Wedding Photographer Farmer Copley's, Pontefract | Roxanne and Luke's Wedding Photography

We always enjoy working at new venues and it was the first time we have been wedding photographers at Five Towns' Christian Fellowship church in Castleford where Roxy and Luke tied the knot on Yorkshire Day, and also our first time providing the wedding photography at Farmer Copley's in Pontefract.  We hit it off at our first meeting with the couple as they are so lovely, very enthusiastic, devoted to each other and extremely kind and considerate.  We knew we'd have a great time on their wedding day and we just hoped for decent weather, especially given the venue they had chosen.  As Castleford wedding photographers, it's not often we get to work so close to home but Roxy got ready at her parents' house, two minutes' drive away, and the couple married in a church just round the corner, in one of the most joyful and personal ceremonies we've had the pleasure of capturing.  It was a first for their minister too - the first marriage ceremony he had conducted.  A colour scheme of deep plum was complimented by bright yellow sun flowers but the sun itself stayed well and truly hidden until much later!  Farmer Copley's is a working farm, surrounded by fields, and the wedding breakfast was held in a marquee in one of them.  Roxy and Luke really wanted their group photos taking there with the backdrop of open countryside and as the weather had held for Luke's photographs with his attendants and throughout the ceremony, we hoped for the best, took a chance and left straight after the confetti photos, but boy was it windy when we arrived!  Heather Copley and her staff were brilliant and her common sense and her desire to do the best she could for us and the wedding party was invaluable when, just as we were getting into the group photo session, the heavens opened and everyone had no choice but to run for cover.  We photographed the interior of the marquee and the table details and Heather suggested bringing the speeches and wedding breakfast forward and picking up on the group photographs afterwards because the weather forecast for later was much better.  We kept our fingers crossed that her weather app and ours were telling the truth!  Thankfully, the rain stopped, the wind dropped and it was beautiful in the early evening, enabling us to photograph the groups immediately after the wedding breakfast and then take Roxy and Luke off for their photographs together.  Thank you Mr and Mrs Earnshaw, Dawn, Simon, Joyce and Kerry for inviting us to share your wonderful day, for taking everything in your stride, for being so helpful when the weather conspired against us, and for looking after us so well.  We hope you enjoy this preview of a few of our favourite images.  

Wedding Photographer King's Croft Hotel | Wedding Photography Castleford for Laura and Dominic

                          
As wedding photographers in Castleford, the King's Croft Hotel is a venue we work at on a fairly regular basis as it's one of the closest wedding venues to us.  When we arrived, the King's suite was being dressed in a lovely plum colour scheme and we thought that there was a good chance it might be finished before we had to leave for church, enabling us to photograph the room all set up, saving a bit of time later in the day.

We remember Laura and Dom coming to see us to discuss their wedding photography.  We were really happy to have been recommended to them by one of Laura's mum's friends, as we had photographed her daughter, Anna's wedding to Stuart a couple of years earlier.
     

Laura had arranged to get ready at the King's Croft and she wondered how we were going to manage to photograph her dress and accessories in the tiny room we were all crammed into.  She needn't have worried as we've managed in spaces which were much more cramped than this!  Laura had described her dress as quite plain and simple.  Well plain and simple it certainly wasn't!  It was just stunning and it suited Laura perfectly.  Her bouquet of ivory roses and orchids was gorgeous too.

We left Laura and her bridesmaids to their final preparations, checked out the King's suite which was finished, so we photographed the room and some of the details and then set off for St Joseph's Catholic church in Castleford where we met up with Terry and Lauren from Picture House Wedding Films.  We really enjoy working with this father and daughter team.  We get along really well and we know what a brilliant job they do.

As most of the boys were late arriving, we photographed Dom on his own first and then grabbed all the guys for a few shots together before we had to let them go and do their ushering duties.  Laura and Dom had five little pageboys and a flowergirl all between the ages of two and six.  They wanted them photographed together.  No pressure then!

Laura arrived with her dad Steve in a cream Beauford, looking stunning and feeling very nervous.  We were looking forward to photographing the ceremony as although it's a long time since we last worked at St Joseph's in Castleford, having chatted with the priest about what his rules were regarding photography during the proceedings, he had said that there weren't any.  We were really grateful for this as it meant we could get two different viewpoints during the service as the couple exchanged their vows.

Mr and Mrs Snee exited the church and had a few photographs taken on the lawn before leaving for the wedding reception at the King's Croft.  They had told us that they weren't much into posing or doing anything overly arty, they just wanted a handful of group shots and some relaxed and informal photographs.  As it was, things ran late and so we had only a short time before everyone sat for the wedding breakfast.  We managed to get all the group shots done except for the big group of everyone but as the weather played ball, this was something we were able to capture after dinner.  

After the speeches, the couple went for a walk with us so that we could photograph them away from everyone else before we returned to the guests to take candid shots as they relaxed and enjoyed the evening sunshine.  This included grabbing some action shots as Dom spun one of the pageboys round by his arms!  Kids just love this kind of thing and it made for some great pictures.

After we photographed the couple's first dance as husband and wife, we left everyone to party. 

Congratulations Laura and Dom and thank you for asking us to capture your wedding day.