by Barrie Downie | weddings London
Patricia and Thomas married at Old Marylebone Town Hall on a warm September evening — the last ceremony of the day in the Knightsbridge Room, with immediate family, before their celebration in Italy. She wore her mother’s dress from 1985.
by Barrie Downie | Wedding Photographers London, weddings London
An evening wedding at Old Marylebone Town Hall for Gayathri and Pranav — photos on the steps at six, a seven o’clock ceremony in the Paddington Room with six of their family, confetti in the dark and portraits by lamplight on the cobbles.
by Barrie Downie | Wedding photographer Sussex, weddings in sussex
Susie and Deshan got married at Selden Barns on Saturday, and they did it twice in one afternoon — a civil ceremony in the ceremony barn at three o’clock with the Sussex registrars, then a Sri Lankan Poruwa under the oak pergola outside. Two ceremonies, two sets...
by Barrie Downie | Wedding photography London
Syon Park is twenty minutes from Heathrow and it doesn’t feel like London at all. Two hundred acres of Capability Brown parkland, a house the Percy family has lived in since 1594, and a glasshouse from 1826 that most couples book the venue for before...
by Barrie Downie | Locations
Old Marylebone Town Hall has a quiet glamour few London venues can match. Its Edwardian architecture, marble-floored entrance halls and light-filled ceremony rooms draw some of the city’s most stylish couples — people who want a beautiful wedding without the...
by Barrie Downie | weddings London
Lovely early afternoon wedding for Khilan and Pia at Old Marylebone Town Hall on Saturday. Married at half one, confetti outside, photos around the local streets, then a short walk to The Landmark for champagne. A good way to spend a Saturday. The ceremony Register...
by Barrie Downie | Wedding photographer Sussex
Sussex Wedding Photography Affordable Wedding Photography in Brighton Based in Eastbourne, and a regular on the Sussex coast — from an intimate Brighton Town Hall ceremony to a full wedding day by the sea. No hidden extras, every gallery fully edited, and prices that...
by Barrie Downie | weddings in sussex
Eastbourne Register Office wedding photography from £225. Local Eastbourne photographer, no travel fees, all images edited and your gallery online in 24 hours.
by Barrie Downie | weddings London
When couples ask for “Vogue-style” wedding photos, they rarely mean they want to spend their wedding day on a fashion shoot. They mean they want a few pictures that look like they belong in a magazine: strong light, a considered frame, the two of them...
by Barrie Downie | Luxury Weddings, weddings London
Sam and Matt were married at St Paul’s Cathedral on the 4th of July, followed by an intimate family dinner in Mayfair. A rare wedding at a rare venue.
by Barrie Downie | Wedding photography London
I’m one of the recommended wedding photographers at Hotel Café Royal, and it’s always a venue I’m glad to see come up in an enquiry. It sits right on the bend of Regent Street, where the West End, Mayfair and Soho all meet — a five-star hotel with...
by Barrie Downie | Pre-wedding photography
Stepfanie and Ben’s pre-wedding shoot was one of those days where every location carried a real story, which always makes the photographs feel that much more personal. We started in Knightsbridge at Holy Trinity Brompton, the church where the two of them first...
by Barrie Downie | Luxury Weddings
After twenty-odd years photographing weddings across London, I’ve come to look forward to winter dates almost more than the summer ones. There’s something about shooting in December, January and February that you just can’t fake — the light is low,...
by Barrie Downie | weddings London
A Persian Civil Ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall — Syrus & Bibi After a four-year, £60 million refit, Old Marylebone Town Hall reopened its doors in 2018 and quickly reclaimed its place as one of the most sought-after civil wedding venues in London — and...
by Barrie Downie | weddings in sussex
Ella & Gaal — A Spring Wedding at Selden Barns Some wedding days you have to work for. Others, like Ella and Gaal’s yesterday, hand themselves to you — blue skies, no wind, and a couple who’d clearly decided early on that they were going to enjoy every...
by Barrie Downie | Pre-wedding photography
A spring pre wedding shoot in London for a couple from Singapore: St Paul’s, the Tower of London bench, Tower Bridge and Shad Thames, Westminster, and the Hyde Park bandstand in red.
by Barrie Downie | london photographer
How to Choose a Wedding Photographer in London: A Practical Guide for Couples Choosing a wedding photographer is one of the most personal decisions you will make during your engagement. The flowers wilt, the cake gets eaten, the band packs up and goes home — but your...
by Barrie Downie | Wedding photography London
The Peninsula London is the newest of the city’s grand hotels. It opened in September 2023 at Hyde Park Corner, looking across to Wellington Arch, with Hyde Park on one side and Belgravia on the other. Where Claridge’s and The Ritz are all Edwardian...
by Barrie Downie | Pre-wedding photography
A full day London pre wedding shoot with Yuefasi and Lian: eight locations and three outfits, from the Royal Albert Hall and Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge at dusk.
by Barrie Downie | wedding tips for brides
How to Get the Best Photos on Your Wedding Day: A Practical Guide for Couples Your wedding photos are the one thing that lasts long after the cake has been eaten, the flowers have wilted, and the last guest has gone home. They are the way you will relive the day — not...
by Barrie Downie | Wedding photography London
Wedding Photography · Whitehall PlaceCorinthia London wedding photographerA Victorian building that’s been a Whitehall hotel since 1885, two minutes from Embankment. I’ve shot enough weddings here — particularly Persian and Asian weddings — to know it...
by Barrie Downie | engagement
Part two of a London and Paris pre wedding trip for a couple from Cambodia: the Eiffel Tower from Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Pont Alexandre III, the Louvre, Notre-Dame, Paris cafés and the Arc de Triomphe.
by Barrie Downie | engagement
A London pre wedding shoot in three gowns: the British Museum Great Court, the Albert Memorial, Buckingham Palace, the Tower Bridge foreshore at sunset and Westminster Bridge after dark, the day before Paris.
by Barrie Downie | Wedding Photographers London
A London Wedding on the Thames | Amy & Robbie From Whitehall to the water — a quintessentially London wedding Every now and then a wedding day comes along that just feels like London on a postcard, and Amy and Robbie’s was one of them. Bridal prep...
by Barrie Downie | Locations
Mannings Heath sits in a wooded valley a few miles south-east of Horsham, and it is one of the few West Sussex venues where the grounds do more photographic work than the building.I’m Barrie Downie. I’ve photographed two weddings on this estate — Lee and Karen’s at...
by Barrie Downie | Locations
Mayfair is small, roughly the streets between Park Lane, Oxford Street, Regent Street and Piccadilly, but it packs in a remarkable number of wedding hotels. I’ve photographed weddings at Claridge’s, The Dorchester, The Connaught, Grosvenor House and the...
by Barrie Downie | Wedding Venues London
Wedding Photography at Inner Temple The Inner Temple is one of those London wedding venues that does most of the work for you. Centuries of history, Hall ceilings that go on forever, three acres of garden in the middle of the city, and a kind of quiet, weighted...
by Barrie Downie | weddings London
Wedding at the Royal Courts of Justice, London Navid and Roujin’s wedding day moved across three of central London’s most distinctive locations: the Corinthia Hotel in Whitehall for prep, Hyde Park for the couple portraits, and the Royal Courts of Justice...
by Barrie Downie | Locations
London Wedding Photographer Knightsbridge I’ve been photographing weddings around Knightsbridge for over twenty years. The neighbourhood is dense with luxury hotel venues — Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, the Berkeley, the Bvlgari, the Park Tower, Jumeirah Carlton...
by Barrie Downie | Luxury Weddings, weddings London
Nathalie and Rutger married at Old Marylebone Town Hall on a December evening. By the time the ceremony finished the light had gone, and they left down the front steps in a sparkler send-off before walking round the corner to their hotel for dinner with family and...
