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London Couple Shoots | 2023 | Will Fuller Photography

As I mentioned in my previous blog post (Best of 2023) I have decided to split my couple shoots and weddings into two separate posts. Purely so I can include more pictures and not have to spend nearly as long narrowing the numbers down! Here’s the couple shoots.

I was lucky enough to once again work with tons of lovely couples in 2023. It’s become one of my favourite things to do; meeting people from all over the world, all with interesting stories to tell, whilst exploring the most beautiful city. Obviously there’s a lot of repetition with the big landmarks, but I think I will always enjoy visiting the Houses of Parliament, and Tower Bridge, etc. But have also visited lots of less well travelled parts of London. New favourites being Hampstead, and Greenwich. Incredible places to explore.

Having professional pictures taken is an inherently strange experience, I think. Especially in the company of a stranger (me!) in often an unfamiliar setting for those just visiting London. So I have really leant into making it as comfortable and relaxed as possible. I want my shoots to feel like a wander around the city with a friend, rather than a professional formal photoshoot.

I feel like I got fairly lucky with the weather in 2023. Not too many rainy shoots, however I do always tell couples that it can actually be a good thing! You can have all the popular spots to yourself whilst everyone else hides in pubs and coffeeshops, and I feel like the lights of the city look fantastic reflected in puddles and the shiny streets. You’ll see a couple of examples below. I’m always on the hunt for a puddle for a cool reflection shot!

2024 is looking like a very busy year again for weddings, but I do still have lots of mid-week slots available for couple shoots, so if you are at all interested please don’t hesitate to get in touch for some more info here. Thanks again to everyone I had the pleasure of meeting in 2023!

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Best Of 2023 | Will Fuller | London Wedding Photographer

Another year of being a wedding photographer ticked off! January is always a fairly reflective time, as it’s pretty much the only month where it’s quiet enough for me to sit down and go through the past year’s work, and remember all the wonderful memories captured, of so many lovely couples. It’s taken a little while longer than usual to go through all of my pictures to select some of my favourite moments, as 2023 saw another increase in the amount I photographed again. Just over 33000 pictures have been delivered in total! 37 weddings, and 41 couple shoots.

This year I’ve decided to split my “Best Of’s” into two parts. Weddings, and Couple Shoots. This one of course being the wedding one. I thought cutting my work into two sections would make narrowing down the number a lot easier, but apparently not! I’ve spent far too much time agonising over which pictures to pick. Like previous years, I’ve not included any standard group pictures, or detail shots. I absolutely do take these, but I like to keep my roundup posts to the pictures that show real connection; what weddings are really about! And of course plenty of fun moments.

A few special shout outs:

My cousin Chris and his lovely wife Hannah, whose wedding I was lucky enough to photograph in 2023.
Our friends Tom and Helen, for inviting us to capture two wonderful days of celebrations in Florence.
Premier Inn, for becoming my home away from home. Apart from the really noisy grim one in High Wycombe.
Celebrants. So many amazing celebrant led ceremonies.
SouthEastern Railway for finally putting plug sockets on all their trains, so I can get on with work whilst on the way into London (like I am right now, writing this post).
Guests playing up to the camera.
The guy at the end of the night, Shazaming Wonderwall on the dancefloor.
That little bit of super harmful air pollution that makes our golden hours glow that bit warmer.
Gails Bakery, for the pre-shoot snacks.
Outdoor ceremonies, outdoor speeches, and outdoor dancing.

Thanks again to all the fantastic couples that I’ve had the pleasure of working with this year. I’m really looking forward to getting to the wedding season of 2024 and already have some really lovely weddings lined up.

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Samantha + Michael | Iceland Vow Renewal | Reynisfjara

I’ve now been doing wedding photography in Iceland almost for as long as i’ve been a professional photographer! It’s become such a special place, that I always feel honoured to visit. Back in December I hopped on a plane back to Iceland, to join Samantha & Michael for their intimate vow renewal on Reynisfjara, the black sand beach on the South Coast, along Route 1.

Iceland in December is quite surreal if you’re used to the balmy comfortable and wet climate of the UK. Not only the bracing cold, but the lack of daylight hours. We had a grand total of 4 hours 30 minutes of daylight for the entire shoot, so it had to be planned to perfection, to make the absolute most of that time. That said, I think this shoot felt as far from “Iceland in winter” as possible. Beautiful mild weather, with incredible sunlight all day long.

I met up with Samantha & Michael in Reykjavik at 9am, and we drove together in the darkness of the night for the first 90 minutes. Very slowly the deep blue glow beyond the horizon got warmer, as we approached the huge imposing cliffs running along the South Coast of Iceland. We hopped out for a few quick pictures before reaching Reynisfjara, to make the most of the beautiful sunrise.

We saved the main section of portraits to the black sand beach, where Samantha & Michael took some time to renew their vows to each other as the sun rose behind them, over the Atlantic Ocean. The waves crashing along that section of the coast sounds like a constant loud roar, but it feels like such a peaceful location, and an idyllic place for them to share a really personal moment of renewing their commitments to each other.

Although we only get just over 4 hours of sunlight in the depths of winter in Iceland, the positive is that the sun doesn’t rise that high above the horizon. So those 4 hours feel like a constant beautiful golden hour. We could shoot portraits throughout the day, without much concern for finding patches of shade.

We explored the cave and basalt columns on Reynisfjara, before making our way round into Vik to visit the beach there, which has a very different feel to it. From there we headed back in the direction of Reykjavik, stopping at Dyrhólaey. The view from the top of the cliffs is one of my favourite spots in Iceland, and never fails to make me feel incredibly small!

By this point in the day the sun was on it’s way back down towards the sunset, so we managed a very quick trip to Sólheimajökull glacier but made a fairly quick exit as we wanted to save the best light for our visits to the waterfalls of Skogafoss and Seljalandsfoss which looks absolutely incredible at that time of the day, and was a wonderful conclusion to the trip to Iceland. All the very best to Samantha & Michael, who it was a pleasure spending the day with.

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Best of 2022 | Will Fuller | London Wedding Photographer

I can’t believe I’m already sat here in rainy cold January at the start of another year. It felt like in 2022 I blinked and the whole year happened. After the slow start of 2021 due to still being in lockdown, I had built it up in my head that every year I get a few months of quiet before the busy wedding season kicks in. Not at all the case in 2022! But in hindsight it was great to be busy throughout the year for a change.

At the start of December I started flicking through all of my edited images from the year. In 2021 I delivered around 24000 images, but in 2022 I managed to push that to over 30000. Do you have any idea how long it takes to individually go through 30000 pictures and narrow it down to just over 100? A long time. Which is why I’m only posting this in mid January! I’ve done my best to include at least one or two pictures from every shoot, but with so many smaller shoots it’s been tricky to keep the numbers to a reasonable amount.

2022 saw me travelling all over the country again, and visiting some new incredible places. So many beautiful venues that I would love to photograph at again in the future, which I’m hoping to share more of later this year. I’ve also managed to fill the weekdays with so many fun couples shoots in London. I’ve absolutely loved meeting so many people from all over the world, and spending a couple of hours wandering around, taking pictures, and chatting about life! And I’ve also been lucky enough to travel back to Iceland twice for two wonderful shoots.

2022 was also the year of evening outfit changes, baby Guinness’, dogs at weddings, amazing golden hours, wild evening parties, over 100 miles of wandering around London, and an utterly obscene quantity of pre-wedding Starbucks Luxury Fruit Toast.

I’m so thankful to have been able to spend another year doing such an interesting and varied job, to the point where often it doesn’t actually feel like work at all. Thank you to all of the wonderful couples that I have shared 2022 with. Below are just a tiny selection of all of the pictures I delivered, in no particular order.

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Best of 2021 | Will Fuller | London Wedding Photographer

As with all years, I have spent a few days going through every single edited photo that I delivered from 2021 (Just a few shy of 24,000 in total). Or should I say, the last 6 months of 2021, as up until June we had no idea what the summer would bring! We spent the first half of the year anxiously waiting out the lockdown. And then almost overnight went to one of the busiest times of my life work-wise! A little bit of a shock to the system to say the least, but so much fun too.

Thankfully, the vast majority of wedding plans went ahead and it felt so good to be out shooting again. I have personally felt a shift in the way that I work too which I didn’t expect. I used to spend a lot more time on a wedding day hunting out those big eye-catching epic portraits (I still love taking those, don’t get me wrong!), however in 2021 it’s felt like there has been SO much more emphasis on just getting together with friends and family for a celebration. And I have found that I haven’t wanted to drag couples away from that! Not nearly as much as I used to anyway, and as a result a ton of my favourite photos from 2021 have ended up being the little in-between moments that really make a wedding day.

Thanks so much to all my wonderful couples from 2021. It really has felt so great having these slices of normality on wedding days, even when the rest of the world isn’t quite back to that point yet. I’m so looking forward to another fantastic year in 2022. Hope you enjoy having a flick through my year in pictures!

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Hanna + Olly | Kent Wedding Photography | The Oak Barn Frame Farm

Back in September I headed over to one of my favourite venues, The Oak Barn Frame Farm, for Hanna & Olly’s beautiful wedding day. I was joined by Charlotte Amy Photography who was my second shooter for the day, and covered all of Hanna’s prep pictures for me.

Last year I ended up photographing at The Oak Barn pretty much a couple of times a month, so have tons of weddings that I’d love to share from there, however I opted to share Hanna & Olly’s first, as I think it gives a good idea of where a second shooter can really benefit you on a wedding day. I’ve included quite a few moments taken from multiple angles which I'm sure you’ll notice when scrolling through. We also used different lighting setups for the dancing in the evening, which gave a good variety of pictures.

The venue was dressed beautifully, with fresh flowers and foliage everywhere, courtesy of See Rose Floral Designs, which worked so well with the character of the barn. After the ceremony Hanna & Olly were whisked away for a quick lap of honour in Hanna’s dad’s newly restored vintage car which ended up needing a bit of a helping hand from the groomsmen to get out of the venue!

Guests enjoyed lawn games on the grass overlooking the fields and trees, whilst the main barn was prepared for dinner. Hanna & Olly opted for a few long tables, which I think really suits The Oak Barn. After dinner and speeches we spotted the sun finally making an appearance, so headed back out for another portrait shoot down by the lake, which then turned out to be one of the most amazing sunsets of the year!

Hanna’s family are German, so they chose to do a Polterabend, which is where all of the guests smash porcelain plates and cups. The bride and groom then have to tidy this up to give them good luck for their marriage. Great fun to photograph, although we ended up spending a lot of the time dodging flying plates! After the cutting of the cake and some sparklers everyone headed back up to the main barn for their evening celebrations. Thanks so much to Hanna & Olly for inviting us along to capture the day for them!