Wynyard Hall Wedding Photographers: Alex and Jon's Autumn Wedding at Wynyard Hall

WYNYARD HALL COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL, ENGLAND GRAND ENTRACE BATHED IN AUTUMN SUNSHINE FOR THE WEDDING OF ALEX AND JON

ALEX CONCENTRATING ON HER EARRINGS AT WYNYARD HALL

BEAUTIFUL WEDDING BOUQUET TO GO WITH ALEX'S CLASSICAL MAGGIE SOTTERO DRESS

A MAGGIE SOTTERO DRESS FOR ALEX ... WAITING FOR IT'S PLACE AT THE CENTRE OF HER WEDDING TO JON AT WYNYARD HALL

ALEX IS VERY EXCITED TO TRY ON HER WEDDING DRESS AT WYNYARD HALL

YOU CAN FEEL THE EXCITEMENT IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH AS ALEXS SISTER HELPS HER WITH HER MAGGIE SOTTERO WEDDING DRESS AT WYNYARD HALL

THERE'S LOTS OF ACTION UNDER THE DRESS AT THIS POINT AND YOU NEED A LOT OF PEOPLE TO HELP OUT!

SUPER CHILLED .... AND TIME FOR CHANNEL .... 

STILL TIME FOR A LAUGH AND A SMILE, EVEN THOUGH SHE IS THINKING ABOUT HER TWO YOUNG SONS

ALEX'S FATHER IS A VERY PROUD MAN!

THE CLASSICAL LINES OF A BEAUTIFUL MAGGIE SOTTERO WEDDING GOWN

ALEX EVEN HAS TIME FOR A WAVE TO HER FRIENDS AS SHE COMES DOWN THE AISLE TO GREET JON

SMILES ALL ROUND .... SHE'S AT THE FRONT, READY TO BE WED

A LOVELY DETAIL SHOT OF HER DRESS AND BOUQUET

HAPPY TO GET MARRIED .. ALEX LISTENS TO THE SERVICE

JON IS A VERY PROUD HUSBAND TO BE .. 

THE WEDDING RING GOES ON .. NOT LONG NOW!

HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY ....... ALEX AND JON EMBRACE AS THEY ARE ANNOUNCED AS MAN AND WIFE AT WYNYARD HALL

JON'S MUM LOOKS PRETTY PLEASED TOO!

THE TENSION IS BROKEN AND IT'S TIME TO WALK OFF AND ENJOY THE WEDDING CELEBRATIONS AT WYNYARD HALL

STILL TIME TO TAKE THE APPLAUSE!

TWO OF THE BRIGHTEST COLOURED GUESTS AT WYNYARD HALL!

SISTERS, SISTERS ... HAPPY DAY FOR ALEX AND HER SISTER AND CHIEF BRIDESMAID!

THE BEST MAN MUST BE SOMEWHERE CLOSE BY ...  ! JON TRIES TO ROUND LIAM UP FOR HIS PHOTOCALL!

... AND HERE HE IS!  BEST MAN AND GROOM TOGETHER IN THE AUTUMN SUNSHINE AT JONS WEDDING AT WYNYARD HALL

THE BEAUTIFUL WEDDING CAKE AT WYNYARD HALL

TIME FOR A QUICK FORMAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BRIDE AND GROOM .. BACK TO THE FUN .. !

SMILES ALL ROUND FROM THE YOUNGER GUESTS

THE AUTUMN SUNSHINE MEANS THE YOUNGER GUESTS HEAD OUT INTO THE GROUNDS BEFORE THE SPEECHES!

GOOD NATURED BARRACKING FOR THE GROOM AND BEST MAN FROM THEIR FRIENDS AT WYNYARD HALL

MMMMM .. THE WEDDING BREAKFAST MENU AT WYNYARD COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL

EVEN THE GUESTS FOUND THE TOP TABLE ANTICS FUNNY!

IT WAS DIFFICULT TO STOP LAUGHING SOMETIMES AT THE BEST MANS SPEECH

APPLAUSE ALL ROUND FOR THE BEST MAN LIAM'S SPEECH

CHEERS .. SPEECHES OUT OF THE WAY !

ALEX CATCHES THE LAST RAYS OF THE AUTUMN SUN AS I PHOTOGRAPH SOME BRIDAL PORTRAITS

LOVE THE HALF SILHOUETTE AND LIGHT ON THIS PHOTOGRAPN IN THE BALLROOM

ALL LOVE ON THE DANCEFLOOR

.. AND FRIENDS JOIN IN TOO AS THE PARTY REALLY GETS STARTED!

Wynyard Hall Country House Hotel has been a great addition to the wedding venue choices for brides getting married in the north of England.
It's a stunning venue full of history and now, after almost three years, it is firmly on the map of brides and grooms to be.
This year I have photographed five weddings there, each one different, each one personal and intimate in their own way, whether with 30 people or with 200 people.
Alex and Jon wanted a relaxing day, no pressure, no hassle and their two charming young sons were to be an important part of their day of celebration as they made their commitment to each other.
Alex and I had chatted quite a few times on the phone and by email and met twice before the wedding, and Jon joined us the second time at their home just a week or so before their wedding day at Wynyard. 
I was booked for the wedding, because they knew I would just let them get on with having a great family celebration and capture almost all the photographs naturally, showing the fun and the happiness of the day, though we would also make time to make sure that parents were kept happy with key group shots that we managed to get through very quickly with a laugh and  smile.
At most of my summer weddings this year I was wiping raindrops off my camera, so a glorious blue sky and bright sunshine greeted me on an October day back at Wynyard Hall .. what a treat!
Alex was busy with her youngest son when I arrived, so we sat and had a chat, just the three of us in her palatial room at Wynyard Hall ... sooo different from many brides and grooms, but Alex was REALLY chilled out! Jon was taking care of their elder son so I went off to have a look around the layout of the upcoming ceremony in the ballroom (my favourite room....) and the conservatory where the wedding breakfast was to be (again, my favourite room in Wynyard Hall for a wedding breakfast .. so light and airy and LOTS of space compared to other rooms).
I was back up to see Alex and the bridesmaids as they got ready - Alex in her Maggie Sotttero wedding dress, after saying hello to Jon as he arrived at the hall, and all was still relaxed and calm - and so it stayed as the time for Alex and Jon to get married.
Jon was pretty chilled out too and I had my fingers crossed that he would enjoy the day as much as Alex, it had been such a hectic past year for them both, but as she came down the aisle with her father Jon beamed a smile and Alex beamed an even bigger smile, and I think we all knew that it was going to be a really lovely day!
There were lots of nice informal images to be taken as all the guests and the happy couple kissed and cuddled and backslapped and bear hugged the guests, and as they all enjoyed the sunshine on the terrace overlooking the lake, we got our heads together and spent five or six minutes gathering Mums and Dads and siblings for some (less than ) formal groups, organised and taken with a smile and a laugh before we headed in for the wedding breakfast.
At the end of the wedding breakfast (thanks folks!) , the speeched came and went with huge smiles, whistling from guests and standing applause in particular parts, before Alex's parents and the newly weds headed of to their rooms to make sure their sons were changed and happy and comfortable before the evening celebrations!
Although it was dark now, it was a chance to get around a few more of the guests and get some more photographs to keep everyone happy, before the first dance with Jason Isaacs who kept everyone dancing for an hour.
Then it was time to leave ..  I said my farewells and thanks for hospitality, everyone seemed very happy, and yet another guests says: " I didn't realise you were the professonal photographer, I just thought you were a member of the family ... ". Which how it works really. Result!
There will be more on Facebook in the coming days, so add me as a friend HERE
See Caroline and Antony's Wynyard Hall wedding HERE
View the sneak peek of Kirstey and Mark's wedding at Wynyard Hall HERE
See the sneak peek of Nikki and Steve's 2nd time around wedding HERE
Caroline's review of my photography on their day at Wynyard hall is HERE
View Nikki's review of me HERE .. and her husband Steve's review of my photography and customer experience HERE.
If you would like me to be a small but important part of your day at Wynyard Hall, all day coverage for 2013 / 2014, up to ten hours is £1600.00, weddings later in the day from small £1250 and midweek intimate weddings at Wynyard Hall with just 25 guests or less for £850 - ring me NOW! Coverage includes superb customer service, great customer experience, a pre-wed portrait shoot with a signing in board, up to ten hours coverage of your celebrations, a presentation box with up to 500 hard copy prints of all your final edited digital images, a password protected website so you can show your wedding to those friends and relatives abroad or who were not able to travel and a CD of all your final edited images for you to make unlimited personal copies.
A3 wedding books with up to 40 pages and 180 images are from £400 with lots of options and choices.
Ring me on 0778 7150966 and tell me all about your wedding plans at Wynyard Hall, or any other wedding venue or location anywhere in the UK or your destination wedding anywhere in the world!
Don't delay, book today!
AN INSPIRATION BOARD OF MY RECENT WEDDINGS AT WYNYARD HALL COUNTRY  HOUSE HOTEL
DIRK VAN DER WERFF

Wynyard Hall Wedding Photography Review from the Groom!

WYNYARD HALL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS:
STEVE SWINGS HIS WIFE NIKI AROUND THE DANCE FLOOR AT WYNYARD HALL

View sneak peek wedding photographs from Nicolle and Wayne's summer wedding at Wynyard Hall HERE
View sneak peek images from Caroline and Antony's summer wedding photography at Wynyard Hall HERE with my Wynyard Hall Pinterest Inspiration board HERE

Wedding reviews are an important part of a professional wedding photographer's portfolio, and I'm lucky that so many of my brides kindly offer their thoughts about my involvement in their family celebrations.
The relationship that I build with my brides and grooms and often their family, even before the wedding day itself means that on the day, everyone is relaxed and happy. I become part of the day, rather than the man who stops and interupts and makes everything a pain and stressful
It's rare that I get a review from a groom, so it's great to have a view from Steve who married Niki at Wynyard Hall, and Steve, as you will read, was a bit worried about having a photographer at his wedding.
".... We heard about dirk from Niki's cousin Sue. I didn't know what to expect when I heard that a Dirk van der Werff was coming to see us about wedding photos, being the groom, I had just carried along in the tidal wave of preperations and arrangements so I shrugged my shoulders and waited to see this blonde moustached six foot something bloke to turn up on a bicyle and clogs and start saying how "he was jus goink to fotograf sum fantashtik pikturs "... 
However, who actualy turned up was a true north-east lad as I would say. 
I hate smiling, I'm not photogenic in the slightest and was dreading the staged "stand there and do this ...ok ..left a bit, left a bit ..now smile " approach.
How wrong could I have been?
Dirk put me at ease straight away, Niki and I talked about what we wanted to achieve with the photographs which was a relaxed, intimate, informal representation of our big day. Dirk arranged for a pre-wedding photo-shoot so we could get to know each other a little more, as I lived in Morecambe and work in Khazakstan at the moment, so on the big day Dirk could just mingle and do his thing as a guest at the wedding.
We had a laugh filled afternoon at Wynyard Hall where me and 'the missus-to-be' posed for some pictures as Dirk just snapped away .. and bugger me I found myself doing something I NEVER do, I smiled, slightly, and didnt even know I was doing it... (see image above..)
On the big day Dirk was there very early at Wynyard Hall and even caught me turning up with my support crew of ushers and best man in the streched limo.....the big day was great ..only a few contrived photos to please the older generations before the wedding breakfast and the rest of the day was spent just enjoying the guests company and my lovely wife and not even knowing we were being photographed....it was honestly that unobtrusive.....
Nobody realised that Dirk was telling the story of our day and that in his mind a wedding book was being generated ...and what an wedding book !!! 
I cannot believe that the whole essence, character, charm and emotion of the day was captured in such an artistic and natural but perfectly clear and sharp and true way.
So any grooms out there who are wondering about the whole 'Do I HAVE to smile thing' ...Well no ..you dont have to smile but that doesn't matter because you will smile naturally while interacting and laughing with friends and relatives, and IT WILL BE CAPTURED, you just won't notice its been done ....until you see the mindblowing results which in reality when you have the A3 wedding book in your hands puts everything into another dimension all together.....FANTASTIC! 
If I could go back in time I would not change a thing, and I can heartily recommend Dirk to be your wedding photographer
STEVE NELLIS
View some 'sneak peek' images from the final 400 photographs which told the story of Niki and Steve's Wynyard Hall wedding HERE

If you would like me to be part of your family wedding celebrations at your own wedding at Wynyard Hall Country House Hotel, or just to chat about your wedding plans, in the north east, north Yorkshire, Cumbria, The Borders, or anywhere in the UK, ring ME on 0778 7150966.
Wedding photography costs from £1250, with the most popular package at £1475 which includes a pre-wedding shoot and a signing board, up to 400 hard-copy gallery proof-prints in a presentation box, a dedicated website, all final edited images on a CD, a Highlights wedding book, together with great customer experience and outstanding personalised customer service and satisfaction.

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DIRK VAN DER WERFF

Wynyard Hall Wedding Photographer for Caroline and Antony

WYNYARD HALL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS:
CAROLINE'S BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS ON HER WEDDING DAY ....

WYNYARD HALL WEDDINGS:
OH DEAR .. IT RAINED FOR 16 HOURS ..... NO WORRY, IT WAS WYNYARD HALL... PLENTY OF ROOM ISIDE!

WYNYARD HALL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY:
TRAVELLED ALL THE WAY FROM HALIFAX FOR THE DAY TO TRANSPORT GUESTS TO AND FROM WYNYARD HALL

A NICE MESSAGE APPEARS TO ONE OF THE BRIDESMAIDS!

CAROLINE'S BEAUTIFUL DRESS HANGS READY FOR THE MOMENT!

A LOVELY PORTRAIT OF CAROLINE AS SHE WATCHES HER BRIDESMAIDS GET READY FOR THE WEDDING AT WYNYARD HALL

CAROLINE BEING DRESSED BY HER BRIDESMAIDS IN THE LIVING ROOM OF HER HOME. PHOTOGRAPH BY DIRK VAN DER WERFF WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY

CAROLINE AND HER PROUD FATHER READY TO HEAD OFF TO WYNYARD HALL

THE BRIDESMAIDS HAVE THE BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE AS CAROLINE ARRIVES TO GREET ANTONY

HAPPY DAYS ... CAROLINE'S WEDDING TO ANTONY

THE PAPPARAZZI AT THE READY!

GUESTS MINGLE AS ANTONY AND CAROLINE MAKE THE ROUNDS

EVEN THOUGH IT WAS RAINING - WE MANAGED TO HEAD OUTSIDE FOR A FEW PHOTOGRAPHS WITH THE CARS!

A LOVELY PORTRAIT BY DIRK VAN DER WERFF OF CAROLINE AS SHE HEADS BACK INTO THE HALL

DETAIL FROM THE WEDDING CAKE

A 'LIVING STATUE' HOLDS THE BOARD WITH THE TABLE PLACEMENTS

CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT ... CAROLINE IS SILHOUETTED AGAINST THE BIG WINDOWS IN WYNYARD HALL

A MOMENT FOR REFLECTION

A BRIDAL PORTRAIT CAROLINE? THAT WILL DO NICELY DIRK!

ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DAY AS A GUEST TAKES CAROLINE FOR AN IMPROMPTU DANCE AROUND THE STATUE GALLERY - PHOTOGRAPH BY DIRK VAN DER WERFF

SHARING A GIGGLE DURING THE SPEECHES AT WYNYARD HALL

CONFUSED .. WELL, CAROLINE'S MUM IS GERMAN, AND THEY THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE FUN!  AND IT WAS!

TIME FOR A LITTLE ROMANCE AT WYNYARD HALL AS THEY SHELTER FROM THE RAIN!

Wynyard Hall has grown over the past two years into one of the premier wedding venues in the north of England with all virtually all Saturday's and Sunday's now booked for four years ahead!

It's one of my favourite wedding venues, steeped in history with magnificent architecture and wonderful grounds, so I was delighted when Caroline and Antony asked me to be their official wedding photographer.

They knew exactly what they wanted, lots of relaxed photographs showing the ambiance and atmosphere and fun of their wedding celebrations, nothing starchy, nothing that took them away from their guests and didn't involve standing around all day getting photographs taken - that sounded like me!
They had seen the photographs I produced at other weddings posted on my BLOG and website and were convinced after I met with them at their home, a converted church west of Durham.

So, the big day arrived and I was at Caroline's home bright and early as she gathered with her famly and bridemaids - and out came the champagne!

Everyone was so friendly and accommodating so it was a breeze to capture some nice natural wedding preparation images - and I even had time to dash out of the door and up the hill where other guests - including the groom Antony were being picked up in a vintage black double decker bus... even Caroline stuck her head out of the front gate to catch a glimpse.

My friend and felow professional photographer Dawn was at Wynyard Hall to capture the arrival of the guests on the bus, whileI followed Caroline's cars from home through to the venue.

Once there, there was time for a last bit of lipstick and adjustments to her beautiful Sophia Tolli wedding dress before she went down ther aisle to meet with Antony - she looked a real picture and knocked the socks off Antony when he turned around to greet her.

The rain poured down all day unfortunately, but Wynyard Hall is such a great venue that there are always options, and while it would have been nice to have been on the terrace in the sunshine on a June day, that's the British summer for you!

There was lots of time with canapes and champagne to get lots of lovely relaxed images of Caroline and Antony with their friends and relatives, and the wedding breakfast and speeches ended with a bang.

Caroline's German mum was surprised, along with guests from around the world when an Austro-Germanic accordian player burst forth and had the crowd singing along and waving (mainly German flags).

I think a few of the chaps felt a bit awkward with the World Cup so close, but everyone entered into the spirit of the stunt that Caroline had dreamt up!

Another 100 Evening guests were almost assembling as the events came to a close and then it was more meeting and greeting, the cake cutting and the first dance - what a wedding, and with the music and laughter still ringing in my ears and after 12 hours on my feet, I headed off home - and it was STILL raining!

Enjoy this SNEAK PEEK of the fun - 20+ images from the 400+ images that tell the story of their fabulous wedding celebrations!

Wedding photography costs from £1250, with the most popular package at £1600 like Caroline and Antony's which includes a pre-wedding shoot and a framed portrait together with a signiture A3 print for signing by your guests at your wedding. Up to 500 hard-copy gallery proof-prints in a presentation box, a dedicated website, all final edited images on a CD, together with great customer experience and outstanding personalised customer service and satisfaction - they added an A3 San Francisco wedding book with 50 pages too!

Smaller weddings with less than 30 guests, midweek, cost £750, these options are also available 10 weeks before a Saturday or Sunday if the date is free.

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DIRK VAN DER WERFF