Wedding Photographer and Videographer Near Chester and the Welsh Border

01 / Chester, Cheshire / Chloe & John

Old Palace Chester: a dog in a tuxedo bib and sparklers beside the suspension bridge

Old Palace Chester is on Little St John Street in Chester, and the venue describes an exclusive-use Georgian manor house built in 1751 that overlooks The Groves and the River Dee. Chloe and John married here on 31 August 2022. The first photograph is the two of them holding hands and looking at each other, Chloe in a fitted gown and long veil with blush roses.

A small grey dog on a lead sits on a path in a black and white tuxedo-style bib with a bow tie, and in a photograph of the house a bride stands on stone steps beneath a red-brick Georgian front with tall sash windows. In the evening the day goes out into the city, with the couple at the far end of a suspension bridge in black and white and then kissing in a ring of bridesmaids and men in dinner suits holding sparklers, with a bridge tower behind them at dusk.

A city wedding like this takes a plan for the walk, so ask the venue about timings and how guests will find their way back. Allow time for the sparklers to be lit and for everyone to gather.

For current venue details, explore Old Palace Chester.

02 / Near Chester, Cheshire / Emma & James

Carden Park: a white gazebo, a stone bridge and bare winter trees in a pond

Carden Park Hotel is on Broxton Road, near Chester, and the venue says it sits in 1,000 acres of Cheshire countryside, with a gazebo for outdoor weddings. Emma and James married here on 10 April 2022. The first photograph is the two of them kissing under a white gazebo hung with white flowers, with joined hands.

Elsewhere the two stand on a garden path, Emma in a strapless lace gown with white roses and James in a navy suit and tweed waistcoat, and cross a small stone bridge looking at each other, with bare trees and open fields beyond. On a low arched red-stone bridge over a still pond among bare winter trees, their reflection is in the water.

The black and white photograph below is of the two holding hands beneath the gazebo with rows of empty wooden chairs behind them. A hotel with this much land makes it easy to give the couple portraits their own time, so ask which areas are open on your date and where guests wait.

For current venue details, explore Carden Park.

03 / Ledsham, South Wirral, Cheshire / Gabi & Mikey

Inglewood Manor: a buttonhole in an arched doorway, a spin beneath the wisteria and a dip at the door

Inglewood Manor is at Ledsham on the South Wirral, and the venue describes a Grade II listed Edwardian manor house built in 1915, set in 38 acres of grounds and offered for exclusive use. Gabi and Mikey married here on 16 April 2022. The first photograph is in black and white: two men in dark suits in an arched stone doorway beneath leaded windows, one of them pinning on a buttonhole.

Outside, a bride holding a pink and cream bouquet kisses her groom beside a pink sandstone wall under a wisteria pergola, and later she spins her skirt beneath the wooden-beam pergola with sandstone pillars as Mikey watches. The two kiss outdoors with their arms around each other as the low sun glows behind them.

The last photograph is another in black and white: Mikey dips Gabi as her dress swirls, seen through an arched doorway with leaded windows. A manor like this gives the day arches and pergolas to frame the portraits, so ask when the wisteria will be in flower on your date.

For current venue details, explore Inglewood Manor.

04 / Near Tarporley, Cheshire / Rebecca & Sam

Duddon Mill Farm: champagne in pyjamas, a groom held flat in the air and dancing in a tent

Duddon Mill Farm is on Mill Lane near Tarporley, and the venue describes itself as a wedding and events venue on 65 acres of mixed farmland, well suited to tipi and marquee weddings. Rebecca and Sam married here on 3 August 2024. The morning begins with a group of women in pyjama sets raising champagne glasses on a stone terrace in front of two canvas tipis.

Rebecca and Sam hold each other on a lawn beneath the hanging branches of a willow, and on another lawn a laughing Sam in a white shirt and linen trousers is held flat out in the air by five groomsmen. In the tent, hung with string lights and a swag of white fabric, the two dance forehead to forehead, and guests sing and dance in a blur of movement under warm string lights.

The last photograph is a kiss in the low evening sun, Sam in a white shirt and tan braces with Rebecca’s hand on his cheek. A farm wedding rewards a plan for the evening: ask how the lighting works after dark, and where guests can stand for air between dances.

For current venue details, explore Duddon Mill Farm.

05 / Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales / Emma & Andy

Tyn Dwr Hall: a rope swing, a long staircase and a lift in front of the half-timbered hall

Tyn Dwr Hall is on Tyn Dwr Road in Llangollen, in Denbighshire on the Welsh side of the border. We have photographed three weddings here, and this story follows Emma and Andy, who married on 24 June 2023. The first photograph is the two of them on a rope swing in the garden, Emma in a lace gown with a very long train and Andy close beside her.

Earlier, a bride walks down a wooden staircase on her father’s arm under a chandelier, and the two walk hand in hand, both laughing, through a shower of confetti between guests with a half-timbered brick building behind them. They stand face to face on a wooden footbridge with rope handrails, and Andy lifts a laughing Emma in his arms in front of the half-timbered brick hall.

The last photograph is Emma with seven friends in colourful dresses on the lawn, laughing in front of a glass wall that reflects the garden. A hall with this much garden gives you a lot of places for the whole party to be photographed, so ask which spaces are open to you and how many guests each holds.

For current venue details, explore Tyn Dwr Hall.

06 / Trevor, near Llangollen, Wales / Sian & Ben

Trevor Hall: a blue bench under a wisteria, an urn terrace and the hills beyond

Trevor Hall is near Llangollen, on the Welsh side of the border, and Sian and Ben married here on 22 June 2022. The portrait at the top of this guide is the two of them in front of a green door set in an old brick arch among ivy, Ben kissing Sian’s cheek, and the photographs here are the quieter ones that surround it.

In the morning Sian sits in a white robe having her hair styled by a woman while a baby in a pink top holds a teddy bear beside her chair. Later the two kiss on a curved blue-painted wooden bench beneath a twisted wisteria branch, and stand holding hands on a terrace with two rusted urns, a wooded hill beyond.

In the long grass of a field the two stand forehead to forehead in front of a fence, and in the last photograph Sian stands on the lawn with two friends, one in a spotted dress and sunglasses and one in a rust satin dress, with the hills behind. A hall with views like these is a reason to keep a few minutes of the afternoon free, so ask the venue where the best view is and walk there together.