All the latest from Kent Wedding Photographer Simon Hawkins

Loake The amount of times the groom has told me they spent the day before the wedding buying their wedding shoes is getting out of hand. Boys, this is unacceptable! Your wife to be has probably spent months deliberating over what shoes to wear and how she...

Have the wedding photos you want, not the ones you think you should have!   I’ve been thinking recently about what makes a wedding a “Good Wedding”. Of course they are all good, but I think it’s the element of fun and personality that couples inject...

Kerri and Jon's Sneak Peak   As wedding venues go, you can’t beat a freshly mown field in the heart of the Kent countryside. Rustic country weddings are definitely on the up, and I love using my documentary style photography to make sure my couples...

Lauren and Paul's Italian Wedding   The tenth century castle of CASTELLO DI ROSCIANO was the setting for Lauren and Paul's wedding in Italy just a few miles from the ancient city of Perugia. This area of Umbria is absolutely beautiful so I can see why...

Relaxed, Informal and Fun Weddings   The trend for more informal, relaxed, and fun weddings is growing. In the last 12 months I’ve photographed five back garden weddings, and they have all been brilliantly entertaining to be at and the best thing of...

Lauren and Paul at Castello Di Rosciano   It’s official, I have reached the holy grail of wedding photographers. Not only am I a documentary wedding photographer, I am now a destination wedding photographer!!! As destination weddings go this one had...

I Love This Photo, Number 14   Look, don’t start, I know I am a documentary wedding photographer, but…sometimes, just sometimes, the creative juices take over and I take a wedding portrait because some of my clients ask and sometimes the scenery just...

5 Reasons why you should invite children to your wedding   I used to be one of these people who thought that children should be barred from weddings. I thought that they made noise, they made a mess and they got in the way. Actually that is all true,...

I Love This Photo, Number 13   Colour, movement and fun are the three reasons why I love this sequence of photos of this nimble footed groom as he kicks into action following his first dance. You could say he has moves like Jagger. This Mick Jagger...

Roisin and Brad at The Old Kent Barn   It was my very first visit to THE OLD KENT BARN for Roisin and Brad’s royal wedding. It’s a great venue less than ten minutes’ drive through the countryside from the historic Cathedral City of Canterbury. Outside...