Ciara & Andy recently spent a day getting married in the always amazing Bishop's Gate Hotel, Derry. It was as chilled & relaxed as they are themselves - with family & friends in attendance, some had travelled from Belfast, others from a five minute dander down Bishop's Street... I was privileged to be asked to tag along & document the goings on from the morning preparations to the evening being in full swing, plus everything & anything that went on in between... Here's an overview of their day...
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Young Guests Enjoying a St Columba's Drung, Quigley's Point & Ballyliffin Lodge Summer Wedding13/7/2023 Whenever I'm documenting a wedding as well as photographing the bride & groom and the immediate bridal party I'm always watching to see what's going on around them, to identify the other wee stories that make up the overall wedding day...
With big Irish family weddings these side-stories will often include the day of the younger guests, as they get spoilt by Aunties & Uncles, and get to have fun alongside cousins, and other kids they don't usually get to see every day... Below are a few images from a recent St Columba's Church Drung, Quigley's Point and Ballyliffen Lodge Wedding when I was second-shooting alongside Jay Doherty Photography... Despite it only being up the road this year was, shamefully, the first that we attended the amazing Stendhal Festival, Limavady - it definitely won't be our last though, and conversations have already been had on whether we'd travel to & fro, or fully embrace the Stendhal way and camp new year...
As much as it sounds a bit of a cop-out the overall atmosphere was the highlight - from the talent on the many stages, those working hard behind the scenes to enable everything to run as smoothly as it did, and just every other being in the fields helped creat an easy-going, communal-family friendly atmosphere that's hard to put into words... On the stage The Courettes putting their everything into an early evening performance on the Air Stage, and hearing thousands of local voices singing Three Little Birds in unison with The Wailers as darkness fell will live long on the memory... Invaderband played through a microcosm of Fridays weather - with fans alternating between sheltering from heavy rain, and enjoying glorious sun during their set... special mention also to the teenagers from the Nerve Centre who kicked our day off on the Woolly Woodlands stage, and were a credit to their mentors who'd spent the previous three days preparing them for their performances Although I was there essentially on a family day out it would have been rude not to attempt to capture a wee bit of the atmosphere along the way... |
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