{"id":2169,"date":"2010-02-02T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5starweddingmagazine.com\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2019-01-07T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T08:29:57","slug":"a-designer-wedding-at-the-dorchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/a-designer-wedding-at-the-dorchester\/","title":{"rendered":"A designer wedding at The Dorchester"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u2019d love to get ready together Sharon \u2013 do you think that will be unlucky or is it just superstition?\u201d\u00a0 was the question from our pretty bride Nicole who was planning her wedding at the top London hotel The Dorchester.\u00a0 Knowing that England is one of the few countries where couples do not usually get together before the wedding because of this superstition I was able to reassure Nicole than no \u2013 it wasn\u2019t going to be unlucky for her.\u00a0 I have a strong belief that where possible every couple should be able to celebrate their wedding in exactly the way they want to \u2013 and if for some this means a break with tradition well \u201cbring it on\u201d I say!<\/p>\n

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So the picture list arrived and I was delighted to see the first requested picture on the list was \u201cDavid and Nicole in their bathrobes sipping Champagne.\u201d\u00a0 What a way to start your wedding day!\u00a0\u00a0 We arrived in London and met David and Nicole on the eve of the wedding<\/a> to run through final details and also take a few portraits of them together to enable them to feel more relaxed in front of the camera the following day.<\/p>\n

On the morning of the wedding as we took a taxi to The Dorchester from our hotel and passed some of the famous sites of London, I thought what excellent photos they would make at night time when they were all floodlit.\u00a0 I asked our taxi driver how we would arrange for a taxi to take us around some of the sites later that evening\u2026I had a plan if David and Nicole were in agreement!<\/p>\n

David and Nicole were indeed together and in their bathrobes sipping Champagne when we arrived at their suite.\u00a0 Nicole had the most amazing blue suede Jimmy Choo Shoes and we were able to get a \u201cdifferent\u201d photograph of these under the canopy of the bed in their suite \u2013 which was an almost identical shade of blue.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of my favourite shoe shots to date.\u00a0 Nicole had such precise attention to detail \u2013 even down to the jewellery she had sewn into her hair.\u00a0 It\u2019s often the little details which make a wedding complete, Nicole and David\u2019s was one such wedding.\u00a0 Everything had been meticulously planned to perfection by Nicole.<\/p>\n

David did not see Nicole completely ready in her dress \u2013 preferring to save the impact for the moment she walked down the aisle.\u00a0 She looked amazing and the effect was not lost on David or his brother Daniel who I caught wiping a tear away from his eye \u2013 although he later denied it!<\/p>\n

Following the ceremony, we were able to have a short walk about with David and Nicole in the Dorchester and take some stunning photographs with Liberace\u2019s piano and in the silk-lined room adjacent to this.\u00a0 As always, the staff at the Dorchester were impeccable and their attention to detail and concern to ensure David and Nicole had the best possible wedding day was evident from start to finish of the day.\u00a0 Their service and professionalism were, as you would expect from the Dorchester, faultless.\u00a0 It was a pleasure working with them.<\/p>\n

As we walked through the promenade with David and Nicole the pianist noticed us coming and stopped what he was playing and switched to \u201cHere Comes The Bride<\/a>\u201d and all the guests taking tea stopped and gave David and Nicole a round of applause.\u00a0 He did the same on the way back and people congratulated them as we passed.\u00a0 Little touches like that make a Dorchester wedding special.\u00a0 Every member of staff seems to go above and beyond the call of duty to make the whole Dorchester experience unforgettable.<\/p>\n

When darkness fell and following the evening celebrations we took a taxi ride with David & Nicole and stopped at Westminster, The London Eye, Buckingham Palace and more.<\/p>\n

When David and Nicole booked us for their wedding photography other than our website they had no knowledge of us at all.\u00a0 This is quite unusual for us as the majority of our bookings come from word of mouth referrals from past clients or guests at weddings we have photographed.\u00a0 They put in us a large amount of trust that we would deliver something to them that reflected the splendour of their London wedding at The Dorchester.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m pleased to say that when they saw the pictures they confirmed we had surpassed the already high expectations<\/a> they had for us – for us that is all we need to know.<\/p>\n

by Sharon Malone at FNS Weddings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u2019d love to get ready together Sharon \u2013 do you think that will be unlucky or is it just superstition?\u201d\u00a0 was the question from our pretty bride Nicole who was planning her wedding at the top London hotel The Dorchester.\u00a0 Knowing that England is one of the few countries where couples do not usually get together before the wedding because of this superstition I was able to reassure Nicole than no \u2013 it wasn\u2019t going to be unlucky for her.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-luxury-venues","category-tips-from-industry-experts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}