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Luke & Amy at Harrogate Registry Office
All the heart eyes for these guys and their intimate wedding at Harrogate Registry Office back in April! This gorgeous wedding recently featured over on the English Wedding Blog, and I thought it was high time I shared it here too. Back story: Luke and Amy were due to...
How to get the best Groom Preparation photos!
Groom Preparation Photos are often overlooked in the wedding world, and overshadowed by the Bridal prep photos .....and if you're wondering what most Groom Prep photos look like, see below. As a seasoned Wedding Photographer, most Grooms I've ever come across don't...
How to get stunning bridal prep photos
Picture the scene. It's the morning of your wedding and you are JUBILANT with excitement, nerves and emotion about the day ahead. You've got all your best girls with you and you want your bridal prep photos to be picture perfect. BUT the reality is this: there's a lot...
A York City Wedding
The city of York is beautiful, fact. So I was over the moon when Hannah & Dan contacted me about being their York city wedding photographer! Their wedding took place in April 2021 so their were still lots of covid restrictions in place. However, it was absolutely...
Middleton Lodge weddings: a Beautiful North Yorkshire Wedding Venue
How lucky am I that the first ever wedding I photographed just happened to be at Middleton Lodge Weddings? Middleton Lodge is a STUNNING North Yorkshire wedding venue. It's a Georgian Country House set in 200 acres of gorgeous grounds. And there's the choice of the...
Thicket Priory weddings: A beautiful wedding venue in the heart of Yorkshire
A breathtaking venue I visited Thicket Priory for the first time in the summer of 2020 for a styled shoot workshop with My Prettiest Workshops. I’d seen it online, and knew it was a beautiful wedding venue and that I wanted to shoot there…but…. No amount of online...
Top Tips for Planning an Outdoor Wedding
I feel so honoured when a couple chooses me to capture one of their biggest life milestones, and just love being there to witness the day. One of my favourite things to shoot is an outdoor wedding – there's so much space and you’ve got complete style freedom. Oh and...
8 things I love about photographing weddings.
One of the questions I get asked the most is what part of the wedding day I enjoy photographing the most. The truth is, there isn’t just one part – here are a few of my favourites.
Self Employment during a global crisis – twelve things I’ve learned.
1st September. Meteoritical Autumn and four full months I’ve been fully self-employed. I don’t know if it’s the change in seasons, the fact my son goes back to school in JUST ONE WEEK, or the fact my daughter STARTS school in a few weeks after 6 full months at home...
12 tips for getting great wedding photos
1. Book a decent photographer. I know, bit of an obvious one to start with. But hear me out. I know it’s not cheap, and you might have a relative or a friend with a ‘proper camera’….BUT….you get what you pay for with wedding photography. You're paying for decent kit,...
The photos I LOVE to take and why!
I love learning, and reflecting on my journey as a photographer / business owner. Might be the 15 years I spent in HR but I’m a huge believer in self-development. During the later weeks of lockdown I put together my top 16 favourite family pictures that I’ve ever...
Going self-employed during a global crisis.
When I tell people I took the giant leap of faith into self employment on the 1st May 2020….during a global pandemic, they wince, sharply inhale and make an “oooooof” sound. And I’ll admit that for a time I was kicking myself for resigning when I did. Of course, I’d...