It strikes me more and more often that wedding blogs are ALL about the pretty. We’re doing weddings a disservice. Weddings are full on, crazy emotional days where normal life is amplified by a million percent. There’s love, and more of it in one room than at any other occasion ever in our lives! There’ll be tears and joy and laughter and that feeling you get when you see a friend you’ve not caught up with for years. There’ll be speeches with stories in to make you burst with happiness. Your best friends and parents will say amazing things about how proud they are. All of those moments are huge – and yet we’re all guilty of focusing a tad too much on the florals. It’s not just me, is it?

I’ve been excited to share Emma & Paul’s Pynes House wedding with you today. I’ll say this first: Emma’s dress is incredible! But this is a wedding where everything else mattered more.

The connection with people, the chance to catch up and hug and have all of the newlyweds’ favourite humans together in one space – that’s what this amazing Devon wedding was all about. Scroll through Emma & Paul’s images with me and you’ll totally get it. They chose documentary wedding photographers York Place Studios, who say on their blog:

“When these guys contacted us they made it immediately clear that they didn’t want to spend their day performing for the camera, they just wanted to dive in and have fun with their friends and family and live, feel and love every last second of their wedding.”

York Place Studios travel around the UK capturing weddings in this most natural and authentic of wedding photography styles. They’re respected London wedding photographers specialising in reportage photography: the art of capturing moments as they unfold, with no awkward posing of couples. This year they’ve launched Is This Something?, the definitive go-to book for documentary wedding photographers, to rave reviews from around the world. York Place Studios’ wedding photography is instantly recognisable and resonates with down-to-earth, modern couples who are looking for photography that captures the atmosphere of their day over and above the flowers and frills!

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