Why I Love This Photo Series 1.3

 

This photograph might not look like much at first. A family sitting at a table together in an empty room… But this moment was more than that. This was the moment when June and Steve took time out with their daughter Rosie during their wedding day. Rosie was overwhelmed. She didn’t really understand what the wedding was about and somehow thought that Mummy and Daddy getting married meant that they didn’t love her anymore. She was inconsolable. So deeply upset, it was hard to watch. After the ceremony was over June and Steve took her to one side to make her feel loved and spend some time as a family unit without the busy commotion of their guests around them. It was a beautiful, private and tender moment between the 3 of them and as it happened I managed to capture this little photograph of the 3 of them being a family.

Documentary Wedding Photography

Part of being a documentary wedding photographer is looking out for the small moments in between the bigger more obvious ones. Rosie will grow up and probably forget most of this day, when June and Steve tell her that she was so upset she may not even believe them! When I look at this photo, I see Love. The unconditional love that June and Steve have for their daughter. One day she’ll be older, she wont need them to hold her hand any more, she’ll make friends, move out, travel, become independent, but there will always be this little moment frozen in time when all this little girl wanted was a cuddle from her mum and Dad and that’s beautiful…

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Katie Dervin is a Documentary Wedding Photographer based in Manchester.

Hindu - Irish Fusion Wedding - Kilhey Court - Vicki and Ravi

Vicki and Ravi met at University and on their first date Vicki took her sister Emma with them! Although Ravi thought it was a bit weird, he still had a nice time and they ended up on going on many more adventures together, music festivals, travelling the world and generally having loads of fun and making each other laugh a lot.

It was on a trip to New York when Ravi popped the question in Central Park, and of course Vicki said yes… Which leads here, to this Epic Wedding Day at Kilhey Court Hotel in Wigan. A love so spectacular that they didn’t just marry each other once! But they went and did it twice in one day! A beautiful classic white wedding ceremony with a string quartet, readings and music performed by Vicki’s family members followed by wonderful colourful Hindu ceremony, where Ravi arrived smiling nervously on a finely dressed white horse, before entering the venue with his family and the rest of the guests as they danced into Kilhey court to the beat the of procession music. Greeted by the UK’s first Female Hindu Priest and a room bursting with all the colours of nature, ready to being joined together again with a spectacular Hindu Ceremony.

This wedding was so much fun to photograph, also I must take this opportunity to shout out to my Awesome Second Shooter Katy Mutch who is always amazing and did an epic job as always.

The rest of the team that worked so hard to make this day as awesome as it was were…

Hindu Priest: www.kersi.co.uk

Floral Design by: www.verdure.co.uk

Make Up by: www.jodiemakeup.co.uk

Videography by: http://mcgillsisterfilms.com/

Live Music by: www.rylandsstringquartet.com

DJ: www.andymurphy.co.uk

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Katie Dervin is a Documentary Wedding Photographer based in Manchester.

Middlethorpe Hall Wedding - York - Donna and Kev.

Donna and Kev got engaged on a hillside in the pissing down rain somewhere in Lancashire. After Kev dragged Donna out of their lovely warm and dry Bed and Breakfast and then up and down many hills, as the wind and rain lashed on their cold and sodden faces. Donna didn’t have a clue what was coming… and let’s be honest, she was probably feeling a little bit fed up at this point. But then Kev stopped held Donna gently by the hand and pointed her in the direction of a very familiar scene… Her favourite scene. The scene from her most treasured painting, that had held prize positioning in her home for many years. Donna had no idea that the painting was even of a real place, but some how Kev had not only figured it out, but gone and found the place and the exact spot (more or less) that the painting was painted from!  Donna was gob smacked! And if that wasn’t enough, when she turns to look at Kev. The kind of “How the hell have you done this” look, she sometimes gives him… Kev is only down one knee and asking Donna to marry him!!! She said yes, of course, or this would be a weird story, they drank a bottle of Champagne that Kev had secretly stashed in his rucksack and made their way back to the B&B, warmer, happier and ready to spend the rest of their lives together!

As engagements go, this one was a corker and the wedding at Middlethorpe Hall was just as beautiful. Thank you for having me Donna and Kev, it was an absolute pleasure to spend the day with you.

P.S. Carno Kevin my Venus flytrap, is safe and well and keeping me company every day sitting on the windowsill by my desk and protecting me from flies. He says “Hi”. 

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Katie Dervin is a Documentary Photographer based in Manchester.

Amy and Harry's Beautiful Church Wedding and Village Hall Reception. St Mary's All Saints Church and Aston Village Hall.

When I first met Amy, she said that Harry and her just wanted a really simple but elegant wedding. A small church wedding with their closest friends and family and then on to the village hall for the party, where they had hired some local food vans to put on a variety of yummy hand made food and deserts to stay the whole day, for their guests to dip into whenever they fancied. It was a beautifully relaxed affair. Amy’s decoration was top notch as she decorated the whole hall herself and it did look beautiful and elegant, but the loveliest thing about the whole day was the look of love on Amy and Harry’s faces whenever they looked at each other. xx 

Katie Dervin is a Documentary Photographer based in Manchester.