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Background Information:
Audrey and Jérôme chose for their marriage ceremony the beautiful St Aloysius Church Oxford, otherwise known as the Oxford Oratory and to give the church its full title the Catholic Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga.
Photographers should note that car parking for this Oxford city centre church is very restricted and you should make plans to park elsewhere in good time. There are some two hour parking bays a short walk away as you head north along the main Woodstock Road.
The interior of the church reminds me of the Brompton Oratory, on a smaller scale but still very grand and photogenic. Where it differs photographically from the Brompton Oratory is that the Oxford Oratory has much better natural light plus our priest allowed almost free reign to shoot during the ceremony whereas weddings at the London Oratory are a little more restrictive on professional photographers.
Audrey and Jérôme are French nationals and our priest conducted the ceremony in both French and English for the benefit of their many guests who had traveled from France especially for the wedding. He later claimed to me that he had little more that school level French but it sounded great to me and he did a magnificent job.
The day was an interesting mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Gallic wedding traditions. So for example at the end of the wedding service all the guests exited the church before the bride and groom, having chatted briefly with Audrey and Jérôme near the rear doors in a style similar to an English receiving line sometimes practiced before the start of an English wedding breakfast.
Guests were transported in a vintage bus to the reception venue a few miles south of Oxford, the Oxford Thames Four Pillars Hotel at Sandford on Thames. Bus spotters among you will identify it as a 1965 Bristol Lodekka (from Nostalgia Travel North Hinksey Village Oxford).
Meanwhile we went walkabout around the old city centre, taking in the Bridge of Sighs and the Radcliffe Camera - oh and a good old British red telephone box. Some of the sights Audrey and Jérôme will remember from their time living in Oxford, as they've now moved to Paris. As always its hard to get "clean" shots walking around Oxford city centre just as it is in any other popular and photogenic town like Windsor (or Paris!) but thats all part of the fun. We even posed with a gaggle of university graduates!
Then on to the Four Pillars Hotel for the reception. Audrey had put together what I think is the longest list of formal photos I've ever seen at 93 groups. And who can blame here since so many family and friends had made the special journey. But thats a heck of a lot of smiling and we cut it down to essentials once the face cramp had set in!
The wedding reception featured another curious Gallic custom; the bride and groom sit back to back and raise a shoe of their new spouse in answer to various questions raised by the guests. My schoolboy French was not up to translating that so you'll have to look at the images and take my word for it.
We were blessed with fine weather throughout the day and you'll see we were able to make use of the hotel's extensive and well-tended gardens and lawns, and the old riverboat anchored on the Thames.
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