Wedding Stories
A Selection of Wedding Stories
Below you will find pictures from whole weddings to demonstrate the variety of images I typically produce at a wedding and that I am able to shoot creatively and consistently to record the story of the day. I am based in Teddington in West London so you will see weddings at venues in my surrounding area as well as in and around central and other parts of London and across the UK.
Connection and Emotion
Weddings are ultimately about the love between you both and what happens when all the people you love come together under one roof for a day.
They are a people photographer’s dream and that’s why I love shooting them.
Documentary or candid photography is all about getting in close as well standing back and I do this physically and psychologically throughout the day. When I’m photographing a wedding, apart from anticipating the moments, composing my pictures and looking for the light, emotion and connection are at the forefront of my mind. But what it all comes down to is producing a story that brings it all back for you and moves you every time you revisit it.
Choose a wedding story to view
An Anglo-American union of Matt and Maddy who tied the knot at Cambridge Cottage, Kew Gardens on a late Spring day with family and friends.
Spring became Summer for the day for Rachel & Billy’s full coverage wedding at the Farmhouse at Redcoats with a beautiful outside wedding ceremony and barn reception and dancing. Natural documentary style wedding images with some bride and groom portraits as the golden sun cast its magic at sundown.
Jenny & Mark’s summer solstice festival wedding with the ceremony in woodland by a babbling brook on a hot summer’s day and with a hot air balloon surprise for their guests.
The City of London wedding of Olivia & Sam on the hottest day of the year at the Ned, The Church of the English Martyrs and The Dickens Inn at Tower Bridge.
The drama, energy, hilarity and beauty of Celine & Alex’s intimate Greek Orthodox Wedding.
My first visit to Combe Manor Barns in Berkshire and I can’t wait to go back. Jodie and Nick’s superlatively relaxed country church and barn wedding in August.
The small, intimate close family Spring 2023 wedding of Holly and Aaron at Old Chelsea Town Hall and the Langham Hotel
The high summer English country church and marquee wedding of Jonny & May at Butley Priory, Suffolk.
Orleans House Gallery and The Victoria pub, Sheen in a blaze of colour, high summer sunshine, romance, exuberance and emotion for Aisha and Thom’s wedding nuptials and celebrations.
Contemporary, relaxed weddings don’t come much cooler than this one as Eva and Chris got up one sunny morning in May after 15 years together to get married withe their friends and family at London’s Brixton Town Hall.
When the love is real and palpable and emotion comes at you from every angle. This was Leidewij & Rogier’s wedding at York House and Gardens in Twickenham on a beautiful Spring day.
When weddings are fast, fun, low key and cool, I joined Christian and Jade on a Sunday in October at the Old Marylebone Town Hall and at the CLF Art Lounge & Roof Garden in Peckham Rye to record the moments for them.
One of my favourite local wedding venues - The Bingham Riverhouse in Richmond - this time for the fabulous Gareth and Luke, wed outside in the late summer sunshine in the beautiful garden there. I can still hear the laughter and joy of their family and friends and feel that energy and togetherness on the dance floor.
A Spring country farmhouse and marquee wedding with close family and friends at the Ridgeway Barns in the stunning Wiltshire countryside.
Early Autumn, central London and wedding between two people who have come a long way to this moment. A Home House and Marylebone Town Hall wedding with lashings of love - and yes rain!
A super low-key ‘just take pictures Anna’ wedding at Morden Park House, Morden London, with a walk through the sunshine and a bus ride to The William Morris pub in Merton Abbey Mills.
A Rock ‘n Roll themed summer wedding at The Old Marylebone Town Hall and The Union Club, Soho photographed by London Wedding Photography Anna McCarthy
An Autumn wedding with beautiful natural light at the Trafalgar Tavern and Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London.
A November winter wedding in stormy weather and after dark at the Petersham Hotel, Orleans House Gallery and the Bingham Riverhouse in Richmond upon Thames.
A Summer wedding at Old Marylebone Town Hall and Holmes Hotel on one of the hottest days this year.