June 14th 2009 

Sam and Ben's wedding - Walton Hall at Waterton Park Wakefield

Another glorious day and the perfect weather for a wedding. The morning started at Sam's parents with hair and make up preparations before it was time to slip on the dress (Sam, not me!) and take some more photographs before I joined Sam and his groomsmen at Walton Hall.

As a regular photographer of civil ceremony weddings at Waterton Park the registrars know me well and so I was able to take photographs throughout the ceremony whilst Alex covered the angles form the rear of the room. Sam had arrived in a Daimler limousine provided by Andrew of R&S wedding cars of Upton near Pontefract. Andrew was waiting for them outside after the ceremony and following some confetti throwing (More of an assault really as sixty cones worth of confetti were synchronised onto the bide and groom within a second!) the bride and groom were taken for a short drive. This allowed the guests to walk onto the island for the drinks reception whilst I prepared the location for the car photographs when Ben and Sam returned.

The weather continued throughout the day and with speeches and the wedding breakfast out of the way most guests were quickly back outside in the good weather and again provided a great opportunity for some discrete candid photographs.

Ben and Sam were back outside for the stunning sunset and again an hour later taking photographs of the couple on the island before I bid them goodnight.

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