Joshua and Julia have travelled Japan together more than once, and it showed in almost every detail of their wedding. The cherry blossom that ran through the ceremony room wasn't a spring colour trend borrowed from a moodboard — it was a place they'd actually stood in together, brought home and built an entire day around. Joshua and Julia married at St Ermin's Hotel, London, on 9 May — cherry blossom pink and lilac purple through every part of the day, a 1pm ceremony that we

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 2:30 PM, 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. Shaz and Pete had two hours to themselves before the second half of their day began. In those two hours, everything changed. This 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 worked on hair and makeup.