Bridgwater Wedding Photographer
Documentary wedding photography, based on Exmoor
Bridgwater sits between the Quantock Hills and the Somerset Levels, with the Parrett running through the middle of it and the M5 bringing guests from everywhere else. It’s an hour from my house on Exmoor, and the countryside around it, the Quantock villages on one side and the flat, watery Levels on the other, has given me a run of weddings on farms and in village churches that I’ve loved photographing.
I work as a documentary photographer: I let the day happen and I keep the camera on the people rather than the details. You’ll get the group photos, done fast, and a short set of portraits in the best light we can find, and the rest of the day is yours. The pictures come back honest, warm and edited to look as good in twenty years as they do now.
Weddings I’ve photographed around Bridgwater
Huntstile Organic Farm at Goathurst, on the slope of the Quantocks four miles out of town, is the one I’d send most people to look at first: Sam and Lucy married there in a small, warm, slightly wild wedding with a cider barn and a view. I’ve photographed a spring wedding at Greenway Farm at Wembdon, on the edge of town; Lucy and Carl’s wedding at St Martin’s church, Fiddington, under the Quantocks; a wedding at Burrow Bridge, out on the Levels, with Burrow Mump and the willow fields around it; a wedding at Crowcombe Court, the Georgian house on the Taunton road; and Chris and Heather at Hestercombe, twenty minutes south.
Hills on one side, water on the other
The Quantocks are England’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and they’re ten minutes from Bridgwater: heather, beech-lined combes and views to Wales. The Levels are the opposite, flat and silver and full of birds, with Burrow Mump and Glastonbury Tor standing up out of them. Whichever you’re marrying nearer, I’ll know a spot within a few minutes of the venue for your portraits, and I’ll keep it to twenty minutes so you’re not missing your own party.
A Bridgwater wedding in pictures
Sam and Lucy at Huntstile, with a few frames from Hestercombe.
Venues around Bridgwater
- Huntstile Organic Farm, Goathurst: intimate weddings on the Quantocks, four miles from town.
- Greenway Farm, Wembdon: a farm venue on the edge of Bridgwater.
- Crowcombe Court: a Georgian house under the hills, halfway to Taunton.
- Hestercombe House and Gardens, Cheddon Fitzpaine: twenty minutes south.
- Village churches at Fiddington, Nether Stowey, Spaxton, Enmore, North Petherton and Burrowbridge, with receptions in marquees, barns and village halls.
- St Audries Park, West Quantoxhead: half an hour west along the A39.
Good to know
Travel. Bridgwater is well within my normal range; nothing to add. Light. The Levels keep the light late and low, which is perfect for the last portraits; the Quantock combes lose the sun earlier, so at a hill venue I’ll do the portraits before the meal. Guests from the motorway. Junctions 23 and 24 are the usual arrival points; if you’re marrying in a village church, I’ll make sure the timings allow for people finding it.
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.
