Most wedding photographs are of a wedding that didn’t quite happen – everyone arranged, everyone holding a face. I’m after the other one: your actual day, with the people who love you in it, caught as it unfolds. The belly-laugh, the quiet hug at the edge of the room, your nan on the dancefloor, the look between you when you think no one’s watching. I’ve spent a lifetime learning to see those moments coming. A wedding is the richest version of that work I know.

Real, not arranged.

I photograph what’s happening, not what I’ve told you to do. You’ll spend the day living it, not posing through it.

An artist’s eye.

Forty years of photographing people—my work is held in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection. That’s the eye that’ll be in the room on your day.

A handful of weddings a year.

I take on only a few, so each one gets everything I’ve got.