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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

A wedding at Weetwood Hall Leeds

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Saturday the 2nd of July saw me at Weetwood hall in Leeds. “Weetwood wood is ideally place on the Leeds Ring Road and despite been only been a few yards from one of the busiest roads in Leeds, when you actually drive in to the grounds, you could be forgiven for thinking you were  in the middle of  the Yorkshire Countryside.

Joy and Mark booked me over a year before, and when they came to our studio in Bramley Leeds we immediately hit it off. Its really important that you get on well with your wedding photographer as it so helps on the day.

Mark and Joy had a surprise for their guests on the wedding day as they had booked a 1950′s Ice cream van to serve up, ice cream cones for all on the day. The day was a beautiful and the sun shone throughout, so having a cool refreshing ice cream kept “the man in the van” very busy. I have included some highlights of the day in the images below.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Waterton Park Hotel Wedding Fair near Wakefield

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Last Sunday we once again attended the Waterton Park Wedding fair which is held every year at Walton Hall. The fair is always well attended by future Brides and wedding suppliers and is always popular. The day started early than normal  as we lost one hours sleep because the clocks went forward, so we were particular “blurry eyed” that morning. The day started at a steady pace with a steady stream of  girls through the door, until 12 o’clock when in seemed that     every girl getting married in Leeds, Wakefield and the whole of Yorkshire came through the door.

Waterton Park Hotel only allow a certain number of wedding photographers at the wedding fair, which is great for the Brides because it can be so confusing if you have lots and lots of  Wedding photographers to see. We had a great time taking to all the girls and “mums’ on the day and we booked more wedding at the fair than we ever have. As a result of the fair we  only have a few limited places for 2012 available. We like to limit our weddings to 50 a year and with that number quickly approaching all the dates have nearly gone, we still have some  of our “Winter Specials” starting from £995. These packages start from November 1st 2011 through to March 31st 2012 these have been very popular too.

So thank you to Pauline at Waterton Park and a “big shout” to Amanda who was given the responsibility  of running it on the day and a brilliant Job she did of it too.

 

 

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Saturday, January 1, 2011

An Eventful Wedding at The Mansion in Leeds on New Years Eve

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The  last wedding of 2010 arrived and as luck had it we were going to be working fairly local at the wonderful Rounday Mansion. A place that fell into disrepair many years ago but has had a massive revamp thast cost £millions and is run by the “Dine” group.

The place is immaculate throughout and the level of service demanded by Mike (the General Manager) is second to none. If fact the Bride and Groom have no affinity with Leeds or even Yorkshire, it was because that they fell in love with the venue and Mike’s vision of the Wedding Celebration that they actually booked there.

Paul and Krystina were the lovely couple who were getting married and we arrived nice and early, and we took some pictures of the “Krys” getting her make-up  put on and the girly pictures of the bridemaids drinking the “champers”. After this we went down and photographed Paul and the guys looking “Mean and Macho” in the courtyard. Then I made my way back to Krys where by now she must have the dress on and looking resplendent. I knocked on the door and realised this wasnt the case, and I soon found out the reason. Her wedding dress was the “corseted” type and needed to be tightened up but because the cords were all tangled and threaded through the wrong holes this wasnt going to happen. With Krys now getting nervous by the minute and with only nine of those minutes left I asked her if she wanted me to “have a go”. In a flash she agreed and because its not the first time I ve had to put a girl in her wedding dress (perk of the job)  and we managed to get her ready in time for her big day.

The whole wedding went like a dream apart from my assistant who managed to go flying into the mud, in front of the Bride and Groom which caused much hilarity  to all those who were lucky enough to witnessed it.

We ran the slideshow of the days highlights at 8.00pm and received thunderous applause for which we are truly thankful for. Then we left with the celebrations in full swing but because it was New Years Eve we returned to photograph the wedding guests welcoming the New Year at midnight.

It was a brilliant day and a very enjoyable wedding, one that I was proud to be involved with.

So I have today off, well it is New Years Day ,but its back to work tomorrow for the first of our 2011 weddings.

A big thank you to all our Brides and Grooms who we have shot weddings for this year and as a little thank you please take this invitation to call into the studio for your free family portrait session, just ring me for details.

So thats it another year gone here at Mark Jordan Photography, we had a fantastic year, heres hoping you get all that you work hard and wish for!

Mark

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