Venue Reviews, Advice for Couples & Insight

Guides to some of the finest wedding venues across Lancashire, the East Midlands and beyond — with photographs taken there and honest insight into what makes each one special.

Venue

Wedding Venues Guide — An Honest Look at 20 Years of UK Weddings

This wedding venues guide is the product of twenty years and more than 450 weddings. From intimate country houses to grand stately homes, barns with...

Venue

Prestwold Hall Wedding Photographer

There are few places in England where you can stand in a room designed by one of the great nineteenth-century architects, look out through floor-to-ceiling...

Venue

Beeston Manor Wedding Photographer — 140 Acres of Lancashire Countryside

Looking for a Beeston Manor wedding photographer? This is one of those Lancashire venues that feels like a world of its own. A converted 16th-century...

Practical guidance from twenty years and over 450 weddings — the things I wish every couple knew before their big day.

Advice

Essential Wedding Photography Advice — Everything I’ve Learned in 20 Years

After twenty years and more than 450 weddings, I’ve seen just about everything a wedding day can throw at a photographer. The spectacular ones and...

Advice

The First Dance Syndrome

For most of my couples, the worst part of the wedding day isn’t the speeches, the ceremony, or even the morning prep. It’s the wedding...

How I work, what I believe in, and why I photograph weddings the way I do — an honest look at the person behind the camera.

Behind the Lens

Wedding Photojournalism — An Honest Look at 20 Years Behind the Lens

Wedding photojournalism is probably the most misunderstood of the three terms that get used to describe unposed wedding photography. People hear “wedding photojournalism” and think...

Behind the Lens

Reportage Wedding Photography — An Honest Guide After 20 Years

Reportage wedding photography is one of those terms that gets used loosely, often interchangeably with documentary and photojournalism. While the three styles share a common...

Behind the Lens

Documentary Wedding Photography — An Honest Guide After 20 Years

Documentary wedding photography has become a bit of a buzzword. Everyone who takes wedding pictures nowadays calls themselves a “documentary wedding photographer.” The phrase has...