How to Plan a Small Wedding in the UK (Without the Fuss) There’s a particular kind of guilt that comes with planning a small wedding. You start trimming the guest list, and somewhere around the second cousins you’ve never actually met, a little voice asks whether you’re doing this properly. Whether smaller means lesser. I…
A Marvel-Loving Danube Wedding at Dunai Csónakház, Budapest Niki & Ricsi Ricsi cannot hold a straight face. You will see it in nearly every frame, that half-second before a laugh, the grin he can’t quite stop. He and Niki got married at Dunai Csónakház, an old boathouse on a quiet arm of the Danube in…
Barn Wedding Venues in Bristol and Somerset A Photographer’s Honest Guide Most barn wedding guides read the same way. A list of venues, a line about fairy lights on old beams, a photo of someone’s feet in wellies. Lovely. Not very useful when you are actually trying to make a choice. I have photographed weddings…
Rain on Your Wedding Day Why it won’t ruin your photos (and might make them better) You’ve been checking the forecast. Again. And there it is, a little cloud with rain coming off it, sitting right on top of your date. Your stomach drops. Right, before you spiral: rain on your wedding day is not…
One Photographer or Two for Your Wedding? How to Decide There are two camps in wedding photography, and both have something to sell you. Solo photographers will tell you one is plenty. Photographers who work in pairs will tell you that you really need two. So when you sit down to decide on one photographer…
Alternative Wedding in Budapest Kata & Ricsi Kata and Ricsi met on a dating app, both arrived with full sleeves and a clear sense of what they wanted, and got married on a summer day at Csónakház on the Budapest boathouse strip. They knew their style. They knew their people, and they didn’t need me…
Csillagkert Wedding Ywett & Ádám I went to primary school with Ádám. So when he and Ywett asked me to photograph their wedding, it was a different kind of yes. The kind where you don’t even check the date first. Their Csillagkert wedding happened in August 2019. Bubbles instead of confetti. A cake that tells…
10 Dog-Friendly Wedding Venues Near Bristol and Somerset Most couples planning a wedding with their dog hit the same wall pretty fast. Dog-friendly wedding venues near Bristol and Somerset are easier to find than in some other parts of the UK, but the label itself can mean wildly different things in practice. Some venues welcome…
Castle Garden Bazaar Wedding Adri & Gábor Adri’s dad cried before she even reached the altar. It was an early September Saturday in Budapest, and Adri and Gábor had chosen St Stephen’s Basilica for the ceremony and Castle Garden Bazaar for everything that came after. I’d photographed enough Hungarian weddings to know this would be…
Duna Garden Hotel Wedding Dóri & Viktor Dóri stood under a flower-covered arch by the Little Danube and tried to read her vows out loud. She got a few words in, hid her face in the page, and let the tears come. Viktor held the microphone steady and waited. That was the moment the whole…
