Wedding Photographer and Videographer Near the Yorkshire Coast and East Riding

01 / Carlton, near Goole, North Yorkshire / Yukki & Leslie

Carlton Towers: a long table, clear umbrellas and sparklers to end the day

Carlton Towers is a country house at Carlton, near Goole and just inside North Yorkshire, which is why it is a labelled neighbour in this guide rather than an East Riding wedding. Yukki and Leslie married there in October 2023.

It rained, and the clear umbrellas made the day: the two walk across the gravel under a lace-trimmed white umbrella and a clear one with confetti flying around them, and later Leslie lifts Yukki off the ground in front of a wall of red and green ivy. Inside there is a long table with flowers and candles beneath a timber ceiling and chandeliers, and the day ends in the dark with guests holding sparklers on both sides of the couple.

If you are planning an October wedding, buy a few good umbrellas and decide early where portraits will happen if the rain does not stop. Yukki and Leslie’s day is a reminder that weather is part of the photographs, not something to apologise for.

For current venue details, explore Carlton Towers.

02 / Hackness, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire / Chloe & Christian and Pippa & Dylan

Hackness Grange: a white staircase, two pugs and fireworks over the pond

Hackness Grange is at Hackness, a little inland from Scarborough, and we have photographed two weddings here, four years apart. The portrait at the top of this guide is Pippa and Dylan’s: a kiss under a canopy of fairy lights with soap bubbles drifting around them.

On the stairs the couple stand close above a black iron balustrade wound with greenery and white flowers, and out on the lawn two pugs in bow ties sit in front of them while the two kiss. In April, Chloe and Christian crossed a small arched bridge lined with white flowers in the trees, walking with an older woman in black, and later stood together on the lawn with the stone house and its reflection in the pond behind them.

The day ended with fireworks, and the photograph of the two of them with their arms around each other as the sky lights up is a reminder to ask early what your venue allows after dark. If you want something like it, agree the timing and who will let them off before the day, and keep it away from the moment you most want to remember in the light.

For current venue details, explore Hackness Grange.

03 / Near Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire / Karis & Dane

Gardeners Country Inn: a ceremony in the room, confetti on the lawn and a walk down the lane

Karis and Dane married at the Gardeners Country Inn near Hull on 21 May 2022, with a ceremony in a room dressed with a white floral arch and guests packed in close on both sides. Their first kiss is the first photograph here, with the front rows applauding.

Outside, the day opens up. The couple stand together in a small timber porch with a bouquet of white roses, and on the lawn their friends and family throw confetti in front of the red-brick inn with its sign on the wall. In black and white, Dane looks at Karis as she holds the bouquet, and the reception room behind it is dressed in white with teal ribbons on the chair backs.

Their last photographs are the quietest. A path between flowering hedges, a kiss in the long grass and Dane spinning Karis on the grass show that a country inn does not need a large estate behind it to give you somewhere to be together.

If you are choosing an inn for your wedding, ask which room is used for the ceremony and which for the meal, how long the changeover takes and where guests wait in the meantime. A change like that is easy to plan around if you know it is coming.

04 / Near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire / Abbey & Grant

A house near Goole: an archway of flowers, a walled garden and a long walk back across the lawn

Abbey and Grant married at a country house near Goole on 14 May 2022. Their ceremony was in a garden, beneath a flowered arch with guests in rows on the grass, and the first photograph is their kiss under it.

Afterwards guests lined the gravel with confetti in front of the pale stone house as the two walked out hand in hand, and at the table Abbey laughed so hard that Grant wiped his eye behind her. The photographs that follow wander through the garden: a kiss beneath tall trees, the two close together beside a pool framed by an autumn-red maple, a pause beneath a brick archway and a walk back across the lawn towards the house.

A garden wedding rewards a few minutes of planning. Ask where the ceremony would move if it rained and how many guests that room holds, and think about whether you would like confetti, bubbles or neither on the day. If you have a favourite part of the garden, tell us on the morning and we will find the light around it.