Birmingham Library Wedding Photography | Sophie & Dan

An Urban set­ting for this cool Birm­ing­ham Library Wed­ding, then a walk along the canal for an awe­some recep­tion par­ty in a gin distillery

MOST. CONFETTI. EVER

Sophie & Dan had more con­fet­ti rain­ing down on them (and me!) than any cou­ple I’ve ever pho­tographed, and it was awesome!!

But when you give your guests gigan­tic tubs of con­fet­ti to grab hand­fuls of petals then what do you expect?!

As you can see from the pho­to­graph above guests were lined up around a cir­cu­lar bal­cony. Every­one primed, loaded and ready to launch as soon as the new­ly­weds made their arrival.

I start­ed off stand­ing on a chair, pre­car­i­ous­ly lean­ing over to get an aer­i­al shot of them. But quick­ly decid­ed “nah, that’s no good”. So I jumped down to run down the stairs towards them and into the flo­ral rain cloud.

Ring the Gui­ness Book of World Records, we need to make this official

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In the dark­est night hour
I’ll search through the crowd
Your face is all that I see
I’ll give you every­thing
Baby, love me lights out
Baby, love me lights out

John May­er — XO

Chilled Birmingham Library Wedding Photography

But we need to rewind a lit­tle in the sto­ry to Sophie & Dan actu­al­ly get­ting mar­ried. In fact, we should prob­a­bly go even fur­ther back to when I first met them at a wed­ding fair in cen­tral Birmingham

It was at a hotel, just off Cen­te­nary Square, which is where the ultra mod­ern Birm­ing­ham Library is, with the most incred­i­ble archi­tec­ture inside.

We start­ed chat­ting, as you, me ask­ing how they were get­ting on with wed­ding plan­ning and if they’d booked a venue.

“Oh yeah, that’s all booked, we’re get­ting mar­ried in the Library, right up in the top. It’s in the Shake­speare room then out­side on the bal­cony after­wards for pho­tographs over­look­ing the city,”

Cue one sali­vat­ing wed­ding pho­tog­ra­ph­er as I start­ed to imag­ine their day. The incred­i­ble space inside the build­ing, the trav­e­la­tor you have to go across to get to the top floor, those views!!!

Well, I think it’s fair to say that they appre­ci­at­ed my enthu­si­asm for their plans ( and I like to think they were quite keen on my pho­tog­ra­phy skills too?!) and I was booked

It’s worth not­ing here that the best laid plans etc etc don’t always run smooth. But it does­n’t mean that you won’t have the most amaz­ing wedding

They’re orig­i­nal­ly booked a bar in the jew­ellery quar­ter for their recep­tion, a con­vert­ed ware­house and full of char­ac­ter. A few months before­hand they found out that it had closed down and they need­ed a new venue for food and party

But no need to pan­ic as they stum­bled upon the bril­liant Dis­tillery near the NIA, just a short walk along the canal. So rather than every­one hav­ing to jump in taxis they could actu­al­ly stroll along the by the water­side instead.

Fun­ny how things works out hey!!

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Of course, if you’d like to have a chat about your Birm­ing­ham Library Wed­ding Pho­tog­ra­phy (or any­where else!) then please get in touch!!