Christine and Ali’s Superb Oak Tree Of Peover Wedding Day

We hired Rick to photograph our February 2025 wedding at the Oak Tree at Peover, and were really impressed by both his approach before and on the day, and the final output.

Rick invited us to an Engagement Shoot a few months ahead of the wedding. This not only gave us some fantastic shots, but it also helped us be more relaxed when having pictures taken. Rick’s approach really helped set us at ease, and helped us get the most out of the pictures. The session also helped showcase some of Rick’s photography techniques, including using false sunsets, to give us an expectation of how these different techniques could work for us.

Closer to the wedding, we met with Rick in his home studio to discuss our timetable and plans for the wedding day itself. Rick’s approach here really helped build on our ideas, with Rick building on his experience of what works best to ensure the images captured would be the best they could be – for example, we were looking to give guests tubes of bubbles instead of confetti, but Rick advised us to supplement these with bubble machines so as to have the maximum impact – and this really showed in the final pictures.

Shortly before the day, Rick also visited the venue to familiarise himself, and plan for some specific shots. This led to some fantastic photos utilising the outside space, and reflections across the lake. Doing this, as well as building on our own ideas from having looked around the venue, made sure we got all the pictures we wanted, as well as some phenomenal pictures we had not even considered possible!

We also went with a second photographer (Peter), who Rick arranged for us. But more than having good contacts to bring in an excellent second photographer, Rick also advised us on how to get the most out of them. Advice like this was really important to us, and definitely informed our plans for our guests.
Rick and Peter blended in seamlessly during the day, and were able to get some really innovative angles and shots, as well as the more traditional posed photographs. Some of the pictures taken caught us in candid moments, that created some hilarious pictures (which whilst they won’t go in the album, will definitely be printed for our own memories!) which illustrate just how relaxed we both were, and how easy Rick was to work with.

There are some incredible standout images that Rick was able to arrange and capture, utilising sparklers and long exposure methods, reflections across the lake, colour filters and false sunsets, and the final results show that choosing to work with Rick was absolutely the right decision for our wedding. We would gladly recommend Rick to anyone getting married in the area, and it is easy to see why Rick is a (richly deserved) multi-year Hitched award winning photographer!