Weekend & Multi-Day Wedding Photographer
Notes from a wedding photographer based on Exmoor
The best weddings I’ve photographed lasted more than a day. Friday arrivals at a house or a farm, a wedding on the Saturday, and a Sunday that looks like a house party because that’s what it is. Ash Barton Estate at Braunton, Pennard Hill Farm above Glastonbury, Country Ways at Umberleigh, Eggbeer Farm near Exeter and Bridwell Park in Mid Devon are all built for it, and so is Huntsham Court, the forty-bedroom house twenty-five minutes from me that sleeps a hundred.
A weekend wedding changes the photography in a way couples don’t always expect: the pressure comes off the Saturday. Nobody is cramming every conversation into one afternoon, so the real moments spread out, and a documentary photographer has time to find them. I offer coverage for the Friday evening and the Sunday morning as well as the day itself, and the extra pictures, the welcome drinks, the late-night fire, the breakfast in dressing gowns, are often the ones people love most.
How I cover a weekend
Usually a couple of hours on the Friday evening for the arrivals and the welcome, the full day on Saturday from getting ready to well past the first dance, and an hour or two on Sunday morning. If you’d rather keep it to the day, that’s fine; the venues on this page photograph beautifully in a single day too. Either way, by the Saturday morning I’m a familiar face to your guests, which is exactly what makes the candid pictures work.
Weekend weddings in pictures
Ash Barton Estate and The Post Barn, two weddings that ran over a weekend.
Weekend wedding venues I know
- Ash Barton Estate, Braunton: house, barn, lake and meadow for the weekend.
- Pennard Hill Farm, East Pennard: farmhouse, cottages and yurts with the Mendip view.
- Country Ways, Umberleigh: the Corn Barn and six cottages.
- Eggbeer Farm, Cheriton Bishop: Friday to Monday, with a pool and bell tents.
- Bridwell Park, Uffculme, and Huntsham Court, Bampton: the big houses.
- Orchardleigh, Frome: one to four-day weddings with seventy bedrooms.
- The Post Barn, Berkshire, and Swallows Nest Barn, Warwick, where I’ve photographed weddings further afield.
Good to know
Coverage. Friday and Sunday are added as half days; ask and I’ll quote for the shape of your weekend. Accommodation. For a weekend further than an hour from home I’ll stay nearby, which I’ll say up front. Galleries. Weekend weddings come back as one gallery in three chapters.
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.
