Jacqueline and Stefan had a very small, intimate wedding at the gorgeous Swinton Park just before Christmas. It was snowy and beautiful, and they braved the cold to have some of their photographs outside.

Swinton Park is one of Yorkshire’s most romantic and grand wedding venues, and it is unique in that it is set in hundreds of acres of gorgeous parkland, which is just amazing for photographs. It was too cold to venture far, but the castle looked even more like it was from a fairytale topped with snow.

Santa had to make an appearance in at least one of the photographs….

……but it wasn’t long before Jacqueline cracked up. Stefan joked that as Germans they should be serious. After meeting Jacqueline I will never again believe that!

Little Louis, their extremely cute 2 year old son, had to make an appearance too. And now that the secret it out, I can tell you that he will be joined by a brother or sister in May, so double congratulations are in order!

I love the snow. It turns everything into a magical winter wonderland, and even usually boring things take on a new, glittery persona.

The dogs love it! Here are Crumbs and Biscuit:

Crumbs has thankfully fully recovered from her Christmas operation. Snow everywhere!

They say that you are connected to everyone by six degrees of separation. To cut a long (and probably boring!) story short, I ended up photographing Lucy and Alex’s wedding after being recommended by a friend, who turned out to be Lucy’s Aunt, who turned out to be my husband’s friend’s wife, who had lived two doors down from our cottage in a village no one has heard of about 30 years ago. Oh, and I went to school with Lucy.

Anyway, after thankfully connecting, I photographed Lucy and Alex’s lovely humanist ceremony at Holdenby House in Northamptonshire at the beginning of December. Lucy had paid massive attention to detail, using Holdenby House’s connection with falconry and hunting as inspiration. The result was tweed, game and peacock feathers, and an awful lot of prettiness! We had to fight the quickly setting sun, as they married at 3pm, and the whole wedding had a wonderful, warm feeling.

Huge thanks to Hayley Ruth who second shot for me and caught these first two photographs:

Hello gorgeous! Lucy indulged us by sitting on this fantastic old commode for a portrait:

P.S. You may have noticed it’s snowing on my blog. Until it stops snowing outside, it will be snowing here, too!