Festival style wedding “Hi Simon , we were wondering if you would be interested in photographing our wedding at Hamps Hall, it’s going to have a festival theme with straw bales, fairly lights, fancy dress, camp fires and a rave in the evening”. Well how could I say anything other than yes I’d love to….
Cowley Manor wedding Cowley Manor is one of my favourite UK venues, located in beautiful Cotswold countryside and surrounded by 55 acres of parkland. Cowley Manor is a fantastic venue for your wedding. You can chose between a civil ceremony or a ceremony in the church next door to the house. I highly rate…
I’m often asked what happens if it rains on the wedding day. My answer is you might get wet! I’m never really sure what the expected answer is, maybe that we all go home and rearrange for a sunny day? No matter what the weather I capture a true documentary record of your wedding day,…
Great news! Weddings in England are back on from Saturday 4th July 2020 for up to 30 people. It seems a very long while since I was last able to photograph a wedding, so I’m super excited at the prospect of photographing lots of lovely weddings in the coming months. Weddings but not as we…
I’m very excited to share with you Lena & Charlie’s North Cadbury Court wedding in Somerset. What a stunning venue in a very beautiful part of the country. I’d first met Lena & Charlie on Skype last year when they described how beautiful North Cadbury Court is, they weren’t wrong either. The name by the way…
Good to be back at Dodford Manor again for another Northamptonshire wedding. It’s always great to visit local venues again, so I was delighted when Gemma and Matthew booked me for their wedding at the gorgeous Dodford Manor in Northamptonshire. Time for a quick introduction – I’m Simon Atkins, a wedding photojournalist based in the heart of…
And when this is all over We’ll knock on our friends’ doors and go to every party And say “I love you” more. And when this is all over Through bad, we will see the good because whenever we are together we’ll appreciate it, as we should. And when this is all over and we…
This page will be regularly updated as the situation changes. last update 24th June 2020. Latest news: wedding ceremonies for up to 30 people are allowed from July. Full details on this link. I know from the emails I’m already receiving that many of my wedding couples are worried about how the Coronavirus will affect…
Tolani & Ebuwa’s amazing Nigerian wedding at Heaton House Farm. My second Nigerian wedding in a year, although by far the biggest wedding I’ve photographed with several hundred guests. Nigerian weddings are always very colourful with guests wearing amazing outfits. The wedding ceremony was at St Paul’s church in Sale, which was completely full. The…
A very happy 10th wedding anniversary today (19th June 2019) to Jasmine & Jon, 10 years ago I photographed their wedding at Great Fosters. Jasmine contacted me recently to say the Mirror wanted to use some of her wedding photographs online and in print for an article on their anniversary. Jasmine Harman presents A place…
For me wedding photography is about capturing the entire day and not just the parts that you would traditionally associate as being the wedding. For this reason I usually arrive a couple of hours before the ceremony and don’t leave until well after the dancing has started. I had the great pleasure of photographing a…
Hampton Court House wedding I’ve photographed several weddings at Hampton Court House over the last few years and it is a venue I always enjoy returning to, so I was delighted when Gina and Patrick booked me for their wedding. Hampton Court House is set in eight acres of beautiful gardens on the edge of…
Walking my dogs in the park today I noticed the trees starting to come back to life after winter, which means spring is not too far off and neither is the busy wedding season for me. I’ve got so many weddings from last year that I haven’t got around to displaying on my blog, so…
My style of wedding photography is all about storytelling, I also tend to take photographs that will fit together as part of the story. Sometimes though it is possible to sum up the story in just one image as in the example here. This photograph does not require explanation or a caption as it tells…
The church of our Lady and the English Martyrs (OLEM) wedding, Cambridge. William and Diana had their wedding ceremony in the beautiful Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge city centre on a wet and dark Autumn day. I’d met William and Diana for coffee in Cambridge some six months earlier and had…
Back in October 2017 I was Joanna and Roger’s Northamptonshire wedding photographer for the very last wedding ever in the Great Hall at Rushton Hall. I also photographed one of the very first weddings here several years ago, all future weddings here will be in the brand new purpose built Orangery which looks gorgeous. Rushton…
Ladywood Estate wedding. Suzie and Suraj’s wedding was at the very lovely Ladywood Estate in Rutland. I last photographed a wedding here several years ago and it was lovely to see how this venue has developed over that time, much had changed since my last visit including the purpose built Pavilion which can seat…
Joanna didn’t have too far to walk to her ceremony as she got ready in the room directly above at Rushton Hall in Northamptonshire. I like to use architectural elements in my photography and the staircase here lends itself well to this with the spiral shape and surrounding arches. A 24mm wide angle lens allowed me…
Weddings at Springkell. I’ve hardly found the time to blog any weddings this year as I’ve been so busy photographing weddings like this one on the 27th May in Scotland at Springkell and Lockerbie. It was a long drive up the M6 to Springkell for James and Brittany’s wedding, a wedding the following day in Coventry meant…
Claire and Jon’s spring wedding was at the lovely Bassmead Manor Barns near St. Neots in Cambridgeshire, about a 30 minute drive for me from Higham Ferrers. Bassmead Manor Barn wedding. As a wedding photographer I often rate venues on how well they look after me, Bassmead Manor Barns scored full points for this with some…
I see a lot of bands at weddings, but it isn’t everyday that Duncan James from Blue sings the first dance. Duncan is good friends with Nina and Jon and agreed to perform for their first dance in St Albans. I photographed Nina and Jon’s wedding last year at beautiful St Albans Cathedral, what an…
It’s that time of the year again when I look back on the last twelve months and forward to the new wedding season. What a year it has been too, with weddings all over the UK as well as a wedding in the Menorca sunshine. It really doesn’t seem that long ago I was talking…
Competition time! Congratulations to recently engaged couples, Christmas and New year is a fabulous time for engagements and gives you lots to look forward to in the coming year. I always enjoy hearing about wedding plans and meet a lot of couples in January, February and March who got engaged over Christmas time. In case…
Back in the summer I was Jo & Dave’s Peterborough wedding photographer. On these dark November days the summer seems so long ago so I thought I’d catch up with blogging a few of the summer 2016 weddings I photographed. Jo and Dave married on the 30th July at Elton near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Like many…
Pepper and Martin’s Wadhurst Castle wedding photography Pepper and Martin chose beautiful Wadhust Castle for their wedding which was planned from their home in Hong Kong. I arrived at Wadhust in brilliant sunshine which was extremely welcome after so many wet weddings. Wadhurst Castle is a country house on the Sussex and Kent border, weddings…
