Eoghan and Christina Get Married, Longford and then the Radisson Blu Athlone

Ok, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a bit of a soppy git… sometimes…

When I’ve done the wedding previews and shown the client, I get to go home and show my wife the pictures. It’s the only time I actually sit down and go through the wedding without my ‘photographer’ head on. I’ve done all the editing, I can finally see the images together as a set without analysing exposure, contrast, colour, BW, vignetting, cropping, processing, sharpening, blurring, dodging/burning etc. This is where the soppy mush head bit comes in. I have been known to get a bit emotional when looking back through the pictures… A bit sad, I know. Now, let’s get something clear, I’m not talking a blubbering mess on the floor. Just a bit of that tingly nose, maybe a slight bit more water in the eyes than I did a few minutes ago (only slight mind you, not visible to anyone else). Nothing major, honest. I mentioned this to the wife who obviously totally took the p**s out of me and told me to “man up”. But then she said that the day I don’t get emotional looking at the wedding pics is the day you don’t care. That’s the day to give it up. So, it’s not that I’m a bit of pansy. I just care about the weddings I photograph and the people at them.

That said… let’s talk about this wedding. I was quite apprehensive about this wedding and mainly because of the venue. The Radisson Blue in Athlone is a lovely hotel.. on a fine day. There is a great deck on the side of the River Shannon but it’s feck all use when it’s raining. Inside the hotel there are very few places for photo’s. The weather forecast was not looking good. We checked a few other locations for possible stop-off on the way but all of them were busy/had weddings of their own. The main plan was to use inside the church for the family photo’s, not ideal but after seeing the church I wasn’t too worried as there was a good bit of light in there. Anyway, the day itself was fab! The forecasted rain/storm didn’t turn up! Just blazing sunshine! Blue sky!

We were able to get the family shots done in the garden of the church. We stopped off for a few photo’s in Burgess Park. We were able to use the deck out the back too! Phew, phew, phew…. So I was lucky, no stress… except the start of the day when we took the wedding dress out of the bag and it was badly creased! I said to steam it but no-one was brave enough to do it so I spent 20 minutes with a steam iron taking out creases! No-one thought to take a photo, that would have been cool!

Eoghan is in the Army so there was military element to the wedding. The groom was in uniform. There was a guard of honour who also participated in the mass (swords n’all). The light in the church was really good and made for some lovely natural light shots.

My Favourite shot of the day? Loads actually.. all the ones in the slideshow below anyway but I think you’ll enjoy the one below. The pageboy and his sister thought it would be good to do a bit of dancing during mass… I love mum’s disapproving glance in the background!

Enjoy the few pics…

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