OK, so I’ve said this many times, but really today I would love for you to read today’s wedding blog SLOWLY. It’s the images, which are absolute proof that children lift weddings to the next level – and then some. Of course our bride and groom are absolutely stunning and this is a day filled with joy and celebration (and pre-pandemic happy hugs!) – but honestly, the kids make it. You will smile, and I hope you’ll chuckle as you scroll through this joyful and relaxed celebration. There simply couldn’t be a more perfect wedding to brighten your Friday and lift your spirits!
As always, I have to introduce a York Place Studios wedding with a note about authenticity – these guys capture real people whose weddings are a glorious mixture of happiness and love and real life. And that’s what’s magic about every wedding these London photographers capture. They’re multi award winning, they are massively respected amongst wedding photographers and we LOVE their street wedding photography style.
Grab a good old cup of builders tea as you scroll all the way through this brilliant Clitheroe wedding! And if you’re planning your day and haven’t booked your wedding photographers yet, we wholeheartedly recommend York Place Studios! They’re based in London and travel worldwide. They’re documentary wedding photographers with a unique and brilliant style, and we promise your wedding album will have a timeless quality in the sense that it will bring your wedding to LIFE every time you flick through… even in 50 years’ time. They even have a new package for micro weddings which I know will interest those of you planning a scaled back and intimate celebration.
“Kate and Matt’s wedding at Holmes Mill in Lancashire was full of these kinds of moments. The backdrop was perfect: an old textile mill bathed in natural light and full of interesting industrial features and fantastic reclaimed cinema seating to keep children and adults alike entertained! The pièce de résistance of this industrious setting was the drinks reception at the Boiler House, full of original mechanics, exposed beams, period character and a huge 1910 cross-beam in the centre. Add to all this plenty of children running around (bundles of joy and excellent sources for spontaneity!) and so many little moments between the adults and we quickly realised this was a pretty special venue and a pretty extraordinary wedding with lots of opportunities to create the characterful, layered and spontaneous images that we love and are known for.” ~ Dom & Liam, York Place Studios
Holmes Mill is a unique Lancashire wedding venue in the heart of Clitheroe. Hold your civil ceremony here, in an industrial old mill setting with reclaimed cinema seats for your guests – it’s just gorgeous! For your wedding reception, the Cottom Room with natural textured walls and exposed beams adds wow factor for an unforgettable celebration.
York Place Studios are English Wedding members
Web: www.yorkplacestudios.co.uk
York Place are London wedding photographers and videographers,
and if their sense of fun has grabbed your attention today you’ll be pleased to know they’re also London family photographers.
Checklist for if you’re getting married on a really hot day (like you’ll know, but…) fans. Ice lollies. Flip flops (including mens’). And now that’s all clear, here’s a wonderfully authentic Islington wedding to make your eyes and hearts happy. Our friends and London wedding photographers York Place Studios describe it as “streety” – a wedding photography style you may not have heard of until today. Street wedding photography is a rare gem to stumble across on wedding blogs, but amongst wedding photographers it’s the gold standard – and York Place are mindblowingly brilliant in their field. You’ll see…
If you’re a creative, an artist or someone whose family and friends are fantastically quirky and interesting, then documentary wedding photography is for you. If you’re not so much about the details, but about how the day will FEEL, you’ll fall in love with this style of wedding photography. If you want to capture genuine, unposed and candid memories of your loved ones just being themselves, York Place Studios are your dream wedding photographers… they work all over the UK and have won more than a few wedding photography awards for their images.
I’ve led you into this wedding of discovery gently… with some beautiful, natural images of the bride and groom – the kind of image you’ll be used to seeing from documentary wedding photography. So let’s step over the cliff edge to the streetiest of street wedding photography – and tongue in cheek, this one literally has yellow lines painted on it.
I’m no photographer, and huge apologies to the lovely people at York Place Studios if my attempts to explain ‘street at weddings’ fall a little wide of the mark. But for me this is it: it’s the rawness of wedding photography images, the sense of this being real life. The way the images capture people’s personalities – and the layers upon layers of things happening in every image: no one stops for the camera, this is life happening, frozen in time by only the lens, to be remembered just as it was, 50 years from now.
Oh, and it’s also the art of composition, the framing of an image, and the often very subtle humour in a shot which you may not even notice the first time around… it’s the way a photograph can really set you to thinking, about people and about your people, when you see the best humans in your world enjoying themselves (or flaked out on the pavement for a cheeky moment or two) at your wedding. Hence my use of this pavement photo to explain ‘street’ wedding photography…
So – Hadar and Dan. These guys chose their wedding photographers well, because they’re a brilliant couple, full of life and with a wonderful family to match. Their wedding is about celebration and joy, and it’s not a performance: it’s them living their absolute best lives on their best day. And I love it SO much.
York Place Studios are English Wedding members
Web: www.yorkplacestudios.co.uk
York Place are London wedding photographers and videographers,
and offer wedding photography around the UK and further afield, from their base in London.