Nostell Priory Wedding photographer: Nicola & Ben

Two consecutive weddings at Nostell Priory and both absolute scorchers! Again the temperatures were around the 30dg mark with really harsh, hot summer sun but that, in part, was the least of my worries for the wedding of Nicola & Ben!

While we were at the Holiday Inn Express with Nicola and the girls doing the prep shots, Ben was supposed to call with the boys to collect their son, Josh, who was to be pageboy. However, Ben hadn’t taken into account a 10k run in Leeds which really made him late for Josh and in his haste, he forgot to get collect one of the ushers who was with us and waiting for a lift! At least we were able to take the usher to Nostell with us when we set off to photograph the groom. However, we were at Nostell for just after 12noon for a 12:30 wedding but no sign of the groom who’d gone to Waterton Park Hotel to get ready. In their haste to set off from Waterton Park, they went the wrong way and got lost so put the postcode in the satnav to get them to Nostell but instead put in Waterton Park details and went back there by mistake. They eventually made it to Nostell for 12:25pm but then the real bombshell! They’d left the rings in a suitcase at Waterton Park! Someone was despatched to get them while Ben rang Waterton and asked the staff to rifle through the suitcases looking for the rings which they found and were eventually brought back to Nostell at 13:00hrs!! Good job the registrars were free to wait and after a 30minute delay, the wedding went ahead without further a do :¬)

A hot and eventful day but everything turned out swell in the end and we got some lovely summer wedding shots for the album.