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Andy & Amy were the wedding photographers at Monte Castello di Vibio & Fattoria di Vibio, Todi, Umbria, Italy for the wedding of Mark & Nicola.

Mark & Nicola were married on Thursday in the beautiful church at Monte Castello di Vibio near Todi in Umbria. It’s a stunning little village perched on a hilltop and also home to the smallest theatre in the world which is 200 years old this year. After the ceremony, the guests enjoyed drinks in the tiny square outside the church and then, following an invitation, we walked through the cobbled streets for some photographs with the couple and their guests in the theatre itself. The reception was at the stunning Fattoria di Vibio.

Mark was obviously a challenge to photograph – not!

Once Nicola was ready, there was literally just a few minutes to grab some images before we had to jump in the car and race off to the town. Here’s one of our favourites.

The streets of Monte Castello di Vibio are particularly tiny. It took over 5 minutes for the driver of the Bentley to get through this gap (with the assistance of a number of lookouts!) He didn’t actually fit through the first time he tried and slightly scratched the car!

We normally say that there has to be a reason to put a photo-journalistic image in colour. Here’s a great example: blue sky, pink dresses & warmth of the sun on the church stone.

It’s a beautiful church & the ceremony was very personal. The couple had ‘persuaded’ their own priest to travel out with them – no doubt it was a tough decision on his part ;)

Mark’s Mum (right) & guests inspect Nicola’s ring afterwards.

Here’s a beautiful image, straight out of camera, from inside the theatre. We’ve done some others which show the guests all seated which look fantastic. The kindness of the locals to allow us to do this kind of thing is something that never ceases to amaze us.

Back at the Fattoria & the tables await the guests for the evening meal.

Setting the scene of the villa reception during the early evening. You can just make out the string quartet on the right of the image.

…and one of the happy couple to finish.

A really beautiful wedding in stunning locations. We only live an hour away from Monte Castello di Vibio and yet we’ve never been there before this. It’s now firmly on our ‘friends & family’ list of places to see in Umbria!

Enjoy your honeymoon folks – we’ll catch up with you once you’re home. – Andy

Happy New Year to you all – we hope it was a great holiday for you and that you’re all delighted to be back at work etc :)

We’ve been waiting for a long long time now for the right moment to switch over our web hosting to a new company. Half of our website (the shop) has been hosted separately from the rest of the site and it has proven to be much more reliable for us. In particular our .com email has been a complete nightmare – the outbound server constantly refusing to ‘send’ and the inbound one ‘timing’ out at least two-dozen times a day; it was also down completely for a total of 4 days over the last 12 months! Unfortunately, it’s hard to find the right time to switch as you lose your email completely (i.e. it bounces back to sender) and the website vanishes for between 12 & 48 hours depending on where you’re trying to view it from. In the end, it was redirected late last night and by lunchtime today I had everything uploaded again. I’ve just got the blog to finish configuring as there are a few custom things I’d done to it which I’ve lost for some reason – hmm.

With all of these changes made, hopefully you’ll find everything a little quicker & we’re going to press on and update several areas of the website as well as introducing some new bits :) Ciao for now! – Andy