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Francesca & Mark’s Wedding at The Cumberland Hotel – Slideshow

Laura — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:45:05 +0000

Here is the slideshow from Francesca & Mark’s fabulous 20s themed wedding last month at the art deco styled Cumberland Hotel down on the south coast.

All their wedding pictures are also now online and available to view here – if you were a guest and need a password then please get in touch with Francesca & Mark or ourselves: peter@lawsonphotography.co.uk – or try the couple’s new surname!

Francesca & Mark’s wedding at the Cumberland, Bournemouth – Part One

Laura — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:23:21 +0000

We had an amazing weekend in Bournemouth, topped off by the beautiful wedding of Francesca and Mark. This was a stunning and unique affair, inspired by Francesca’s love of all things 1920’s. From the lovely art deco setting of the Cumberland Hotel to the fabulous outfits, every detail was considered and planned to perfection! We first met these two at their good friends Ayesha and Paul’s wedding last year, so we knew it would be a lovely day with lots of fun guests (and we weren’t disappointed!). Francesca and Mark have been together for 10 years and are still so visibly crazy about each other, I’m sure there were lots of people thinking ‘”it’s about time”!

That blue sky didn’t last all day unfortunately…

First sip of the day!

I love this one…

Here’s the lovely Ayesha (who was one of 3 ‘best women’!)

My favourite of the morning!

Meanwhile Mark was doing his best to keep calm!

The best man was almost as nervous as Mark!

Francesca looked AMAZING in her dress!

The girls agreed

Very proud (and dapper!) Dad…

Hollywood goddess…

I love this one…

Time to get married!

A bit of stumbling over the vows broke the tension!

Married!

Check out Part Two for portraits, reception details, speeches and dancing!

Francesca & Mark’s wedding at the Cumberland, Bournemouth – Part Two

Laura — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:15:19 +0000

So…picking up where we left off with Part One, after the lovely ceremony we headed outside with Mr and Mrs for the last 5 minutes of daylight…

Then it was time to warm up and have a little play inside…

Love this one…

My hands down favourite!

Under normal circumstances we hate using flash, but it made this corridor of mirrors magical!

Such a cute couple…

I love this shot of the meeting line!

Instead of the usual three course meal and in keeping with the theme, they served high tea. Sandwiches, scones, pastries and pink champagne…yum!

A few shots from the speeches…

Love this one…

More and more brave brides are getting up to do speeches too these days, we salute you!

Ayesha read out a poem she’d written for them, so cute!

The best man was pretty relieved to finally get his speech over with!

The cake was HOT!

Sparklers are fun!

Finally here’s a few from the first dance, which was a beautifully choreographed surprise for their guests…

Thank you Francesca and Mark for giving us such a fantastic day to photograph! Congratulations! x