Wednesday 27 May 2015

Woodland Themed Alnwick Treehouse Wedding (Lynne & Ian)

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I first met Lynne & Ian just a few months ago and we hit it off straight away. I was thrilled when they booked me to cover their wedding at the amazing Alnwick Treehouse Restaurant  towards the end of May. 

They planned a laid back day and were clear they wanted lots of relaxed and fun photographs - perfect.

They were reading this very blog where they discovered the Buick Special American vintage car above - from Valley Retro. and managed to book it for their wedding.  

The couple chose to get ready at The Plough, Alnwick  just round the corner. It has recently been refurbished and the rooms were lovely and full of character. 

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She chose Jenny Packham shoes to compliment her dress. 

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The florist was Lavenders Blue in Morpeth . They chose rustic bouquets of gyp & daisies and tulips. The florist, Christine made amazing button holes featuring herbs and also check out the amazing floral table plan set up further down the post. 

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The couple got married in the restaurant, under an arch of twinkly lights. The flowers and lanterns made an aisle and it looked beautiful.

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The ceremony was short and sweet which is what the couple wanted, and afterwards they had cocktails,corona and canapes for their guests, around The Potting Shed in the sunshine.


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When we met up to run through their wedding plans, Ian & Lynne told me they particularly loved the rope bridges at The Treehouse and wanted to incorporate them into their couples photographs. I bet they didn't expect me to jump up and down on them to make them laugh! 

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The speeches were perfect - heartfelt, emotional and funny. 



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The couple made sure the children were well entertained, with a 'kids room' in The Roost, complete with activity sheets, a Wii, arcade games and sweeties. The children had to take shifts to stop the 'big kids' getting in! Hehe.

They booked singer Hattie Murdoch after seeing her at The Botanist bar in Newcastle. Hattie was great and performed acoustic music during the ceremony, drinks reception and evening do. 

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I had so much fun photographing Ian & Lynne's wedding day and they made me so very welcome. 
They chose to have their honeymoon recreating a holiday they had few years ago, driving around Spain - sounds fab! 

Congratulations again to Ian & Lynne and I wish you all the very best for a long and happy marriage.

All images and text copyright Katie Byram Photography and must not be used without written permission from the photographer. 


Monday 25 May 2015

A rainy, rustic barn wedding for Lindsey & Graham (High House Farm Brewery)

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Lindsey & Graham chose to get married in August, hoping it would be a lovely sunny day. Unfortunately with that being pretty much they only thing you can't choose on your wedding day in England, it rained very nearly all day. However that didn't put a dampener (pun intended!) on their celebrations at all and we had fun and laughter all day.







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The church ceremony took place at St James' Church, Morpeth, afterwards guests boarded their vintage red bus for the journey to High House Farm Brewery  near Matfen, Northumberland.

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The reception was held in the barn outside which the couple had added so many personal touches to. Coco Luminaire  provided the giant light up letters and they had bunting & paperpom poms hanging from the roof. They made personalised beer bottle and chocolate favours for their guests too.

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Graham loves his mini, and a couple of people with classic minis also kindly brought them along for photos - Loved it!

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Their blue & white ruffle cake came from the amazing Curiously Wicked. 

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The bridesmaids embraced the rain, wearing wellies for some fun photographs. Graham & Lindsey also trusted me to capture some couples photographs in the rain too which I was really happy about as we got some great moments.

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Lindsey left me such a lovely review over on my Facebook page "Katie was our photographer 

for our wedding in August. The photographs were such an important part of the wedding to 

me and I was not disappointed. Me and family are absolutely over the moon with 

the photographs. She has managed to capture the whole atmosphere of the day perfectly, 

and we didn't even notice her taking half of the images! It rained most of the day but Katie 

really put me at ease about the weather and it didn't effect anything at all. In fact she 

brought umbrellas which look amazing in the photos. Katie was very professional and and

an absolute pleasure to work with. We had a lot of comments from our guests about how 

great she was on the day and also the photographs. Me and Graham can't thank you 

enough Katie. x" 

Thanks so much for having me as your photographer guys it was fabulous and thanks for trusting my slightly mad ideas. Congratulations on your marriage! 

All images copyright Katie Byram Photography. Please visit my website   for more information on the wedding photography that I offer.