Explore real weddings, proposals and beautiful locations from across the Lake District and Cumbria. From mountain elopements to lakeside celebrations, these stories showcase one of the UK’s most iconic wedding destinations.
Faye & Chris met when they were teenagers, through mutual friends, and have been together ever since! They both love the outdoors with Fell walking and Cycling as keen hobbies alongside watching the MOTO – GP and chilling at home together. Both being relaxed and chilled-out people they found Three Hills Barn to be the…
It’s amazing to think how I was only at Armathaite Hall photographing an outdoor ceremony the day before Sophie & Freddie’s wedding day! However, the lake’s district being the lakes… the weather was oh so different! As the day started the weather was beautifully clear over Bassenthwaite, which takes up the majority of Armathwaites stunning…
Dates can be significate to people for many reasons. For Lena & Barry, however, their wedding date has a rather cool twist to it! After meeting and chatting online they found out that they, in fact, lived on the same street as each other. On the 21/8/2018 they finally met in person over coffee and…
It was my first time photographing a wedding at the Old Grammar House in Cartmel, and I honestly can’t wait to be back! Cartmel Old Grammar is a beautifully renovated country house set in landscaped gardens overlooking Cartmel Racecourse. The Lake District village of Cartmel is utterly gorgeous and is only 500 metres away from…
Starting at Wetheral Village Church and ending up at the amazing country house wedding venue, Farlam Hall country house hotel, just outside Brampton. Sam & Joe’s wedding was an utter scorcher of a day in the Cumbrian Sun!
Francesca & Adam contacted me last year about their Lake District Civil Partnership and I instantly fell in love with their vision for their day. Starting of at Cockermouth Town Hall for their civil ceremony and then venturing out across crummock water, a stone’s throw from where they were staying. “Adam and I met online…
Only having a weeks notice is a little bit unusual but it was also thrilling and amazing knowing I was helping a couple out in a time of need.
Simon & Claire enjoyed a gorgeous ‘Just Us’ wedding at The briery wood hotel, on Windermere. The ceremony itself was totally private with the photos afterward being a celebration of their newly founded marriage. Both being from Wales, and not knowing The Lake District, they placed their trust in me for a mini-tour of the Lakes for portraits! Something I utterly love to do!
After many changes to plans and postponements with the COVID19 pandemic Jess & Ollies Intimate Lake District Church Wedding was finally a reality!
I adored Stephen & Amanda’s Hidden River Barn Wedding, even if the original plan was not for an intimate wedding, they held on through the lockdowns and postponements of 2020 and with changes, managed to still say their vows and have their winter wedding on their original date!
This Autumn was their 12th wedding anniversary and so to celebrate Erin & Ric travelled up to The Lake District for a Post Wedding Portrait Session
Ellie & Gareth’s had their Civil Partnership at the amazing Hidden River Cabins! With just the two of them chilling out and enjoying time together by the warm cabin fire watching films and drinking plenty of cups of tea… and eating cake!
Kayleigh & Matthew contacted me in December last year about their upcoming small intimate casual wedding plans asking if I would photograph them. Of course! I jumped at the chance as I was available for their date.
A very wet walk to find Galleny Force Waterfall in Jo & Cains post wedding portrait session in the lake districts Borrowdale Valley.
Katja & Oliver recently married and travelled to The Lake District for their honney moon. They wanted a Post Wedding Portrait Session to celebrate their new commitment to each other as well as Katja reliving a classic family tradition of walking Gummers How fell and sitting on the Trig Point over looking windermere.
Although the rain hardly stopped all day, it was an amazing intimate wedding surrounded by their closest family to whiteness their wedding ceremony and say their vows. Afterwards we headed to the train station to make our way down to Penrith and from there into our cars and into The Lake District.
We started the day heading towards the lakes catching up on old times and having a laugh while we drove down towards Rannerdale. Even when the famous bluebells are not out this area of the lakes is utterly stunning. We ventured along the paths, splashed in the puddles and had some mini scrambles over rocky paths.
Pauline & Stuart fancied a Post Wedding Portrait Session in the Lake District after thier Scottish humanist ceremony.
Alex & Ash joined me in a small hike looking over Thirlmere with Raven Crag in the background for their post-wedding portrait session.
We all know I love a winter wedding, but Abby & Phil’s winter wedding at the Garden At Eden was on one of the shortest days of the year! As a photographer, that’s hard to work with but I love a challenge and I adore this couple!
Winter weddings are always beautiful, the twinkly lights, the cosey fires and hopefully a little bit of snow! Well, Natalie and Lukes winter wedding at the stunning Inn On the Lake overlooking Ullswater was incredible!
Katie & David’s stunning Autumnal Wedding At Askham Hall was amazing! Full of fun, laughs, dancing and gorgeous couple portraits all within Askham Halls stunning grounds and a dry autumn day.
Sarah & David married at the Cragwood Country House Hotel in the Lake District in a Just Us elopement ceremony.
Lanercost Priory near Hadrian’s wall is steeped in history. It is also where this gorgeous couple said their “I do’s” in a long family tradition.
Kirsty and Darren said their vows at the Anvil Hall in Gretna followed by their reception at The Halston Hotel in Carlisle. Both being Scottish and living in the English city of Carlisle, they wanted to get married in Scotland but also keep the party close to home.
Korin and Lewis had an amazing rustic wedding at Knipe Hall, a 17th-century grade-II listed farmhouse, in the Lowther Valley, Cumbria.
Lizzie & Martins Crown and Mitre wedding was amazing. It was all about friends and family having fun in a venue that everyone could access. Slap bang in the middle of Carlisle is the Crown and Mitre Hotel, with its stunning ballroom, staircases and ceremony room its an amazing venue for a Carlisle city centre wedding.
Charlotte & Andy’s simple & classy Low Wood Bay Wedding was gorgeous and included an awesome boat tour of Winderemere in the lake district!
A Lingholm Estate Wedding on the shores of Derwent water in the Lake District. The perfect place for a relaxed country house wedding.
Sarah & Craigs Cumbria wedding started with a church ceremony at St Mary’s Parish Church, Workington with their wedding reception to follow at the amazing Three Hills Barn, Torpenhow.