Lake Windemere Wedding

Lake Windere Wedding at The Townhead Estate

This isn’t your typical Lake Windermere wedding.
No formalities. No stress. No white dress.
Just Nat and Marc, a tipi by the river, and a day that felt like a Wes Anderson film wrapped in sunlight and sausage rolls.
@townheadestate

Wedding mornings aren’t always about quiet calm

Sometimes they’re about boat tickets and wildflowers and checking the weather every 20 minutes to see if the ceremony can still happen outside. This one did. Just. Town Head Estate gave us one of those still, bright afternoons where the water looks like glass and everyone feels like they’re in the right place.
They greeted guests together. No aisle. No big entrance. Just both of them, in front of the tipi, arms wide open. Nat’s yellow dress caught the breeze—handmade by @poppyperspective, built from a vintage 70s piano shawl, designed for dancing.
If you’re looking for a colourful, alternative wedding in the Lake District,
start here.

The kind of ceremony that only makes sense when you’re there

It wasn’t legal, but it was real. A close friend led the ring blessing and handfasting. Everyone was crying. Or laughing. Or both. It felt big, but intimate. Outside the tipi, under the trees, looking out over Lake Windermere.
Tipi by @specialeventtipis.
Flowers by @stems_bysarah—family, not a florist.
Snacks? Sausage rolls from @greggs and brownies from Marc’s stepmum.

Then we got on a boat

That’s not a metaphor.
We actually boarded a @windermerelakecruises boat.
There were tacos from @elkantina, margaritas from @thedrinkytin, and no one knew what was coming next.
Then, from below deck: a mariachi band.
Live. Loud. Brass in the breeze.
Mariachi Tequila brought the house down—if the house was a moving boat on Lake Windermere.
This was the moment. Everyone dancing. Someone started a conga. The sky turned pink.

Back on land. No slowing down.

Pizza from @dudesdough.
A tipi full of light and limbs and silent disco headphones turned all the way up.

The playlist was their own. The guests danced like they meant it. No posing. No perfection. Just movement and joy.

Why this is the kind of wedding I live for

Because I’m a documentary wedding photographer.
Because I believe in weddings that feel like the couple—not a template.
Because you deserve photos that feel like memories, not stock images.
If you’re planning a non-traditional wedding in the Lake District,
if you want your Lake Windermere wedding to feel like a mixtape of the best moments of your life—
get in touch. I’m already packing my cameras.

Planning a Lake Windermere wedding and want those real, wild, in-between moments captured?

📩 Get in touch here