Wedding garters, Brides and Bacchanalian guests.

      Many brides have a pretty garter under several petticoats and the yards of lace, satin, taffeta or brocade that go to make up a wedding dress. Often they are blue, they are sometimes borrowed but they are rarely flashed at the photographer until late in the evening when the party spirit takes hold.

A bride's garter, too pretty to be hidden

Another bride with a pretty garter 

     I’m often surprised how rarely guests turn weddings into bacchanalian revels. However there are a colourful few who prove the exception to the rule from unruly guests to disgraceful fathers of the bride. and then there are one or two bridegrooms, so anxious to join their mates and party that the first dance simply doesn't happen, of course there are no pictures of that! 

About to tuck in to his breakfast.

This stand in for the deceased father of the bride was taking his duties seriously.

Wedding, what wedding? Brides father with his mates, preparing to make his speech

Did I really say that?

The new bridegroom can't believe his ears but the bride is not surprised.

Judging by the look on his new son in law's face whatever he said was truly unacceptable.

And a good time was had by all

There was a roaring noise coming from this lot but they were beyond speech.

When the groom is well over six foot he needs a lot of friends

     The best revelry pics often come from jewish weddings as the groom's mates hoist him on their shoulders in the course of dancing the hava nageela. I'm not sure that anyone has to be drunk for this but I think it helps.

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Buttonholing the groom

I’m still dreading the couple who walk up the aisle and justify this ditty 

from the Mikado:

The flowers that bloom in the Spring tra-la

Have nothing to do with the case.

I've got to take under my wing tra-la

A most unattractive old thing tra-la

With a caricature of a face,

With a caricature of a face.

Bride and groom share a moment during the wedding ceremony

       The brides all look beautiful, we take that for granted. White dresses, joy, and weeks of being the centre of attention spread beauty onto the most ordinary face. And funnily enough as soon as you stick a flower in his buttonhole, every layabout, couch potato, lager lout, curmudgeon, skinflint and bluebeard suddenly becomes a dapper Prince Charming.

Bridegroom with lily, an unusual buttonhole

      Even the most rumbustious of small boys, or large ones, become aware of their 
importance and the glamour of the occasion when suitably buttonholed.

Page boy and is that a wedding day chrysanthumum?

There is something about a wedding day that adds charm to any face. Happiness,
or is it just modern make up?  Perhaps it is something to do with the flowers? A rose by any other name?
Stick a rose in his buttonhole and every man is Romeo.

Bridegroom and pageboy matching roses, ties and handkerchiefs.

Ushers may be the exception!  There is always one.........proving the rule.

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Bride and groom, no caricatures here, even with buttonhole obscured

Weddings photographed against seascapes

Swansea Bay beautiful whatever the weather

Against the background of the beautiful Spanish coastline Mario lifts his featherweight bride

More sea views  Mario and Christina on their  Wedding day.

In this case the decision is not so obvious. Somehow I probably do prefer the original which demonstrates the delight of the groom in his enchanting new wife, but the crop has charm too with it's greater emphasis on the beauty of the Spanish Coastline.

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