King's Croft Hotel Wedding Photography - Kay and Gary

I've known Kay for many years and it was lovely to receive a call from her telling us that she and Gary were getting married.  They had chosen a local wedding venue for their civil ceremony and reception, and one that is very familiar to us as King's Croft wedding photographers.  We were delighted that they booked us to capture their special day.

We started off at the couple's home just a few minutes away from ours in Castleford. Amongst other pretty accessories, Kay had a pair of gorgeous lace shoes and a beautiful bottle of perfume.  She was fastened into her dress by Heidi from the bridal gown shop and we had plenty of time to capture this and a few portraits before we set off to meet Gary and start the wedding photography at the King's Croft Hotel.  

Thankfully it stayed dry but it was very windy and we chose areas of shelter near the trees for the boys' photographs.  However, this was a bit risky and we had a good laugh with Gary and his best man, Neil, as we tried hard to avoid being hit by the numerous falling conkers!  Kay's daughter, Maddie, and best friend, Cheryl, arrived a few minutes ahead of Kay and her son, Ellis, who proudly gave his mum away, enabling us to capture some images of the girls before the ceremony got underway.

As always, the Pontefract registrars were brilliant, incredibly friendly and accommodating towards us, allowing us to capture some beautiful moments as Kay and Gary tied the knot, after which the newly married couple and their guests came outside to a Bucks Fizz and Becks drinks reception.  It was lovely to see quite a few familiar faces amongst the guests.

We left everyone for a short time so that the couple could have some photographs with the fabulous Rolls Royce they'd hired, expertly chauffeured by Robert Hepworth from Rolls Hire Vintage Limousines, who, as always, was very helpful to us in positioning the car exactly where we wanted it, before we returned to the main gardens for the group and couple photos.  

Due to time constraints and the fact that it's getting dark much earlier now, Kay and Gary decided to use the time available and the remaining daylight for more photographs outside rather than having photographs of the King's Suite set up for the wedding breakfast.  We came back to capture their speeches and afterwards, as the light faded, we set up near the lake for some twilight photos, finishing our coverage after the new Mr and Mrs Carr had impressed everyone with their first dance waltz.

Thank you Kay and Gary for choosing us to capture your lovely autumn wedding day, and thank you Neil, Gary's best man, for the invaluable and much appreciated help you gave us.

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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.