Lytham Hall Pre Wedding Photography - Jodie & Ben; Lytham Hall is a local icon. It’s an 18th century Georgian country house, Grade 1 listed, in beautiful parklands. And it’s right in the middle of our home town of Lytham St Annes. It’s currently undergoing some much needed renovation, and the painstaking attention to detail in the work is a joy to behold. If you fancy a beautiful walk and a c ...

John Rylands Library Pre Wedding Photography - Steph & Steven; One of the places we’ve had on our list to visit for a couple of years now, is the John Rylands Library in Manchester. It’s a beautiful neo-gothic sandstone building with architectural parallels to the iconic Manchester Town Hall just down the road. Including the window designs and the arch profiling in the Reading Room. It’s a tru ...

Lytham St Annes Pre-Wedding Shoot - Emma & Kieron; we’ve travelled a lot over the past couple of months shooting. All over the north west, down to Buckinghamshire, the midlands, the lake district, and even deepest darkest Yorkshire. It’s always amazing to take a moment to realise what’s on our doorstep, and to utilise what we take for granted in our home town. Emma and Kieron met us at St Ann ...

Lytham St Annes Pre-Wedding Photography - Karis & Jake; Karis and Jake wanted somewhere with parkland and gardens, trees, secluded enough that they wouldn’t feel super-awkward, but accessible enough that we didn’t have to drive for hours to find it. Our home town of Lytham St Annes has the perfect spot, so we headed to the beautiful Ashton Gardens one sunny friday evening for their shoot. Ash ...

Lytham St Annes Beach Pre Wedding Photography - Rachel & Sean; This amazing pair have their wedding VERY soon - EXCITING!! As soon as we heard there are going to be donkeys with bowties, and a guest appearance by Llamas and Alpacas, we nearly had kittens. We just hope they’re not wanting too many pictures of people, because we’ll totally be hanging out with the animals most of the day :D So, ...

Malham Cove Pre-Wedding Shoot - Amy & Marc; We googled with our freezing fingers afterwards, and there are ‘around four hundred irregular stone steps’ leading to the tops at Malham Cove. We’d certainly agree with the ’irregular’, but we’re pretty sure they missed a zero off their count. It’s a LOT of steps. So, why the punishing hike, weighed down with 20Kg of bags, through the mud and up a l ...

Beacon Fell Pre Wedding Photography - Rachel & Liam; Bowland Forest is one of those inimitably beautiful places within reaching distance of our home. We sometimes forget that such incredible natural beauty is on our doorstep as we travel the country looking for epic locations. Returning to somewhere like Beacon Fell is always refreshing. It makes us appreciate our home county of Lancashire th ...

  Stirk House Pre Wedding Photography - Scarlett & Rob; So, these two. We’re photographing their wedding this summer in the Ribble Valley, and we just know it’s going to be awesome. Coming out into the east lancashire countryside always gives us an incredible appreciation for the scenery of our home county. Today, we met Scarlett & Rob in Gisburn for their pre wedding shoot. The point o ...

A Lancashire Beach Pre-Wedding Shoot with Julia & Andrew; Ok, so we went to the beach in November. That’s not really THAT unusual for us, as we kinda live there and it’s just a stone’s throw from our house. It didn’t make it any warmer though, and as luck would have it, the rain started as soon as Julia & Andrew walked into view at St Annes Pier. But Oh Well. We don’t let a little thing ...

Lancashire Farm Pre Wedding Shoot - Amy & Paul; We headed over to the beautiful village of Fence in East Lancashire one beautiful July evening to meet Amy & Paul for their pre wedding shoot. The sky was clearing as we approached, and tentatively drove our poor hard-tyred Mini down the rocky farm track to the house. After a brew and a chat about wedding plans in their farm house, we headed ...

Whinlatter Lake District Pre Wedding Shoot - Natalie & Philip; As we approached Whinlatter Forest, a gorgeous spot in the obscenely beautiful Lake District, the clouds began to cover the still evening sky, and spots of rain began to fall. It was the night for Natalie & Phillip’s pre-wedding shoot, and after waiting so long for it, and travelling so far to this gorgeous place, we carried o ...

 Lytham St Annes Pre Wedding Shoot - Kate & Paul; This pair were just a dream to photograph. There, I said it. What makes it so much better is that they had no idea. As we spotted Kate outside St Annes pier waiting for us, she was visibly nervous. I mean, come on. You’re going about your business, and then a pair of photographers turn up to follow you around the beach for a couple of hours. W ...

Lytham Hall Engagement Shoot - Jo & Dean; We’ve been writing a lot lately about our home town of Lytham St Annes, and how much it has to offer for a photo shoot, right on our door step. We're passionate about creating new perspectives out of what we consider usual and everyday. Well,  I think we might have started something here! Jo & Dean were more than up for coming down to one of the h ...

These two ❤ We met Sam and Craig at a wedding exhibition at their soon to be wedding venue, The Dalmeny Hotel in Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. We all instantly clicked (pun intended!) and they booked us to shoot their big day! They told us how awkward they are when a camera is pointed at them, so a pre-wedding shoot was perfect for them to get rid of any nerves or awkwardness before their big day ...

One rare, mild autumnal evening last month, we drove to Cumbria to meet Ella and Mark. These two are getting married over Christmas in Scotland (yes, how romantic!?), and wanted to bring a little of their current Lake District home into the wedding - so they asked us to shoot a pre-wedding session for them :) We met at Bardsea Beach near Ulverston, a place where some of my family originate from, ...

Lytham St Annes Pre Wedding Shoot - Julia & Marcus Julia and Marcus came over to our seaside home town of Lytham St Annes for their pre wedding shoot, and we couldn't believe our luck with the weather. We climbed the sand dunes, walked out to the end of the pier, and caught some amazing sunset light. We also walked the entire length of the pier arcade, dodging children and arcade machines tr ...

Helen and Simon are a country couple through and through. Later in the year, we are shooting their home-made wedding in the Cheshire countryside, and so one sunny evening we drove down to the farm to see how the plans were going. We always love to shoot around an hour before the sun sets - when the golden light of sunset just begins to creep in, making amazing shadows and a romantic dusky atmosphe ...

Last night's shoot with these two was AMAZING. Like every couple, they started off being very nervous and I don't think they quite believed me when I said they'd love it after 5 minutes, but they did! This shoot is the perfect example of why we advise our couples to have their pre-wedding shoot as close to sunset as possible. That light! The shoot was also an awesome opportunity to catch up and fi ...

From the moment I read Laura's message enquiring about us photographing her and Ryan's wedding day we just clicked and by the time we came to do their pre-wedding shoot in Lytham it felt like we'd known each other for ages. And OH MY GOODNESS, Dora their pug is just GORGEOUS!!! I was imagining every way possible to smuggle her home after the shoot but I think they would have noticed! Laura and Rya ...

Claire and Emma chose to have their pre wedding shoot in Claire’s home town of Weybridge, just inside the M25 - so an epic road trip ensued from our home in Lancashire. We travelled down together and stayed over in Shepperton just down the road, overlooking the Thames and got to know the place where Claire grew up. The shoot day was also Claire’s birthday, so we knew we had to pull out something s ...

Now we’re home in the warm, shoes drying by the fire and a lovely coffee and biscuits in hand, we're loving looking back on yesterday’s shoot with Josh and Abby in the Lake District. Josh and Abby are getting married at Kirklinton Hall in Cumbria this summer, so what better than a contrasting season shoot to warm up to the big day? Josh is a fellow wedding photographer, we were pretty honoured to ...

  We don’t mind a little damp and wind during our shoots, in fact a nice sprinkling of fresh rain can be really enjoyable! It was about at this point when we huddled together for a brew and a chat in a lovely Lytham cafe talking over Michelle & Richie’s upcoming wedding at Glenskirlie Castle in Scotland. We then decided to brave it, walking round some of the less known spots in Lytham ...

Fairhaven is a stone’s throw from our St Annes home, and somewhere that’s been part of our histories for over thirty years (feeling really old writing that!). Seeing a location that’s so embedded in personal memory from a fresh perspective is a challenge to say the least - but we LOVE a challenge, and it really brings out the best in us. Usually it’s our amazing couples with the built-up nerves b ...

  Rivington is somewhere we’ve spent a lot of time over the course of the year - in all seasons and all conditions, and it never fails to surprise us with the beautiful locations we find there. Jo & Ching decided to meet us there for their pre wedding shoot so we could help shake off those initial camera-nerves and make some pictures of them together before the big day. This pair are ha ...

We often get obsessed with searching out venues further afield than our home town for shoots, thinking if only we went a bit further we’d find beautiful spots for inspiration. It’s so refreshing to revisit locations on our doorstep however - seeing local areas with a fresh perspective really gets our creative juices flowing, and we loved this relaxed shoot in Ashton Gardens in St Annes with Vicki ...

Naomi and Mark’s pre wedding shoot was our first visit to Witton Country Park, and after the wonderful experience we had here, certainly won’t be our last. We arrived late afternoon approaching sunset, when the light dims to a low-contrast ebb, and started heading for a nice secluded spot to ease this lovely pair into the shoot. Within Country Park is like nowhere we’ve really been before - it’s ...

What a treat we had this fine evening with good company and VERY good weather. That sunset! Tina and Warren drove up to us in Lytham St. Annes all the way from Cambridge, they were also having a mini spa break to celebrate Tina's 'big' birthday, so rather romantic and memorable to combine it with their pre-wedding shoot! Ashton Gardens was our starting point, and in the wonderfully quiet parkland ...

One VERY sunny evening last week, we met up with the lovely Rebecca and Leigh. They are regular visitors to Rivington hence why they chose it for their pre-wedding shoot. You can see why, it was bloody gorgeous! They told us "it's just a bit of a hike up to the spot we like." I thought they were kidding but found that that wasn't the case. The 'bit of a hike' well and truly tested my fitness so i' ...

One sunny (yes, sunny!) evening in Blackpool, Lancashire, we went for a leisurely stroll with these peeps and were treated to a spectacular sunset. We got a bit of daffodil action in there last thing too! Kirsty and Ste are blummin' gorgeous and their love for each other was so ridiculously plain for all to see. They decided to have their pre-wedding shoot in spring due to having their wedding at ...

Lake District Wedding Photography; Lizzy & James got engaged in the Lake District, and so we thought it was entirely apt to bring them back to Cumbria for their pre-wedding shoot. We had such fun shooting at Tarn Hows in The Lake District. A tiny little lake that was famously bought and sold by Beatrix Potter herself in the 1920's. It was a gorgeous day with hardly a soul around, and we had a ...