Some weddings were never meant to be big.
Maybe it’s just the two of you disappearing somewhere. Maybe it’s your closest people around one table. Or maybe you’ve realised half the traditions don’t mean much to you - so you’re doing it your way.
I photograph intimate weddings and elopements across Bath, Somerset and throughout the UK, as well as destinations further afield.
Nothing forced, nothing over-produced - just photographs that feel like the day did.
Just a day that actually feels like you.
Fewer moving parts. Fewer expectations. More room for the day to unfold as it actually wants to.
You can take the long way back from the ceremony. Stop for coffee. Wander through old streets. Sit somewhere beautiful for a while and do absolutely nothing. Have dinner with the handful of people who matter most. Or keep the whole thing entirely to yourselves.
That is the part I love to photograph.
Not a version of the day arranged for the camera, but the day itself – the movement of it, the pauses, the glances, the nerves, the sudden laughter, the quiet in between.
I’ll give you direction when you need it, of course. But I’m far more interested in what happens when you forget I’m there.
Because intimate weddings and elopements have a way of giving you space to notice each other. To actually…breathe.
And that is usually where the best photographs are.
My Husband and I chose to elope for our own wedding – a day that somehow ended up in the pages of Cosmopolitan, although the part that mattered most to us was far simpler than that.
It was ours.
And I think that’s why I’ve always been drawn to photographing weddings this way. I understand the decision to make the day smaller, more personal and entirely your own – and I know just how much story can exist within it.
Before I photograph you, I want to know who I’m photographing. How you met. What makes you laugh. What matters to you, and what you’ve imagined when you’ve pictured this day together.
We’ll talk through your plans, find the places that feel right and work out how you want the day to unfold – without turning it into a military operation or a list of things you should be doing.
And if you’re nervous about being photographed? That’s exactly why this time matters. By the time your elopement arrives, I don’t want to feel like a stranger turning up with a camera. It’s also why I always include a pre-wedding photography session – a chance for us to spend some time together with the camera, get comfortable, and make sure that when your day arrives, you already know the person standing behind the camera.
I want you to forget about the camera altogether
By the time your elopement arrives, we already know each other. You know how I work, I know what matters to you, and hopefully the camera has become something you barely think about.
I’m not there to turn your day into a photoshoot.
I’ll step in when you need me, disappear into the background when you don’t, and pay attention to everything happening in between….the stillness before it all begins, the place you chose do do this, the changing light, the words that catch you off guard, the celebrations afterwards and all the wonderfully unplanned bits in between.
There’ll be time for beautiful portraits, of course. But I’m never going to spend half your elopement constantly positioning you or asking you to do things again for the camera.
You live it. I’ll notice it.
Because when you look back at these photographs years from now, I don’t just want you to remember what your elopement looked like.
I want you to remember exactly how it felt.
You did it. You’re married. Now go and enjoy it.
Whether that means disappearing on honeymoon, opening a bottle of something nice or simply waking up the next morning wondering how the day went quite so quickly, you can leave the photographs with me.
I intentionally take on fewer weddings and elopements so I can leave proper editing time around each one. Your photographs aren’t joining a never-ending queue while I rush off to photograph the next wedding.
My gallery turnaround is up to 8 weeks – but that’s my maximum, not my target. I aim to deliver much sooner.
You’ll receive a preview first, followed by your complete gallery, carefully edited and ready to download, share and print.
Fewer weddings. More time for each one. That’s a very deliberate choice.