STORY | WEESP

A Summer Town Hall Wedding in Weesp

By Aleksandria Rudenko | Updated 2 November 2026

Bride and groom kissing at the doors of the town hall in Weesp while their friends raise champagne glasses around them

This town hall wedding in Weesp was small on purpose: the couple, their closest friends and family, and a registrar with a great sense of humor. I photographed the whole day, from the first laugh in the wedding room to a quiet garden after the toasts.

Weesp is part of Amsterdam today, so a day like this is exactly what my wedding photography in Amsterdam is about: real moments first, then time for just the two of you.

The Old Town Hall of Weesp

The town hall of Weesp stands on the Nieuwstraat, a stately stone building with a small cupola on the roof. Inside, a curved staircase leads up to the wedding room. From one tall window, you look straight at a church tower above the red rooftops. A banner on the front announces Museum Weesp, which shares the building.

Church tower and red tile roofs framed by a tall dark window of the town hall on a clear summer day — The town hall on the Nieuwstraat in Weesp

Laughter in the Wedding Room

The room itself felt warm before anyone spoke: red doors, golden wallpaper and a crystal chandelier. Then the registrar began, and her stories soon had the whole room laughing, the couple included. Meanwhile, I stayed at the side, so nothing came between them and the moment. She wore a short off-shoulder dress and a birdcage veil, and he wore a navy blazer with a white rose on the lapel.

Bride in an off-shoulder white dress and groom in a navy blazer laughing at the table during their civil ceremony

Next came the rings. She laughed so hard while he slid hers on that her eyes closed. After that, both signed at the round wooden table while the registrar looked on, smiling. With those two signatures, their town hall wedding in Weesp was official.

Registrar in a black robe smiling behind a wooden lectern with white flowers in the bright wedding room

Groom sliding the ring onto the bride's finger as she laughs with her eyes shut under a short birdcage veil

Bride signing the marriage register at a round wooden table as the groom sits beside her and the registrar looks on

Champagne on the Town Hall Steps

Outside, the friends were ready with flowers, glasses and phones. Two of them pulled the bride into a selfie, while the groom poured champagne on the steps. Then the couple kissed in the doorway as the glasses went up around them, and that frame opens this story. I moved between the friends quietly, so I caught the hugs and the first sips instead of asking anyone to line up.

Bride in red sunglasses squeezing into a selfie with two laughing friends outside the town hall in Weesp

Groom in round sunglasses holding a bottle of champagne and a glass outside the stone town hall, a friend blurred in front

A Windmill, Then a Quiet Garden

After the toasts, we headed to the river. A bench in the tall grass looked straight at a windmill on the far bank, and the high summer sun lit everything. By then she wore red sunglasses, and the breeze kept lifting her short veil. He waved at the sky as if to greet the sun.

Newlyweds kissing on a wooden bench in tall grass by the river, a windmill and moored boats on the far bank — A windmill across the water, in high summer sun

Bride in red sunglasses and a birdcage veil sitting on the groom's knee by the water on their wedding day in Weesp

Groom in a navy blazer and striped shirt waving a hand at the sky in the tall summer grass, a white rose on his lapel

There was time to play, too. On a grassy path, he held out his hand, and from where I stood, she seemed to stand on his palm.

Playful perspective of the groom holding out his hand so the bride, far down the grassy path, seems to stand on his palm

Finally, we found a quiet garden with a hedge arch, stone benches and old trees. Here the bride took a camera in her own hands and photographed her groom for a change.

Bride in a birdcage veil raising a vintage camera to her eye in front of a leafy green hedge in the garden

Black and white portrait of the bride and groom under a green hedge arch in a quiet garden after their wedding in Weesp

Under a clear umbrella, they sat close together on a stone bench. The last frames are from the roll of black-and-white film I shot that day: the umbrella, a kiss and her smile behind the little veil. More frames from that roll are in a June wedding on Ilford Delta 100. It was a fitting end to a town hall wedding in Weesp that never stopped being fun.

Black and white close frame of the couple laughing under a clear umbrella, the groom leaning in from behind her

Black and white view of the groom holding a clear umbrella as he kisses the bride on a stone garden bench

Black and white portrait of the bride smiling behind her birdcage veil with her bouquet, the last frame of the town hall wedding

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