PRE-WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY SESSIONS
Your Story, Before the Big Day
Relaxed, editorial couples photography across Essex, Suffolk, London and beyond. Designed to make your wedding day photography feel completely natural.
PRE-WEDDING SESSIONS
More Than A Photoshoot - A Rehearsal For Your Wedding Day
Most couples have never been professionally photographed together. And your wedding day, with its timeline, guests, and high emotion is not the ideal moment to figure out how to feel natural in front of a lens.
A pre-wedding session changes that. In a relaxed, unhurried setting, we spend an hour or two walking, laughing, and learning how to move together. This experience completely transforms the confidence you bring to your wedding day.
Couples who have a pre-wedding session consistently produce more natural, emotionally genuine portraits on their wedding day. By the time the big day arrives, the lens feels familiar, the portraits feel effortless, and the images show exactly who you actually are together, and not a posed version of it.
CHOOSE YOUR SETTING
From Essex fields to London streets, your session belongs wherever feels most like you. We plan entirely around your aesthetic, the season, and the light to make your images exceptional.
Relax Into It
The goal is to make you forget the camera entirely. Through conversation and movement, we simply witness genuine moments that would have happened anyway.
Take It With You
The confidence you build during your session follows you straight to your wedding day. From the ceremony to the portraits, you will feel genuinely comfortable in front of the lens.
FROM THE PRE-WEDDING PORTFOLIO
Real Couples. Real Moments. Before The Wedding Day.
PRE-WEDDING SESSION
What's Included
Relaxed. Beautiful.
Ready to use before the day.
Pre-wedding sessions from £300
Available as a standalone session or as an add-on to any wedding package. Get in touch to check availability.
- Pre-session consultation - location, style, and timing planned
- Up to 2 hours of relaxed couples photography
- Location scouting and light assessment beforehand
- Available to add on to any wedding photography package
- Styling guidance available on request
- 75 – 150 professionally edited high-resolution images
- Private online gallery for downloading
- Full printing and sharing rights
- Delivery within 1 – 3 weeks
- Images ideal for save-the-dates, social media, and personal use
Why It Matters
Genuine Comfort on Your Day
Couples who have a pre-wedding session will feel completely relaxed during your wedding portraits. As the lens becomes familiar, the process stops feeling forced and starts feeling entirely natural.
We Plan Everything Around You
Location, timing, season, light, and every element of your pre-wedding session are curated entirely around you. We never improvise; we arrive knowing exactly how to make your images extraordinary.
It Works for Every Wedding
Whether you are planning a traditional Nigerian ceremony, a registry wedding, a church celebration, or a full wedding day, the pre-wedding session adapts to be most useful for your timeline.
Because traditional and full wedding days move quickly, portrait time is naturally limited, making pre-wedding sessions incredibly popular. Learn how to navigate your timeline with our Nigerian and African wedding photography guide, covering full ceremony structures and timing considerations.
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Anywhere that feels right for you. Popular locations include Essex countryside, London parks and architectural spaces, coastal locations, meaningful places to the couple, or indoor studio settings. We discuss and plan the location together at the pre-session consultation.
Ideally 4 to 8 weeks before your wedding day; close enough that you feel wedding-ready, but with enough time for the images to be delivered and used for any pre-wedding purposes. Sessions can be booked at any point before the wedding, including well in advance for save-the-dates.
We will send over plenty of style inspiration as part of your session preparation. Generally, aim for outfits that feel authentically like you, coordinate beautifully without matching too identically, and make you feel completely confident. Traditional attire is also incredibly welcome and often produces our most striking images.
Absolutely, and we actively encourage it for couples planning traditional or cultural ceremonies. A pre-wedding session in traditional Nigerian, Ghanaian, or other cultural attire produces extraordinary portraits and is particularly popular with couples whose wedding day schedule leaves limited portrait time.
Yes, absolutely! We offer cinematic, high-quality video reels optimized for social media (like Instagram Reels and TikTok) as an add-on to your session. It’s the perfect way to capture the movement, laughter, and behind-the-scenes energy of your shoot, giving you a dynamic keepsake to share or use for digital save-the-dates.
We regularly shoot pre-wedding sessions in Essex and London. Travel costs are discussed transparently as part of your tailored quote.
You will typically receive between 75 and 150 fully edited, high-resolution images from your pre-wedding session. The exact number generally depends on the flow of the shoot and the number of outfits worn.
Standard sessions run for approximately 90 minutes to two hours. This gives enough time to warm up, explore the location, and create a variety of images without feeling rushed. Extended sessions are available for couples who want more time or multiple locations.
Yes. Pre-wedding sessions are available as a standalone booking or as an add-on to any wedding photography package. Combined packages are discussed at the enquiry stage.
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A pre-wedding session is the best investment you can make in your wedding day photography. Get in touch to check availability and book your session. We would love to hear about your plans.
