Pete + Laura
Sustained by Matcha & Espresso
Hello there! We are Pete and Laura. We met through a friend at university and bonded over our mutual love of tea.
Having such a solid foundation for a relationship, it was no surprise that we eventually got married. Like all the best British weddings, it was wonderfully rainy.
We’ve now been married for 18 years and live in a wonky little cottage in Lancashire with our latest creation – a human called Albert (who’s now at High School!), and our rambunctious cat, Hugo.
Having a kid means tea rarely cuts it, so we’ve moved on to coffee. Lots and lots of coffee. Matcha is up there now too.
“we didn’t even know it was a job”
It’s fair to say that we were pretty much kids when we started doing wedding photography, we didn’t even know it was a job, and we’d never even been to a wedding as guests!
We’ve now been shooting weddings for 20 years and it turns out we are so damn lucky to have ended up doing this! What could be better than getting to capture people during some of their happiest and proudest moments, at the (usually) biggest party they’ll ever throw?
A little more about us
Aside from our plans for world domination, we like lighting our log burner, long walks in the Lancashire countryside, watching murder documentaries (Laura), a serious table tennis addiction (Pete), and watching Formula One together.
We are living the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle we always dreamed of.
Us at your wedding
Our Style
Our style is all about extreme emotions and epic laughter. We love capturing genuine moments, and yeah, a few awesome portraits too, but mostly our pictures are about the moments.
We love weddings because of all the crazy emotion that bubbles up to the surface on a day like this. We get to photograph all this love and happiness within families and between the couple themselves. It’s basically a massive party celebrating the awesomeness of you.
Flowers, shoes, dresses… that’s not what the day is about. They sure do look pretty, so we’ll absolutely get some lovely shots of them. But the most interesting part of a wedding is always the people.
How We Work
The way we work is by being as unobtrusive as possible so that we can capture your guests having a fantastic time, laughing, crying, and dancing the night away! We don’t go full ninja though, not many people are comfortable having a ninja at their wedding. Instead we blend into your wedding – we don’t direct people, but we’ll probably say hello.
While posing isn’t our thing, we do like to spend a little time with the bride and groom to make some pretty pictures away from your wedding party. These are very quick and relaxed – we let you and your partner have a cuddle and a giggle somewhere beautiful and capture the results.