What we do
Wedding Photography
Natural, story-led wedding photography - from a husband-and-wife team.
We’re Natalie and Vitaly - a husband-and-wife team based in Oxfordshire and shooting weddings all over the UK (and occasionally further afield). Our photos are heartfelt, warm and true to life. We don’t use heavy filters or fashion-led colour grades that look dated three years later. We make people look like themselves - on a really good day.
How we shoot a wedding
Two of us, both with cameras, both engaged with the day. One of us tends to lead the creative side; the other tends to handle the logistics, second angles and group shots. In practice the two of us cover everything that matters from two different points of view, so you almost never end up with only one picture of an important moment.
We’re unobtrusive by default. We follow the day quietly and let it happen - the morning prep with its excitement building, the ceremony, the speeches, the dancing. When you do want a bit of direction (group photos, couple portraits, a quiet ten minutes away from the crowd), we’ll guide you gently. No forced poses, no awkward smiling at the camera for half an hour.
True-to-life colour, edited by hand
Our photos are bright, clean and properly colour-graded. Faces look like faces, dresses look the colour they actually were, and the venue looks the way you remember it. Every photo we deliver as “edited” has been edited by hand - not run through a preset and shipped. Many of our favourites are also retouched in detail: skin made naturally beautiful, distractions removed, the small fixes that make an image feel finished. To see what we mean, our editing & retouching page has side-by-side examples.
Help with the timeline
One of the things couples tell us most often is that the day went smoothly because we’d already talked through the timeline with them. About a month before the wedding we send a short questionnaire and then a follow-up call or email to walk through the schedule. We’ll flag the bits that look tight, suggest where to leave breathing room, and make sure the parts that matter to you have the time and the light they need. You can read more about how we plan the photography flow of the day.
What you get
- Two photographers on the day, working together but covering different angles.
- A private online gallery, usually within three to six weeks.
- High-resolution files, ready to print, share or back up.
- Hand-edited images - the best of the day, properly finished.
- The full set of unedited keepers as well, so you have everything we captured.
- Printed albums, or other optional extras.