candid wedding moment of a bride and groom walking through a colourful confetti shower, surrounded by joyful guests outside the Lordship pub, East Dulwich
documentary photograph of bride and groom exchanging rings during wedding service

Candid London wedding photography

Pictures with personality

A joyful bride and groom lead a lively dance with friends and guests at their wedding reception. The bride lifts part of her white dress to move freely, while the groom, in a white waistcoat and bow tie, beams with a wide smile. The guests around them, dressed in formal attire, are laughing and dancing on a black and white checkered floor in a warmly lit room.

What is candid wedding photography?

Visual storytelling. One eye on you, the other on everyone you love, dressed up to the nines and acting the maggot!

Candid wedding photography is everything except portraits and poses. You don’t have to be a particular personality type for it to work and the resulting images will reflect you as a couple and your loved ones regardless of how reserved or raucous you are. You literally see another side of yourself when you are neither aware of or expecting to be photographed and those unforced images are the ones that I think you will love the most.

Shooting candid wedding photography across London, Hertfordshire, the U.K. and beyond.

“We want none of that wedding B*llix” said my most favourite wedding enquiry ever…!

Bride and Groom joke with each other in front of suggestive signage

If you hate wedding photographs…you’ll probably love mine!

“Highlight key moments and let her roam freely and the results will be moments of pure documentary genius”

Best man swills out of a champagne bottle in high sun and shadow
A joyful bride and groom lead a lively dance with friends and guests at their wedding reception. The bride lifts part of her white dress to move freely, while the groom, in a white waistcoat and bow tie, beams with a wide smile. The guests around them, dressed in formal attire, are laughing and dancing on a black and white checkered floor in a warmly lit room.

“Lou stayed right until the end and got the most amazing candid shots. She’s friendly, fun and can handle a tequila shot!”

Hi, I’m Lou

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SHRINKING VIOLET… BUT NO WALLFLOWER!

I do fun and relaxed candid wedding photography in London. I will do fun and relaxed candid wedding photography anywhere but Google Analytics and search engine  optimisation specifically would like me to mention London again. However if you want me in Dublin to document your Granny doing the siege of Ennis – I’m there!

I could wax lyrical about my style and use words such as non traditional, alternative, documentary and reportage – but essentially I call it the “leaving you alone approach.”

Your wedding is a zip-wire of a day, a constant stream of monumental emotions, blink and you miss them fleeting little moments, and narratives involving your family, your friends, your relationships – the very fabric of you. That is why you should spend the day with them and not me!!

I’m more concerned with capturing your personality and those huge wedding day interactions than your ‘camera face’ face. I’m not there to choreograph your day or tell you where to stand or smile, my aim is to go largely unnoticed whilst encouraging the messers from the sidelines.

 

Candid wedding photography..for the moments you didn’t see coming!

If  you prefer fun over formality, can laugh, cry, throw shapes, and plan on making no apology to your sober selves in the morning -then you’re definitely my kind of couple!

Let’s do this! 

A group of groomsmen and a bride are gathered on the steps outside Boreham house wedding venue. One groomsman, in a navy suit jacket and shirt, has pulled down his trousers to reveal colourful striped boxer briefs, adding a playful and humorous moment to the scene.

Real Weddings

Hampstead Pergola Couple Shoot

Hampstead Pergola Couple Shoot

Belen and Ishmael | Hampstead Pergola couple shoot When Belle's Mum in Spain saw these photos from their couple shoot at the Hampstead Pergola, she started to cry...

A Pergola Hill Garden Elopement

A Pergola Hill Garden Elopement

Eunice & Daniel | A Pergola Hill Garden Elopement Having previously eloped to Gretna Green in Scotland, Eunice and Daniel got their glad-rags back on and had their...

Kilshane House Wedding

Kilshane House Wedding

Deirdre & Karl | Kilshane House Little did I know when I put my kit away at the end of this brilliant Kilshane house wedding in Tipperary that I wouldn't do another...

If you prefer fun over formality, can laugh, cry,throw shapes, and plan on making no apology to your sober selves in the morning – then you’re definitely my kind of couple!

Let’s do this!

A group of groomsmen and a bride are gathered on the steps outside Boreham house wedding venue. One groomsman, in a navy suit jacket and shirt, has pulled down his trousers to reveal colourful striped boxer briefs, adding a playful and humorous moment to the scene.
two young revellers at a wedding drinking shots from a bottle