Thornewood Castle Weddings by Wallflower Photography

Is there any wedding venue in the Pacific Northwest that has a more romantic story and amazing history than Thornewood Castle? Over a hundred years ago, a man long in love buys a 400-year-old English manor, has it dismantled brick by brick, shipped halfway around the world, and reassembled on the shores of American Lake in Lakewood, Washington. He hires prominent landscape architects to design a sunken "secret" English garden next door — all as a gift to his wife of 20 years.

Today, Thornewood Castle is more beautiful than ever, and is one of the premier wedding venues in the Puget Sound area. A typical wedding day might start with the bride and her bridesmaids getting ready in the bridal suite, while the groom and his groomsmen often prepare in the upstairs library. Formal family portraits, a fun, creative photo shoot with the bride and groom and their wedding party, and the wedding ceremony all take place amidst the statuary, lush plantings, and brick walls and walkways in the sunken garden, followed by cocktail hour on the lawn surrounding the castle. When dinner is served, everyone heads indoors to their places in the ornate dining room, toasts are offered and the cake is cut. Then everyone retreats to the Great Hall next door for dancing and socializing. At the end of the night, the bride and groom and some out-of-town guests might head to hotels in Tacoma, just a few miles north, while others simply climb the stairs to their suites inside Thornewood Castle.

There's no wedding venue around that offers a better rainy-day backup plan than Thornewood Castle, or is a more fabulous option for cold-weather and rainy-season weddings. The oak-panelled Great Hall makes an elegant and comfortable ceremony site, where the bride can descend the master staircase and grip her father's arm at the bottom for their final walk to the altar, in front of the huge fireplace.

On this site, you can view photographs from actual weddings held at Thornewood Castle over the past few years. All photographs were taken by Laura and Scott Schoeggl of Wallflower Photography. To view wedding highlights, click on Galleries in the menu above and select a wedding. To learn more about Thornewood Castle and the photographers, select About from the menu. To find contact information for Thornewood Castle and Wallflower Photography, select Contact.

Enjoy perusing our wedding photos at Thornewood Castle! We're confident that you'll agree: No other photographer captures the beauty, emotion and events of a Thornewood Castle wedding better than we do. Contact us as soon as you've booked your venue, because we will only photograph one wedding per day, and we take on weddings all over the area, so we tend to book early.