Dorset Wedding Photographer Phillip Allen

Your parents met. They married. They had you. You were born on opposite sides of the world, in the same town, the same city, the same village, the same street, a hundred miles apart. You grew up. You met. You met at a party; you met in an office; you met in an elevator. You met at an airport, stranded by an invisible cloud of ash. In a bank. You met in a bank robbery. He rescued you from a bank robbery. You met in a bookshop. She rescued you from a bookshop. You met on the Internet. You rescued each other from the Internet. At first you didn’t notice each other. It was love at first sight. It was a spark that grew slowly but strongly. It was a spark that grew quickly.

You met.

She flopped down into a chair in front of you, at the end of a work shift. You were enchanted.

A new journey commenced.

You met and you scored your dream in the sand.

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I felt as though I’d fully joined a leg of a journey in progress on Farah & Ivor’s wedding day, indeed as though I’d come on board beforehand even. It’s how I feel with every wedding I photograph but different aspects of what I do and what it means to me tend to become all the more focused from one occasion to another. When I first met with them in person (the booking came before that meeting, something I find to be increasingly the case as I travel the length and breadth of the country), when they travelled to Dorset for a pre-wedding shoot I asked them questions and they asked me questions (Ivor in particular asked me a lot of questions; good questions they were too, one’s that helped me understand all the better what it is that I do). Both are doctors, Ivor a surgeon and Farah engaged in PhD research in the field of cancer (I wonder if that will make her Doctor Doctor come completion). Both are also utterly down to earth and rather unassuming about their status in life. Improving the quality of other’s lives is something I personally find an exciting attribute in another person. Oh and Farah sings in a band. Quietly exciting types. It was both an honour and a true pleasure to witness their wedding day. If you missed the first leg of the day’s journey, indeed the key juncture in the ceremony, it’s all still there to be witnessed in Part One. View full post »