The Wedding of Jill and Steve Bolton

Yesterday we photographed the wedding of Jill and Steve Bolton at The Freemasons Hall in Manchester – and what a wedding it was! In all the years we have been photographing weddings we had never shot one in the snow ….. until yesterday. As the bride arrived at the venue it was just another grey winters day, typical for Manchester at this time of year – but as the ceremony finished snow started to fall. Unfortunately The Freemasons Hall is situated in one of the less attractive parts of the city center and the snow was not heavy and only created a light scattering across the ground. We rushed outside and made the most of what we had, walking across the road to the local Starbucks coffee shop where the bride very bravely agreed to sit outside ‘for a coffee’ while we photographed her. A lot of brides would not have gone outside at all for fear of getting the dress wet, but Jill and Steve just ‘went for it’ and had a laugh in what was great weather for a winter wedding. Choosing to get married in late December in Manchester you couldn’t hope for better. The whole day was a technical challenge for us as The Freemasons Hall is a huge building lit by yellow tungsten light which makes photographing colours accurately very difficult, added to that the complexity of photographing as the snow was falling (constantly having to wipe the snowflakes from the lens etc) made our task far from easy. We usually post  the wedding photographs online a few hours after the ceremony finishes, but on this occasion it was the  following afternoon. We spent 8 hours processing the 400 images rather than the usual 3 – but the work was worth it as the pictures are great ! A few examples from the day have been set to music above.