If the thought of spending your wedding day posing for photos makes you want to run a mile, we’re probably going to get along.

My approach to unposed wedding photography is pretty simple. I let you enjoy your wedding while I photograph what actually happens.

The laughs, the hugs, the tears, the questionable dance moves and everything in between. I’m not going to stop your day every five minutes for another photo or ask you to pretend to laugh at each other.

I want your photos to feel like your wedding actually felt.

Real people. Real moments. No awkward nonsense.

Before weddings, I bloody loved street photography.

Walking around with a camera and waiting for something interesting to happen taught me something that has stuck with me ever since — real moments will always beat manufactured ones.

I didn’t want to create the moment. I wanted to wait for it.

When I started photographing weddings, unposed wedding photography felt like the obvious way to work. Weddings already have everything I could possibly need: people, emotion, chaos, laughter, tears and usually a fair bit of alcohol.

Why would I need to manufacture any of that?

I just need to be there when it happens.

Yes, we’ll still get some lovely photos of the two of you.

But it won’t turn into a two-hour photoshoot.

I normally steal you away for around 15 minutes, find some decent light and let you have a bit of time together. Have a walk. Have a chat. Take everything in.

I might give you a little direction if you need it, but I’m not going to spend the next hour moving your hands around and telling you where to look.

For me, natural wedding photography should still feel natural.

Quite revolutionary, really.

You know the photos.

Hands awkwardly placed. Heads tilted slightly towards each other. Now look at the camera. Now look away. Now pretend to laugh.

No thanks.

I want the two of you to look like you.

That’s why my approach to unposed wedding photography is much more relaxed. I’ll find the light, give you a little space and photograph whatever happens.

Sometimes you’ll laugh. Sometimes you’ll have a quiet moment together. Sometimes you’ll spend five minutes talking about how much you’re looking forward to getting back to the bar.

All of it is real.

And that’s the important bit.

Your wedding isn’t a photoshoot.

It’s probably one of the very few times in your life when almost everyone you love is in the same place at the same time.

So bloody enjoy it.

Go and talk to people. Hug your mates. Have another glass of champagne. Laugh at the speeches. Cry when your dad sees you. Get on the dance floor and make some questionable decisions.

I’ll worry about the photographs.

Documentary wedding photography is about observing all those little things happening around you — including plenty you’ll probably never even notice.

And those are often the photographs that become more important as the years go by.