Oldberrow House Wedding Photography | Rachael & Rich

An E‑type Jag, pass the parcel, ceremony sing-a-long.…and a mankini at this Oldberrow House Wedding!!!!

Oldberrow House Wedding Photographer

Where to start?

Sooooo much good stuff to say about the War­wick­shire wed­ding of Rachael & Richard at the won­der­ful Old­ber­row House.

Let’s begin with the venue, a pri­vate Vic­to­ri­an coun­try house that opens its doors only a few times a year for some pret­ty cool wed­ding shindigs, like this one! For own­ers Joanne & Antho­ny it’s a prop­er fam­i­ly affair with their kids roped in to help get every­thing ready. But it’s not every­one that can go to school on Mon­day and say that there has been a wed­ding on their front lawn at the weekend!

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Grow old with me
Let us share what we see
And oh the best it could be
Just you and I
And our hands they might age
And our bod­ies will change
But we’ll still be the same
As we are

Tom Odell — Grow Old with Me

Candid Warwickshire Wedding Photography

I’ve pho­tographed quite a few out­door wed­dings and there are lots of ways you can do it. 

Rach & Rich chose to use a Cel­e­brant for their wed­ding at Old­ber­row House. This allowed them to have a total­ly open-air cer­e­mo­ny AND have incred­i­bly per­son­alised vows that includ­ed their own ‘love sto­ry’. It was a beau­ti­ful cer­e­mo­ny and just to add anoth­er per­son­al touch, at the end, every­one joined in with a sing-a-long of ‘Ho hey’ by The Lumineers!!

But before that we of course had the get­ting ready by Rachael and brides­maids upstairs in the house. Fol­lowed by Rich and Best Man arriv­ing in a v cool vin­tage E‑type jag, very James Bond!! I think they had a blast dri­ving it down the War­wick­shire coun­try lanes to Old­ber­row House!

Have to give props to Rachael’s make up artist, Helen Brady. As well as doing a fab job with the make up (of course!) she also was on the ball enough to have straws at the ready for the ubiq­ui­tous glass of fizz that all the girls had when they were all ready — now that’s planning!!

Outdoor wedding ceremony in Warwickshire

With this being the UK the weath­er kept us on our toes by send­ing a del­uge of rain the day before the wed­ding, giv­ing the Bride & Groom a ner­vous 24 hours. But as Rachael came down the stairs at Old­ber­row House to see her Dad, her hus­band-to-be and guests were wait­ing out­side on the lawn in the sun­shine, exact­ly as planned

I love the free­dom that an out­door wed­ding cer­e­mo­ny gives me as I feel able to (dis­creet­ly) wan­der around the assem­bled throng to cap­ture the events that unfold from every angle.

Warwickshire Marquee Wedding

With the sky turn­ing black the wed­ding break­fast arrived at just the right time. The heav­ens soon opened but I don’t think any­one real­ly noticed, they were hav­ing far too much fun inside the mar­quee on lawn out­side Old­ber­row House.

It amazes me how cre­ative peo­ple can be and this wed­ding was a per­fect demon­stra­tion. As the guests sat down they had ‘table par­cel the pass’ (that’s a thing right?!) to reveal the menu (most tasty food I have to say from Fine Food Mat­ters — nom nom), a cam­era and a wed­ding speech sweep­stake form

The speech­es were AMAZING, bel­ly laughs galore, heart­felt, full of love and, sad­ly, tinged with sad­ness. But a day that brings so many peo­ple togeth­er is the per­fect place to remem­ber those no longer with us

It’s rare at wed­dings for their to be a speech by the Bride but I real­ly do hope that this changes as the ones I’ve heard have been awesome.

Her Dad had brought along her old trum­pet, from days gone by, for a reluc­tant demon­stra­tion from Rachael after LOTS of encour­age­ment! He also claimed to have changed her name by deed poll — not sure if this actu­al­ly hap­pened though?!?!

With the Best Man reveal­ing the lurid green mank­i­ni that Rich had been made to wear on his stag it need­ed the Bride’s speech to bring things back to the sub­ject of love — I mean that is what wed­dings are all about isn’t it?!!

Some of the love­ly peo­ple involved in putting this wed­ding togeth­er were:-

Mar­quee — Bou­tique Marquees

Dress — The White Boutique

Make­up — Helen Brady

If you like my wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy and want some more details then please get in touch!!