Jen + Mårten - Beach Wedding Photography Ireland

We're packing some bags to go to Donegal as we write this. A wild and unplugged place to start the wind down after a crazy season. The sun will either be splitting the trees, or waves will be crashing onto the seafront houses in the mother of all storms. Donegal is a bit like that.

Jen & Mårten's beach wedding in Rosbeg and Portnoo encapsulated everything we love about the place. Jen spent a long summer with her family each year in Rosbeg growing up, and couldn't imagine getting married anywhere else. Her childhood friends cleared the beach of seaweed and flotsam for them to set up. Fishermen went about their business on the sands as Jen & Mårten exchanged vows. The reception was in Joe's Seafood Bar, which Joe Jr. had taken over running from Joe Sr.  The clouds gathered and parted and gathered again in this most wild and beautiful of settings for a wedding. And despite the wind and the cold, I don't think there was a break in the laughter or the banter all day long.

Mårten is a pilot by the way, in case you were wondering why people suddenly start throwing model planes at them...

Iris & Brendan - Ballyfin Estate Wedding Photography

We just realised we haven't blogged in a month. Or put our heads above the parapet very much at all. We've been crazy busy travelling, shooting, editing, delivering. And our little guy just turned six months this week and finally gave us our first full night's sleep since March! I swear my right leg is twice as big as my left leg, rocking the baby bouncer as I work...

Here are a handful of frames from Iris & Brendan's New York-Chinese-Irish wedding back in July. They got married in Ballyfin Demesne, which is pretty much one of the most breathtaking estates we've been to in Ireland. A treasure-filled house, a Chinese tea ceremony, a midnight sparkler dance. Beautiful stuff.

A total pleasure to have the wonderful Aga from White Tea Photography second shooting this one. Double trouble ; )

Winnie + Simon //Mussenden Temple Wedding

When we posted a single image on facebook, the first frame here of Winnie and Simon at Downhill Demesne, Winnie wrote back, 'So beautiful. Puts us in our proper perspective. A tiny part of an epic sky'. I loved that.

Winnie and Simon's day blew me away to be honest. They got married in Mussenden Temple, with friends and family forming a circle around them. The circle was a constant - the temple walls and the dome above, the wedding bands and the cycle of Atlantic waves 120 feet below us. They mixed together two vials of sand, from Sandymount and Downhill, the two beaches they grew up on. The vows that they wrote themselves were poetic, beautiful, heartfelt. They choked me up.

Later on the speeches, no less poetic than the ceremony, set everyone off again. Myself included.

This wedding will stay under my skin for a long time I think.