A Marriage Made in Heaven: Vickerstaff Photography and The Place Hotel

I’d intro­duce Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy myself, but I did that yes­ter­day. So I’m using a great blog com­ment from last week instead:

“I recently met Jamie at one of our monthly North West Photographer’s jaunts. Such an affa­ble guy. I told him that I like his work. Have done for about 2 years but this was the first time he met me. This post just re-affirms my belief. The atten­tion to the details. To story telling. To the for­mal por­trai­ture. The qual­ity of the fin­ish­ing on the images… all top notch.” Read more… by Anurag Sharma

Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy — Jamie and Tory — pho­tographed this wed­ding at The Place Hotel  in 2011. Jamie com­mented at the time, “Ivanka & Ashley’s deci­sion to book The Place Hotel for me was the best ever! I was like a kid in a candy store: it is such a great venue for pho­tographs.” — and The Place Hotel were just as delighted with the images.

The trick to find­ing a wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher who really stands out from the crowd is to look for dis­tinc­tive images on their web­site or blog. A pho­tog­ra­pher who has shot wed­dings at your venue before is the first thing to look for. Then see how cre­ative they can be:

Look for a wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher who sees every wed­ding through fresh eyes. Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy are great at this: no two wed­dings are the same for Jamie and Tory. They cre­ate fresh, beau­ti­ful and indi­vid­ual wed­ding pho­tographs, inspired by their brides and grooms as well as wed­ding venues like The Place Hotel. And this is what makes them stand out from the crowd.

Once again, I’m going to quote Anurag Sharma, another North West wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher, as he left such a lovely blog com­ment for Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy recently:

“Take the sign­ing of the reg­is­ter. A tedious set up forced upon us pho­tog­ra­phers by min­is­ters and reg­is­trars the land over. Jamie, like a num­ber of us would do, waited. He waited for the other things that hap­pen away from that norm. Sure we pho­to­graph the staged shot but the fun is in what hap­pens in between.

You can see this in the shot where the min­is­ter is writ­ing and the bride is enjoy­ing a won­der­ful moment with her brides­maids. This says so much more about the mood, the cama­raderie and the day than any staged reg­is­ter sign­ing shot could ever do.”

About Manchester’s Place Hotel wed­ding venue

As a Grade II listed hotel it means the build­ing you are hold­ing your spe­cial occa­sion or stay­ing in has a unique sig­nif­i­cance beyond its mere local­ity and every effort should be made to pre­serve it for future generations.

The Place Hotel has trans­formed itself into a 107 apart­ment styled hotel com­plete with 2 stun­ning func­tion rooms and con­fer­ence cen­tre. Funky light fit­tings, com­fort­able sofas and ele­gant cof­fee tables fuse with the red brick and iron work into an almost deca­dent effect, while at the same time remain­ing grace­ful, under­stated and charming.

The Place Hotel has man­aged to achieve the per­fect bal­ance of old and new, con­tem­po­rary styling along side mod­ern fix­tures which com­pli­ment the Grade II fea­tures per­fectly, ulti­mately cre­at­ing an unfor­get­table, unique space.

For me, Vick­er­staff Photography’s images from The Place Hotel show the same thought­ful­ness, imag­i­na­tion and cre­ativ­ity as Anurag is talk­ing about in his com­ment. These are wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers who will con­sider the venue you’ve cho­sen for your wed­ding more care­fully than most. They’ll look for ways to make your wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy spe­cial, dif­fer­ent and per­fect for you.

It makes them a very spe­cial team if you ask me — and I’m sure they’ll be hot prop­erty on all the top UK wed­ding blogs in the not-too-distant future!

Also instru­men­tal to the suc­cess of this gor­geous shoot:

• Glam­our Bridal and Prom Ltd
• One Beau­ti­ful Day
• Phi­los­o­phy Flowers
• The Place Hotel
• Vick­er­staff Photography