Where Art and Emotions fuse... so for the personal touch - invite us to join you. xx Elaine and Jorge Borges-Ibanez

Coco Ocean Wedding Gambia 

Aminata and Brima's exotic wedding at Coco Ocean in The Gambia *links are in bold black.More pictures here.

We go anywhere in the world for lovely people's weddings: see more natural and multi-cultural wedding pictures in the little slideshow below and in Sadia & Shafkat's wedding in the Punjab village of Bhamber in Pakistan

Dream wedding venues, the perfect dress, a loving partner, and all your favourite people on the guest list? Now all you need is someone who cares passionately about you and your happiness on your wedding day, takes unlimited pictures from all angles with a caring and artistic eye, and your day will be complete! Have a look at the thousands of natural wedding pictures we have online and on our wedding storybooks  to decide if we are the right wedding photographers for you. Add in HD video on Blu-Ray to make one day last down the generations. If you are lucky enough to have any guests at your wedding who are Great Grandparents, they get a free wedding photo of their choice, as they are very special too,  so lets have some fun capturing your day!

xx Elaine and Jorge 

* Our next international wedding will be in France, so if you are getting married abroad, happy to join you there!

* If you are a couple in love look at these pre-wedding engagement photos & beach wedding in the Seychelles

Our latest UK weddings were on 23 March for Lorraine and Paul at Wentbridge House near Pontefract and Henna and Shahid's on 29 April at Cedar Court Hotel in Bradford, but have also had two weddings abroad in between: one in Nigeria for Laura and Martin's Nigerian wedding and then Brima and Aminata's Sierra Leone wedding in The Gambia at Coco Ocen Hotel . These pics are from Laura and Martin's cultural marriage ceremony in the village.  In December we were the video-photography team at a very unusual wedding in the woods in Leeds for Caina & Tony. The rest of those wedding photos are here: the actual ceremony was held by a lake using elements of earth, air, fire and water, sweet and sour, in a moving wedding ceremony by inter-faith Minister Janette. Tiny unedited HD video clip of Caina & Tony's wedding ceremony: Element of Air. This is not the main official video though, as was shot by wedding photographer Elaine on her Canon 5D Mark II but Jorge's video will follow. Other recent events: Asian wedding in Pakistan, Asian wedding photography in West Yorkshire, Sarah & Gavin's church wedding near Leeds, Emma & Luke's wedding in the Lake District, Emma & Steve's wedding in Richmond, Gill & Graham's church wedding blessing in South Yorkshire, Juliet and Kevin's church wedding blessing near Daventry

Some of my favourite natural photos are on our Picture Blog,   or for over 200,00 complete wedding pictures click here.  Choose to view 48 pictures per page then you can choose your favourite pics by clicking on the red heart below each thumbnail, zoom in to see details, or after clicking on a thumbnail,  play the image galleries there as slideshows.  The guitar music in those slideshows is by the classical guitarist Mike Richards (long-distance brides can send me their choices by clicking "send to photographer", but most of you will prefer to sit here with me and go through them together).

 Video and Photography from  Reel Life Photos international wedding photographers.

Time & travel is no object on & around your wedding day.  We just want to make you happy! So let us know what YOU want  xx Elaine & Jorge

 If you like what we do, why not visit Reel Life PhotosFacebook Page or join our group? Click here for wedding photography advice on how to choose your wedding photographer.    Licentiate of SITTP. Wedding photographers in Huddersfield.  Want to help a friend pay for their wedding photos as a wedding present? Buy  Reel Life Photos Gift Vouchers online here or email me and I'll send you the value desired (you can pay either via Paypal or straight to our business bank account) as it is easier if the wedding has already taken place to see the shopping cart properly!

For a quick overview of a whole wedding - with just a bride and groom (!) - see Augill Castle on Reel Life Photos Facebook Page

Ice Hotel in Sweden: Zoe and Stephen's very visually exciting wedding! Just finished designing their Ice Hotel wedding album and Masked Ball at the Pumphouse Roman baths in Bath.  Two snowy Winter weddings before Christmas: one at Augill Castle in Cumbria and one in a church in Marsden with the reception at the Huntsman Inn in West Yorkshire.  We were thrilled to be invited to William's Christening , following Sharleen and Chris's wedding at Woolley Hall 2 years ago . As soon as I got back from the wedding in Cyprus  we had a colourful Asian wedding - just the photography at the Al Hikmah Centre in Batley.  Have some of the travel pictures from Cyprus online. See a few pics from Claire and Joe at Weetwood Hall. Jodie and Scott's church wedding pics.Debbie and Richard had a very beautiful family wedding at Woodlands in Leeds - including a magic show.  See Carole & Mark's wedding at Huddersfield Register Office. Fun party pics from Marcos' birthdaybash on Facebook.  Had a lovely day at Aamori and Africa's Christeningin Christchurch, Deighton, & Ukranian Club in Huddersfield, with face-painting, bouncy castle, piñatas, and a magician to entertain the many children at the party!Elizabeth and Robert got married at Dewsbury Register Offiice and had photos in Crow Nest Park.  See all their wedding pictures here. See Clare and Wayne's church wedding in Leeds and Sarah & Caroline's Civil Partnership at Barden Tower near Skipton. See Jon & Sally's wedding at Wensley Church in the Dales  with their evening reception in a luxurious marquee on their family's farm. 

For an example of a wedding storybook album see Sheryl and Ross's Italian wedding album design here  It is a very colourful sunny summers day wedding in a contemporary style, see also The Gambian wedding storybook album! See the Cherubs Charity Dinner portaits Julie covered too and Christine and Neil's wedding at the Black Horse in Clifton - I didn't leave till 1.00am - see their evening wedding pics. See Denise and Bax's Gambian wedding photos chosen from their wedding day in Gambia and the ones for their album from the Gambian wedding day celebrations!

Kath and Simon's wedding ceremony at the church in Kippax went well and the whole day at Carlton Towers was magnificent! Here are a few of my favourite pictures here, and   links to interior photos of four poster bedrooms inside Carlton Tower

Charlotte and Leigh's wedding photos.Hayley and Mark's wedding at the Mackworth Hotel. Alicia and Adrian's wedding pictures at The Pavilion Gardens in Buxton.We've done wedding photography and video all over the UK, in every imaginable wedding venue in West Yorkshire: see wedding pictures  Bagden Hall,  also Waterton Park Hotel, and  see another Waterton Park Hotel wedding here;    and click  here for a storybook wedding at Waterton Park Hotel, National Trust property Nostell Priory, Oulton Hall, Woolley Halland click  here:   and here for Autumn wedding pictures at Woolley Hall,  Woolley Hall website  Ripley Castle website,  a winter wedding at Leeds Met Hotel Metropole. Chevin Lodge Hotelnear Otley, Leeds, Allerton Castle, Hazlewood Castle  and more Hazelwood Castle wedding pictures here   Monk Fryston Hotel near Selby, and more wedding photos of Monk Fryston here,  Holdsworth House, Clay House, Oakwell Hall, for the Dewsbury, Cleckheaton,  Batley area we often cover wedding photography at Gomersal Park Hotel.  See here for Gomersal Park Hotel wedding pictures and the preceding church wedding at St.Patricks Church in Batley and for Oakwood Hall in Bingley see here  and see here for wedding pictures at Blenheim House,   and here for  Pennine Manor Hotel in Golcar, Heath Cottage, Healds Hall, Alder House, Bagden Hall, Hatfeld Hall, Weetwood Hall   and here for a civil partnership wedding at Woodlands in Leeds, an urban wedding in the centre of Leeds;  see here for black and white wedding photography:  and here for more urban reportage wedding pictures in Leeds, Kings Croft wedding venue near Pontefract,  and I'm sure I'll remember a few more later on round Heckmondwike, Huddersfield - oh yes have done a lovely wedding reception at free party venue Mymou bar club - great for after parties too - Halifax, Wakefield, Ossett, Batley, Dewsbury. Keighely, Silsden, Skipton see here: Bradford, Leeds,  and in South Yorkshire wedding venues such as Worsley Hall in Barnsley, Hellaby Hall in Doncaster see here:  and other wedding venues near Sheffield and Rotherham.  Here's a link to an evening wedding reception at Wortley Hall near Barnsley. Nearly missed out wedding venues in Harrogate and Knaresborough, as well as lovely places in East Yorkshire such as theKP Club Glasshouse near Pocklington.   Near there is the amazing wedding venue in the stately  Carlton Towers (in Carlton, between Selby and Goole), where we have also done an engagement pre-wedding shoot   We also regularly nip over to Manchester  for wedding photography and video DVD  and Oldham, Bury, and have done two weddings at Sandhole Farm Barn in Cheshire and other wedding venues near Congleton : , as well as a lovely one in the Windmill Inn see here:. and here for winter wedding photography in Sale;   We also venture further afield to rainy Wales -  though it was a sunny day when we covered a mediaeval wedding at Ruthin Castle - and during a mediaeval festival at Faenol Fawr in Bodelewyddan near Abergele,  Add to that other wedding venues we have covered such as Duns Castle in Scotland near Edinburgh, Inchiriere Grange Hotel near Edinburgh, Crieff Hydro Hotel near Perth .  One week in August we had 7 weddings so were up in Scotland on the Wednesday, back in Yorkshire for the Friday and back up to Scotland the next day for a wedding in Auchen Castle. then on to Newcastle for an Asian wedding the following day! The castle wedding bride chose a Graphistudio weddingbook with amazing Acrylic cover .   See more Graphistudio wedding books here. Then we have been all the way down to Dartmoor for a romantic  wedding , see the thewedding ceremony in Tavistock Town Hall.  We've also done weddings at Sherborne Castle in Devon, and  Lutonhoo - an absolutely beautiful wedding venue near St. Albans - a stately home on a grand scale! website for Luton Hoo.  We also  really love doing wedding photography and video in the Lake District - Cumbria - such as Langdale Chase Hotel on the shores of Lake Windermere, Eskdale Gatehouse - the Outward Bound Centre, and the Inn on the Lake in Ullswater- we even had two Winter weddings there in January and April 2008!  Sandhole Farm Barn in Cheshire is another of our favourite wedding venues in the North of England near Manchester.

We recently discovered a grand castle-like wedding venue near Selby - Carlton Towers -  in the village of Carlton in Yorkshire where the East West and North Yorkshire borders meet!  This is our pre-wedding shoot for Kath & Simon who got married there in June 2010. Oulton Hall wedding Fayre had a huge array of talent, in particular the beautiful models performing in the spectacular fashion show of wedding dresses, men's attire, and stunning  fashion dresses for wedding guests.  
We also cover Asian wedding photography and video such as this Sikh wedding in Leicester and this Hindu wedding near LondonIf you would also like  mehndi, walima or nikah wedding stages click here!
If you want a talented Mehndi artist, Sunita is the best! She paints complex mehndi designs directly from memory! This was a Zimbabwean wedding in Wolverhampton, so we seem to attract many mixed race marriages and exotic ethnicities which is great! Sometimes we are lucky to have interacial marriages, with all the challenges of different skin tones, but its all good fun!  We've had French and Sikh, Hindu and Catholic, perfect Nigerian and milky white British, and other unusual combinations.  Husband and videoman Jorge is Cuban and I am British so we are a good choice for anyone having a wedding with cultural mixes! Overseas weddings specialsist Jim Gordan also has a good site!
We even go abroad to cover weddings internationally!  The first we ever did was in the Ice Hotel in Sweden, where the temperatures stays a steady minus 5 degrees - inside the hotel! Then when I was in Australia for a wedding at Jacobs Creek Retreat  (website for Jacobs Creek Retreat) I got an email asking me to quote for a wedding in the Loire valley in France at the Chateau de Detilly. (see the  website for Chateau de Detilly).  Since then we have done may overseas destination weddings, including video and photgraphy in a quaint chapel in Tenerife -after the initial wedding ceremony in Berties in Elland near Huddersfield, 3 weddings in Southern Ireland, including one in Kilkea Castle,  website forKilkea Castle and even an Orthodox wedding in Egyptso we are used to picking up our ready-packed bags and hopping on a plane to some exotic wedding venue overseas.  I doubt that many wedding photographers will have had the experience of covering a Bedouin wedding in Petra Jordan, but I was thrilled to share two brides' wedding days there in 2009.  If you fancy a honeymoon trip to see real Bedouins in Petra and to go on an exciting tour  with one of them - even to the caves some families live in, then speak to Nawaf!  Other international wedding destinations were in Aghia Napa, Cyprus, Australia on a boat in Sydney harbour, the Ice Hotel in Sweden, etc...