The WPJA "UK Wedding Photojournalist of the Year" 2009. "Best Photographer" for the East Midlands in the UK Wedding Industry Awards 2012, 2014 & 2015.  You're on the lookout for the ideal wedding photographer to capture your day, but it's a hard task isn't it? Read the following description of my ideal client and if it strikes a chord, you may have just stumbled across the right guy...

You've got fun-loving personalities, but you're also very relaxed. Friends and family are extremely important to you. You like great service, good communication, quality products and you want your whole wedding experience to be totally stress free. You want a wedding photographer who is honest and that you like and trust.

You're not keen on having your photos taken and you don't want to be posing for photos while you could be celebrating. You want a wedding photographer who won't boss you or your guests around, but will instead work quietly in the background, documenting real moments - ones you may not have witnessed on the day.

You appreciate good photography. It's high on your list of priorities and you won't compromise. You've found it hard wading through endless web sites looking at photographers trying to be clever by pushing the boundaries of composition; setting up contrived shots; making their images 'time limited' using the latest trendy processing styles and taking shot after shot of endless details.

You want images showing how you stumbled and giggled during your vows. Images that show how much in love with each other you are and how your friends and family laughed uncontrollably during the best man's speech. You want to see real photographs of real moments with real people.

You don't want images of people with cut-off heads, contrived moments and endless details, because those really aren't the kind of shots that'll evoke the memories of your day in the future. In 25 years time you'll want to be able to look back at your wedding photographs with your kids and relive your memories as those wonderful moments come flooding back; the nerves, the expectation, the suspense, the mishaps, the tears, joy and laughter and loved ones who hold a special place in your heart but unfortunately aren't around any more.

Hopefully you'll feel that you've stumbled across just the right guy, because to you, it seems that a lot of photographers think that the most important thing to photograph at a wedding is the decor, the details and the style.

I think differently, I think a lot deeper than that... I think the most important thing to photograph is people.