I've already deleted the image so I'll try to reconstruct the steps I took from memory. I used a combination of Lightroom and Photoshop. The same can be accomplished using Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop.
1. In the Camera Calibration tab choose Camera D2X Mode 1 for the Camera Profile
2. In the Lens Correction panel enable the default Lens Correction (makes a big difference in addressing the skewed perspective of the building in the background)
3. In the Basic Panel reduce Exposure by one-third stop by setting the Exposure Slider to -0.35; then bring back details in the wedding dress by increaing the Recovery Slider to 20. Lower the Blacks slider to 1. These steps will give you an image without Shadow or Highlight clipping.
4. Set Brightness to 50, and Contrast to 35.
5. Now set the White Balance. By clicking on the front of the bride's dress I got a Temperature of 5200 and a Tint of -8. Its important when making large changes to the Exposure settings to delay setting WB. Otherwise this is the first step. The rationale for setting the WB later is explained in "Real World Adobe Camera Raw."
6. Now straighten the image. I used the Angle Tool to draw a vertical line on the trash can or "rubbish bin" as the Brits would say. This gave me a correction angle of -3.62 and also incidentally cropped most of the trash can away.
7. I then did Capture Sharpening in the Details Panel with settings of Amount = 35, Radius = 0.8, Detail = 35 , Masking = 80.
8. Transfer the image into Photoshop, duplicate the Background layer, and select the people in the background and use the Content Aware Fill command to replace them.
9. After that I used the FocalBlade plugin to provide some Creative Sharpening. I then resized the image to fit this forums' requirements, then used Smart Sharpen (remove Gaussian Blur) for Output Sharpening.
After Lightroom I had an image I could have taken in several directions but I chose to just keep it simple.
Very nice - for my learning purpose could you please share how you did it ?
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Thanks
M
+ you know to me it's never the B/Ground but always the couple that come 1st but they always ask can we have the Castle in the B/Ground 
