Dorset Wedding Photographer Phillip Allen

7.00am – Wake up.

Katie & Tom’s wedding day was somewhat akin to 24. Except without the guns, rogue devices and underscoring elements of the not so gentle. And the gaping logical plot flaws. There was none of that on Katie & Tom’s wedding day. It all made perfect sense really, especially when it came to the speeches later in the day and that honest, heart-felt, loving delivery of biography and appraisal that allows you to join all the dots and realise that what you sensed about the people at the heart of it all very much fitted an ongoing lifelong pattern. People that I thoroughly enjoyed working for. I’d received a boxed set of all of the seasons of 24 for Christmas; that’s where that came from. The first two seasons I found rather gripping, despite the plot flaws. My interest waned rapidly as season three descended into pantomime. None of that though for Katie & Tom’s wedding day. There was some fantastic dancing though. Where was I?

7.00am – Wake up.

That wasn’t for me, thankfully. Not that I’d not have embraced the need, had needs be, but you know. Catch me fresh and all that. Katie & Tom experienced quite a journey in the bringing together of this wedding, from Antipodean regions all the way to Dorset with unexpected changes in time and space (or rather, place) along the way and it was fantastically well planned, inch perfect and down to the minute whilst remaining utterly relaxed throughout. My journey brought me from a mile down the road to Katie’s family home, well slept and utterly relaxed myself. View full post »

Katie first came across me during the summer of 2010 on Twitter, where by definition I’m a wittier soul than on my blog, what with the brevity of a 140 character restriction to messages. She and Tom had met in London and had moved together to Melbourne – I’m sure not as instantaneously as the brevity of that description of events might infer – and they would return to her native Dorset to marry in August of 2012. It would prove to be something of a journey for them not just geographically but also logistically, as all wedding planning indeed is but in this case a change of job down under necessitated a change of date up over and a few such potential changes later, both in time and specific location, led them to the eve of New Year’s Eve, December 2011 and a wedding day fixed to take place in the Italian Villa at Compton Acres, Poole.

If amidst that prolonged journey you happened to miss the ceremony and all that preceded it, it’s all still there to witness in Part One.

Amongst many things, not least that it was emotionally enriching, fun, relaxed and exciting in equal measure, Katie & Tom’s wedding day was quite a delight visually. A fully branded wedding one might say. View full post »