Spring Wedding at Waterton Park

With winter well and truly behind us it's back to better weather with sunshine and blue skies. It's just so great to be a wedding photographer when you have a lovely couple, a lovely venue and lovely weather! Kathryn and Adam had chosen Waterton Park as the perfect location for their wedding. Waterton is a photographer's paradise with so many great locations. We have been to Waterton Park Hotel now over sixty times, so we probably know them all! Here are a selection of their photographs.

Jill & James Pre-Wedding Shoot, Doncaster

We had a trip over to Doncaster to-day and met up with Jill and James who are getting married there in July. As we have not been to the Grand Hotel St.Ledger before we wanted to have a look at their venue and took the opportunity to do a pre-wed photo shoot - inbetween Jill's fits of giggles! If she is that much fun on the wedding day it's going to be a great day!

Chevin Country Park, Otley

I was expecting Lauren and Philip's wedding to be a little bit different and they didn't disappoint me! After a church ceremony in Calverley, midway between Leeds and Bradford, we set off for Otley Chevin, where Lauren swopped her heels for some walking shoes and literally left me standing as they marched off towards the Surprise View. This is a favourite part of the world for the two of them as they do a lot of walking here and so they wanted some special photos taking in this spot. They both had to leap over quite a large gap to be able to stand on one particular rock (their idea, not mine), but it did produce some rather spectacular photographs which we managed to light with some off-camera flash. We then moved onto the Chevin Country Park Hotel for some more traditional photographs before finishing off after the speeches with some video light shots. A pretty good day all in all with a pretty good selection of photographs for Lauren and Philip to choose from.

A Chinese Wedding - Waterton Park & Maxi's Restaurant

Ka Wai and William actually got married in the sun in Cyprus, but they had also arranged a traditional Chinese wedding here, complete with tea ceremonies and a Chinese banquet with its many courses. This was almost like a reunion for us, as we have previously filmed several weddings for the family and so we know many of them well, but on this occasion we had been booked to undertake the photography. The day started at Waterton Park Hotel near Wakefield, where Ka Wai and her family had spent the night. This was the venue for the first tea ceremony and some photographs before we moved onto the home of William's family in Wakefield for the second tea ceremony. This was followed by a short journey up the M1 to Maxi's Restaurant in Leeds, where we were joined by their many guests - and a dragon - for the banquet. The bride always changes her dress during the meal, which gave us the opportunity to pop outside for some final photos of the happy couple.

Waterton Park Wedding Fayre

We shall be at the Waterton Park Hotel Wedding Fayre at Walton near Wakefield this Sunday if anybody would like to call in and see us and have a chat. We look forward to seeing you there.