The Fennes Wedding Venue

The Fennes is a Georgian Manor House in Essex, just outside Braintree.  Like many country venues,  you’ll get exclusive use of the venue by default. So you’ll avoid having awkward moments of “is this person a long lost aunty?”

My orders for this wedding put me in my preferred working style – staying subtle and blending into the background as much as possible. I also only photographed in black and white, which was brilliant as I’m a massive fan of this style of image!

The interior of the house is quite small, the front only consists of two small rooms. To the rear, a semi-permanent and seamless marquee is the main space for the wedding and wedding dinner.

Rain and Photography

As we discovered on the day, this small space can be a problem if the rain strikes! After the main wedding ceremony, a small army deploys to work on transforming the marquee area into a dining venue. Unfortunately during this period, there was nowhere to go apart from the front rooms, which were cramped. To be honest, from a guests point of view this lack of space is unlikely to be a problem. From a photographers point of view though, it was very difficult to move around. I love to fade into the wallpaper and let weddings flow without having to navigate through conversations, so my flow was subdued somewhat for 20 minutes.

And once we were able to enter the marquee – the sun came out!

Since The Fennes is out of my usual zone of Hampshire Venues, I won’t go into massive detail. But if you would like to know more, I’m happy to answer any questions you have. Get in touch!

The wedding venues website is: http://www.fennes.co.uk/