Katherine & Paul's Wedding

From the moment we met Katherine & Paul we knew that we'd get on well and enjoy covering their big day. We'd actually met Katherine's mum Jan last year, as she works as a registrar and had asked for our business card when we'd been covering at a wedding at The Baltic. Fastforward to June this year, and we arrived at the fabulous Beamish Hall to photograph Katherine & Paul's wedding, starting with Katherine's bridal preparations. Katherine looked absolutely beautiful in her dress, and was calm and collected while getting ready, as were her bridesmaids Alison & Emma.

The ceremony took place in the Shafto Hall, which is really atmospheric with the dark wood panelling and candles in the fireplace. We were lucky with the weather and got outside for the group photos and the shots of Katherine & Paul on their own. Katherine & Paul were really relaxed in front of the cameras, and we got some great shots of them chatting and walking around the grounds.

The wedding breakfast took place in the Monboucher Room, which is fantastic for the speeches as there's plenty of space for us to move around at the back of the room without being intrusive. We're always really impressed by the staff at Beamish, particularly while serving the wedding breakfast as they're so quick and efficient. We were lucky enough to eat on the day too (thank you to Katherine & Paul!) and the food is superb - particularly the trio of desserts we had!

We were back in the Monboucher Room for the evening reception. We'd been really looking forward to this part of the day, as they had a ceilidh which are always great fun. We'd also promised Katherine's dad Paul that we'd join in for a dance, and we really enjoyed having a bit of a leap around before getting back to photographing the guests.

Beamish Hall is definitely one of our favourite north east venues, and we're looking forward to covering more weddings there next year.

Katherine had a gorgeous bouquet of pink roses so we used these to add a bit of colour to the jewellery shots.

The girls had a great vantage point for watching the guests arriving - Katherine made sure she was just peeping around the curtain so nobody saw her!

The Shafto Room all set for the ceremony.

We'd had a pre-wedding shoot in the run up to the wedding, and Katherine commented how much she liked the old tree in the grounds so we made sure we got plenty of shots there - this was the shot they chose for their album cover too.