Yorkshire Wedding Photographer, Harrogate

Oh dear…..the busy season is beginning to kick off and I am behind with my blogging!

So here’s our next nominations for picture of the month.

Firstly mine – it’s taken from the wedding of Carole & Neil at Hazlewood Castle.  There are so many pictures I could choose from Carole and Neil’s wedding, to me it was a really magical day with one of the nicest couples.  But I can only choose one so, after much deliberation I’ve decided on the picture below.

The reason I especially like this picture is because it says everything about Carole and Neil’s wedding and the planning which went into it.  Carole was meticulous with her attention to detail and on the day everything was just perfect but a lot of what made it so was in the details.  We work at Hazlewood Castle a lot and we’ve seen their main wedding breakfast room dressed in lots of different ways and colours but when I walked in to take some pictures of the room set up before the guests saw it on Carole and Neil’s day it simply took my breath away.

The wedding was in winter in December and it was snowing outside.  The candles on the table and the shadows they created which danced all about the room made it just look magical.  I will never forget it.

Andy’s favourite this month is from the wedding of Phil and Charese.  Their wedding took place at St. Oswald’s Church, Filey followed by Raven Hall Hotel.  Raven Hall has a fantastic setting perched on the edge of a cliff top on the East Yorkshire coast.  It’s grounds afford brilliant photo opportunities with battlements and ruins.  We were really looking forward to making the most of them!  On the day however it wasn’t just raining but actually lashing it down, umbrellas were turning inside out and there was just no way we could ask Phil and Charese to venture outside in such awful weather.

The inside of Raven Hall on the whole isn’t so inspiring.  But this is where Andy really comes into his own.  Sometimes I have no idea what it is he has envisaged when he poses couples for a particular photo.  This was one of those occasions.  We were in a corridor with a variety of different light colours (which makes the on camera metering go all over the place) caused by a combination of energy-saving, halogen and flourescent light fittings.  It was a real mish mash!  Andy asked Charese and Phil to pause a while just near 3 wall lights.  Below is the picture he took, it’s also one of my favourites because it perfectly captures the special bond, intimacy and closeness that exists between Phil and Charese – another lovely couple we had the privilege to photograph.