Hi I’m Hollie. I’m not just an award winning wedding photographer. I’m also a multi award winning documentary family photographer. I photograph weddings and families the same way – no posing, no staging. Just natural moments and real memories. As a mum myself I know how fleeting those moments are, as my littles grow up all too fast. So, in turn, I know how important it is to document those moments to treasure and look back on. I always have a camera out at home ready to document a moment – and I love being invited to document other families. I’m based in Yorkshire but photograph families all o ..read more

Wow – what a year. From travelling the country photographing so many amazing weddings to winning international awards (more of that later), this is a year we’ll remember forever. But to ensure it doesn’t just live on in our heads, we thought we’d round it up and immortalise it on our blog, too! So without further ado, this is our ‘best wedding photography of 2023 post’ featuring 120 favourite images from last year.  Before you ask – yes, it was difficult to pick just 120. We ended up picking the compositions, the moments, the memories that stood out to us, as photographers and a ..read more

In the heart of Yorkshire’s rolling countryside lies Wharfedale Grange. As Wharfedale Grange wedding photographers, we’re proud to capture lasting memories that couples will cherish for a lifetime. It’s an honor to be able to capture the love, laughter, and joy that fill the air at Wharfedale Grange weddings. You can find some of our favourite images from Wharfedale Grange below ..read more

We’ve photographed every type of wedding you could imagine. And in terms of size, we’ve photographed weddings with just the two people getting married present, right up to huge celebrations with 500 guests. But which do we prefer? Well, we love all types of weddings. Each one is unique – each one so very different to the last. So we have to say, we love them all. We love the colourful chaos of a huge wedding, getting lost on the dance floor in a sea of people. However, we also love those smaller weddings. Why we love smaller weddings We love the intimacy these smaller weddings can bring. That ..read more

What a start to 2024! We’re delighted to say we’ve won 20 new UK Masters Of Wedding Photography Awards – 11 for Hollie and 9 for Patrick. This means we’re the number 1 and 2 ranked UK photographers in the Masters Of Wedding Photography. What an honour – and as a husband and wife wedding photography duo, it’s great to be side by side at the top of the rankings. Thanks so much to the Masters judges – we’re absolutely over the moon! 20 awards is beyond our wildest dreams – and you can find all of these award winning images below. Choosing The Mateers to photograph your day If you love our unique ..read more

So, you’re thinking of having us along on your wedding day to take some pictures? First of all – can we please just say you have the most impeccable taste in photography. Secondly – hi! We’re Hollie and Patrick, otherwise known as The Mateers (formerly M and G Wedding Photography). We’re documentary wedding photographers, based in England. We photograph weddings all over the UK – and abroad, too. As a married couple ourselves, we know what being photographed on your wedding day is like from both sides of the lens. We have a deep understanding and empathy for every couple we’re lucky enough to ..read more

We’ve been entering This Is Reportage (TIR) since its inception. We love what TIR stands for: the very best in documentary wedding photography. Authentic, real moments – but it’s much, much more than that. TIR shows that wedding photography is art – and that is perfectly aligned with what we believe. We’ve won many awards over the years – but this award stands out as the most important, the most meaningful. TIR awards are so incredibly hard to win – the hardest to win documentary wedding photography awards there are. Therefore, they are incredibly prestigious. So, to be the the overall photogr ..read more

As you look around our website and our social media, you can see so many examples of our reportage wedding photography. Natural, real and authentic moments. You can see we have our own unique style – you can get a real feeling for the relaxed and non-traditional approach we take to documenting weddings. And of course, you can see we’ve won some of the biggest and most prestigious awards you can win in our industry (see some of the awards that we’re most proud of winning below). But how will it actually feel to have us photograph your wedding day? What’s it like to spend your day with us? And ..read more

“Are you nervous?” “Are you excited?” “What’s it going to be like?”  These are some of the twenty or so messages we were sent by other wedding photographers before we photographed this beautiful London to Bath elopement. There’s never been so much interest from other photographers about a wedding before we’d photographed it. We’ve often photographed weddings where the couple was an artist or a creative – film makers, directors, photographers, playwrights, musicians, art directors – but this was actually only the second time we’d photographed a fellow wedding photographer.   ..read more

Hi, I’m Hollie – one half of The Mateers. I work alongside my husband, Patrick. We’re documentary photographers and we love capturing weddings together, in our unique style. This blog is all about me! How I got into photography, what I love about being a photographer, what I love about weddings. Plus, a little bit about me away from photography, too. First of all though a run down some of my likes – those little idiosyncrasies that make me, ‘me’. As a child I dreamed of working with animals and used to have a decent, encyclopaedia-like knowledge of them (and dinosaurs!) I love sleep – and sin ..read more