Iscoyd Park Wedding Photographer | Shropshire Wedding Photographer
“Lisa was one of the first suppliers we found for our wedding and I’m so glad that we did! From the offset she was reliable, friendly, and easy to get hold of via email. We did a mini engagement shoot with her about 6 months before the wedding which was really helpful in settling our nerves (neither of us like being in front of a camera!). On the day Lisa and her second shooter were fabulous. She managed to arrange us quickly for the set photos we wanted, but the rest of the time we barely even noticed she was there! We’ve just had our sneak peeks through and we love all of them. We can’t wait for the rest of our gallery and would recommend Lisa in a heartbeat for anyone wanting relaxed and friendly wedding photography resulting in gorgeous pictures! Thank you!” — Rachel & Nathan
November keeps delivering.
This is the second November wedding in a row that has given me light I could not have asked for more deliberately. Golden, low, unhurried. The kind of light that falls across the grounds of Iscoyd Park and makes you stop walking for a moment just to look at it.
Iscoyd Park is one of those venues that needs very little from the season to be beautiful. In autumn it is something else entirely.
The Ceremony
Rachel and Nathan married in Iscoyd’s ceremony room and it was one of those ceremonies that earns the word emotional in the truest sense. Not performed emotion. The real kind that moves through a room quietly and catches people off guard.
I always feel the weight of a ceremony like that through the lens. The responsibility of it. The privilege of being the person in the room whose job is to hold it still.
The Confetti
Outside the front of Iscoyd, in that gorgeous November light, with confetti from Shropshire Petals.
If you know, you know. Shropshire Petals confetti photographs in a way that genuinely has no equal. The colours, the way it catches the air, the way it falls. The confetti moment at Rachel and Nathan’s wedding was everything a confetti moment should be and I will not stop recommending Shropshire Petals to every couple I work with.
The Grounds
There is something I always try to do with couple portraits in autumn that I think matters more than people realise.
I use what is actually there. The foliage that exists on that specific day in that specific season. The colours that will not look like this in a week, that have never looked exactly like this before and won’t again. Photographs rooted in the landscape of their moment carry something that a neutral backdrop never can. A sense of time and place. The feeling that this was made here, in this season, on this particular afternoon when the light came through the trees at this angle and the leaves were precisely this shade of amber and gold.
Rachel and Nathan’s portraits have all of that in them. Iscoyd’s grounds in November are a gift and I intend to keep using them exactly this way.
The Details
Rachel’s dress was Suzanne Neville, found at Waxflower Bridal in Bristol, with a veil from the same boutique. Suzanne Neville is one of those designers whose gowns photograph with a quiet, understated elegance that holds up beautifully across a full day. The shoes were Ted Baker, the jewellery from Lily & Roo.
Nathan and the groomsmen were in suits from Clifton Suits, which I was seeing for the first time and was very taken with.
Hair was by Lindsey McElmeel and makeup by Rebecca Forshaw, both of whom produced work that looked as good in the final portraits of the evening as it did first thing in the morning.
The florals were by Edwina Lowe, whose work sat perfectly within the autumnal palette of the day. Rich, considered, completely in conversation with the venue and the season.
The cake was from Blondie Bakes Shropshire and the evening was in the hands of Jonny Ross Music, who did exactly what a great wedding band should do.
On the Engagement Shoot
Rachel and Nathan came for a mini engagement shoot about six months before the wedding. Neither of them particularly likes being in front of a camera, which is something I hear often and take seriously.
The engagement shoot is not a rehearsal for the wedding photographs. It is something more useful than that. It is the session where the self-consciousness lives, gets acknowledged, and largely dissolves. By the time the wedding day arrives, we already know each other. The camera is already familiar. The trust is already there.
On the day itself, they barely noticed I was there. That is exactly the aim.
Supplier Credits
- Venue — Iscoyd Park
- Dress — Suzanne Neville from Waxflower Bridal, Bristol
- Veil — Waxflower Bridal
- Shoes — Ted Baker
- Jewellery — Lily & Roo
- Suits — Clifton Suits
- Confetti — Shropshire Petals
- Hair — Lindsey McElmeel
- Makeup — Rebecca Forshaw
- Florals — Edwina Lowe
- Cake — Blondie Bakes Shropshire
- Band — Jonny Ross Music
Rachel and Nathan, thank you for having me. November keeps being one of my favourite months to work in, and days like yours are exactly why. 🤍
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