Hillbark Hotel and Brookhouse Mill

Once again, we have two weddings this week.

On Friday 14th August, we are photographing the civil wedding of Nicola and David at the magnificent Elizabethan country house that is Hillbark Hotel in Frankby on the Wirral. This is a beautiful and fascinating building with so many wonderful features including the stunning external timbering and with interior features too many to list (but I do love the huge windows in the great hall and the minstrels gallery!).

Interesting little factoid... the building wasn't on it's current site but was moved brick by brick to the current location!

Saturday sees us at the wedding of Sian and Tom. This time it's a church wedding with the ceremony taking place at St Marcell's Church in the old and famous Welsh town of Denbigh followed by a reception at nearby Brookhouse Mill.

Looking forward to both weddings. It's exciting for us that they are going to be so different both in style and location.

The following photographs are a very small sample of a couple of recent weddings we photographed at the Hillbark Hotel







More photographs from the Hillbark Hotel and other venues can be found both in this blog and on our main wedding website at www.barrieneilweddings.co.uk

This week's diary

One of the greatest differences in the business side of wedding photography when compared to commercial photography is the fact that the vast majority of wedding photography bookings take place at least 6 months ahead of the wedding itself (and frequently a year ahead). The wedding photographer is usually the next booking made after the church/venue for ceremony.

Commercial photography however, is very often short notice work and PR photography can even be same day. Altogether it makes for an exciting life and quite often, you never know quite what will turn up.

Today is Monday 10th August 2009 and once again, we have 2 weddings this week. One on Friday 14th August at the magnificent Hillbark Hotel on the Wirral and the other on Saturday 11th August at St Marcell's Church in Denbigh followed by a reception at nearby Brookhouse Mill in Denbigh (North Wales).

On the commercial front, we are working in Shrewsbury on Wednesday for a well known retailer and another commission has come our way from our good friends at the John Lewis Partnership. We will be spending Thursday at their Waitrose shop in Sandbach Cheshire.

Before that, we have got to finish off the editing from our two wonderful weddings from the past weekend.

Never a dull moment.