Here's exactly what it's like
From the first message to the final photo — this is what working with me actually looks like.
It starts with a conversation, not a contract.
When you enquire, I don't send you a brochure or a price list and disappear.
I get back to you personally. We'll have a proper chat — by message, by call, or on a Zoom if you prefer — about your wedding, your plans, what matters to you and what you're worried about.
I want to know how you met. What kind of day you're planning. Whether you're dreading the camera or genuinely don't mind it. What you're most looking forward to.
Because the more I know about you before the day, the better I can do my job on it.
If we're a good fit — and you'll know pretty quickly if we are — we get you booked in, you pay your deposit and from that moment you've got unlimited access to me right up until I hand over your gallery.
Any question, any time. That's part of the deal.
The engagement shoot — optional but genuinely worth it.
A lot of couples skip the pre-wedding shoot. I get it — it feels like another thing to organise.
But here's what actually happens.
We spend an hour or so together in a location you love. No agenda, no shot list, no pressure. We walk, we chat, we laugh at how weird it feels to start with — and about twenty minutes in something clicks and you forget I'm even there.
That's the whole point.
By the time your wedding day arrives you already know how I work. You've already been through the "I don't know what to do with my hands" phase. You've already discovered that I'm not going to make you do anything that feels unnatural.
And you end up with a set of beautiful photos from a completely relaxed afternoon together that you'd never have had otherwise.
When you book your wedding with me, the engagement shoot is half price at £125.
Your wedding morning.
I arrive while you're getting ready.
Not to start photographing immediately. To say hello. To have a cup of tea. To get comfortable with you and your family before the camera comes out properly.
I'll wander. I'll capture the dress hanging up, the detail of the shoes, your mum doing up your buttons, your dad trying not to cry in the corner. The chaos and the calm of a wedding morning — all of it.
By the time you're ready to leave, your family already feel like they know me. Which means when I point the camera at them later, they're not stiffening up. They're just getting on with it.
That's exactly what we want.
The ceremony.
I stay quiet during your ceremony.
I'm moving. I'm watching. I'm looking for the moments happening in the periphery — the guest who's already crying before you've even said a word, the flower girl who's lost interest entirely, the look you give each other that nobody else in the room catches.
I work around your ceremony, not through it. You won't hear me. Your guests won't notice me. But I'll be there.
In between.
The drinks reception, the confetti, the group photos if you want them — this is where a lot of photographers take over.
I don't.
I do the group shots you've asked for, efficiently and without turning it into a military operation. Then I let the day breathe. I move through your guests. I catch conversations, embraces, laughter, the quiet moments between the loud ones.
Your day keeps moving. I keep watching.
The portraits — all twenty minutes of them.
At some point during the day — usually while your guests are sitting down to eat — we'll slip away together for about twenty minutes.
Just the two of you. A bit of breathing space from the day. A walk, a wander, somewhere beautiful if we can find it.
I'm not trying to build a portfolio. I'm giving you a moment together that you'd otherwise miss.
I'll give you gentle direction if you need it — not poses, just prompts. Walk this way. Tell them something. Hold on a second.
And we're done.
Twenty minutes. Real photos. No drama.
The Polaroid moment.
While you're sitting down to your wedding meal, something appears at your table.
Polaroid prints from earlier in the day. Already developed. Still slightly warm.
I watch from a distance while they get passed around. Someone laughs. Someone reaches across the table. Someone goes quiet for a second.
It always causes a moment.
Your guests have something to talk about over dinner. You have something physical to hold from your wedding day before it's even over.
And later that same evening you'll get a digital sneak peek in your inbox — a handful of images from the day so far, delivered while the party's still going.
No waiting. No silence. Just something to wake up to the morning after your wedding.
The reception and the dance floor.
I don't leave when the formalities are done.
The dance floor is where some of my favourite photos happen. Always. The first song, the ridiculous group dances, the moment someone who said they definitely weren't dancing is absolutely dancing.
I stay until I know I've got it. Sometimes that's ten minutes. Sometimes it's an hour. I'll tell you when I'm leaving and why — and in seven years, not one couple has ever asked me to go earlier.
After the wedding.
Within a week you'll have your sneak peek gallery — a curated selection of images from the day.
Your full gallery follows within eight weeks. Somewhere between 800 and 1200 high-resolution images, all fully licensed for you to share and print however you like.
You'll also get an HD slideshow and your complete gallery delivered on a personalised USB.
When you go through it for the first time, you'll find moments you had no idea were captured. That happens every single time.
"There were so many photos and I had no idea you were even near me when you took that."
That's the one I hear most. And it never gets old.
Sound like your kind of day?
If you've read this far and you're nodding, there's a decent chance we're going to get on well.
Get in touch and let's have a conversation about your wedding. No pressure, no hard sell. Just two people working out if it's a good fit.
Or if you want to see the work first — [View the portfolio →]