Best of 2021

Well, 2021 has been and gone, and seemingly was the quickest year on record!  With the ongoing covid chaos, weddings were pretty much banned for the first five months but were eventually allowed to begin again in May.  Since then, we photographed small weddings with just a handful of guests and huge all-out wedding celebrations.  We finally photographed the weddings of several couples who now feel like old friends after moving through several postponements, and we have celebrated along with couples who chose to have not one, but two wedding days.  

To be quite honest, the year was a bit of a rollercoaster - physically and mentally.  With so many couples postponing from 2020 and early 2021, along with our couples who had already secured dates for 2021, we stopped taking new bookings for prime dates fairly early, but still, we knew it was going to be full-on.  We photographed 68 wonderful weddings throughout the year, most of which took place in the latter 7 months.  We lived as hermits to stay safe and healthy so as not to have to let anyone down, we worked our socks off to keep up with editing and album designs, and social media and blogging pretty much went out of the window.  It hasn’t been the easiest, but we survived!

After everything that we went through in 2020 and early 2021, the utter joy of being able to get together once again, to hug loved ones, to party the night away together, and to actually finally be able to get married has given us so many pure, raw, and wonderful moments to photograph.  It has been a joy looking back at these moments through the wedding photographs that we have taken.

Thank you to our amazing 2021 couples, their families and their friends for having us along.  We say this every year, but it’s never been more true.  The journey that we have been on together will always remain with us.  It has been an absolute joy and pleasure to document your wedding days.

Best of 2020

So here we are, at the end of the craziest, most challenging year in modern memory. Most of us had a hard time adjusting to the ‘new normal’ of living during a pandemic, and along with so many others, our business was greatly impacted. Wedding dates changed and changed again, weddings were cancelled, postponed, or went micro, but we worked when restrictions allowed and we are so thankful to those couples who went ahead with their plans despite all the challenges and obstacles.

One thing that I did love about 2020 was learning to notice the joy in the little things. I baked, spent so much time working in the garden, and read lots and lots of books. (Everything from Dickens to the Witcher!) I edited all of our family pictures going back to 2006 - then designed an album for each year and yes, we also homeschooled - I really hope we will never have to do that again!

Despite all the heartbreak and worry that the year brought, we still feel ourselves very fortunate to have photographed twelve wonderful weddings in 2020 and we are so happy that we can still share with you this roundup of our best of 2020 wedding photography.

Best of 2019

Well, it’s that time of year again!  The time when we review our work and choose our top picks from the past year.  We have shared some amazing moments with some amazing people, visited some incredible places and made so many new friends.  What an absolute pleasure it has been working with each and every one of our couples throughout the year.  Thank you to you all for inviting us to your wonderful weddings.  

So here we go...2019!  A year filled with laughs and tears of joy, moments and memories, spectacular sunsets and most importantly - incredible people.  Cheers guys, and here's to an amazing 2020!  

Best of 2018

So once again, we are at that time of year, the start of 2019, looking forward to what are sure to be some pretty amazing weddings, but what a year 2018 turned out to be!

365 days gone in the blink of an eye, left us with some fantastic memories of travel and exploration in the Canadian Rockies, precious family time with our little ones, Charlie and Emilia who are our constant inspiration, not to mention of course the amazing weddings that we have attended and photographed.   Everyday, we are so thankful to be able to work together, doing something that we both love for a living, and after nearly 14 years, we still have to pinch ourselves that this is our reality.   

We want to say a massive thank you to the 60 couples who in 2018 put their trust and faith in us to capture their wedding days.  Working with every single one of you has been a joy.  To your friends and family who welcomed us with open arms and to all of the suppliers who helped those weddings flow so smoothly.  We hope that the images that we have created will help your memories last a lifetime.

We also want to extend a hand and thank those people from some pretty amazing wedding venues across the North East region who have continued to support us.  Wynyard Hall, Healey Barn, Lartington Hall, Beamish Hall, Matfen Hall, Seaham Hall, Durham Castle, the Parlour at Blagdon, and Eshott Hall along with new friends at the Yorkshire Wedding Barn, Ormsby Hall, the Hilton Hotel and the Spanish City in Whitley Bay.  

I have one more thank you to give - and a pretty important one it is.  To our amazing children, Charlie and Emilia, who very graciously and gladly welcome our wedding couples into our home with smiles and a happy disposition, who never complain about giving up their Mum and Dad over weekends, and to their grandparents who are a godsend, without their help and constant support, I’m not sure where we would be right now.

So now we are into 2019.  There is a lot to look forward to - a new series of Game of Thrones, hopefully a new Outlander novel (Chrissie’s done waiting) more family travel, and a diary filled with what are sure to be some incredible weddings.  To our 2019 couples, thank you to you all, we look forward in anticipation to the working with you on one of the biggest days of your lives!

So here we go, a selection of some of our favourite images from the past year - our 2018 roundup!

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THE BEST OF 2017

Well, it’s that time of year again!  The time when we collate our work and choose our top picks from the past year.  We have shared some amazing moments with some amazing people, visited some incredible places and made so many new friends.  Simply all I can say is what an absolute pleasure it has been working with each and every one of our couples throughout the year.  It is the people that we meet that make our job so special.  Thank you to you all for inviting us to your wonderful weddings.  

We both need to also say a huge thank you to all of those who have already booked us for 2018, 2019 and 2020.  Exciting times ahead folks!

So we give you...2017!  A year filled with laughs and tears of joy, moments and memories, spectacular sunsets and most importantly - incredible people.  Cheers guys, and here's to an amazing 2018!  

The best of 2016

Well we've done it!  We have searched through every one of the 53 weddings that we attended last year to find our best images of 2016.  The images themselves, all 250 were chosen because they represent something meaningful and profound to us.  Each and every one speaks to us both in a personal way, they represent us, the way that we think and the way that we see the world.  The experience of collecting the images together and drawing upon our own memories of capturing each moment is clarifying and will help us move forward, to learn from our experiences and to develop and grow as photographers and creatives.

To our couples of 2016, it was a year of new friends and new opportunities.  We have met some inspiring people and been to some incredible places.  It was our extreme honour to photograph every one of the 53 weddings that we attended last year, each amazing and unique in every way.  Thank you to each and every one of you for inviting us to join you on your wedding days and for trusting us with your memories.

We hope that you enjoy the images as much as we enjoyed creating the collection.