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Welcome to Christian Ward Photography. We are Christian and Erica - a husband and wife photographic team based in Chesterfield near Sheffield but delivering high quality wedding photography throughout the UK and for destination weddings. Information and a price guide are available through the Info link at the top left of this page. Contact us now to enquire about our availability.

We specialise in delivering seamless cover of your entire day, capturing relaxed, natural, and beautiful photographs. We're passionate about photographing your wedding and would love to hear from you. Please do leave your comments on our photos and tell us what you think!
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Victoria & Simon | Kirtlington Park Wedding | Oxfordshire

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

It’s been some time since we blogged, so we thought the only way to make up for it would be with a MAMMOTH blog post. We first met Victoria and Simon in Cambridge for their engagement shoot, and we knew then from listening to them talking about their forthcoming wedding at Kirtlington Park in Oxfordshire that it was going to be a pretty special affair. And what a day it was. What began as quite an overcast day soon turned into the most brilliant of sunny days. A special mention must go to Erica’s bridal prep shots during the morning which are just amazing…but I’ll let the pictures tell the story…

02-Kirtlington Park wedding photographer

Meanwhile at Rose Cottage just a few minutes away from Kirtlington Park…

The first look…

You’ve got to love a bride and groom who really go for it on the dancefloor!

At the end of the night everybody waved the happy couple off with sparklers as they drove away in their Morgan.

by Christian

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September 13, 2011 - 1:56 pm

Dasha - Stunning wedding! So elegant

September 13, 2011 - 5:19 pm

Adam Riley - Great wedding guys, amazing shots. I especially like the shots with the sparklers at the end of the night!

September 13, 2011 - 9:56 pm

Victoria and Simon - Wow Christian and Erica – we love them!!! So many great photos to choose from, we don’t know where to start! We really enjoyed reliving the day through these X

September 16, 2011 - 11:28 am

holly - These are amazing!

Stephanie & Ashley | Clumber Park Engagement Shoot

Thursday, August 18, 2011

We met up with Stephanie and Ashley recently for their pre-wedding photoshoot, in what turned out to be a perfectly timed window of glorious weather and light in an otherwise rather gloomy weekend. Their very well chosen location was Clumber Park, which oddly for somewhere so close, Christian and I have only visited once before, during last year’s snow. It was lovely to see it in the sunshine, and even nicer to spend our morning with Stephanie and Ashley, who are clearly perfect together and a dream to photograph. To top it all off in the ‘dream client’ stakes, they even treated us to tea and cake after the shoot while we ran through the plans for their big day next month at St. Peter and St. Paul’s church, Gringley on the Hill, and the Secret Garden. Thanks for a great morning Stephanie and Ashley – we hope you enjoy your photographs!

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by Erica

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August 18, 2011 - 9:37 pm

Emma Wilsher - What a beautifully captured Engagement Session, stunning images as always!

Zain & Osma | London Engagement Shoot

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Apparently the newspapers in the lead-up to Zain and Osma’s engagement photo shoot had been full of predictions that the day in question was going to be a complete wash out….well, the day came and the weather was the exact opposite! As they live in London, Zain and Osma booked us over the telephone, and so their engagement shoot was the first time we’d all met in person. We all met in front of the old fire engine in front of the National Theatre in London, and before we knew it we were chatting like we’d all known each other for a lot longer than a few minutes…Zain has lots of family connections with Canada, and so we needed little encouragement to bond over a shared love of a Vancouver! We all had a lot of fun as we walked along, stopping every so often to take some photos, and I think we could easily have carried on for the whole day. Zain and Osma are to be married at the Royal Exchange in London which promises to be a pretty magical venue for a wedding, and we can’t wait to be there to photograph the day as it unfolds! See you soon Zain and Osma, and meanwhile enjoy your engagement photographs!

Couple In Love: Check. Cool Skater Dudes: Check.

Come on Zain…

NO!

Below is one of my personal favourites, along with the next one in black and white.

Zain and Osma really wanted a jumping shot. I don’t think I have ever seen anybody take so much trouble in perfecting a jumping shot!

It just had to be done…

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August 11, 2011 - 1:57 pm

Alex - Aww 🙂 these are sweet! I love them.

August 11, 2011 - 11:57 pm

Rudolf - Nicely done! Great shots.

September 7, 2011 - 10:16 pm

Tiff Arnold - Love the colours in this set

Stop Press!

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Erica and I don’t like to blow our own trumpets, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things we’re proud of! Over the last few years we’ve had real weddings featured in various magazines, as well as our Pretty Little Gypsy Wedding shoot that was published as a fashion feature in You & Your Wedding magazine and what’s more was the first time You & Your Wedding magazine have published a shoot they’ve not commissioned. We wanted to create a place to gather together all the press we’ve received, and so we thought it fitting to do a short post about it here to herald the new Press section on our main website. It features the front covers to the issues we’ve been in, and it’s fully functional so that you can click on each cover to see the spreads, and if you click on each spread you can also download a PDF of the article for reading at leisure. We’re proud to have our work published in these places and hope to see the Press section become more and more full as time goes on. So here’s a little preview of what it all looks like: