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Thanks for stopping by today. We hope that you love what you see on here and we're chuffed that you've taken some time out of your day to have a look at our blog. If you want to comment or you have a wedding coming up that you think we may be able to help you with please get in touch, we'd love to hear from you and hopefully photograph your day

Friday 26 June 2009

Hayley Denston Photography Website revamped and relaunched!

We've been on our hols and are now back refreshed, recharged and ready to go! Looking forward to the next wedding already. Obviously, we have returned to loads of work, enquiries etc - we will get back to everyone as soon as we can.

Some good news on our return is that our New Website is now up and running. There are a few tweaks that need to be made but in general it is a big step up from the old site. We now have a slideshow which runs continuously on the Home Page - it was really hard to choose photos for the website as we have so many that we love. We therefore made the decision to choose our images from last year and this year (apart from the odd couple of
images) as this best reflects our current work and where we are at.

We now have an up-to-date About Us section which tells you a little more about us (and a photo as someone pointed out to me that we weren't on the old site!). We have a Wedding and a Portrait section to tell you a little more about what we do whilst the Galleries section shows you a small selection of our work. We've broken the galleries down into some pretty general catergories. Some of the photos therefore didn't fit into the section descriptions perfectly (we worked out we'd have needed over 20 galleries to accommodate all the different headings we
thought of) but we've included them anyway!

The Proofs section replaces the old 'your album' section but still goes through to all your albums that have been uploaded recently. This section is currently being redesigned to fit in with the new site - please be patient if it doesn't look perfect at the moment!

We have a completely new section called Reviews where we have just a small selection of the testimonials we received last year. We will still write up new testimonials on here and will add to this section on the site periodically. We get so many lovely e-mails and cards and we are grateful for all of them so if yours hasn't made it to this section this time round it may just appear in the future and has certainly been kept.

Other than that we still have a Links section which gives a list of other suppliers such as venues we've worked at and we've kept our Contact section so you can get in touch.

We hope that you all get the chance to look at the revamped site - as it is still in the early stages any comments you wish to make would be greatly appreciated so that we can update and tweak it to make it as perfect as possible. If you do want to comment please either add a comment on the blog here or e-mail me.

I could talk about the new site for pages but must get on with catching up on work. I'll write again very soon as I have several outstanding weddings to write up on here and a whole load of testimonials to add that we received whilst we were away. Hope you all manage to get out and enjoy some of this glorious sunshine this weekend :)

Thursday 11 June 2009

Rob and Lisa's Wedding photographed @ Springfield Marquee, Thorpe-Le-Soken

The next wedding we photographed was Rob and Lisa's Wedding which took place at Wivenhoe Church followed by a reception at Springfield Marquee, Thorpe-Le-Soken

We got to spend the entire day with the couple and their friends and family and had a wonderful time. We were blessed with great weather again which is always good when you have a marquee reception.

Here's a range of photos taken from their day:

I started with Lisa getting ready whilst David photographed Rob and the boys

As the weather was good, Lisa and her dad could arrive in the car with the roof down

Here's a few at the church and then the confetti afterwards

Here are a few of them taken at Springfield Marquee during the day

And a few taken during the speeches

Then on to the evening and the dancing .....

As it was a great sunset and warm we took a few photos in the evening of just the two of them ... I love these ones

Instead of favours, Rob and Lisa organised a chocolate table where guests could help themselves to a bag of sweets and take them home which was a fab idea

This could quite possibly be the biggest wedding cake I have ever seen!

I really like this one taken during the dancing


If you attended Rob and Lisa's Wedding and would like to view their wedding photos they are online now. They have the password which I'm sure they'll give to you.

This afternoon I received the following e-mail from Rob and Lisa which read as follows:

'Hi Hayley!

We are back from the Maldives now and already missing the place. I cant believe it is all over now.

We had a look through the photos (which took about 3 hours as we admired each and every one) and all I can say is.... WOW! How on earth are we going to pick the photos for the album as we love every single one?! You were both fantastic on the day and we could not have hoped for anymore. Everyone has said how great you were and shocked that photographers do exist who aren't intrusive and pushy!

Best regards,

Mr and Mrs Berryman
(Rob and Lisa!)'


We really appreciate you taking the time out to write to us - we love your photos and can't wait to get together with you when your proof book is back to design your albums. Rob and Lisa are a gorgeous couple who we hope will have a long and happy marriage. See you soon :)

Friday 5 June 2009

The Wedding of Tessa & Orlando photographed @ Spains Hall, Finchingfield

The following week we were back at Spains Hall to photograph Tessa and Orlando's wedding. As any avid readers of this blog will know Spains Hall is one of our favourite venues to work and it's easy to see why.

We had glorious weather which was great for guests being able to play the garden games and stay outside. As always, the staff were brilliant and it was great to see you all again. Tessa and Orlando had chosen a colour scheme of lilac which fitted in perfectly with the Wisteria that was in full bloom and looks just amazing in their images.

Here's a range of photos taken from their day:

This one is of Tessa and her dad just before they came into the ceremony

These were taken during the service and again we were lucky the registrars let us shoot (without flash) at both the front and back of the room

After the ceremony they were showered by confetti as they led their guests through to the gardens

Here's some of those garden games being played

and a shot of the beautiful Wisteria that I mentioned earlier which frames them well ......

....... even the Irises matched in with the purpley theme

Spains Hall have let the grass grown really nicely in the area surrounding the gardens and it was great to get to do some photos here

Here's just a couple of photos from the speeches

They had a lovely cake but I couldn't get over how wonderful the little bride and groom toppers were which were modelled on the bride and groom!


If you attended Tessa and Orlando's Wedding and would like to view their wedding photos they are online now. They have the password which I'm sure they'll give to you.

A couple of days ago I received a beautiful thank you card from them which read as follows:

'Dear Hayley,

We wanted to say a big thank you to you and David for the amazing job that you did photographing our wedding. You were so wonderful to work with on the day - a very calming and cheerful presence and you managed to take so many photos without us even noticing. Now that we've seen the photos we're even more delighted - you've taken so many lovely shots and have really captured people's personalities as well.

The photos are a fabulous reminder of a wonderful day for us and now we're looking forward to designing the album with you.

Thank you once again for everything

Very best wishes

Tessa and Orlando'

Thanks so much for letting us know what you thought of the images. We really appreciate you taking the time out to write to us and are looking forward to your album design meeting soon. We had a fantastic time with the two of you and your families and wish you a lifetime of happiness together.

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Suffolk Wedding Photography

We are Suffolk Wedding Photographers who cover Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex to photograph couples weddings. We are very happy to travel though to share in your day with you. The furthest we've been to so far when photographing a wedding is New York!

We love photographing weddings in a natural, relaxed and informal way to allow you to enjoy your day to the full whilst we capture it for you.

We pride ourselves on our customisation of packages so that hopefully we can give you the kind of photography package that suits you perfectly.

Please give us a call or send us an e-mail to see if we can help you. We only photograph a maximum of 25 weddings a year though and do book up well in advance so please get in touch as soon as you can with your date to check our availability.

We look forward to hearing from you soon and hopefully photographing your wedding day for you