It was my pleasure to document the story of Laina and Will’s wedding day last Saturday on beautiful Gower, near Swansea in South Wales.
The story of the day began when I met Will, his best man and ushers at St. Catwg’s church in the pretty Gower village of Port Eynon. 6 year old Henry kept the guys in order until the guests started to arrive, ahead of Laina’s bridesmaids and Mum who arrived in two mini’s and were greeted by heavy rain.
Within a few minutes the rain had stopped and it was drying up as Laina arrived with her Dad. After a lovely church service the sun was out and the sky had cleared to blue as Will and Laina spent almost 30 minutes greeting, hugging and chatting with their family and friends as everyone exited from the church.
Will and Laina then took a short 5 minute walk along with their bridal party, from St. Catwg’s church, down the main street in Port Eynon all the way to the sea front. This presented a great opportunity for some lovely relaxed reportage images of this group of friends enjoying the sunshine as they took in the scenery of this pretty Gower village, passing cheering tourists as they went.
When we arrived at the beach we set up a ‘different’ confetti photo with the help of Will and Laina’s bridal party (thanks guys,) and we grabbed a few more images of everyone together before they left Will and Laina alone for a relaxed 20 minute session of ‘Bride and Groom’ photography on the sand dunes and beach.
Although the wind was strong, it was a relief to have such fine weather after the rain of the previous week, and we made the most of the beautiful Port Eynon beach and sand dunes.
We then made the short 10 minute drive back along the Gower coast to Penmean Manor House. With amazing views over Three Cliffs Bay and a marquee that looked fantastic with gorgeous views, the weather held for a few carefully selected group photos with Three Cliffs Bay behind, before Will and Laina sat down for the wedding breakfast.
The cake was cut and some emotional speeches took place before everyone sat down to enjoy Tapas and Paella.
If you were at this special day or know Laina and Will, please leave them a personal message below. All of the images from this special day will be available to view from this page, as soon as Will and Laina have seen them for themselves first.
7 comments
Dear Laina and Will,
Just wanted to be the first here to congratulate you once again on getting married and thank you again for choosing me as your photographer.
I hope you enjoyed the day and the were able to relax at Penmaen Manor the rest of this week. Have a safe trip home and I look forward to designing the perfect album for you both very soon.
Kind regards,
Nic
Hi Nic,
We have just made it back to Bristol and I have just been having a sneaky look on my iPhone.
We absolutely love the pictures and all of our friends have commented on what a brilliant job you did! We can’t wait to see all of the pictures and look forward to receiving them in due course.
It was such a lovely day and we’re absolutely thrilled with the photos.
Thanks again for capturing our day so perfectly,
Laina and Will
Hi Laina and Will
What a wonderful record of what looks like a totally fabulous day! You look stunning, Laina – absolutely the beautiful bride! Love the wedding party and all those gorgeous pictures on the beach and walking through the village. We were very sad not to be there with you, but we were thinking of you and look forward to meeting up – and of course, meeting your new family member -when we get to the UK next year, we hope!
Loads of best wishes and love from Jon, Natalie, James and Matthew xxx
A beautiful set of pictures Nic. You have captured the day perfectly. I can’t wait to see the rest of the pictures of Will and Laina’s big day. Tim.
I have only now had a look at the website, Nic! What a lovely record of a wonderful day. I’m really excited about seeing all the rest of the wedding pictures. Thank you so much.
Also congratulations to Laina and Will, you both looked so happy and relaxed and made a beautiful couple. You must be thrilled with the photos here and looking forward to seeing the rest.
Valxx
Well done Nic. An absolutely wonderful day captured beautifully on camera by you. Looking forward to seeing the full set of pictures.
Our fondest love to Will and Laina – (so happy and proud to be able to call you our daughter-in-law!)- the wedding weekend will be treasured in our memories.
Vivien and Bob
Hi Laina and Will
So sorry we could not make the evening. We absolutely love your amazing photos.It sounds and looks like you had a truly memorable day. Oh, by the way Laina, your mum and dad didn’t look bad either!!