Natasha & Toby’s Wedding at Lanwades Hall
Natasha & Toby
A Summer Day at Lanwades Hall
My favourite venue, the one I'm recommended at, and still the place I find something new to shoot every time.
Natasha and Toby's wedding was an extravagant, properly beautiful day at Lanwades Hall, the venue I love shooting at most. I am so proud to continue to be a recommended supplier to this outstanding venue.
Natasha got ready in the bridal suite. Toby used the Old Library, and it suited him, that room has a stillness to it that a lot of grooms don't get before their wedding.
The Bridal Suite
Quiet, unhurried, the calm before everything else started moving.
The Old Library
Toby really suited the atmosphere in here, it's one of my favourite rooms at Lanwades to photograph a groom getting ready in.
The Sunken Garden
They married in front of friends and family in the Sunken Garden, flanked by lavender on both sides, bees working through it the whole ceremony, and a buzzard circling somewhere above us.
"I shoot fifteen to eighteen weddings a year at Lanwades Hall, and I still find new places to shoot and new images to create."
Juan
From the ceremony they walked the confetti line through a tiny gate under the ancient wisteria and into the walled garden, the house sitting behind them the whole way through. Decoration was by Lucy at Easy and Elegant Weddings, and catering came from Portfolio Events, more than one guest told me how good the food was. It was a genuinely hot day, and the reception settled into that heat easily, everyone finding the shaded areas or the parasols and staying there.
As family and friends were called in for dinner, the three of us went for a walk across the grounds for formal portraits.
The Avenue
A favourite of mine, the tree-lined avenue near the old tennis court. Time it right and the sun breaks through the trees and the light streams straight down it.
The speeches were some of the best-prepared I've heard in a while, and afterwards everyone had coffee and wandered the grounds, which at Lanwades are genuinely impeccable. It's a real pleasure to shoot here, and even after fifteen to eighteen weddings a year at this venue I still find new corners and new images every time.
Once the dancing had properly started, the three of us slipped out again for a last set of portraits, this time after dark.
Natasha and Toby had their engagement shoot at Lanwades Hall ahead of the wedding, worth a look if you want the fuller story of their time here.
Getting married
at Lanwades Hall?
It's my favourite venue to shoot at, and one I'm recommended at directly. If you're planning your day here, I'd love to talk it through with you.