Your wedding day isn't a photo shoot.


It's a day that goes by so incredibly fast, and when I think about my own wedding, my favourite photograph from the entire day is one where you can't even see my face.


It's a photograph of my dad hugging me. You can see his expression, you can see the way he's holding me, and you can feel everything that's happening in that moment, even though you can't see my face at all. It was probably only a couple of seconds, a tiny moment in the middle of an entire day, but somehow that photograph has become my favourite photograph of my dad and I. I know that one day, when he's gone, that will be the photograph I treasure most.


And I think that's what I love so much about photographing weddings.


I'm not really interested in trying to make everything look beautiful. Of course I love beautiful photographs, but for me, the most important thing is capturing what is actually there. The love between the bride and groom, the way a groom looks at his family, the way a bride's parents look at her, friends who haven't seen each other in years, a mama and her little one, kids getting up to mischief together, and the tears that often happen during a ceremony.


There are so many little moments happening throughout a wedding that you probably don't even notice at the time. Things that last for a few seconds and then are gone. A look, a touch, an expression, a laugh, a moment of joy.


Those are the things I want to photograph.


Because when you look back at your wedding photographs years from now, I don't want you to simply be able to remember your wedding. I want you to be able to feel it.


I want you to look across the room and see the people you love most in the world. I want you to remember the feeling you had for your partner on that day, and all the little moments that made up your wedding that you may not have even realised were happening at the time.


I think that's probably the most important part of my job as a wedding photographer. It's not about creating those moments, it's about looking for them as they unfold, and capturing them for you so that years from now you can look at one of those photos, like I do of my dad and I, and for a moment feel like you're right back there again.