London Documentary Wedding Photography: We’re all one. Aren’t we?

Bear with me. Am gonna to get a bit “Emily-ish”…

I think we’re all one. I think all our stories, eventually, merge. Let me explain.

Ever started a conversation with a complete stranger on the bus, or train, or even in a queue? Or maybe you met someone on holiday, on a trek even, shared your vulnerability just for a few moments, and you left that situation feeling… well… wholesome?

I call it a life force. A feeling, an energy that is created when the most authentic part of ourselves connects with the most authentic part of someone else. And everything feels easy, flowy, kind, warm, and wonderful.

Have you had those moments?

I think they feel easy, flowy, kind, warm and wonderful because we leave each other, well, with a bit of each other. And these are possible with anyone you meet, if you are ready for it. If you look into that person’s eyes for long enough and realise that they are just another version of you - full of happy and sad memories in equal measures, full of hope and aspirations, full of achievements and failures. Full of humanity. Regardless of whoever they are, when two people come together, connect for even just a few minutes, surrender into the uncertainty of the moment, we become one.

I have probably lost you now. You’ve moved on with your search for a wedding photographer. I wouldn’t blame you. 😆 But if you haven’t moved on and you have felt what I am talking about. If you have felt that beautiful feeling of connection with another person you hardly know… then you and I may be a good fit. Because this is what I capitalise on when I work. I immerse myself in the emotional drunkenness of a wedding, surrender to your world, tell your story and leave having made as many human connections as I can. When I see emotions unfold at a wedding, I see them because I know them. I know them because I have felt them myself in the past, and therefore, in that moment, your emotions are mine too. And, if I believe your story is a little bit of mine too, then aren’t I then going to tell it even better?

Here is an example when I got emotionally drunk at a wedding. When I listened to the vows, the stories of guests and the speeches and thought “Wow. These two. These two are incredible humans.” All that ordinary lives live through… isn’t that, just so extraordinary.

So here is to being “one” once in a while. For however long.