You've got mail | Chloe Browne : London Wedding Photographer

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There are few things better than coming home to a beautiful invitation, after a long day at work.

Cape Town, South Africa | Chloe Browne : London Wedding Photographer

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A couple of months ago, we went to Cape Town, for Richard & Sanchia's wedding and decided to make a really good holiday of it.

On our first day, we rushed down to a beach bar to have cocktails in the setting sun with the very lovely Emma Norén and her handsome Ricky. 

This is my first photo taken with her beautiful Rolleiflex-there's something sweet about taking a photographer's photo. Emma photographed our wedding last year and for that, I adore her. 

Leaving on a Jet Plane... Chloe Browne | London Wedding Photographer

I've had two brides this week ask about Super8 film and talk about lomography, so I thought it fitting to post some of my holiday Holga film. She's a tempremental beast of a plastic camera who loves to leak in light, but I love her. She was in fact, my wedding day gift, so here are a few from my honeymoon roll: Paris & Cuba. 

Coffee at the Salusbury | Chloe Browne: London Wedding Photographer

When I lived in Queens Park, the Salusbury Deli was my favourite café. It had local photography on the walls, secret benches out the back and amazing melanzane alla parmigiana.

It had changed a bit since I last had breakfast there-sat with my husband the day before we left for our wedding last year. There are now cool lights, tables sprawled with newspapers and walls full of eclectic frames. 

Meet Tallulah | Chloe Browne: London Wedding Photographer

Usually, I'd gush about how much I loved photographing this little one, but I don't want to bore you. She's a real cute head and these are a few of my favourite photos of my friends' beautiful little girl, Miss Tallulah.

Bath and Abroad | Chloe Browne: London Wedding Photographer

Since my last wedding of 2009, I've had a little time on my hands to do things that get reserved for the quieter time of the year. I've visited family and photographed babies, sat in cafés all afternoon catching up with books and good friends and even managed to spend a night out of London.

I had never been all that bothered with a trip to Bath. It seemed to me that the Roman baths would be a little bit underwhelming, considering I spent eighteen months riding past the Colosseo twice a week in la cittá eterna, eating cacio e pepe and trying my hardest to learn Romanesco. But, when my husband suggested escaping London for a night at the end of last year, Bath seemed as good a place as any considering all the travel I would be doing this year.

Not only are the Roman baths absolutely amazing for their history and the story behind their rediscovery, but they actually still work to some extent, channeling hot water up from the earth to steam up your glasses if you lean too close.

We also came across this little gem tucked away from the high street. I can't claim to be a vintage vixen, but I sometimes think I was definitely born in the wrong era. 

Look at the shine on these! 

The next few weeks are relatively quiet ones for me; catching up on admin and meeting more summer brides, before I gear up for my first wedding of the year in March. There's time for a few days in South Africa before I'll be back to work in Denmark and then Italy the following month with a few English weddings to photograph in between. Then it's onwards to Switzerland for what I am sure is going to be a wedding full of amazing ambience, details and internationality in July.

I am so fortunate to have met so many destination couples this year; it's such an exciting one for travel. I really can't wait.

Baby, It's Cold Outside | Chloe Browne: London Wedding Photographer

Whilst everyone is talking about the snow in London, and the cold, and the traffic and having the heating on all day... I am warm inside, at The Stag, listening to The Doors and playing Scrabble.

Cold is a good time to meet brides and grooms and to get excited about weddings planned in the sun. I have some very exciting outdoor weddings to photograph this year and I am literally counting down the days. Roll on Summertime.

I have a most beautiful wedding to show you soon; my last of 2009. English Heritage, a wine cellar, ruffles and a bow tie. I think you'll like it.

A Walk to the Shops | Chloe Browne: London Wedding Photographer

Sometimes, when you're still fragile from the flu, just a walk to the shops wrapped up nice and warm, makes you feel so much better. Fresh air, time to wander, a coffee and a little slice of cake (or two...) It just does the trick.

And of course, the walk back home again.

Have you been to Harlem? | Chloe Browne: London Wedding photographer

I've tried to make it a monthly occasion, to meet up with my closest friend for dinner, drinks and a good old girls' chat. We've both been so busy of late, we haven't done this in months. The last time we did was here, at Harlem.







She's cheeky, isn't she?

Up On the Roof | Chloe Browne: London Wedding photographer

One night in Melbourne spent up on the roof, high above the rest of the city, in deck chairs, under blankets, eating crepes and drinking cocktails. 

It couldn't have been a better evening to have spent watching Peter Sellers in The Party.

The Roof Top Cinema, and the city's beautiful art deco influence are two of the top three things I love about Melbourne. 

You Krisko, are the third.  

Cuba Libre | Chloe Browne: London Wedding photographer

I wasn't too fussed about where we would go on our honeymoon. I said that I was more than happy for us to spend two nights in Paris on The Long Drive Home from our wedding, and left Jason to decide.

We ended up in Cuba.



I had never been to a country like this before. It was not the time-warp I was expecting but instead, a raw and wide-open city. Derelict buildings, a heavy, heavy heat and the tricky charm of the natives made it quite an intoxicating experience.

Happy and bright in places


Dark and pensive in others


It's a strange country and Havana an unusual and distinctive city. I don't think I could hurry back, but it was definitely worth the visit, not merely because it was our honeymoon, more so because it was just so different.

I Wish... | Chloe Browne: London Wedding photographer

...that every day could be like this one. A nice lady gave us two free tickets as we were fighting a war with not-so-nice man, to sneak infront of Kenwoood House.

We won.

Omara Portuondo & the Buena Vista Social Club, Kenwood House.