Looking forward to this weekend as we a local wedding in Rhyl Town ,and the off to a near by wedding venue the Oriel House . There be lots of wedding photographs taken at the church and also at the wedding venue.

One of the grate thing about being a wedding photographer in north wales is the history of all the venues. As you know the photographic studio on the high street of Rhuddlan, which has its own castle.

Which it self is steeped in history. And that is also a place we have photographed bride and grooms on there wedding day on there way to the wedding venue to have the rest of the wedding photographs taken with family and friends.

Below is a sort passage from a web page talking about Rhuddlan Castle.

Early History

Rhuddlan first appears in recorded history in the last years of the eighth century, when there was no town of Rhyl and the shore road from Prestatyn to Abergele did not exist. Instead, the Clwyd and the marshes off its estuary, now reclaimed and drained and cultivated, formed a natural barrier athwart the coastal approach to the mountainous heart of North Wales. The settlement of Rhuddlan is likely to have owed its origin to the presence at this point, from very early times, of the lowest fording-place on the river, from which a track led across the marsh to Vaynol and beyond. Its position thus marked it out as a key point in the racial struggles which for some 600 years (c.700-c.1300) swayed to and fro across the Welsh and English border.

During the reign of King Offa of Mercia (757-96) the great dyke which bears his name (below) was constructed, outlining the beginning of the hill country from Prestatyn to the Bristol Channel and defining the westward limit of English settlement. In 796, the year of Offa’s death, the English fighting on beyond the new frontier won a battle at Rhuddlan, and either as a result of it or of a later conquest obtained control of Englefield. The district, the Welsh Tegeingl, preserves in its name the memory of the Deceangli, a Celtic tribe mentioned by the Roman historian Tacitus in the first century of the Christian era. By the time of the coming of the Normans Englefield was restricted to the northern part of the later Flintshire and was dependent on Rhuddlan. Further English operations on the northern frontier are indicated by the death of Offa’s successor, Cenwulf, at Basingwerk in 821. The predominately Welsh place-names to the west of Offa’s Dyke suggest, however, that Rhuddlan and its outlying manors were not firmly consolidated under English rule.