Leanne and Will’s wedding at Broadoaks Country House – Lake District wedding photography.
August has been my busiest month this year with weddings all over the UK, as usual for this time of the year I have got a long way behind with adding recent weddings to my blog. I will try to catch up with weddings from July later on. For now though I have Will and Leanne’s Broadoaks Country House wedding from August 7th to share with you.
I often travel around a lot for weddings so it was nothing unusual to have the three hour drive up the M6 to the Lake District. I have photographed weddings at many of the hotels in the Lakes but never at Broadoaks before. My sat nav decided to take me on the scenic route past a sheep dog event and along single track roads, I was happy about this as it meant bypassing the long queue of traffic heading for Bowness on Windermere. Eventually I arrived at Broadoaks Country House, a small boutique hotel at Troutbeck. After saying hello to Will my coverage started with Leanne and the bridesmaids having their hair styled up in the ‘Boudoir’ room.
The wedding ceremony took place outside in the gardens, luckily the weather was perfect with a picture book blue sky. Outdoor weddings seem to be gaining popularity despite the finicky British weather. This was a really stunning location for the ceremony with views across the hills and a glimpse of Lake Windermere glistening down below.
After the ceremony Will and Leanne departed from tradition with a game of rounders, in 14 years and 600 weddings it was the first time I had seen this. Everybody joined in for a game of the boys versus the girls. Way back previous to being a wedding photographer I worked as a press photographer, so a little bit of sports photography didn’t break me into a sweat.
I’m sure everyone had worked up a good appetite for dinner served in the dining room. I don’t take many photographs of people eating so I used this as an excuse to walk up to a scenic point I’d seen in the car on the way in, to photograph Lake Windermere. I’d slightly underestimated how far it was to walk and the short cut on the way back wasn’t such a good idea in my wedding shoes, but it was worth it for the photographs. I arrived back at Broadoaks Country House in plenty of time to photograph the speeches and the first dance.
Broadoaks Country House is a really lovely location for smaller intimate weddings, it is very much the perfect venue for wedding photographers during the summer months. The rooms are all beautifully decorated and have interesting features, it is really the natural beauty of the surrounding area that make this a real jewel of a venue. Leanne and Will had exclusive use of the hotel along with all the rooms. Weddings where everything is in one place are always more relaxing and here your guests can stay the night as well. The Lake District is a fair drive from me, but I’m always happy to hear from couples getting married in the Lakes.
Broadoaks country house website along with details of having your wedding there can be found here.
