Wednesday 1 December 2010

Carolyn and Peter, married!

Last month I had the honour of photographing Carolyn and Peter’s beautiful autumnal wedding. They chose the Lord Mayors Official Residence, Mansion House, in Jesmond to host their nuptials and I really loved the style of the place. It’s quite vintagy and has a lovely regal feel to the place. It’s an exclusive venue so you have the run of the place including all the bedrooms and one of the most amazing old fashioned bathrooms I’ve ever seem …complete with antique exercise bike!

Caroline looked amazing in her white gown and full length lace jacket but her cute little flowergirl, Eve, threatened to steal her limelight…especially in her fairy wings! She led Carolyn and her father down the staircase to Peter who was waiting for her to become his wife. Throughout the ceremony Carolyn and Peter would look adoringly at each other and it was plain to see the depth of love between them.

We had perfect weather so we were able to take all the photos outside and use the beautiful gardens and house as the backdrop. After some relaxing mingling time the gong sounded (loved the gong!) calling everyone to the reception room for the wedding breakfast. Once again I was able to sample the delights of the main course and this time it was lamb with the most delicious spring onion mash and beetroot….yummy!

One of the highlights of the day came during the speeches. The Best Man, Barry set up a projector and screen and we were all excited to see what was going to happen. Barry had created a hilarious photo slideshow all about Peter and their friendship and this was followed by the main event….a spoof Baywatch video filmed on Tynemouth Beach starring the Groom complete with ironing board as his surf board!! It brought the house down is one of the funniest things I have ever seen!! There were slides splitting all over the room…including Carolyn’s!

We had time for a few evening portraits before the wedding singer introduced the new Mr and Mrs Ward to the dancefloor for their first dance as husband and wife.

Carolyn and Peter enjoyed a luxury honeymoon in Hawaii…I was incredibly jealous of the photos Peter was posting to Facebook!

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