Micro-Wedding Photography at York Register Office: Sam + Jen

Last week I joined Sam & Jen for their delightfully Autumnal ‘Micro-Wedding’ photography at the Central York Register Office! 👰🏼👰🏼

Short coverage civil unions like this one, are a lot of fun to shoot and this sweet pair hardly stopped laughing throughout! 

Sometimes 3 or 4 hours of wedding photography is all you need for smaller weddings

I’ve shot loads of civil wedding ceremonies at Leeds Civic Hall Registry Office, Leeds Town Hall and York Register Office). My transparent pricing page has info about my ‘Micro-Weddings’ collection, for Yorkshire micro weddings with 30 guests & under. 

These guys only had 2 guests, Sam’s Mum and Dad and I joined them all at The Grand Hotel in York for a few prep pics before hitting the beautiful streets of York for portraits!

How they met trots the globe, as Jen’s originally from Pensilvania in the States, but schooled in the UK, and they met through a nerdy (their words not mine!) book forum while Sam was in Belgium. Their first date was at The Grand Hotel in York (hence getting ready there) before eating at the Ivy (hence a portrait outside it)! 👭

5 years later, they live happily in East Yorkshire with their cats Brutus & Spartacus, and decided it was time to tie the knot! 🐾

As proud members of the gay / LGBTQ+ community they love York for lots of reasons; the fact that they had their first date there, but also that grand ol’York Minster has made significant public steps to welcome and affirming same-sex couples (especially since the 2015 Pride blessing).

On our lap of central York’s funky sports for portraits, we also stopped outside ‘This Shop Is So Gay’, as it made for the perfect background (and even sold Yorkshire LGB tea cups)! 🏳️‍🌈 



Sam’s the creative of the duo (if we lost her on the shoot I was told to check in Hobbycraft!). She made the amazing Autumnal bouquets and buttonholes, with nods to Jen’s lego obsession by featuring cute medieval Lego characters in each! 💐

I do love the intimate nature of  photographing Micro-Weddings in Yorkshire

From joining them for a quiet exchange of cards (which, as usual, Jen forgot to take the price tag off!) to a quiet champagne toast, a relaxed walkabout and a tiny civil ceremony followed by a tiny toss of Confetti – it was all such a blast! 🎉

Now grab y’sen a steaming mug of Yorkshire tea and hit play on the slideshow below to check out their wedding highlights below…