I have bright pink hair, so my love of colour probably isn’t going to come as a huge surprise.
I’ve always loved wedding photos with personality. Bold flowers, excellent outfits, confetti getting absolutely everywhere, packed dance floors and all the little details that tell me something about the people getting married.
But let’s clear something up. Colourful wedding photography isn’t just dragging the saturation slider as far as it will go and hoping for the best.
Nobody wants radioactive grass, orange skin or a white shirt that has somehow turned blue.
For me, it’s about noticing the colours already there, understanding how they work together and making them feel every bit as brilliant in your photos as they did on the day.
Colourful doesn’t mean your wedding needs to look like a rainbow exploded
Obviously, you don’t have to plan an incredibly colourful wedding to work with me.
You might be wearing black – I probably will be! You might have chosen a dark pub, a registry office or a historic venue filled with beautifully muted colours. The flowers might be wild and bright, or you might have decided flowers aren’t really your thing.
Colourful photography is as much about richness, contrast and atmosphere as it is about bright pinks and yellows.
A deep green wall behind a black outfit can look incredible. Warm pub lighting can make a room feel inviting and full of life. A flash of red lipstick, a bright buttonhole or the blue light from a dance floor can completely change a photograph.
I’m looking at how everything works together, I’m working with your vision because it’s YOUR day! I’m not trying to squeeze every wedding into the same bright and cheerful template, because that would be both boring and slightly unhinged.
The people are always the main event
I love a good floral arrangement, but I’m not going to spend half your wedding treating the table decorations like the main characters.
I’m looking for the friend who is already crying before you’ve even reached the ceremony. The person in the second row trying to make you laugh. Your grandparents holding hands. The guest whose dance-floor commitment suggests they may need to apologise to their knees tomorrow morning.
Colour helps bring those moments to life, but it never replaces them.
That’s why my galleries are people-led and full of movement, expressions and all the little interactions you probably missed while you were busy getting married, talking to everyone and wondering whether you’d actually eaten anything.
The colourful moments I’m always looking out for
Some parts of a wedding naturally give me more opportunities to play with colour.
Confetti is an obvious one. It’s chaotic, joyful and almost impossible to control completely, which is exactly why I love it.
Flowers, outfits and accessories bring your choices into the photographs too. That might be a brilliantly coloured suit, embroidered shoes, tattoos, a handmade veil or a bouquet that looks like it has been gathered by a particularly stylish woodland witch.
Then there’s the dance floor.
Coloured lights, movement, arms everywhere and people completely forgetting there’s a camera nearby tend to create some of my favourite photographs from the whole day.
I’ll use flash when it adds to the atmosphere, but I’m not trying to make your evening reception look like a corporate awards dinner. I want it to look like your party, including the questionable dancing and the person who suddenly remembers every word to a song they claimed not to like.
Grey skies aren’t a disaster
This is Britain. Waiting for guaranteed sunshine would mean nobody ever got married – even though summer 2026 has had ALL the sun!
Overcast weather can actually be brilliant for colour. Without harsh sunlight creating strong shadows, flowers and clothing can look even richer. It’s also much kinder to faces, especially during the middle of the day.
Rain can give us reflections, dramatic skies and an excuse to use parts of your venue we might otherwise have ignored.
I always have a plan for changing light and weather, so you don’t need to spend the week before your wedding refreshing three different weather apps, burying two dozen sausages and considering a blood sacrifice to the sun gods – but I will manifest good weather for you. Whatever the weather decides to do, I’ll work with it.
Bold editing, but you’ll still look like you
My editing is colourful, but I still want you and your people to look like actual humans.
Skin tones stay natural. Black clothing stays black. White outfits stay the colour they were intended to be. I want your flowers, lighting and surroundings to have plenty of life without making the whole gallery look as though it has been dunked in an Instagram filter.
Your ceremony, speeches, portraits, and dance floor will naturally feel different, but the gallery should still make sense when you view it from beginning to end.
Colourful wedding photography for people who want to be themselves
My couples weddings and photographs don’t all look the same, and I wouldn’t want them to. Some are full-day celebrations with a packed dance floor. Others are registry office ceremonies followed by the pub. There are alternative weddings, traditional weddings, micro weddings, elopements and days that refuse to fit neatly into any category.
What connects them is that the people have planned something that feels like them, rather than building a wedding entirely around what they think they’re supposed to do.
If you want colourful, people-led wedding photos without turning your day into one long photography production, tell me what you’re planning.
Even if the current plan is mostly “ceremony, pub and possibly chips,” I’d love to hear about it. ESPECIALLY if there’s chips..!