Wynyard Hall is a great wedding venue and one that has gone from a standing start to 180 weddings a year with little or no chance of booking a wedding on a Saturday or Sunday until 2013.
I met with Niki and Steve only 12 weeks before their wedding at Wynyard Hall after her cousin, Sue Wilkinson suggested me for her wedding photography. I had photographed Jo's wedding, Sue's daughter at Crathorne Hall.
Niki wanted a relaxed, happy day with family and friends and with lots of children and grand-children around it was certainly going to be a busy wedding!
Niki is an ebulent, happy go lucky lady who is thrilled to have finally met her soul-mate, while Steve is cool, calm and confident - and a man of few words, but as he said in the speeches, he has finally met his soul-mate too!
When I arrived mid-morning at Wynyard Hall it was all action right from the start, with mum's and sisters and friends and children and grandchildren all vying for attention from the hairdresser and two lovely ladies, Debbie and Rachel Cook from The Bridal Collection in Lancaster, not far from where Niki will be setting up her new home. They were helping the bride get ready along with all the bridesmaids and many of the children ... quite a job!
This gave me the opportunity for lots of nice relaxed images, amazingly relaxed considering the amount of people beavering away in two rooms!
Steve and his party arrived not long after - about half an hour earlier, but as he explained, when you have shelled out all the money for a wedding venue like Wynyard Hall - you want to be there enjoying it!
By now, the day was running late, about 30 minutes late, but finally EVERYONE was ready and as I expected, it all got a bit emotional when Steve saw the children all coming down the aisle followed by a resplendent Niki in her beautiful wedding dress.
Once the service was over, everyone headed into the Statue Gallery as it was pretty cold and gray and misty outside, and after an hour of congratulations, champagne and Pimms we headed to the Chapel for a quick confetti shot vefore gathering people together for ten minutes of informal family photographs.
Once that was over we headed for a great wedding breakfast, topped off with speeches and tears and Niki even stood up to make a speech as well - more tears as she thanked her family and friends and Steve for agreeing to be her husband. Awwwww.....
Another break allowed me to catch a few images of the evening guests arriving and a few photographs of a shy Steve with his beloved before we headed to the conservatory and the cutting of the cake and the first dance.
Steve surprised everyone, myself included as he ended up swinging Niki about the dance floor in a final flourish before the big kiss!!
Great day for Niki and Steve and their extended families and friends, and I hope my sneak peek photographs give you a flavour of the day.
See more photographs on Friday on my Facebook profile HERE, and when the happy couple come back from The Maldives, they will email their friends with the password and access address to SEE ALL THEIR WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS, which you can also purchase if your photographs didn't turn out!
You can see photographs from Caroline and Antony's recent summer wedding at Wynyard Hall HERE and see the sneak peek of Kirstey and Mark's Winter Wedding at Wynyard Hall HERE.
If you would like natural, relaxed and happy wedding photography from a 25 year professional wedding photographer to capture your fantastic wedding at Wynyard Hall, ring me for free on 0800 8047270
DIRK VAN DER WERFF
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