Our Approach
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Getting stuck in.
Your wedding photographer is often the person you’ll spend the most time around on your wedding day. So we think it’s really important that you get on with us!
Our ethos has always been: to be the wedding photographers we would want at our own wedding. You’re the stars of the show, and we’re the support crew - and you’d best believe we’ll be the best damn support crew you’ve ever had.
In the action!
No one likes a weird guy in the corner taking pictures of them. So we like to get stuck in, make friends, and help people feel comfortable. It’s how we get the pictures that people love, and you can be sure that we’ll be right in the mix. Partying on down with your friends on the dancefloor, and capturing amazing pictures from the heart of the action.
Conscious Coverage
Wedding photography is all about reading a room. Pausing to think not just about how to capture a moment, but also about how our presence can affect it.
We understand that sometimes people don’t want to feel like they’re under the microscope all the time. So in those moments of tender emotion, we are mindful enough to take a step back and capture from a distance when required.
I won’t promise to be perfect, but I like to think we get it right more often than not.
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One or two of you?
While you can certainly book just one of us to attend your big day, for bigger weddings, or those with additional logistics we always enjoy working together as a team.
Whether it’s additional coverage, a second angle on a ceremony, a different eye for creativity, or for added flexibility in terms of scheduling. When it comes to two person teams I’ll be honest - I think you’ll be hard pressed to do better!
Years of dating, living, and working together has formed a sort of weird telepathic bond between us. We know where each other needs to be, and what we might want in a moment. Each of us brings our own skills to the table, and if you’re bringing Abigail on board then you’re getting a planning and coordinators eye on the day all rolled in to one 5’2” package!
If you’re on the fence about booking two photographers then please read our blog post here for some more complete thoughts on the subject.
Fundamentally though, the choice is yours! Regardless of how many photographers you have on your wedding day, you can be sure that we’ll be putting in 100% effort to smash it out of the park for you!!!
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Couples shots…
How do you deal with portraits?
Most couples tend to have some trepidation around the ol’ couple’s session on a wedding day… and I totally get it! I’m not wild about having my picture taken either, so I’ll always let you two lead the way.
How long do you take?
We aim to take around 15-25 minutes for our couples portraits. For many, this ends up being some of their favourite time spent on the day. It’s often the first opportunity during the day that you are able to stop, look at each other, relax, and decompress from the mad whirlwind that weddings tend to whip up!
It’s not our day, it’s yours, and we think it’s important that you spend that time with your friends and family rather than disappear off with us for too long!
Do you pose people?
We don’t really go in for ‘posing’. A wedding day tends to be enough to bring out the emotions we love in our portraits, so while we might ask you to stand together and have a moment in some nice light, that’s usually the extent of it.
Sunset
If there’s one thing I’ll always insist on though… is that if you get a banging sunset in the UK then we’re going to try and use it! It’s like liquid gold in these parts, so you’ve gotta grab it when you see it! We’ll keep an eye on the sky, so you don’t have to, but if it’s looking grand then we might ask to whisk you away for another ten minutes to grab some shots with a golden glow in the sky 🌞
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Group Shots
Look. We know how it is. No one likes to form a line and be asked to stand up straight and smile for 45 minutes straight.
But these are weddings, and that’s what people do at weddings right?
Nah!
Informal-formals.
I’m not there to crack the whip and be the bad guy keeping people from their drinks, so we’ll always try to keep the whole experience swift and fun.
I’m not big on rules, so hands in pockets, holding drinks and having a laugh are all super valid ways to capture the people around you celebrating your day!
Remember what they are for.
It’s about being conscious about what the pictures are for. Having a record of the people most important to you on a wedding day can be super important when you look back in years to come, so if you want a few shots after the ceremony then we’re super down for that.
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Do you Dance?
We offer our coverage by the day, not by the hour.
You’ll never see us dashing for the car straight after the first dance just because it’s gone 8pm.
The FOMO is to much to bear!
The dancefloor is often our favourite part of a wedding day. The nervous anticipation is all gone, the dance moves start to come out, and we get ready to roll!
While we shoot natural light for the rest of the day, when the venue lights switch off and the sun is laid to rest, then we’ll usually bring the flashes out to capture the evening.
