Wedding: Anna and Ant (and an owl)

Anyone who's ever been to my folks' house will know that my mum collects owls. There's hundreds of them filing up several shelves in the living room, ceramic owls, wooden owls, an owl my brother made in pottery class in primary school (which doesn't really look exactly like an owl, but it's beautiful nonetheless) and even a stuffed owl perched upon a branch attached to the wall. Little did I know that they would cross my path again, years later, as a wedding photographer in London.

Yesterday Danny and I had the privilege of shooting the wedding of Anna and Antranik at the salubrious Montague on the Gardens hotel at Russell Square, London - a gorgeous venue with super helpful staff. The day was amazing, the weather perfect, venue ideal, speeches hilarious and bride glamorous, but the story of the day is the owls.

Anna loves owls, and Ant had tried fruitlessly to arrange for an owl to be there on their wedding day. Apparently there are trained owls which the ring bearer gives the ring to at the back of the room which actually fly to the alter to present the ring to the groom, how cool is that? Ant was unable to book this owl, and was unsuccessful at recruiting another owl after contacting various owl enthusiasts. Imagine his surprise then, when he walked through Russell Square on the morning of the wedding to discover some sort of owl awareness exhibition featuring, you guessed it, a whole bunch of owls!! Russell Square was less than 100m from the venue, and we'd planned to go there for photos anyway, this little touch of owl related magic was the absolute icing on the wedding cake (not literally).

Here are some of my favourite shots from the day, I've not been through everything thoroughly yet, and I know Danny's taken a bunch of amazing shots which I've not seen yet, but this is a bit of a taster. Can't wait to put the album together!























Big thanks go to Ant and especially Anna who was willing to stand in a fountain and run through flocks of pigeons in the name of getting great photos!!