Shotton Grange

Shotton Grange is a Georgian Manor and coaching house turned wedding venue. It’s a beautiful big house sitting in six acres of land with woodland, lawns and a big walled garden with lots of beautiful flowers for guests to hang out in on sunny days.

Alex and Kris chose Shotton Grange because they wanted a fun informal wedding celebration with their closest friends and family, they wanted it to be colourful and fun just like them. Determined to do their own thing Alex opted out of wearing traditional wedding dress and treated herself to s snazzy outfit from ASOS instead while Kris wore a kilt and they both looked bloody smashing.

Shotton Grange Wedding Venue Newcastle Upon Tyne

A butterfly sitting on some daisies in the walled garden at Shotton Grange.

The bride puts on make up in front of a mirror at Shotton Grange.

The Ceremony

Alex was walked down the aisle by her father and then her and Kris had their wedding ceremony performed by a humanist celebrant in front of their closest friends and family. There was lots of giggles and tears during the hand fasting ceremony and generally Alex and Kris looking totally besotted with each other all in the beautiful setting of Shotton Grange’s light and airy ceremony room. After the ceremony Alex and Kris were accosted by their weddings guests with a tray load of natural petal confetti and also greeted by a few amorous wasps.

Bride is walked down the aisle by her father.

Bride wipes a tear away during her ceremony at Shotton Grange.

Bride and groom hold each other for a moment in front of their friends and family.

Bride and Groom walk down the aisle together.

Bride and groom share a laugh and a drink together outside.

Bride and groom are attacked by confetti and wasps.

Bride and groom laugh as red petal confetti is thrown at them.

Natural petal confetti on the floor next to guests tattooed legs.

Walled Garden and Portraits

After the confetti throwing the wedding party made their merry way into Shotton Grange’s beautiful walled garden, where they were greeted with fruity drinks and sunshine. Alex and Kris opted out of formal group shots and just had a few photographs of themselves together. Leaving more time for them to enjoy the day with guests and giving me more time to grab those lovely natural reportage shots. Winner, winner! Veggie roast dinner!

Guests enjoy a laugh under a tree in Shotton Granges Walled garden.

The bride and her mother enjoy a laugh together.

Grandma sits laughing surrounded by young ones on their phones.

Mother of the bride has a moment with her son as the maid of honour and her partner chat with her mother.

The bride is presented a gift by her step dad.

Bride and groom stand laughing together naturally.

Bride and groom laugh at wedding guests.

Bride and groom chill on a bench together.

Bride and groom laughing in front of flowers.

Bride and groom stand together in front of a row of daisies, bride wears daisy ear rings.

Untraditional bride and groom stand laughing on their chilled out wedding celebration.

Groom cracks up laughing while bride gives him a shove.

Bride and groom laugh together, groom wears kilt and bride goes for a non traditional wedding outfit.

Bride and groom stand laughing together in the walled garden at Shotton Grange.

The Wedding Breakfast and Speeches

While Alex, Kris and their wedding guests were relaxing in the garden, the hard working team at Shotton Grange were busy transforming the ceremony room into a beautiful, colourful dining area for the dinner and speeches.

Alex is an illustrator and graphic designer and chose the colour pallet for the room, keeping the centre pieces simple and effective. Alex chose yellow, blue and white bottles with pink candles and had grapefruit and oranges chopped in half showing there wonderful natural patterns and colours. Alex also designed the awesome ribbon table planner you can see in the photo below that really brought the room together. Check out Alex’s bloody awesome illustrations here: http://www.alexdavy.net/

Speeches were a fun filled affair with hilarious and heartfelt speeches from Kris’s Grandad Kevin, Alex’s Mum Sheila, Kris’s Best Man Jay, Alex’s maid of honour Megs and of course the man of the moment Kris.

Summer wedding colour pallet of yellow, orange, pink, red and blue dining room ready for the Wedding Breakfast.

Summer fruits wedding cake for relaxed summer wedding.

Bride, groom, mother of the bride and the grooms grandma laugh and the grooms grandads speech.

Mother of the bride makes a speech and the bride and groom laugh.

Bride, groom and grooms grandma sit laughing during the speeches.

The best man makes his speech at Shotton Grange.

Mother and Step father of the groom laugh at the best mans speech.

Cake cutting and First Dance

After the speeches and a bit a bit of milling about with guest outside Alex and Kris cut their cake, which was a fruity little number in akin with day and then went into their first dance to kick off the party! A belting party it was. Thanks for having me Alex and Kris. xx