Wedding Photographer Whittlebury Hall — the Formal Gardens, Silverstone and the Northamptonshire Countryside
Whittlebury Hall is one of Northamptonshire’s most established country house hotel and spa wedding venues — a large Georgian-style house in the village of Whittlebury, adjacent to the Silverstone motor racing circuit to the north, with formal gardens, the orangery, the terrace and the surrounding Northamptonshire countryside of the ancient Whittlewood Forest providing a wedding venue of considerable formal garden and interior variety. For Whittlebury Hall wedding photography, the hall’s formal rose garden, the orangery’s classical glass architecture and the Northamptonshire woodland setting of Whittlewood provide portrait settings of English country house formal garden character within a well-established wedding venue environment.
The Formal Garden, the Orangery and the Hall’s Classical Architecture
Whittlebury Hall’s formal rose garden — the enclosed walled garden with the rose borders’ seasonal colour from June to September and the garden’s formal parterres providing a classical country house garden portrait setting — provides the primary exterior garden portrait backdrop. The orangery’s tall classical windows and the French doors opening to the terrace — providing the diffused south light that characterises all orangery portrait settings — provide an indoor-outdoor threshold portrait setting of classical glasshouse character. The hall’s Georgian-style facade’s symmetrical windows and the entrance portico provide architectural backdrop portrait settings for formal wedding party photographs.
Whittlewood Forest, the Northamptonshire Estate Landscape and Stowe
Whittlewood Forest — the ancient royal hunting forest of the Northamptonshire-Buckinghamshire border, of which Whittlebury’s woodland setting retains character — provides an ancient woodland portrait setting adjacent to the hotel grounds. The Northamptonshire countryside’s characteristic ironstone and limestone estate landscape — the Shires’ rolling farming countryside of the southern Midlands with the estate house villages of Easton Neston, Canons Ashby (National Trust) and Rockingham Castle visible within a fifteen-mile radius — provides portrait landscape destinations of considerable Northamptonshire variety. Stowe’s National Trust landscape garden — accessible twelve miles south-west via the A413 — provides the most significant landscape garden portrait destination near Whittlebury.