SMH Photography

Your Wedding day – the way you want it

Hi, we are Steve & Sandra, and we love weddings! We understand that you want your wedding day and photographs to be perfect. After all your wedding day is one of the most important chapters in your love story so far.

We will work with you to create the most beautiful and natural wedding images that tell the story of your special day. Ensuring we capture those priceless memories of yourselves, your family and your friends. Whether you are looking for stunning creative images, dramatic night time images, natural, relaxed images or a combination of everything. Most of all, we are confident we can deliver pictures that are important to you. Please take a look at “Our Style“ page to see how we work.

Natural & Real moments

Quite simply, our philosophy is; if everybody is having a great time, then we can deliver the best photographs. Ultimately, we try to ensure that everybody is completely relaxed and happy and not worried about the camera.

At every wedding, you will have the two of us (Steve & Sandra) photographing your special day. Enabling us to capture those fabulous relaxed, candid moments, which help tell the story of your unique wedding day, things you never even knew happened.

Don’t just take our word for it, please have a look at some of our wonderful testimonials from our previous Brides & Grooms, look around our wedding gallery and visit our blog to see some of our featured images from recent weddings.

Please tell us about your wedding

Although we are wedding photographers based in Cheshire, we cover weddings throughout the North West, including Manchester, Liverpool and throughout Lancashire. We would both love to be a part of your special day and to be able to capture the memories that will mean the most to you for many years to come. As we often get booked 1 – 2 years in advance please do get in touch to let us know about your wedding.

“Sandra and Steve were an absolute joy to have as our wedding photographers. Until getting married ourselves, I had no idea what a vital part they’d play in the build-up to and during the day. They may seem like small things but even being there with pins for the buttonholes, helping the men to look presentable and organising the girls was such a huge help, and they helped remove any stress from the day. With Sandra carrying my dress and drinks and helping me in and out of places, I should’ve provided her with a bridesmaid dress!
They are so professional yet relaxed and friendly, and their partnership was a pleasure to observe.
We are of the age where we have been to many weddings in recent years and found photographers to be often a bit bossy and intense in the hope of getting ‘the shot’, and so we knew how important it was to hire someone who wouldn’t distract from our day or our time with our friends and family.
Steve and Sandra were the perfect combination of getting gorgeous photos that we are so proud and happy with that truly reflect the laughter and happiness we experienced on our special day, whilst allowing us to have spent our day with our loved ones with no force or pressure.
We are so grateful for having such lovely, kind, calm, wonderfully creative and skilled professionals to have spent our day with and I would recommend them without any hesitation.”

Kate and Paul – Thornton Manor Lakeside Marquee

Our Photography Style

No one-word can express or describe our style! We believe the very best wedding photography combines true photojournalism, timeless portraiture, and creative photography. Ultimately our goal is to create photographs for you that are beautiful, genuine and timeless.

For most of your wedding day, we will document moments as they happen naturally. We know everyone isn’t comfortable being photographed so during your portrait time, there will be no awkward poses or artificial setups. We will give you some guidance to help you relax, enjoy the moment, and look your very best.  And later, as the light fades, we like to offer some fantastic creative photography for you. We often use creative lighting to give you some of those awesome night-time photographs or maybe an incredible sunsets.  These are all set up and ready to go before you even have to be there, so no time at all is wasted away from your guests.

To truly understand our photography style, check out our wedding portfolio and featured wedding galleries.