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Couple: Ria Martin and Chris Lawson
Date: 26th March 2011
Wedding Location: Cooling Castle Barn, Kent

Ria and Chris were married at CCB. This was my 4th wedding at Cooling and the day went without a hitch again.

I was assisted by Carly, a friend of the family and promising photographer who did a little bit of reportage photography around the family.

I arrived early as I always do to get a feel of the place and even though I have been there on many occasions, I benefit by walking around without a camera and taking in the atmosphere prior to the start of the pandemonium.

Ria was getting ready at Cooling's apartments and we settled down to start taking some photos.

Walking out to find Chris and the groomsmen we tried to recreate the photography that I took on a previous wedding and it seemed to work out fine despite the fact that the weather was threatening to rain.

Ria and Chris were so up for this and that helped my photography so much. I wasn't hampered at all and was able to do most everything I wanted to do

We had a couple of power cuts during the speeches and the lights went out and the mic went down which meant that the best man had to stand on a chair and raise his voice to be heard but the ambiance looked great with just candles for illumination.