Festive Photography – Ashdown Park Hotel

The sparkle of  Christmas lights and the joys of Christmas may be a dwindling memory in your mind as we move well into 2012 but not for me.

The day before Christmas Eve I was commissioned by my favourite wedding venue Ashdown Park Hotel to produce a set of Christmas and Festive stock images for promotional use.  I spent a fun filled day kindly assisted by Warren and Melissa (thanks guys), setting up various displays of mouth watering delights ranging from Starters to Main and Desert courses. We were under timing constraints and had to work extremely quickly as the restaurant was about to open for a Christmas lunch sitting with a large amount of guests ready to descend.

Afterwards we moved onto the reception area and lounges for the rest of the afternoon where we photographed various set ups of mince pies, cream teas, cocktails and the famous Ashdown Park Teddy Bear!

Late afternoon I departed only to return a few hours later to photograph the restaurant, which had been set-up for the evening session.  It looked fantastic with all the table candles lit giving it a really warm, welcoming and Christmas feel.

However, no rest for the wicked, I continued working for another few hours photographing table set ups in the chapel area and a Christmas party night in the Harry Clarke suite. Once I returned home later that night I downed tools for the rest of the Christmas holidays and only began working on the images this week.  A few of which you can see on this page.  I hope you like them and remember it is only 11 months to go before we do it all again!!!  :o))