THE BEST WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY OF 2023 THE ANNUAL ARJ PHOTOGRAPHY WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION – 2023 EDITION My favourite album of 2023 was What Matters Most by Ben Folds, and my highlight of the year was seeing Ben Folds perform most of the songs from that album plus a few greatest hits right here in my hometown of Manchester. Magical times. One of my favourite tracks on What Matters Most is called Back to Anonymous… And my favourite lyric from that particular song is: “It’s a big world, with un-famous people who deserve the grand applause.” I love that line, and I actually think about that ..read more

An Oddfellows on the Park Cheshire Summer Wedding Robin and Rachel’s wedding at Oddfellows on the Park, Cheshire Feeling the enthusiasm for my photography from my couples is like a powerful energy drink to me. I love to take photos but the reason I love to take photos at weddings is because of the happiness I’m able to bring out in my couples with the results. It’s why I’m still loving being a wedding photographer now as much as I did when I captured my first wedding at the beginning of 2010. Robin and Rachel’s enthusiasm for having me as their photographer was amazing. It’s the dream, truly ..read more

A Very Sunny Garden Marquee Wedding Millie and Ru’s Garden Marquee Wedding at home in Lound, Nottinghamshire I love a wedding venue, but there’s just something so wonderfully special about home weddings. And that’s what Millie and Ru had at Millie’s childhood home in Nottinghamshire. I arrived in the morning to a lovely chilled atmosphere and everyone buzzing round getting ready. I had a wander down to the end of the garden where the finishing touches were being applied to the marquee and the garden games were waiting for the guests later on. There would be some pretty competitive sunset table ..read more

Hindu Wedding At Bowes Museum Archit and Shivani’s amazing Hindu wedding at Bowes Museum by ARJ Photography® What an unbelievable day this was for Archit and Shivani at the quite epic Bowes Museum. Bowes Museum is one of those buildings which is just so big and imposing your brain just can’t quite comprehend how big it is. So you end up stood in front of it getting that kind of New York neck ache you get from staring up for too long. But this day wasn’t about the venue, as epic as Bowes Museum is. This day was about the amazing Archit and Shivani. Two of the world’s nicest people with two of t ..read more

A Stockton House wedding Elle and Ben’s uniquely beautiful Stockton House wedding Venue: Stockton House Humanist Celebrant: Zena Birch Every so often, once or twice a year, one of my photographer friends asks me to shoot their wedding. I met Elle at a workshop a few years ago and we’ve been mates ever since. I was so over the moon when she got in touch to ask me to be her and Ben’s photographer – ok that’s a lie, I might have tried to talk her out of it! It’s a tough gig being a photographer for another photographer! Especially for an overthinker like me! But no, I was genuinely over the moon ..read more

A Sutton Bonington Hall Wedding Maddy and JJ’s uniquely beautiful Sutton Bonington Hall Wedding Venue: Sutton Bonington Hall What an unbelievably beautiful day this was. And I don’t just mean the weather which was also top notch. Maddy and JJ are two of the biggest characters I’ve worked with. So brilliantly themselves all the time, and so very much in love with not just each other but also their families and friends who they shared this day with. Every wedding is uniquely beautiful – it’s become a bit of a catch phrase for me over the years, but it’s because the true story of each day (after ..read more

A Silverholme Manor wedding Richard and Mary’s uniquely beautiful Silverholme Manor wedding Venue: Silverholme Manor, Lake District It was on that beautiful summer-autumn transition that New Zealander Mary and Brit Richard came to the gorgeous Lake District for their Silverholme Manor wedding. They wanted an outdoor blessing ceremony, with the world famous Lake Windermere in the background but it was that time of year when you just never quite know what weather the great British Lake District is going to throw at you. Actually you never quite know what weather the Lake District has in store, b ..read more

A Syon Park Indian Wedding Sajnee and Akhil’s uniquely beautiful Syon Park Indian Wedding Venue: Hilton Syon Park What an utterly tremendous day this was with the amazing Sajnee and Akhil for their Hilton Syon Park Indian wedding! I already introduced you to them a few posts back when I posted about their civil wedding at Old Marylebone Town Hall and so here we are back for their Indian wedding at Hilton Syon Park! I’ve told this story before but Sajnee and Akhil were the last to book me in a long line of referrals which started with Mona and Dipesh, who recommended me to Mona’s sister Bijal a ..read more

A Wokefield Park wedding Kiran and Nij’s uniquely beautiful Wokefield Park wedding Venue: Wokefield Park Estate Planner: Shagun Weddings This is parts one and two of Kiran and Nij’s three-part wedding extravaganza of a year. Well actually for Kiran and Nij there were more than three parts, but this is two of the three I was with them for! Part one was their pre-wedding shoot and I’ve mixed a few of those photos in below but this post is mainly to showcase their amazing civil wedding day and evening reception at Wokefield Park in Kiran’s home town of Reading. I first met Kiran way back at Mona ..read more

A Cheshire Jewish Wedding Sophie and Tim’s uniquely beautiful Cheshire Jewish Wedding Planner: Kate Park Events Venue: Cheshire – Colshaw Hall What an utterly gorgeous mid-winter wedding this was for Sophie and Tim at Colshaw hall in Cheshire, another Kate Park Events masterpiece! Sophie and Tim’s Cheshire Jewish wedding took place between right at the end of December and they had an intimate and cosy winter wedding planned at Colshaw Hall, starting with an incredibly beautiful ceremony just after sundown in the ceremony hall, to the backdrop of incredible floral decoration by the Red Floral t ..read more