Avoncroft Museum Wedding Photography | Amy + Marc

What a cool place for a Birm­ing­ham wedding!!!

Avoncroft Museum Wedding Photographer

When the Moth­er of the Bride asks you to play along to wind up her daugh­ter I think you know you’re in for a fun wedding!

Amy had con­tact­ed me about her Avon­croft Muse­um Wed­ding Pho­tog­ra­phy, but need­ed to sort out their bud­get, and that sort of thing, which is usu­al­ly how these things hap­pen, A cou­ple of weeks lat­er, her Mum rang me, say­ing that she want­ed to book me as a sur­prise for Amy, but would I play along with a joke?!

Appar­ent­ly, Amy has played quite a few pranks on her Mum in the past, so it was time for some mater­nal pay­back, albeit with a love­ly punch line for her daughter.

Keep a Straight Face

Now, I have to say that despite a turn as Joseph in the nurs­ery nativ­i­ty and a star­ring role as ‘Char­lie Loon, the Man in the Moon’, in a school pro­duc­tion of ‘The Sil­ver Curlew’ when I was about sev­en years old (just had to Google that to make sure I haven’t made that up!), act­ing is prob­a­bly not my forte.

That after­noon I rang Amy to break the bad news to her, that I had been booked by some­one else……. cue dra­mat­ic pause after a dis­ap­point­ed ‘OH, what a shame’ from the Bride to be.

Then, not want­i­ng to drag it out too long, I added ‘Booked by your Mum, for your wedding!!!’

There then fol­lowed some excit­ed screams, and I found out lat­er on from her Mum, some hap­py tears too!!

So all in all, an unusu­al way to take a wed­ding book­ing and quite fit­ting real­ly for such an unusu­al place to get mar­ried, like Avon­croft Museum. 

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I wan­na make you smile when­ev­er you’re sad
Car­ry you around when your arthri­tis is bad
All I wan­na do is grow old with you
I’ll get your med­i­cine when your tum­my aches
Build you a fire if the fur­nace breaks
Oh, it could be so nice, grow­ing old with you

The Wed­ding Singer — Grow Old With You

Unusual Birmingham wedding venue, DIY touches and a delicious afternoon tea!

If you’ve nev­er been to Avon­croft Muse­um then you might think ’ A muse­um? Lots of dusty dis­play cab­i­nets and bits of hold cab­i­nets, why get mar­ried there??’ But you could­n’t be fur­ther from the truth!

It’s such an inter­est­ing and quirky place to get mar­ried. For starters, it’s set in about 15 acres of Worces­ter­shire coun­try­side, to the south of Birmingham

What oth­er muse­um can you think of where the exhibits are build­ings?? Spread out across the site are a huge vari­ety of inter­est­ing and unusu­al con­struc­tions includ­ing a wind­mill, old gaol, a mis­sion church and the nation­al col­lec­tion of tele­phone boxes!!

A Museum of Buildings!

So eclec­tic it cer­tain­ly is and cre­ates an amaz­ing back­drop for the wed­ding day start­ing with the New Guesten Hall and it’s list­ed four­teenth cen­tu­ry roof. Amy & Marc used the hall for most of their wed­ding but also man­aged to incor­po­rate the Mis­sion Church, wind­mill and an old co-op store into the day, despite the March rain.

With a hon­ey­moon in New York there were loads of nods to that in their dec­o­ra­tions, then a scrum­my after­noon tea (yum yum!) and a packed bar for cock­tail hour before a first dance to the coolest ver­sion of ‘Can you Feel the Love Tonight’ that I’ve ever heard (By Pas­sen­ger, if you’re interested!)

Wedding Photography at Avoncroft Museum

If you’re look­ing for an Avon­croft Muse­um Wed­ding Pho­tog­ra­ph­er, or for any­where else, then please get in touch. I’d love to have a chat!