The Wild Oven Launch Party

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Admin under Charlotte Wright Photography, Warwickshire Photography

The Wild Oven Launch Party

So back in March I introduced you to the fabulous The Wild Oven. Well they have had a roaring summer, and it all started at their Launch party, which I was kindly asked to photograph at in exchange for some of their fantastic food! http://thewildoven.co.uk

I know that they have been at lots of food festivals, catered at a Summer full of weddings, parties, and plenty more! They can be contacted through their website, the link is above.

We started off with stunning starters, and moved onto some scrummy pizzas, and lamb with hallumi cheese in pitta breads. Gosh we ate so much, we were all so full! But we did manage to make a little space for marshmallows which we toasted over an open fire after all the cooking and been done. It was just the most lovely evening, and I for one cannot wait for another party or event that I can eat their food at again!

I met Danni whilst we were at Sixth Form together in Shottery, Stratford Upon Avon and we have remained friends ever since. Since starting the Wild Oven, we have become working acquaintances too, going to events and networking meetings together.

Full Steam Ahead for Charlotte Wright Photography!

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Admin under Charlotte Wright Photography, Warwickshire Photography

A new year for Charlotte Wright Photography

Blimey, what a start to year 2013 for Charlotte Wright Photography!

So where we left off last time it was snowy, wet and cold… Snow and the occasional Spring flower aside, has much changed!?

I had a fantastic time at Gemma & Stuart’s wedding, what a stunning day it was. There was a dusting of snow on the ground and mulled wine inside. Who could ask for more!? Being a bridesmaid, I didn’t take many photographs, the wedding photographer chosen did a great job and the photographs were lovely.
Here is just one of Gemma & Stuart that I took the next day at the venue Brownsover Hall. Congratulations to the happy couple!

As well as my usual work recently, I have helped a couple of people create new blogs, So to Talton Mill Farm Shop, with the blog taltonmillfarmshop.wordpress.com and to Chris Wright Photography (yes my Father!) with the blog chriswrightphotography.blogspot.co.uk – Welcome to the world of Blogging!

To work! What have I done in the last month or so? It feels like all meetings, but I have been let out a bit…

I did my very first wedding show in February at Ragley Hall, what a day! I met some amazing brides and some great suppliers. I was running a competition for one lucky bride to win her wedding photography for free. I had 23 brides enter and lucky lady Sarah won! She is getting married next year at Ardencote Manor, and I can’t wait. The other 22 brides all received a nice little voucher via email as well, so it is always worth entering something!

There has been a change at Charlotte Wright Photography, I now have a head of Marketing! Welcome to Chris Haines, who has come help me market and sell my photography. I am very good at what I do, but I am dreadful at selling myself. I could sell someone else quite happily, but myself? No way! So far it has been great, we are just at the end of the second week, and he assures me he is enjoying it. We have contacted around 100 potential new clients, so I hope this is how we mean to go on!

I was asked to photograph at a private party for 5 soon to be 18 year olds, they were all rugby boys, so the evening got pretty messy, especially when a rodeo sheep is involved…

I was recently asked to attend a breakfast meeting for a very amazing, worthy company called The Heart of England Forest, who I have photographed for over the past 5 years. It was a business breakfast meeting where we were told how to increase our profits threefold, etc. (We’ve all been to one!) But the best and most humbling part were my photographs! They were printed up large on a banner, in booklets given to all the people attending and we all sat through a slideshow made up by my photographs, ooh cringe but SO proud! Recently the Heart of England Forest planted their one MILLIONTH tree! How great!
If you want to give someone a lovely present then buy them a tree, sponsor a sapling, or simply go for a wander through the woods! Below is a shot of a sapling being planted and a field before and after where broadleaf, English saplings have been planted this year. In 5 years time I shall go back and what a difference it will be!

I think my favourite forest has to be Bannams Wood, Spernal, Warwickshire. An amazing walk in the bluebell season, wild garlic and bluebells are everywhere, and a cobbled road leading through!

Now I think that brings us nicely up to date, and this morning I photographed a very exciting new idea for the wedding and party food market. Who hasn’t been to a wedding or a party that serves up a hog roast? Now, don’t get me wrong, I love a bit of pig (!) but THIS is something new, something exciting, and can be something vegetarian!
This is The Wild Oven, a portable wood fired oven, inspired from a holiday that Danni & James took to Italy. They saw a passionate gentlemen with a portable wood fired oven cooking delicious food for people. All fired up (pun intended!) they came back, made their very own wood fired oven and are going from strength to strength. A fantastic product by a fantastic couple. Congratulations to Danni and James at The Wild Oven for coming up with something different, that I hope does extremely well. I can’t WAIT to have an excuse to book you!

That, I think, brings us nicely to the end of this months blog. Next month will hopefully bring about Spring and with it a flurry of weddings!

Ta ta till then!

Charlotte Wright Photography

All buzzed up for a new year! Wedding & Commercial Photography Warwickshire

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Admin under Charlotte Wright Photography, Warwickshire Photography

Wedding & Commercial Photography Warwickshire

Well Hello!

Firstly, Happy New Year, rather belated, I have had a very busy December and January, some work and quite a bit of play! This blog has some personal piccies in, some wedding photography and commercial photography in Warwickshire.

So at the end of my last blog, I mentioned a wedding that I had photographed. This took place in the latter part of November when most of the UK and certainly Shipston-on-Stour were underwater. This was for the lovely now Emma & Luke Shrimpton.

Wedding & Commercial Photography Warwickshire, Charlotte Wright Photography

The day started well, pouring down with rain, welly’s at the ready, flood warnings everywhere, but as the bride appeared in a bright orange VW Campervan, out came the sun!

Wedding & Commercial Photography Warwickshire, Charlotte Wright Photography

Although it didn’t last too long, the weather did hold off. There was a small hiccup in proceedings that we couldn’t get to the reception venue via the normal route, so after checking out lots of other roads. We eventually got there well after dark, so the photographs then, unfortunately taken inside, but do these look like a bunch to be downheartened!?

It was a brilliant day, and most of Shipston Excelsior Football Club Sunday reserve’s showed their true colours whilst performing the Macarena…!

I then had a lovely little job of a family photoshoot, a very chilly and frosty day, but there were plenty of dogs on hand to keep our hands warm.

Time then trucked on, and before I knew it my birthday and Christmas were upon us. I decided to do a personal project of ‘365 days, 365 photos’, where one photograph that sums up my day is taken and put online. Work was quiet, but it was nice to have a break and have a little mini-break away to York, staying first in a Spa Hotel nearby and then to York itself visiting the amazing Shambles.

Over a very muddy Christmas period, Dad and I photographed some stunning houses and some very muddy building sites together for my main client.

I can’t put the photographs of the private houses up online unfortunately, but I did do some other property photography in December too; two holiday cottages in a local village.

Before I knew it, it was January, and whilst the month started quietly, it very quickly picked up pace, and before I knew it, I was run off my feet! I had a successful meeting with a new client, where I will be editing images taken by someone else. I had a ‘trial run’ on some test photographs for her…

I was then back photographing for my main client, this time woodlands and a rather amazing sculpture.

I have a ball for this client, I adore the work I get from him and the people I get to meet. Ooh doesn’t that sound brown-nosey!

PLUS! Most exciting of all, and in-amongst everything for the last 3 months, I have been playing weddings with one of my very best friends, Miss was-Gemma-Johnson-now-Gemma-Williams, who very beautifully got married just 2 days ago. I am yet to go through the hundreds of photographs that I took, but here are just a couple to wet the appetite until both she and her new husband Stuart have seen them. Congratulations to them both we all had a ball!

So readers, I shall leave it there for now, and hopefully come back to you soon with lots more to read and view. I hope you all enjoyed the snow, we did!

Ta ta!

Wedding & Commercial Photography Warwickshire, Charlotte Wright Photography

A behind the scenes look at a wedding photoshoot for a New Forest venue.

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Admin under Charlotte Wright Photography, Warwickshire Photography

A Wedding Photoshoot for The Bell Inn, New Forest

Well, time trucks by so quickly, lets bring a bit of sun back into our December!

Back in October, my Father, Chris Wright, and I went to photograph at wedding photoshoot for the wedding venue The Bell Inn, in the heart of the New Forest.

A behind the scenes look at a wedding photoshoot for a New Forest venue.

It is a stunning place, the location is fab. On this blog are some of the ‘behind the scenes’ shots, as well as some main images that we supplied the client, not all of them are on here, you may have to check their website out for that!

Once the couple were dressed and ready, we headed straight out into the Forest and onto the hotels ‘wilder’ golf course for a few shots…

The couple were married, but not newlyweds! A perfect couple to photograph, really helpful, and Jenny was more than happy to play in the dress. We then went back to the hotel, to get a few more outdoorsy shots before we lost the sun, a photographers time-piece, we are always ruled by it!

We then had a couple of other ‘models’ appear for the shoot…

which of course, turned us all into gooey messes, what is it with Springer pups!?

Anyway, back to work, and we went inside for a few shots of the hotel, bar area, and bedroom. The bedroom wasn’t the most exciting we had seen, but of course we had to make it so…

In total we did around 24 ‘main’ shots, with myself taking more of the reportage style images. It was an interesting day, and great to photograph a wedding venue without the pressure of an actual wedding day. The last thing to do was to check the images off with the client and head home.

This hasn’t been the ‘wordiest’ of blogs, but the next one will include the most recent wedding that I did when most of the UK was underwater, and a fun family photoshoot that I did recently, more dogs than people in one shot!

Thanks all, and speak soon!!

An ‘Indian Summer’ Stratford Upon Avon Wedding? Well the sun came out if that counts!

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Admin under Charlotte Wright Photography, Warwickshire Photography

Two Stratford Upon Avon Weddings

Hello!

I know it has been a while, but I have been so manically busy with work, I have barely had time to sleep, it’s been years since I had to work till midnight, roll on December for a break (two lovely nights away in York, I cannae wait).

So in this blog I thought I would chat about the last two Stratford Upon Avon weddings I have done in September. Firstly, there was a beautiful, formal, summer wedding marrying Gemma & Jason at St. Gregory’s Church in Stratford upon Avon, and secondly was an elegant, more informal wedding of Caroline & David at Stratford Town Hall.

Gemma & Jason

Gemma & Jason’s day started with me getting the brides parents house for all the preparations, where Gemma’s mum Lucy had actually made the whole wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses, it was stunning, and tweaks were being made even as I was arriving!

St Gregory's Church & Alveston Pastures Wedding, Stratford Upon Avon

Then we were all off to St Gregory’s Church, for a really nice service with both the English & Irish sides of the family being represented brilliantly in the readings. Gemma & Jason were a perfect couple to photograph in a ceremony, some people can be quite closed off!

Stratford Upon Avon Wedding, Charlotte Wright Photography

After the ceremony we went to Alveston Pastures for the reception, a brilliant venue for the DIY couple! Some stunning group shots ensued, and then onto the food and flowing drinks!

The speeches were the hardest ever to photograph, as the top table was in front of a huge window with the sun right behind it, but I was still very happy with what I managed to get. There was a eloquent speech from the brides father, David, a very nervous bestman, who really did ace it, and a loving speech from the groom, who had nearly everyone (including myself!) in tears “My love, my life, my wife.” Call me soppy, but I don’t think I will ever forget that actually.

It was a fantastic day, and I reckon there may have been a few sore heads the day after!

Charlotte Wright Photography, specialist wedding photographer in Warwickshire.

Caroline & David-Stratford Upon Avon Wedding, Stratford Town Hall

Then onto my most recent wedding, Caroline and David. My day began just before lunch with Caroline and her bridesmaid Francesca getting ready at the Church Street Townhouse in Stratford. It was a flipping dark room, but lovely! Having known of, but not been in the Townhouse before, I was very impressed.

Stratford Upon Avon Town Hall Wedding, Charlotte Wright Photography

Once the bride was ready in a beautiful dress made by especially for Caroline by Elizabeth Ayers with a real vintage feel. All buttoned up, we went outside, where the rain was holding off to get into the rather snazzy wedding car, a Rolls Royce Phantom!

As ever, Stratford’s Town Hall was beautiful, a large, light filled room perfect for ceremonies. It was a very intimate and personal ceremony, with two lovely readings.

After a small trip to Caroline’s Mothers house, where the reception was being held in a very large marquee, with a great band, an amazing Autumnal cake and even better, a spare seat for me! Knowing some of the guests, I was allowed to sit down and eat with everyone whilst I waited to photograph the speeches and first dance. I had never met the people on my table, but they were really nice people and one gentleman in particular that I was sat next to gave me some real food for thought with regards to go where next in my business (that news to follow!)

The speeches were very moving, due to the loss of a family member recently, but they picked up in the form of the best man giving a very colourful speech, with highs, lows, laughs and a bit of choking back tears. And then onto the first dance, and what a dance it was when everyone joined in!

I left and as I was walking away, I think the band was starting up with a lot of cheering and reciprocative calling! An amazing night had by all, and I can’t wait to deliver the images to the couple.

Next Blog

(Whenever it happens!) I shall be blogging about a photoshoot that I have done recently for a wedding venue and also some amazing property photography that I have done in the past two days.

Welcome to Charlotte Wright Photography!

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Admin under Warwickshire Photography

Well! My first Charlotte Wright Photography blog. What to say, I suppose the best bet is to introduce myself…

I started working for my father, Chris Wright, back in 2002 and during that time learnt many valuable skills within the photography, design and photographic editing fields. Chris specialises in photographing holiday cottages throughout the whole of the UK, and I shadowed him, learning everything from him along the way, until I started photographing properties too. In 2007 I was made a director of the family business, and I have helped it grow since then.

At the end of 2009, I took what I had learnt and stepped out on my own to create Charlotte Wright Photography. I do a range of photography including, portraits, jewellery photography, interior and exterior photography, but specifically wedding photography. I started photographing weddings around 18 months ago, and I loved it. I get a real buzz from the day, and I always feel so honoured to be a part of things. I produce stunning photographs and albums, for very competitive prices.

I also photograph private houses and gardens and create unique, beautiful coffee table photo books. I work fast, and having worked within a professional world for so many years, I understand the importance of deadlines, and I meet them every time.

My work is varied and my clients base is growing larger all the time, I am excited to see what the future may hold for me!

“Charlotte is a talented and creative photographer who I would thoroughly recommend to businesses that need more than very good photographs of their products and people – Charlotte is outstanding” Howard Ford

“Thank you so much for the photographs. FANTASTIC! BRILLIANT! WELL DONE! LIKE THEM ALL! Send me the invoice!” Lynda Searanckes, Forest Barn, Forest of Dean

Charlotte Wright Photography, Warwickshire

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