We’re rushed off our feet with wed­dings and teach­ing (see www.photographymadesimple.co.uk) at the moment  but thought we should pass on this lovely tes­ti­mo­nial from Jess and Kelvin, mar­ried on 29/5/11 at the Cur­ra­dine Barns:

Hi Rachel and Phil,

We have just got back off hon­ey­moon and wanted to say a big thank you to you both! You were both bril­liant on the day and made us feel so relaxed and com­fort­able. So many peo­ple com­mented on how relaxed and organ­ised you were and that they didn’t even realise you were the offi­cial pho­tog­ra­phers, they thought you were mem­bers of the fam­ily! Thank you also for all your non pho­to­graphic help on the day like Rachel for keep­ing us on sched­ule when get­ting ready and Phil find­ing us a knife to cut our wed­ding cake. All your help and sup­port was very much appre­ci­ated and made our day so special!

We can’t wait to see our pho­tos so please let us know what we need to do from here.

Thanks again Jess and Kelvin

One minute we’re pho­tograph­ing cute lit­tle brides­maids, the next it’s some­one off the New Year’s Hon­ours’ List, and the next is, well.…worms!

Today Rachel went and pho­tographed a wormery near Worces­ter for the lovelyMad As A March Hare PR com­pany.

Glo­ri­ous blue skies, although the sun was extremely bright, which was slightly wor­ry­ing, as it was dif­fi­cult to find a spot where peo­ple wouldn’t be squinting!

Bub­ble House Worm Farm is a fas­ci­nat­ing place, and the worms are just amaz­ing. The own­ers, Ken and Woody, are really pas­sion­ate about their work. In fact, Rachel was so impressed that she came home demand­ing a domes­tic wormery…what will she be up to next?!

On Fri­day we pho­tographed the Broughton fam­ily,  after Phil met Joce­lyn Broughton teach­ing a course as part of pho­tog­ra­phy­mades­im­ple.  Since Rachel’s area of exper­tise is babies and chil­dren, we were com­mis­sioned to pho­to­graph the new grand­chil­dren.  A lovely fam­ily, who never men­tioned that Mar­tin had just been knighted in the 2011 New Year’s Hon­ours List.  Sir Mar­tin Broughton’s career is too stel­lar to report here, but today’s Sun­day Tele­graph has a go.  Sir Mar­tin is the most impor­tant busi­ness leader we’ve ever pho­tographed,  and also a really approach­able Chelsea-supporting chap with a delight­ful family.

We’re already booked on the day of the royal wedding.

This means:

a.  We’re not avail­able for Wills and Waity Kaity

and

b.  We won’t get a day off.

As Dick Das­tardly would say — “Drat and dou­ble drat!”

Jim and Gemma decided to arrive in style at the Birtsmor­ton Court, near Malvern. Tra­di­tional set­ting with a mod­ern local twist.