Wedding at Waterton Park, Wakefield

Yesterday's wedding was just down the road at the Waterton Park Hotel at Walton near Wakefield.    Stacey and Tom had seen my wedding photographs in the Waterton Park wedding brochure and had got in touch with me from there.  Due to the Wakefield registrars being busy on their wedding day (can't imagine why!) they were only able to offer Stacey and Tom a 3 o'clock slot.  Since it now starts to get dark just after 4 then it didn't allow us much time to get in some photographs in the daylight.  It was decided that the best course of action would be to capture the couple and wedding party photographs outside in the daylight before moving into the library for the family photos.  One of the great benefits of Waterton Park is that they always keep this room available, so we can always take great group shots whatever the weather.  Besides getting all of our couple shots done while it was still light, we were also very fortunate to have the benefit of a decent sunset.  After the meal we took the opportunity to get some rather special shots around the hotel, including a rather unusual shot in the bedroom that they requested, before Stacey and Tom joined their evening guests in the Squires to make full use of Shane's fantastic lights on their first dance.

Clare & Phil's Wedding, St. Pierre Newmillerdam

Fantastic wedding on Saturday with Clare and Phil at the St. Pierre hotel. After the ceremony we went down to Newmillerdam with the wedding party for some photos by the Lake. This wasn't quite without incident as a BMX rider crashed off her my nearly taking Clare with her! Clare sprang into action with her medical training and sprang into action as the rest of us just stood looking at the poor girl lying prone on the floor. Clare dialled 999 and answered what seemed like dozens of questions until we heard the ambulance siren in the distance and we could finally get back to taking the photos! Just love weddings - they're all so different!!