Immodesty Blaize Wedding
Immodesty Blaize Wedding in Monaco
I first happened across Immodesty Blaize when she was performing in a hot and sweaty, smoke filled Cobden Club in London some ten years ago — back when clubs were still smokey and you watched the acts through a soft fuggy haze. This was the height of The Whoopee Club, when burlesque was still kind of edgy and underground. And it’s fair to say Immodesty stole the show. I didn’t take any photos that night however, because, honestly… it never actually occurred to me. In fact, didn’t even own a camera at the time. Fast forward those ten years and here I am photographing her wedding in the heat and keen crisp light of Monte Carlo. It’s an absolute distillation of the truth that you can never tell where life will take you and what lies just around the corner — in this case the coiled roads made famous by the Monaco Grand Prix where you can’t help feeling that the ghost of Ayrton Senna still hugs the bends. In the four years I’ve been doing this I’ve been lucky enough to shoot some amazingly stylish weddings and this, of course, goes straight up there with any of them. But Immodesty is the first to channel Sophia Loren for the first dress, wear an amazing Spanish mantilla veil with the second, and then change into a third outfit for Jimmyz night club around midnight. Really, this had everything, Britain’s premiere showgirl, Immodesty Blaize, her impossibly charming Monegasque groom, Gregory, a romantic low key civil wedding in the morning presided over by the Mayor of Monaco (and attended by their little dog, Nifty). Then in the afternoon, the glamour of a church wedding at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (where Grace Kelly lies beneath the stone), and a beautiful reception overlooking the sea at Le Cap Estel. Before the gang headed off to go clubbing late into the night. All with a heightened Felliniesque feel to every the day. Enjoy…
NB. Read more about one particular image here: Immodesty Blaize Wedding Nerves
What a wedding, wow. Great work as usual, Mr Tucker.
Awesomeness as always Nick!!
Absolutely stunning Wedding Nick – If they weren’t movie stars then they should be, such glamour and style, a feast for the eyes!
PHEN.OM.EN.AL.
Something utterly timeless about this wedding, and it couldn’t have been captured more perfectly. Love every single frame.
When I first saw your preview of this wedding, it screamed Sophia Loren and the long lost glamour of a different era, when women were coy, untouchable and oozed sultry sex appeal. There’s such easy grace in these pictures, and the photos towards the end of the party remind me of Richard Young; the invited guest to the A list party. You’ve excelled yourself, Mr Tucker.
Nick please can you send me a link so i can i share this on facebook Immodesty Blaize is my cousin and the photos are stunning i am very proud of her.
From today on I will dream I will photograph a wedding like this. What a wonderful job by yourself. And what an amazingly attractive bride and smoking hot groom. Wow wow.
These are magnificent! You have SUCH a gift at capturing a wedding day! Wow!
What a wonderful set of images! You have an absolute gift for making the viewer feel as if they are there in the room and recording moments that are powerfully pertinent to the whole story. great work!
A great set of images my friend!
This is the most wonderful set of images! Congratulations!
Hi … just having a quiet mooch around the web and came across your lovely work; I don’t normally bother to comment BUT I thought the black and white rendering of the shots is rather lovely, almost film or a dedicated monochrome camera … very nice!! :-)