Sussex Wedding Photographer - Martin Beddall Brookfield Barn wedding Brookfield Barn is just a few miles down the road from my house but strangely I’d never shot there before. So a new Sussex wedding venue to me, but a bride and groom that I’d seen before. Like many of my wedding bookings, this one came from word of mouth. Or rather ..read more

Sussex Wedding Photographer - Martin Beddall Chelsea Old Town Hall wedding Chelsea Town Hall is one of the London wedding venues, like Old Marylebone Town Hall, famous for its celebrity weddings. Stars like Judy Garland, Richard Burton, Hugh Grant, Bobby Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Marc Bolan, stood on these steps for the confetti. A wedding venue described by The Independent newspaper ..read more

Sussex Wedding Photographer - Martin Beddall Weddings in 2023 – a busy few months The way wedding bookings fell for me in 2023 was rather intense. Over 90% were over just four months – it was a full-on period of shooting, processing, and delivering while managing a new addition to our family (see the end of this post). 2024 weddings are ..read more

Sussex Wedding Photographer - Martin Beddall Wedding ceremony in the Music Room The Music Room at Brighton Pavilion. I've shot weddings at Brighton Pavilion several times but this was the first ceremony in the Music Room. Usually, they have been in the Red Drawing Room. But the larger Music Room can only be used in the evenings, once the Pavilion has ..read more

Sussex Wedding Photographer - Martin Beddall Sussex wedding in Steyning A local Sussex wedding for Jazmin and Will. A Steyning church wedding ceremony and a Cissbury Barns wedding reception. Coverage starts where Jazmin was getting ready with her bridesmaids, friends, and her mother, at The Piggery near Cowfold. A 'luxury staycation venue' in West Sussex. The wedding ceremony was a twenty ..read more

Sussex Wedding Photographer - Martin Beddall Old Thorns Hotel and Resort I have to admit that I had never heard of Old Thorns hotel near Liphook when Chelsee got in touch last May. I've not played golf in years. Pulling into the large car park there it is quite a sight. How I imagine these sort of golf/hotel resorts look like ..read more

Sussex Wedding Photographer - Martin Beddall South Farm wedding South Farm, a country wedding venue on the Hertfordshire/Cambridgeshire borders, was Olivia and Will's choice for their midweek July wedding. The day before had been one of the hottest days in the UK for decades - I know, I was stuck in stationary traffic for over an hour on the M1 motorway ..read more

Sussex Wedding Photographer - Martin Beddall Weddings in 2022 - back to normal? Weddings in 2022 began for me at a brewery in Oxfordshire on a surprisingly mild and sunny day in February. The bride is the sister of the groom from a 2014 wedding I shot. Weddings in 2022 then ended on a bitterly cold day in December, in Sussex ..read more

Sussex Wedding Photographer - Martin Beddall Great Foster Hotel Wedding Great Fosters hotel near Egham in Surrey and a wedding on one of the hottest days in the summer. Everyone wants good weather for their wedding day but sometimes the heat can be a bit intense. This was in Surrey but it felt like the summer heat of somewhere like South-West ..read more

Sussex Wedding Photographer - Martin Beddall A local church ceremony first... A Kingdom wedding but Lucy and Gareth got married first in their local village church, St Denys' church in Rotherfield. It's a church I've been too before. It has some handy old pubs very nearby. That is where the coverage starts. Not Lucy having her hair and makeup done, but ..read more