Claire & Craig's Wedding - The West Wing, Ickworth, Horringer

Back in May I photographed several weddings that I haven't yet mentioned on here. The first one was Claire and Craig's Wedding which we photographed at The West Wing, Ickworth House which is owned by the National Trust. We had wonderful weather which gave us a great chance to use their fantastic grounds.

We had several group shots to do which we started off with straight after their ceremony. Spencer (the groom's son) had other ideas though and wanted to charge around the grounds instead which made for a lovely photo of the groom trying to catch him!


Shortly after the groups I took Craig and Claire for a wander around the grounds and we got some superb photos of just the two of them. Here are just a couple of them.



I love this one of Claire being given a piggyback by Craig. This came about when I asked them what would best capture their relationship and they suggested this.


They had a superb cake made up of lots of little cakes and a larger cake on the top layer. Here are some of the smaller ones (It makes me feel hungry just looking at them!).


For their favours they had made up these cute little boxes. They kindly made David and I a box up each so we got to take a peek inside them (and eat the contents!) which were a selection of funky retro sweets! I am sure that the thought that went into these as well as the sweets were appreciated by the guests - we certainly thought they were great!


The only thing we were a little disappointed with (and I don't think we have ever said a cross word about anyone before) was the resident toastmaster (who is linked with the venue) who made us cross and frustrated by his behaviour towards us, the couple and the guests (this is the first time we have met someone like this in all our time doing weddings so thankfully he is a rare exception to all the fantastic toastmasters we have worked with). This is a different story though and one which I will write a separate blog note on.

Before the dancing I caught this one of Claire posing for someone else with the two younger bridesmaids


Later in the evening they had a disco and I love this one of their first dance.


Overall, it was a great day and we very much enjoyed working with Claire and Craig to capture their day for them. If you attended Claire and Craig’s Wedding and would like to view their wedding photos they are online now and I am sure they will give you the password to look at them.

I look forward to meeting with Claire and Craig to design their album with them once their proof book is back.