The photograph above is one taken at a wedding back in June 2020 at Whirlow Brook Hall which is located on the outskirts of Sheffield. This was a special wedding for a number of reasons including it being our first wedding back photographing after the lifting of restrictions following the first lockdown in the UK. Back then, only 30 guests were allowed to attend weddings, and that included Deborah and I who were photographing the wedding! It was so great to be back doing what we love, photographing and documenting wedding days for amazing couples like Kate and James seen here embracing just after being pronounced as ‘Husband and Wife’ immediately following their wedding ceremony.
Whirlow Brook Hall is one of our favourite wedding venues in Sheffield, and not just because it is the nearest single setting wedding venue to our home! Whirlow Brook Hall is in the magnificent Whirlow Brook Park, 39 acres of spectacular parkland and gardens which always provide us with some beautiful backdrops in which to create some beautiful photographs for our couples through which they can look back and relive their wedding day for years to come.
When I’m photographing on a wedding, I always try to keep one eye watching the couple closely during the ceremony, to try catch those split-second moments of emotion during the ceremony, or when the celebrant announces them to be a married couple, the other eye is on the guests to see what emotional reactions they have during the ceremony. This can be a highly emotional moment, frequently bursting with love, happiness and excitement as well as a really funny one as the couple let the fact that they are now married start to sink in.
The bride in this image was so happy to have finally tied the knot following many delays and setbacks due to the lockdown chaos and the venue having to reschedule their wedding numerous times through no fault of their own back in those dark days of 2020. It was such a pleasure to finally photograph this wedding for the couple, their family and friends, and to be there for the couple to help guide them through their day, as wedding photography is frequently as much about using your experience of weddings as it is about photographing it!
Whirlow Brook Hall is located on the edge of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK on Ecclesall Road South S11 9QD. Their website can be found at: https://whirlowbrook.co.uk/weddings/