Emma and Tom's autumn wedding at Ringwood Hall, Chesterfield

Emma & Tom’s autumn wedding at Ringwood Hall in Chesterfield was sure to be a great day from the moment they booked with us.

In fact, there is a little story to tell about how it happened. I’m going to paste what I wrote on a Facebook status at the time.

Here goes.

January 2014: a long story status

“Yesterday was a really rubbish day… sort of. No one died, but you know what I mean: just one of those days.

With the stress of mortgages and other modern-day first world problems, I was getting generally stressed out with just about everything. The previous day I had met two wedding couples, and luckily I managed to get a booking from the later meeting of the day, which we were pretty chuffed about. We were looking forward to shooting their wedding, which was to take place next year. As I later found out, both couples had been to the wedding fayre at Magna to have a look round the other wedding services available. This was to result in one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced as a wedding photographer…

So, following on from my rubbish day on Monday, when I also met another lovely couple in the evening, I received a text message from the couple I had met and booked the day before. As soon as I read the first line of the message, I knew it wasn’t going to be good news.

The text started: ‘Hi Nick, you’re not going to believe what’s just happened to us.’

That was it. From then on, I could see the words ‘we’re going to have to cancel your services’ were going to appear later in the message…

The next part of the message said that after going to the wedding fayre and entering lots of competitions, unbelievably they had won their wedding photography with another company.

I was gutted, and my gut feeling about them cancelling us had basically been confirmed. Rubbish. I was just waiting for the rest of the message, to hear how sorry they were to have to cancel, because who could really turn that down?

BUT WAIT!

I carried on reading. The rest of the message said:

‘DON’T PANIC! We have turned it down, lol. After meeting you yesterday and seeing your work, we felt confident and very excited for you to do them.’

BOOM! MIND BLOWN!

That Emma and Tom did this for me and Nic, we are truly amazed and hugely grateful, beyond what they would ever believe.

So this message is just to say a huge thanks to them, and to say we can’t wait to shoot your wedding next year. We will create some stunning shots for you to remember for the rest of your lives.

Thank you, Emma and Tom xx”

Their wedding day at Ringwood Hall

So there you have it, and obviously we needed to make this special.

I’m not going to go into detail about what happened on the day, as that’s what the images are for, but we can say that it was one amazing day at Ringwood Hall, and again, big, big thanks to Emma, Tom and all their family and friends.

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