Last week I joined the lovely Lisa & Toby to photograph their wedding at Hazlewood Castle, out around York/Wetherby way.
I love shooting at Hazlewood, especially on a stunning sunny day like this.
They were both cool in front of my lens because of our Hazlewood pre-wed the week before (see post here).
Lisa spent the morning in a laid-back (& more mobile) white dress that she switched into for the evening do.
Here she is taking a moment in her actual bridal gown. Stunning eh?
I don’t often go for ‘serious’ standing-pensively-in-the-window setups, but I couldn’t help myself…
Funky footwear
Her ladies in waiting were in a most excellent Ultramarine colour
I didn’t set this up either; and love the composition they’ve all fallen into. I think it has an ancient painterly quality to it.
I was in on a little surprise Lisa had been planning for Toby. She’d arranged to get a helecopter over from near their house to Hazlewood Castle.
Apparently, chartering a helecopter to your wedding isn’t far off the cost of hiring a tasty wedding car – they used a company called Helejet.
Here’s the dudes looking well chuffed, just after they got out of the chopper.
I won’t lie I was gutted Clare got to fly with them and I didn’t! She said it was amazing.
Rings!
Mr & Mrs, down the isle!
Out back at Hazlewood, suppin on pimms
I quite like the fact that on one confetti shot of mine, the focus switched back to some nearby confetti, leaving them soft.
A pleasant accident!
Down in Hazlewood’s ‘tunnel of love’
There are loads of cool places to shoot around the castle…
Including a French-feel veranda outside
I quite like this set of speeches too. It’s always nice trying to capture each persons speech story; be it the dad getting an applause, the groom proudly presenting his new wife, the best man embarrassing his pal and a double thumbs up from the groom. Happy days.
So, as you’ll have seen recently on my blog, while the wedding guests tuck into their dinner, Clare & I like to back up the day’s images to my laptop and make a quick slideshow to show at the evening reception. Generally these slideshows are around 80>100 images long and just run on the laptop on a table somewhere. They’re a great way for not only the bride & groom to get a taster of things to come, and also for guests to see what happened during the morning and ceremony.
Even though they’re only a taster of quickly ‘processed’ images from the day, and generally aren’t up to the scratch of the final images, I’ve taken to setting the pix to their first dance song to let the couple and their pals see the images literally a few days after the wedding. So here’s their On-The-Day Slideshow set to ‘Lets Stay Together’ by Al Green (which can be downloaded from Amazon here).
If you can’t see the slideshow, are viewing this in facebook or would like to see it in HD, click here to watch it on Vimeo.com
Thank you so much to both Lisa & Toby for asking us along to join them on their wonderful wedding day at Hazlewood Castle. Thank you also to the excellent staff, particularly Amanda & Guy, for feeding & watering us & generally being ace.
I’ll get their images to them soon, and we’ll host a client area for guests to see their finished images, but in the meantime I hope Lisa & Toby are enjoying their honeymoon in Greece, Italy & Croatia!
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