Katie & Katherine's Wedding at Northside Farm, Northumberland
Saturday 22nd August and I was heading up the A68 for a first for me - a wedding day at Northside Farm in Northumberland. Not just a wedding day, but Katie and Katherines wedding day.
It's always exciting photographing a new venue, and Northside has been on my list for a while now. I see a lot of venues - after 30 years you've seen most of them in the North East - but this one kept cropping up with couples asking if I'd shot there. So when Katie and Katherine booked me, I was chuffed.
I left plenty of time. I always do when it's a new venue. I took the A68 all the way up - probably my favourite road in the North East when the sun's out. Rolling hills, open moorland, that big Northumberland sky opening up the further north you get. It was a beautiful morning to be driving, air con on, gear packed, two cameras checked and double checked the night before.
I arrived at 11.30am, a full two hours before the 1.30pm ceremony. When it's a venue you've not shot before you need that time. Where's the light falling at midday? Where will the group shots work when the sun has moved? Where can we steal five minutes for portraits later without taking the couple too far from their guests? That recce time is just as important as the photography itself. You can't wing it on a new venue.
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