Lekan and Grace – May 2010

About a year ago I photographed the wedding of Lekan and Grace. The ceremony took place at St Paul’s Church in Clapham and then moved on to the Memon Centre in Balham.

My day started off with a short bus ride from my flat in Stockwell to Grace’s parents’ house just of Clapham High street so that I could get some shots of Grace and her bridesmaids preparing for the day ahead:

Grace's bridesmaids getting ready

I then headed on to the church in time for Grace’s arrival and entrance:

Lekan and his Mum

Lekan and Grace meet at the Altar

Lekan's parents watch on

Grace's bridesmaids

Grace and Lekan exchange rings

Lekan and Grace exchange ring

Due to some unfortunate weather, we had to rely on the back-up plan of taking formal group and couple photos in the church itself as opposed to some nearby gardens.

Lekan and his best man

Lekan and Grace

After the group shots were complete we all moved on to the Memon Centre:

Best Man's speech

Toasting the newlyweds

Cutting the cake

Chucking the bucket!

Dancing

First post, and a bit of a retrospective

I’m Will Strange and I’ve been photographing weddings for a good couple of years now. I’ve have the pleasure of shooting about 20 weddings in that time and have sampled almost as many cakes!

Jon and Norah's cake

My preferred style of photography is the fly-on-the-wall style – I think the wedding mags call it ‘contemporary’ or ‘reportage’.  I strongly believe that capturing a wedding day in its entirety shouldn’t just be about the big events (first dance, ring exchange, formal photography etc) but also the more subtle nuances of the big day.

Here’s a little ‘best of’…

Jen getting ready

Ring exchange

Lisa and Tidor

Lekan and his best man

Bola and Ailisha

Zee and Kirk

Jon and Norah

Lisa and Tidor

JenJen

Jen

Bola and Ailisha