Ruthin Castle ♥ Nadia and Ste

Our second visit to Ruthin Castle inside of a week and our third wedding of the week (phew) but what a high note to end the week on.

The first thing I have to mention was Nadia's wedding dress. I have never seen a dress quite like this. It was so different that when I first saw it I was completely blown away. It was truly magnificent with incredibly ornate beading and the most amazing deep red trim to the body and forming part of the train.

The weather was glorious as it has been all week and add this to the mix of a great couple, fun, friendly friends and family and the wonderful setting of Ruthin Castle in Denbighshire then you have all the necessary ingredients for a terrific wedding (which this most certainly was).

As usual, I can show you a few of the photographs from the wedding.

The civil ceremony at Ruthin Castle

Signing the register

Just lazing around

Look Nadia, someone has pinched my pint!

In the gardens at Ruthin Castle

More photographs from the Ruthin Castle and other venues can be found both in this blog and on our main wedding website at www.barrieneilweddings.co.uk

Wedding photography at the Hillbark Hotel

We've just added a new gallery to the Recent Weddings page on our main website. It's a few dozen photographs from a wedding a couple of weeks ago at the Hillbark Hotel at Frankby on the Wirral.

If you are thinking of getting married at this hotel; or know somebody who is, you might like to take a look by clicking here


Our main wedding website is at www.barrieneilweddings.co.uk

Hillbark Hotel and Brookhouse Mill

Once again, we have two weddings this week.

On Friday 14th August, we are photographing the civil wedding of Nicola and David at the magnificent Elizabethan country house that is Hillbark Hotel in Frankby on the Wirral. This is a beautiful and fascinating building with so many wonderful features including the stunning external timbering and with interior features too many to list (but I do love the huge windows in the great hall and the minstrels gallery!).

Interesting little factoid... the building wasn't on it's current site but was moved brick by brick to the current location!

Saturday sees us at the wedding of Sian and Tom. This time it's a church wedding with the ceremony taking place at St Marcell's Church in the old and famous Welsh town of Denbigh followed by a reception at nearby Brookhouse Mill.

Looking forward to both weddings. It's exciting for us that they are going to be so different both in style and location.

The following photographs are a very small sample of a couple of recent weddings we photographed at the Hillbark Hotel







More photographs from the Hillbark Hotel and other venues can be found both in this blog and on our main wedding website at www.barrieneilweddings.co.uk

Me.. a tax man?

You'd think so considering the time I seem to spend as an unpaid tax collector for the Government. I'm sure all self employed people feel the same way and as you might have guessed, I spent most of yesterday completing our VAT Returns (oh joy).

Still, job done and now we can look forward to the first of our 3 weddings this week (Samantha and Andrew at Peckforton Castle in Tarporley, Cheshire).

Ready for your close up.....

As we mentioned earlier in this blog, we were delighted to be the photographers at the wedding of the lovely Sarah and Barry at Peckforton Castle back in February. It was a fabulous day by anybody's standards and the sun shone and everyone was happy.

The wedding was filmed for broadcast as part of the "Four Weddings" series on Living TV and Monday (20th July 2009) see 'our' episode being shown.

All the girls in the episode are lovely but naturally, I'm rooting for 'my' bride Sarah.

Look out for yours truly

"Four Weddings" on Living TV

As we mentioned earlier in this blog, we were delighted to be the photographers at the wedding of the lovely Sarah and Barry at Peckforton Castle back in February. It was a fabulous day by anybody's standards and the sun shone and everyone was happy.

The wedding was filmed for broadcast as part of the "Four Weddings" series on Living TV and Monday (20th July 2009) see 'our' episode being shown.

All the girls in the episode are lovely but naturally, I'm rooting for 'my' bride Sarah.

Look out for yours truly

www.barrieneilweddings.co.uk

"Four Weddings" on Living TV

Some of you may be watching the Living TV series "Four Weddings" (produced by Virgin Media) in which 4 brides per episode attend each other's weddings then award points for various aspects of the wedding. The bride that receives the most points (for things like dress, food, venue etc.) receives an all expenses paid luxury honeymoon.

We were photographers for one of the brides in an up and coming episode. The bride was Sarah Lathlane and the venue was that most magnificent of wedding venues, Peckforton Castle in Cheshire. She is a sure fire winner in my book but we'll all have to watch the episode to find out what happens (I believe it may be shown on Living TV at 9pm on Monday 20th July 2009).

Pictures in the press (and a TV appearance)

Good to see that much use was made of our photographs from the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod over the past week. Many newspapers carried photographs we had taken of Barbara Dickson and also from the Sunday night Gala with Honor Blackman.

Some of you may have be watching the Living TV program "Four Weddings" (produced by Virgin Media) in which 4 brides per episode attend each other's weddings then award points for various aspects of the wedding. The bride that receives the most points (for things like dress, food, venue etc.) receives an all expenses paid luxury honeymoon.

We were photographers for one of the brides in an up and coming episode. The bride was Sarah Lathlane and the venue was that most magnificent of wedding venues, Peckforton Castle in Cheshire. She is a sure fire winner in my book but we'll all have to watch the episode to find out what happens (I believe it may be shown on Living TV at 9pm on Monday 20th July 2009).

www.barrieneil.co.uk