When the cab pulled away from the Kimpton Fitzroy and turned toward Marylebone, Elizabeth called her mum. Her mum was in America. She held the phone up so she could see London through the window — the streets, the buildings, the two of them in matching cream on their way to get married. That phone screen, held up to the glass of a black cab, is the frame I keep coming back to from this day. Elizabeth and John got married at Marylebone Town Hall on a quiet morning — two witne

By 2:30pm it was over. Forty-four guests had filed out of the Orangery at Braxted Park, the afternoon tea in the Knott Garden had been cleared, and Shaz and Pete had two hours to themselves before the second half of their day began. In those two hours, everything changed — and that is the most efficient summary I can give of what it meant to photograph this wedding. The morning Shaz got ready in the bridal changing room with her bridesmaids — Serena Thakar on hair and makeup

The groom prep at Seckford Hall happened in the bar. This doesn't sound unusual until you see the bar — dark navy walls, art deco gold light fittings, shelves of bottles floor to ceiling behind a counter that looks like it belongs in a 1920s hotel rather than a Tudor manor in Suffolk. Chris and his groomsmen got ready in grey suits in a room that was doing most of the visual heavy lifting before anyone had touched a buttonhole. It made for some of the most atmospheric prep fr