Good to be back at Dodford Manor again for another Northamptonshire wedding. It’s always great to visit local venues again, so I was delighted when Gemma and Matthew booked me for their wedding at the gorgeous Dodford Manor in Northamptonshire. Time for a quick introduction – I’m Simon Atkins, a wedding photojournalist based in the heart of…
Back in October 2017 I was Joanna and Roger’s Northamptonshire wedding photographer for the very last wedding ever in the Great Hall at Rushton Hall. I also photographed one of the very first weddings here several years ago, all future weddings here will be in the brand new purpose built Orangery which looks gorgeous. Rushton…
Lyveden New Bield wedding photography. I had been looking forward to this Lyveden New Bield wedding ever since I first met Michelle and Jonny last year. What a beautiful location for a wedding, situated in the Northamptonshire countryside and described by The National Trust as “an Intriguing Elizabethan lodge and moated garden”. Lyveden New Bield…
Kelmarsh Hall weddings are always a joy to photograph, the hall is an eighteenth century country house 11 miles north of Northampton and close to the A14. The present house was built in 1752 for William Hanbury. It sits in the middle of a working estate with parkland and formal gardens. Susannah and Lee live…
A lovely spring wedding at Dodford Manor. It is lovely having such a wide choice of venues here in Northamptonshire from Stately Homes to barns. I was delighted when Aimee and Dale asked me to be their wedding photographer. I’d visited Aimee and Dale a couple of times before the wedding and got to know them…
Fran and Dave’s wedding photography at Dodmoor House in Northamptonshire. Dodmoor House is a very popular venue for weddings in Weedon, Northamptonshire. It is based around two stone barns with a courtyard. The wedding ceremony takes place in one of the barns and the wedding breakfast in the other. I’m based about 40 minutes from…
A winter wedding at Dodford Manor. I was Lucie and Jody’s Dodford Manor wedding photographer . This was my first visit to Dodford Manor, near Weedon in Northamptonshire. The ceremony took place at St Mary’s church in Dodford, just behind Dodford Manor. Ceremony in the church. I started my coverage with Lucie’s preparations a couple…
In memory of Tracy who passed away on the 30th October. The photograph below was her favourite from the wedding. “Simon, all weddings should be special but for reasons we, you and our guests all know, our wedding was very, very special.” These are Steve’s words from his original enquiry back to me in early…
Rushton Hall wedding photography – Michelle and PaulThe first of two Easter weddings was at one of my local venues, Rushton Hall in Northamptonshire. After taking a few spectacular photographs of Rushton Hall I went up to the bridal suite to photograph Michelle’s preparations, this is always a lovely part of the day photographing the…
Northampton wedding photography – Kirsty and Peter married on Saturday 20th October 2012 at Saint Aidan’s RC Church in Kingsthorpe Northampton with a reception at Fawsley Hall. I love the light at this time of the year with the sun low in the sky, Peter and Kirsty were blessed with a sunny day for their…
Dodmoor House wedding photography – Tracey and Andrew. Another Northamptonshire wedding this last weekend when I was at Dodmoor House near Weedon for Tracey and Andrew’s very colourful wedding. Do not adjust your monitor, the theme was bright pink. The great thing with Dodmoor House is you get it all to yourself for the day…
Laura and Tom married at St Peter’s church in Cogenhoe on the 11th August 2012 and had their reception at one of my favourite Northamptonshire venues, Holdenby House. I started coverage at the church with Tom who I was very impressed to see arrive an hour early. After the ceremony guests boarded a Routemaster bus for the trip through Northampton to Holdenby House.
Fawsley Hall is almost my second home as I photograph a lot of weddings there every year, I did a quick count up recently and worked out I have photographed over 50 weddings at Fawsley over the past ten years. This was my second visit this year and I’m back again in three weeks time….
I was very excited to photograph my first Persian wedding ceremony, in 12 years of photographing weddings I have seen ceremonies from many faiths but had never photographed a Persian ceremony, it was full of emotion and I doubt anyone had a dry eye. This was a day of two ceremonies, the first taken by…
Higham Ferrers wedding photography I travel all over the UK and occasionally abroad to photograph weddings but as a Northamptonshire wedding photographer I have to say there is something very nice about photographing a wedding in my home town and being able to walk to it. Higham Ferrers is an attractive small town in Northamptonshire with…
I was back to one of my favourite Northamptonshire wedding venues for Lucy and Dan’s wedding at Fawsley Hall. This is one of my regular local venues and I have photographed around 40 weddings here since the hotel opened. I started my coverage with Lucy’s pre wedding preps in the Spa before catching…
Fawsley Hall wedding photography by Simon Atkins. I photographed my first wedding at Fawsley Hall back in 2001 and since then have covered around 3 or 4 weddings a year here, these have included ceremonies at nearby Badby Church, and civil ceremonies in the Great Hall and Knightley Court. Fawsley Hall has an interesting history, it was…
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