Why I Photograph Weddings

The million dollar question, why weddings? Why not cars, live music or travel hot spots. I often find myself asking this question and of course the easy answer is because I love photographing weddings but what does that actually mean. Well it means from the moment I arrive to photograph a happy and sometimes nervous bride I am emotionally involved in capturing your beautiful day and all the little moments that unfold. These are images that will literally last a lifetime, they will be cherished by your children if and when they arrive, reflected upon by your parents and enjoyed possibly laughed at by your friends.

So for me I feel honoured to photograph any wedding and whilst I do have a very relaxed approach to my work I place a huge importance on capturing the moments that matter throughout the day. As a wedding photographer you invite me in to your inner circle of family and friends and for the short amount of time I spend with you all I do my best to get to know you and capture the natural and honest photography that I am known for. The more relaxed you feel around me and indeed the cameras pointing at you the less I will capture people cowering away and being shy but in fact being more aware that I am just like them, another guest, although I don’t get to enjoy the food and drinks.

However there is one more very, very important reason why I find so so much love and compassion for being a wedding photographer, a sad and poignant reason. Life is too short. Sometimes the fairytales can end too soon and loved ones have to live on in the images that I have created. This happened to me earlier on during lockdown and honestly really affected me, as I said I like to really get to know my couples and their families and to see my images being used to keep a memory alive that’s powerful stuff.

So that’s why I decided to photograph weddings because I love my job and life is too short.

Here are a few of my favourite of my favourite images that I have captured predominantly last year because let’s face it, 2020 hasn’t exactly gone to plan!