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The best wedding photography of 2024

150 of my favourite wedding photos taken at this year’s weddings

Well here we are again with my annual collection of (some of) my favourite photos I took at this year’s weddings. Every year, picking out my photos for this post feels like a different process. This year I’ve felt acutely aware that if I selected again tomorrow I’d have a different 150 and the day after a different 150.

I love all the photos I deliver to my couples, that’s why I deliver them. Some are just normal photos that capture a person – portraits of a kind. Some are silent moments that don’t scream anything, they just say ‘remember this’ and others work well as a series of moments, while some stand alone as single photographs.

I guess as the years pass and the times change, what’s important to me as a photographer changes. The most important thing to me is to give my couples a genuinely meaningful collection of photos that were taken by someone who cared what was happening in front of the camera. Not a record, not even a documentary. Just a collection of meaningful moments where one flows into the next and into the next, and as little as possible is missed. My job is to make sure people remember through photos.

Because I believe in photos now more than ever. The power and magic of a photo isn’t available through any other medium.

Take the photo I’ve started with above. That’s Odell and Mary during Odell’s speech. It might seem an odd choice since you can’t see their faces, but it’s not a photo of them. At this point of his speech Odell was talking about his late sister. And at this moment he mentioned that if she was there she’d have her finger in the air like she always did when she was excited. And even though she’s out of focus you can see Mary also has her finger in the air. To me this is a photo that will hopefully forever make Odell think of his sister. It’s a moment that needed to be frozen in time.

Because that’s what photos can do. They can transcend the actuality of a moment, because the reality is so frozen that you will always view it with your own nostalgia and romance conjured up by that memory. And a photo of one thing can become a memory of something else. I think only photography can do that.

I hope you’ve had a wonderful year and I hope you enjoy what’s left of it too.

Thanks a million to each and every couple who let me come and take photos at your wedding this year. You make my world go round.

I can’t wait for the weddings to come in 2025 – if you’re reading this and thinking about booking me for your wedding in 2025, this is your sign to just do it.