I arrived at Glewstone house on a beautiful morning in August to be greeted by a beaming cheerful Tom, and rightly so, their wedding day was finally happening after a year of uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic. Their families had just been enjoying a cute breakfast together, except for Hannah who wanted to keep things traditional on the morning of her wedding and ate breakfast in the comfort and quietness of The Gainsborough Suite and not see her Groom until she was walking down the aisle.

Victoria and Ashley aren’t strangers to our cameras, we have photographed them many times over the last 5 years, they are such a lovely family and we love hearing what they’ve been up to!
Victoria and Ashley had originally booked me to photograph their wedding day in May 2020, but as we all know due to the coronavirus this date had to change, they pushed it back to December 2020, when we all naively thought the virus would be gone.

I met Ellie and her bridal party at Lainstone House in Winchester for her getting ready photos. It was a very relaxed morning, with her mum, maid of honour and niece. Olga and Laura worked beauty magic and Ellie got changed into her beautiful custom wedding gown, which had the most tremendous train I have ever seen! We all then headed to All Saints Anglican Church in Broad Chalke, which is the brightest and prettiest church ever, The Blossom Company added to its beauty with stunning silk flower trees which provided the perfect backdrop for Ellie and Aled’s “I do’s!”

We were away on holiday in Cyprus. Lewis had planned with the hotel for us to have dinner on the beach and the hotel had set up a private beach for us. He then asked me and there were a few people walking further down the beach who were all clapping.

We get asked time and time again that you don’t want your formal portraits to take forever! We get it too, it’s boring for you and your guests and it takes a huge chunk out of your wedding day where you could be doing something more fun! Plus will you even use these photos of your extended family?

I want to walk you through a stereotypical wedding day timeline, sometimes this can be confusing for people who are getting married who have never been part of a wedding day before. As a wedding guest you see all of the formalities but never the nitty gritty details of planning and the times things are meant to happen and of course making sure you leave plenty of time for photographs!

I can’t remember the exact reason why I became a photographer, but I think it was along the lines of the fact that I loved art but I wasn’t overly keen on painting and I couldn’t really draw, picking up a camera was almost a shortcut for me. I took art at A level because it would open new doors for me in the art world to then lead me into do photography professionally, my sixth form didn’t have a photography A level so an art A level was the next best thing.

Christina and Sam got married at Hogarths Stone Manor surrounded by friends and family on a very rainy day in May 2018. Their day was filled with smiles, laughter, dancing, singing and a surprise visit from Silver Service Singers.

We had spoken about marriage a few times before and knew it was always on the cards for us, Sam's mum had been hinting about rings as MIL do and I had already given him an idea of what type of designs I would like but from my side there was never any pressure.