Chateau de La Ligne - Styled Wedding Shoot
Chateau de La Ligne - Styled Wedding Shoot
It's always a privilege to be asked to get involved in anything.
Unless it's a load of old rubbish as some editorial or 'styled' shoots are. I know, I've been to them.
But that was not the case here.
I've provided photography and video at a number of weddings with the head honcho over at French Wedding Company and it was a pleasure to get involved with this one.
Spread over two days and with two different teams with two different briefs, this was principally a collaboration between FWC and the venue, Chateau de La Ligne itself.
My brief was a little bit different with this one...
Sometimes I'm just asked to turn up on the day and shoot. Not the greatest plan, but that is the case sometimes so you just have to go with it.
Sometimes, I'm involved from the start or even suggest a concept. These generally work best as scenarios.
Then there are shoots like this where my brief is more to capture the BTS (behind the scenes) from the planners perspective rather than treating it as a 'model shoot'.
But there is a bit of the latter. Well a lot of the latter as it's not easy to shoot BTS and then not actually show the rest of the story.
https://vimeo.com/572571183
Typically, I do try and shoot for the story and present as a story and I have mostly done that here, albeit we were working over 2 days and sharing elements/models between two teams so it's not strictly 100% chronological like a real wedding day. But then it's not a real wedding day!
This was not my first visit to the venue as I made a music video there for a band a few years back. However, that was December and this was May and this time, wedding related.
To date, I have not been free for any enquiries for weddings at this place but hopefully that will change soon as I'd love to capture a wedding here.
So below we have; landscapes, architecture, people at work, flowers, lots and lots of flowers, Chuck Taylor's, models, dresses, a car the same colour as custard, but absolutely no wine or pizza though it was consumed.
https://vimeo.com/572557584
So as you will no doubt appreciate and be aware, these things don't just happen without a lot of people and effort and here's a list of who was involved:
THE VENUE: Chateau de La Ligne
THE PLANNER: Laura Southgate - French Wedding Company
FLOWERS: Silk Flowers France
STYLING & CONCEPTS: Anne Tinel
WEDDING DRESSES: Pascal - Atelier Constance
HAIR & MAKEUP: Laura Cawte
FURNITURE & TABLEWARE: Options Bordeaux
DECORATIVE ITEMS & LINEN: Our Fabulous Things
PLANTS: Pepeniste
LIGHTING & BAR: BeLounge
CAR: Bernard Constant
MODELS: Aurore, Pascal, Jordan
VENUE PHOTOGRAPHY: Patrick Chatelain (not shown here, ie, all the work featured here is mine alone, photo and video)
And finally, here's a link to another recent Editorial Wedding Shoot you might be interested in.