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31st October 2019 by Halo Photography

Seaham Hall for a Grand Halloween Wedding

Seaham Hall for a Grand Halloween Wedding
31st October 2019 by Halo Photography

Emma & Ben’s Spooktacular, Zombie Themed Halloween Wedding

Seaham Hall is not one of Halo Photography’s usual haunts. Emma & Ben found us after family members met us at a charity function. They loved our personalities and recommend us. We got excited from the moment Emma & Ben visited and told us all of their scary ideas. A light sprinkling of Halloween details for the day time and then a full-on flesh-eating zombie apocalypse for the night of 31st October.

Checking out Seaham Hall

This was going to be our first visit to Seaham Hall so I did a full recce the weekend before. It’s a beautiful Hall, hotel & popular spa resort. Located right on the North East coast it’s within walking distance of the beach. If it was any other wedding couple we’d have definitely encouraged our wedding couple to use it as a photo location. But we already had so much to pack into one afternoon and it wouldn’t have fit in with the Halloween theme.

Seaham Hall in County Durham

Seaham Hall seems a dream venue to photograph. Light spacious indoor areas with different vantage points and beautiful tiered gardens and water features. My only worry was whether this beautiful white building would look spooky enough at night.

Seaham Hall's Gardens

Wubba Lubba Dub Dub

We got to the hall bright & early. Lisa & I split off to visit our wedding parties. The boys had already started getting ready without me, with Ben making sure his two young sons were ready first. Bonding over Rick & Morty it dawned on me that the boys looked strangely familiar. On the day I just couldn’t place where I knew them from. It wasn’t until a few days later that I realised they had recently moved in, with their mum, right across the street from my home!

Girl Zombies Only!

Lisa was made wonderfully welcome in the girl’s’ room. Emma will admit that she isn’t a girlie girl. A wedding dress just isn’t her style and you could see she was looking forward to getting dressed up for the Halloween party far more. Emma was joined by her mum and grandmother who were gushing with pride.

A Flowergirl looking out of a Seaham Hall window
Flowergirl fastening her shoes
Brides mum & Grandmother laughing

Emma’s mum & dad are real characters. There aren’t many parents that would be keen if their daughters big day was hijacked by a hoard of zombies & ghouls. But they, and the whole family, seemed to be behind them 100%. This wasn’t going to be some half-hearted affair where no one joined in. In the bar, where all of the wedding guests were gathering, the party was the main topic of conversion.

Big grin from brides dad
Wedding rings and zombie skulls
Usher helping the groom get ready
grooms halloween cufflinks
Grooms dad hold his suit jacket
Grooms son hold the ring chest
Groom checking himself in the mirror
Groom applying aftershave
Brides skull shoes and bouquet
Bride having her hair styled at Seaham Hall
Brides spooky hair clip
Little flower girl getting ready

Emma & Ben knew that they couldn’t make the day time wedding service too gothic. But everything had subtle little spooky touches. Lisa also started a trend of doing scary expressions after every smiley setup. If Emma wanted she could have had the option of a full album with scary faces.

Bride and bridesmaids practicing their scary faces for halloween
Flower girl kissing herself in the mirror
Silhouette of Bridesmaids getting the wedding dress ready

The Lads about Seaham Hall

As the lads were ready with loads of time to spare, I dragged them away from Seaham Halls bar for some groomsmen photos. Ben’s sons were going to play a big part of the day. Emma really wanted the boys to be involved.

Groomsmen outside of Seaham Hall
Page Boy in the grounds of Seaham Hall
Ring bearer holding wedding rings in a small wooden chest
Groom hugging his two sons
Groomsmen in Seaham Hall Gardens
Groomsmen walking through Seaham Hall Gardens
Groom & Bestman
Groom and his parents at Seaham Hall Gardens
Guests waiting in Seaham Halls Bar
Groom downing a quick drink
Young Guest pull a funny face
Registry book next to witches brooms on the service table
page boy looking over his shoulder in the service room

Zombies Don’t Cry!

Bridesmaids arranging brides wedding dress
Father of the bride seeing his daughter in her wedding dress for the first time.
Bride holding back tears
Bride hugging her dad
Bride with her bouquet
Groom hold son at Seaham Hall
Groom hugging his son at Seaham Hall
Wedding guests reading service book
Wedding guests laughing
Bride walking down Seaham Hall stairs

Say I Do or the Bride will Eat your Brains

Emma & Ben had planned a small twist to the wedding service with the whole bridal party walking down the aisle to enter the wedding service. They gave out treats & favours as they went.

The space that Seaham Hall used for the service was great from our perspective. A huge skylight above the area, flooding it with light. Its also surrounded by corridors all the way around and above. So Lisa stayed on the balcony above where she could wander without distracting from the service. I focussed on the ground floor facing Emma & Ben but still got to venture around once they had made their official vows.

Brides mum handing out flowers
Groomsmen walking down the aisle at Seaham Hall
Page boy hand in hand with flower girl
Wedding service at Seaham Hall
Guest reading Edgar Allen-Poe
Bride & Groom checking no one objects to the wedding at Seaham Hall
Bride & Groom smiling at each other
Seaham Halls Wedding Hall
close up of the bride
Page Boys chilling during the service
Page Boy presenting the wedding rings
Grooms son making a reading
Skull filling ceremony
Big huggs from the bride
Bride & Groom kissing at Seaham Hall
Bride & Groom signing the register at Seaham Hall
Flower girl stealing the show
Scary Wedding party pulling faces at Seaham Hall
Bride & Groom walking down the aisle at seaham hall

Family First

As you may have guessed, family is important to Emma & Ben. We only had a short time before the wedding breakfast so we focussed on family groups for a while.

Whole wedding in front of Seaham Hall
Confetti on the steps of Seaham Hall gardens
Zombie Confetti
Fun Family photo on the steps of Seaham Hall gardens
Bride & Groom kissing grandma
Bride & Groom on the Seaham Hall Terrace
Brides veil blowing in the wind
Groom kissing the bride under her veil

Would you like Gravy with your Guts?

We seriously couldn’t list all the wonderful things Emma, Ben & their family had filled their wedding breakfast with. Naming but a few… spooky artwork, courtesy of Emma’s dad. They had zombie survival kits as wedding favours. Every table had ghoulish table centres and every guest was given a hologram that transformed from a normal portrait to a zombie image.

Lisa & I felt so welcome. Emma & Ben insisted we join the band for the wedding breakfast and Emma’s dad had even drawn caricatures of us as the bride of Frankenstein & Igor. The room was headed by their gorgeous wedding cake that hid a gloriously gross secret. We were starting to worry about what we were going to get served at the wedding breakfast.

Halloween Art
Halloween Decorations
Halloween Wedding table centres
Table setting board
Good side to wedding cake
Grouesome back of the wedding cake
Bride & Groom hugging young guest
Grooms Wedding speech
Groom reading his wedding speech
Bride laughing at the speeches

While Ben’s son had stolen the show with his speech and we had a great meal, I kept an eye on the weather which was teetering on rain. We had a great laugh with Pek & Wanley, Emma & Ben’s band. After desserts, the rain held off and we stole some more images of this wonderful couple around the grounds of Seaham Hall. We made the most of the last little bit of light before our bride & groom had to race off to meet their special effects artist ready for zombification!

Bride & Groom reflected in Seaham Hall water feature
Bride & groom talking on the terrace of Seaham Hall
Ben & Emma in the Autum Leaves at Seaham Hall
Ben & Emma hugging in the autumn leaves
Emma & Ben in front of Seaham Hall
Emma in front of Seaham Hall
Bride in front of Seaham Hall
Page Boys looking in a pool
Pageboys on the steps of Seaham Hall

Let take the Zombie Bride for a Stroll

We caught up with our Zombie Bride & Groom as Emma’s makeup was complete & Ben jumped in the chair to get his prosthetics applied. Emma stayed in her wedding dress a little longer so we took our Zombie bride for a little photo-shoot of her own. Emma seemed so much more relaxed with blood oozing from fresh wounds.

Groom having zombie makeup applied
Zombie Bride at Seaham Hall
Zombie bridein Seaham Hall entrance
Emma posing in makeup

Tricked & Treated

When we orginally met with Emma & Ben we reluctantly agreed that we would dress up too. It’s tough working in a costume, but we felt that we might be the odd ones out when Emma & Ben told us that even the Seaham Hall staff were getting dressed up.

As we struggled to find somewhere to change into our very last-minute Halloween costumes, we asked the Seaham Hall staff when they were getting ready. They all looked us as if we were nuts and then the penny dropped. We had been duped! My Chucky outfit made me look like an Umpa Lumpa and Lisa still doesn’t know what her witch/Skeleton ensemble was meant to be. If only Halloween was in January, we’d have time to plan these things.

Pek & Wanley scaring a page boy
Wedding Guest Young Ninja
Wedding Guest dressed as Jareth, the Goblin King

As we were kept busy documenting guests fabulous costumes, a mystery group we’re rehearsing in the function room. Emma & Ben had arranged for a local amateur dramatics group to help get everyone in the spooky mood and to help them with their first thriller of a first dance.

We try to keep these blogs to about 100 photos so we can’t show everyone’s amazing costumes but everyone did a great job and put Lisa & me to shame.

Halloween Wedding Guests at Seaham Hall
Guests play fighing
Zombie Groom at Seaham Hall
Wedding Guests in Halloween
Young guest having her face painted
Young Wedding guest dressed as a serial killer
Spooky Wedding Guests at Seaham Hall
Headless Wedding Guest
Candy Shop of Horrors at Seaham Hall

The party kicked off with a hilarious projected video of Emma reading news reports of a Zombie Outbreak with various family members in cameo roles. This then led into their first dance with supporting characters.

Zomies Attack the bride at Seaham Hall
Monsters chasing Emma & Ben at Seaham Hall
Emma & Ben scared of wedding guests
Emma & Bens first Dance at Seaham Hall
Bride & Grooms first dance at Seaham Hall
Guests joining Emma & Ben on the dance floor at Seaham Hall
Emma & Ben Dancing at Seaham Hall
Bride cutting grooms throat instead of wedding cake.
Zombie Bride & Groom Attacking wedding cake at seaham hall
Young guest has found a severed hand at Seaham Hall
Pek & Wanley Singing in Fangs at Seaham Hall
Pek & Wanley at Seaham Hall
Emma & Ben dancing with a young guest at Seaham Hall

Walking Dead!

As Pek & Wanley kicked off their set, we set up outside of Seaham Hall with some off-camera flash. Picture the scene with me running around in the dark setting up gear as Chucky on Halloween night. We scared the smelly stuff out of some of the Halls other guests. It was hilarious watching Lisa try to direct Emma & Ben to act like zombies. But they were naturals.

Seaham Hall has a spooky tunnel that leads from the main Hotel to the Spa. It’s this cool wooden bridge with its own stream. A natural spot for some final images. After this Emma changed into her full zombie gown so she could dance the night away.

Emma & Ben’s Halloween Wedding is one we won’t forget. In 2020 were looking forward to a “Lord of the Rings” themed wedding for Halloween but, sadly, this year’s fun has been postponed. Thankfully, we still have these great memories to look back on. We had a fantastic day and we wish both of them the very best in life and hope they both stay Zombie x

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