vintage style bunting that I made for a recent wedding...

Jade discovered these amazing blue doors which were a perfect backdrop for these final images...

Thanks to Jade for her amazing pictures and to Carmen for being such a beautiful model!

Jamie & Laura...love shoot

A couple of months ago I styled this cute little love shoot with Jamie & Laura...it was such a beautiful evening!! So here are some more images supplied by the lovely Emma White...

I created a small, lace swagged swing and love bunting hanging in low branches by a river. I love the low sun coming through the trees...a perfectly romantic little spot!!

The rich colours of the florals were gorgeous with the fruit and wine picnic...

Hope you've enjoyed!x