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Dream wedding for Charlotte & G.
Wedding videography highlights and photo gallery their dream wedding at Fairyhill in Swansea.
As an experienced wedding photographer and videographer, we have seen and hear it all but Charlotte might just have the best Welsh heritage background of any of my brides. Swansea born and bred, we’ve heard our fair share of tales about Dylan Thomas, and drive past his murals/statues on a daily basis. But Charlotte is the first person I’ve met that has a genuine familial connection to the celebrated poet. Her grandparents, owned the Brown’s Pub when it was Thomas’s watering hole.
They were so beloved by Thomas, that they even gets an honourable mention by the Dylan Thomas Centre. “Dylan’s Laugharne routine was walking from the Boat House to the Pelican in the mornings, doing the crossword with his father, visiting Brown’s at lunchtime for a couple of drinks and gossip from Ivy Williams, before returning to his writing shed in the afternoon to write.”
Maybe Ivy planted seeds of ideas that bloomed into poems, maybe she was one of the locals that gave him such a fondness for the place that he dedicated the poem Laugharne to them, describing it as “this timeless, beautiful, barmy (both spellings) town, in this far, forgetful, important place of herons and cormorants (known here as billy duckers)”. (Read Dylan’s full text here).
Doing their pre-wedding photo-shoot in a place that held such weight in Charlotte’s history, and where Georgi was being welcomed, felt pretty special. Brown’s still has black and white photos hung in the bay window of Charlotte’s great grand parents with Dylan Thomas. We started at Brown’s circled around past Dylan’s writing shed, the boathouse, down onto the beach and past the castle back to Brown’s, photographing along the way.
Breaking with tradition, Charlotte and Georgi will be spending the start of their married life alongside their cats in Cheddar. Hence the wedding being that little closer to the English border in Gower!
Leaving nostalgia behind, the couple chose to spend the night before the wedding at the Marriott in Swansea. We stopped to get Charlotte a “can’t live without it” emergency can of Coke after receiving a text “I feel like I might need the sugar!”
We joined in with the laughter as she cringed at people trying to curl her lashes and prod at her with concealer. Georgi, meanwhile, was poring over the book that Charlotte had made her celebrating their love story, there might have been misty eyes! (I’m not crying, you are!)
From our time larking about in Laugharne, it was clear this couple were going to carry the enthusiasm forward to their wedding day at their dream venue, Fairyhill.
On this occasion, our familiar message of “You can never have enough confetti” was well and truly listened to.
Charlotte and Georgi had 1kg going spare after we’d had it thrown at them post ceremony, and then after a few drinks later in the afternoon, they threw it at each other too. The stream and bridge at Fairyhill were covered too, but as always, it was biodegradable, bird friendly, confetti - our consciences are clear!
For a wedding that was a year later than planned, the merriment more than made up for it, turns out happiness can’t be dampened by a global pandemic! Mrs and Mrs Fay-Fineran official, GFF TBC no longer.
