Usually, when I approve a submission for these pages, I ask for the majority of the images to be in colour. I want my readers to be able to immerse themselves in my Real Weddings, and I think colour is such a huge part of that.
However, when Matthew of Lucius Fox Photography and Brides Up North reader and bride to be Stacey sent in their images celebrating Stacey & Ben’s engagement, my usual rule book went out the window. This cool, casual and fabulously striking set of images could only ever work in monochrome. Have I gone all arty on you or what?!
Let’s say hello (and congratulations!) to Stacey & Ben.
Stacey says: I have been a regular reader of the website since the minute we booked the wedding, so it’s a pleasure to be here. I like reading other peoples wedding stories to get inspiration for our own day.
Ben proposed on Christmas Eve 2009. We had been out for a romantic meal to start the festivities as our first Christmas together and as we left the restaurant and started walking down the parade in the rain under the Christmas lights Ben dropped down to one knee and popped the question.
We are getting married on Friday 18th April 2014 which is also Good Friday.
Our wedding is going to be extra special as we are having a Double Wedding with our best friends Charlene and Dan. We all had been looking at different venues to hold the capacity of our guests and came across somewhere special which we all fell in love with so decided to join forces! The building and décor was stunning and exactly fitted in with our theme. We wanted somewhere we were able to spend the whole day without our families having to travel but something big enough with different areas for the space.
We met at work when Ben started working for the same company in 2008. We generally started seeing each other as friends from work who had just come out of relationships so nothing was too serious to start with. On our first date we went to the cinema to watch Slumdog Millionaire and as time went on we gradually become a lot closer the more time we spent together.
I love how caring Ben is and how we still act like we did when we first got together.
Our biggest wish for married life is happiness. Simple.
We came across Lucius Fox Photography and loved Matt’s work so we wanted to have an engagement shoot to have more photos of just the two of us. We had already been shot by Matt in a family visit to Coventry’s War Memorial park with our two boys, and fell in love with all of the photos he had produced for us.
We were both so nervous about our shoot but we met with Matt beforehand for a coffee and instantly we knew we were in good hands, he made us feel so relaxed and for two people that generally don’t like being photographed he made us feel really at ease. We’re planning on putting our photos into an album to keep to show our children when they’re older.
We’ll definitely be back to share our Real Wedding with Brides Up North.
If you’d like to share your engagement news, love story or Real Wedding with Brides Up North, I’d love to hear from you! Here’s how.
What a really cool engagement shoot! Love the black and white tones and the use of light, very nice. Someone is going to make a VERY gorgeous bride!