Our last wedding of 2009 was Corrin and Michael’s New Year’s Eve wedding at Edensor Church and Hassop Hall Hotel.

Corrin was getting ready at her family home and Michael had arrange for a special photo slideshow for Corrin to watch

Corrin loves horses and wanted a horse and carriage to take her to church, but the horses couldn’t do the long journey from her family home in Glossop across to Chatsworth so she was expecting to travel in a family car across to meet the horse and carriage for a shorter journey to church.  Michael had secretly arranged for Corrin to have special wedding cars instead – Corrin knew nothing about it and this was her reaction when she saw the cars outside!

Corrin looked absolutely stunning in her wedding gown.

Edensor Church on the Chatsworth Estate is a gorgeous church in a lovely village setting.

Michael, his best man and ushers wait for Corrin’s arrival.

Michael is a submariner and his colleagues were also smartly dressed for the wedding.

Gorgeous bouquet.

Corrin’s sisters and best friend were excellent bridesmaids and made sure Corrin’s dress was kept off the ground.

The driveway at Hassop Hall Hotel makes for a grand entrance for the horse and carriage.

The tables were beautifully dressed.

It was quite chilly outside so we had a quick walk around the gardens with Corrin and Michael.

Michael wanted to impress us and lifted Corrin up and twirled her around

Hassop’s pianist kept the guests entertained during the drinks reception.

Corrin’s brother gave Corrin away and he also gave a lovely and entertaining speech.

Corrin and Michael had named each of their 10 tables after one of the twelve days of Christmas. As an interlude between speeches, each table sang it’s own line whilst standing up to perform it.  The top table started with “Twelve drummers drumming” and also finished with the last line “A partridge in a pear tree”!  Here is the photograph of their finale!

The best man, also Michael’s brother, was entertaining and brought up some funny stories about Corrin!

Michael and Corrin’s first dance was “With or Without You” by U2.

Congratulations to Michael and Corrin!

This weekend was the wedding of Samantha and Colin at The Priest House Handpicked Hotel near Castle Donnington in Derbyshire.  Preparations began at Sam’s family home with her family and bridesmaids.

Max and Maggie joined in the celebrations with their wedding bows

Lots of gorgeous details.

Meanwhile, Colin was calming his nerves in the bar at The Priest House along with his best man, Jim.

It wasn’t long before Sam and her dad arrived in their Beauford wedding car.

Waiting for her grand entrance.

Gran waits too.

Colin chats with his mum while they wait.

Then it’s all smiles as Sam arrives.

Lots of kissing!

Sam and Colin kissed three times during the ceremony

After the ceremony Sam threw the bouquet to all the unmarried girls.

All good fun

It was raining outside but there’s a huge window upstairs at The Priest House so we took advantage of the natural light there.

The tables were set out beautifully.

The room was lovely.

Romance was everywhere!

Sam chats with her guests.

The best man enjoys his speech.

There is a spiral staircase up to the bridal suite so we took advantage of the setting for a few more shots of Sam and Colin.

A quick touch-up in the ladies.

One last shot of the day; a 30 second exposure of The Priest House all lit up at night

Lizzy and Ben’s album went out recently.  They married at St. Leonard’s Church in Wollaton and had a gorgeous reception at Woodborough Hall in Nottingham.

They chose a square bound album in black leather.

Inside the pages are white and silver twin mats.

The page corners are silver.

Congratulations again to Lizzy and Ben!

I had one of my regular visits to Harriet and Matilda today!

Harriet was full of fun

She showed me her Po head-band (and then made me wear it for a bit)

Matilda is 4 months old now.

Harriet helped mummy to make some soup for lunch.

We had a bit of fun looking at our faces in the tea pot

Matilda has a nappy ‘malfunction’ and had to get changed…

… Harriet was not impressed by smelly Matilda!

Harriet doesn’t stop smiling for long.

We needed to pop out to the local shop to buy some bread, but some recorder playing was required before we left.

Harriet helped with pushing the basket around the shop.

Then it was back home for lunch.

Meanwhile Matilda took a nap.

Yum!

Drool!

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We were really excited to photograph Tracy and Stephen’s London wedding this weekend.  Stephen is the brother of a groom, Chris, we photographed back in 2004 and it was great to see Chris and his wife Sarah-Jane again after 5 years!

Our photography coverage started at 2:30pm at Tracy and Stephen’s home where Tracy was getting ready surrounded by her family.  Her nephew was supervising Tracy and her mum during the make-up stage!

Very cute little page boys!

Meanwhile, Stephen was in the pub with family and friends.

A short walk to the church!

Tracy looked stunning.

As is often the case during the last few minutes of getting ready, everything got a bit chaotic!  Tracy was very cool, calm and collected throughout!

Time to get to the church…

… collecting everyone together for the short walk around the corner to St Boniface church.

St Boniface’s Church is very beautiful inside.

The best man looks on as Stephen and Tracy exchange vows.

The happy couple as they set off down the aisle as man and wife for the first time.

This is little Timmy, the son of Sarah-Jane and Chris!  He really enjoyed being a part of the wedding day!

Stephen and Tracy walked to their reception at The Antelope.

Past the local Christmas tree.

Tracy had chosen the best looking and best smelling chocolate cake ever!

Speeches were good fun with Tracy’s Dad starting off the proceedings.

The best man provided great entertainment at Stephen’s expense.

Tracy wasn’t to be outdone though, and provided her own speech for the guests.

Finishing the formalities of the day with a dance together.

Congratulations to Tracy and Stephen!