Yeovil Wedding Photographer
Documentary wedding photography, based on Exmoor
Yeovil is the far corner of Somerset from me, an hour and a quarter from Exmoor through Taunton and along the A303, and it’s worth every minute: the countryside between Yeovil, Sherborne and South Petherton is honey-coloured hamstone villages, big houses behind long walls and some of the best wedding venues in the South West. I’ve photographed more weddings around Yeovil than anywhere else outside my own patch, largely because of one house.
That house is Brympton House at Brympton d’Evercy, and I’ve photographed three weddings there: Ilse and Philipp’s, Nirali and Ryan’s and Jack and Beth’s. I’m a documentary photographer, so what interests me at a place like Brympton isn’t the architecture on its own but what people do in front of it: the walk out of the chapel, the drinks on the lawn, the dancing in the barn with the fairy lights up. The group photos take ten minutes, the portraits twenty, and the rest is yours.
Weddings I’ve photographed around Yeovil
Besides Brympton, I’ve photographed JJ and Matthew’s wedding at Frogmary Green Farm at South Petherton, a farm barn with a courtyard and fields around it; two weddings at Stockbridge Farm Barn at Sherborne, just over the Dorset border; and a September wedding at Limington, the village on the Yeo three miles north of the town. The Somerset page and the Dorset page cover the ground either side.
South Somerset in a day
This is gentle, lived-in countryside, and the portraits that work here are the quiet ones: a lane between hamstone walls, a long shadow across a lawn, the edge of a field at the end of the day. Ham Hill, the country park above Montacute, is ten minutes from Yeovil and gives you the whole of South Somerset laid out below for a sunset picture if you want one. Sherborne’s abbey and its two castles are fifteen minutes the other way. I’ll suggest one short escape based on your venue and the light.
A Yeovil wedding in pictures
Ilse and Philipp at Brympton House, and JJ and Matthew at Frogmary Green Farm.
Venues around Yeovil
- Brympton House, Brympton d’Evercy: one of the grandest houses in Somerset, two miles from the town centre. Photographed three times.
- Frogmary Green Farm, South Petherton: a farm barn ten minutes west along the A303.
- Stockbridge Farm Barn, Sherborne: a stone barn and courtyard across the Dorset border; photographed twice.
- Haselbury Mill, Crewkerne, and the other mill and barn venues in the valleys south of the A303.
- Village churches at Limington, Montacute, Tintinhull, East Coker and Barwick, with receptions in marquees and village halls.
- Sherborne Abbey, with receptions at the Digby Memorial Hall, the hotels in town or the castle.
Good to know
Travel. Yeovil is within Somerset, so there’s nothing to add for travel. Light. The land is open and low here, so the golden hour is long and dependable in summer; at Brympton the west front catches it beautifully. Getting ready. Most of the big venues have rooms on site; if yours doesn’t, the hotels and cottages around Sherborne photograph better than the town-centre ones.
Taking a limited number of weddings for 2027 and 2028
If my way of working sounds like your kind of thing, I’d love to hear about your plans. Drop me a line with your date and venue and I’ll tell you straight away whether I’m free.
