The Story So Far

all of my most recent wedding can be read about here on the blog

Caitlin & Bob - A Blustery but Beautiful Merrydale Manor Winter Wedding - Cheshire Wedding Photography
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Caitlin & Bob - A Blustery but Beautiful Merrydale Manor Winter Wedding - Cheshire Wedding Photography

An animal-loving and outdoorsy couple, these happy couple found the PERFECT venue in the quintessentially Cheshire estate, Merrydale Manor. Though I’ve shot at Merrydale’s sister venue, Colshaw Hall several times, this was my first visit to Merrydale and I should have known I was in for a treat - their events teams are legendary, the venue exquisite and the the food by Barrett’s Event Caterers, INCREDIBLE.

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Sarah & Thomas - AT LAST! An Intimate Bolton Town Hall Wedding - Lancashire Wedding Photography
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Sarah & Thomas - AT LAST! An Intimate Bolton Town Hall Wedding - Lancashire Wedding Photography

Out of the blue in October 2021, I finally heard from Sarah who was tentatively dipping her toe back into wedding planning after so many disheartening earlier attempts. The plan was to scale it all right back, plan just a very small intimate family wedding at their local town hall following by a pub lunch up the road from their home.

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2021 - A Year of JOY in Review - Manchester Wedding Photographer
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2021 - A Year of JOY in Review - Manchester Wedding Photographer

Because now we only have this one life, our mortality thrust into technicolour by the raging of the past two years. Because ‘all we need is love’ and ‘it’s always darkest before the dawn’ - because what makes us most human is connection and hope and celebration. Because even in the most restrictive days, there was joy to be found.

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Kate & Laurence - a Festive and Fun Family-Focused East London Wedding on the Isle of Dogs - East London Wedding Photography
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Kate & Laurence - a Festive and Fun Family-Focused East London Wedding on the Isle of Dogs - East London Wedding Photography

Kate & Laurence met and fell in love and began their journey of several lives together, first in Leeds then onto London, to Berlin and back to the UK last year - where they were sorely missed. When they got engaged early last year, I was THRILLED of course for my old friend but also that they had chosen me to photograph their wedding

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Kirsty & Sam - A Beautiful, Emotional Manchester Autumn Wedding - Manchester Wedding Photographer
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Kirsty & Sam - A Beautiful, Emotional Manchester Autumn Wedding - Manchester Wedding Photographer

Kirsty and Sam booked me in 2018 for their May 2020 wedding at the iconic Manchester wedding venue, King Street Townhouse. We know the rest but for these extraordinarily loving humans, they have now lived so many more lives and seen both monumental joy and devastating loss. Their wedding yesterday was a celebration of and memorial to both and it was truly, spectacularly, breathtaking

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