{"id":2654,"date":"2019-06-30T08:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T07:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2019-07-06T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T16:30:26","slug":"groom-prep-at-dartington-hall-totnes-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/groom-prep-at-dartington-hall-totnes-devon\/","title":{"rendered":"Groom Prep At Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Groom prep isn&#8217;t something that happens all that often but you miss an important part of the day that the bride and everyone else would never see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went along to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Dartington Hall in Totnes (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dartington.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dartington Hall in Totnes<\/a> and take photos of the Groom prep. The sky was clear but it was warm, very warm, the hottest day of the year so far. The Groom and Groomsmen did well to keep cool. The shade was our best friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is so much banter, laughter and nerves. It was an honour to capture Andy and his Groomsmen as they prepared for the wedding!<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"grid-gallery-6-49105\" data-gg-id=\"6\" data-title=\"Totnes-Wedding-June2019\" data-grid-type=\"1\" data-offset=\"10.3\" data-area-position=\"center\" data-icons=\"\" data-preloader=\"true\" data-width=\"45%\" data-height=\"\" data-padding=\"0\" data-quicksand=\"disabled\" data-quicksand-duration=\"none\" data-popup-theme=\"theme_6\" data-popup-type=\"pretty-photo\" data-popup-image-text=\"data-caption\" data-popup-widthsize=\"auto\" data-popup-heightsize=\"auto\" data-popup-i18n-words=\"{&quot;close&quot;:&quot;close&quot;,&quot;next&quot;:&quot;next&quot;,&quot;previous&quot;:&quot;previous&quot;,&quot;start_slideshow&quot;:&quot;start slideshow&quot;,&quot;stop_slideshow&quot;:&quot;stop slideshow&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;of&quot;:&quot;of&quot;,&quot;prev&quot;:&quot;prev&quot;,&quot;cExpand&quot;:&quot;Expand&quot;,&quot;cPrevious&quot;:&quot;Previous&quot;,&quot;cNext&quot;:&quot;Next&quot;,&quot;cExpandStr&quot;:&quot;Expand the image&quot;,&quot;cRotate&quot;:&quot;Rotate&quot;,&quot;cDetails&quot;:&quot;Details&quot;}\" data-popup-slideshow=\"false\" data-popup-slideshow-speed=\"2500\" data-popup-hoverstop=\"true\" data-popup-slideshow-auto=\"false\" data-popup-background=\"\" data-popup-transparency=\"30\" data-popup-disable-history=\"\" data-popup-disable-changed-url=\"\" data-popup-border-type=\"solid\" data-popup-border-color=\"\" data-popup-border-width=\"\" data-popup-border-enable=\"\" data-fullscreen=\"false\" data-hide-tooltip=\"false\" data-caption-font-family=\"Default\" data-caption-text-size=\"140\" data-is-mobile=\"0\" data-caption-mobile=\"false\" data-hide-long-tltp-title=\"0\" data-caption-disabled-on-mobile=\"false\" data-popup-placement-type=\"0\" data-social-sharing=\"{&quot;enabled&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;gallerySharing&quot;:{&quot;enabled&quot;:null,&quot;position&quot;:null},&quot;imageSharing&quot;:{&quot;enabled&quot;:null,&quot;wrapperClass&quot;:&quot; 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