25/01/2024
I get asked a lot about my favourite weddings. I’ve photographed over 300 at this point (I stopped counting a few years ago) and it’s safe to say I’ve seen a lot of fun wedding things. From festivals to live wrestling to flash mobs to drag queens, from shooting in Tobago and Dubai and across Europe, there have been a lot of brilliant moments over the years. The big, shiny moments aren’t the moments that I connect with the most though. The moments I love are the moments of quiet connection. Like this moment where Luke and Pip braved the lashing rain at to spend a quiet moment together on the beach. Pip wanted to feel her feet barefoot on the sand, even though it was freezing and torrentially wet. The quiet moments are everything. And those quiet moments are where we find connection over and over again and we grow and evolve together. In the words of this passage from Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which was a popular wedding reading at one point, “Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two”. Weddings are a beautiful spectacle in many ways but the parts of the wedding that gives me the most joy to capture are those quiet, intimate moments of connection between you.