Delighted today to kick-off Paige Toon's blog tour. There's 13 stops on the blog tour and you can follow them all here.
Paige joins me today specifically to tell us about the pictures that inspired Thirteen Weddings. Reading this really does make the book come alive! Over to you Paige:
Pics That Inspired 13W
Just before I started working on Thirteen Weddings, about a wedding photographer who falls in love
with a groom, I was asked to take part in a local charity auction.
The organisers wanted me to offer the chance to win a named character in my
next book, so I agreed, but never in a million years did I think that the
winning bid would be from a wedding photographer (who had no idea what my next
book was about).
The name of the photographer is LinaOrsino, and she ended up
helping me massively with my
research. In my book, Bronte gets some part-time work with wedding photographer
Rachel, who learnt everything she knows from a wedding photographer called
LinaOrsino. She’s not wrong… I don’t know what I would have done without all of
Lina’s help.
In reality, Lina is one half of Lina& Tom, and many of
their stunning weddingshoots inspired scenes in Thirteen Weddings. Here are just a handful, but if you’d like to
see more of their work or talk to them about photographing your wedding, here
is their website: www.linaandtom.com –
but be quick, they book up early!
Groom in Ely
Cathedral
Lina handles the front-of-church shots like this magnificent
one of a groom with the vast expanse of Ely Cathedral behind him. This shot
inspired the setting for Bronte’s eighth wedding. Lina’s partner Tom is at the
back of the cathedral, capturing the bride’s arrival. Once the bride is past
him, Tom’s primary focus is to capture the groom’s expression when he sees his
bride for the first time. Lina, meanwhile, captures the corresponding shot of
the bride. When Lina told me this, I decided to put Bronte at the back of the
church – and this impacts on her heavily when she has to shoot the love of her
life, Alex, on his wedding day.It’s just one example of how much Lina helped
me.
The ‘Crazy Hat’ Wedding
Lina told me about this wedding, and even though I only
mention it in passing in the book, I thought you might like to see it. The
bride and groom and all of the congregation wore traditional wedding outfits
from the neck down, but on their heads, they wore crazy headgear. Here the
groom is wearing a Roman Centurion helmet, and the bride has a magpie’s nest on
her head which is full of sparkling jewels. Lina and Tom think it’s great when
people choose to do something a little bit different – I think they look
amazing.
Kiss In The Rain
I talk about this shot in hindsight in the book, but
originally I wrote about this scene in full. My editor thought it slowed the pace
down (she was right) so it’s now one of my deleted scenes on this blog tour. (Visit fabulousbookfiend.blogspot.co.uk
on 1 August to read it!) Most brides and grooms would be disappointed if
it was raining on their wedding day, but Linaand Tom prove that shots in the
rain like this one can be beautifully romantic.
‘YES!’
Lina and Tom excel at capturing candid snapshots of a couple’s
big day, and when she told me about this moment, I just had to include it in
Bronte’s first wedding. In the book, Bronte rushes outside the church, just in
time for the bride and groom to burst out of the door, the groom shouting,
‘YES!’ How cute do they look? I love this shot.
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Very nice!
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