I combined Zoe and Ed's pre-wedding session in North Yorkshire, on the border of the North Yorkshire Moors, with scouting out their wedding venue.

The days leading up to Sophie and Daniel's intimate winter wedding were wet and grey, so I was pleasantly surprised to arrive at the Grand Hotel Newcastle and find it bathed in sunlight. It was still bitingly cold, with the wind whipping in off the North Sea but it was dry and the light was good.

Le Petit Château is a French inspired boutique hotel, pub and wedding venue nestled in the heart of the Northumberland countryside. It's fair to say Le Petit Château has become very popular very quickly with Northumberland couples.

Michelle, Wayne and I met at Newcastle Quayside on a wet and foggy spring morning. Yes, there really was fog on the Tyne!

It was touch and go whether we would go ahead with the shoot, but fortunately there were enough gaps between the rain showers to get the photographs we wanted.

I have never laughed so much at a wedding as I did on Rachael and Barry's big day at the South Causey Inn in Durham. 

As well as the laughter there were tears too, happy of course, and a surprise announcement (although I'll leave Rachael and Barry to tell people all about that).

I hooked up with Emma and Paul on a wild, windswept day at Druridge Bay on the Northumberland coast. I was looking for couples who were up for a laugh and willing to try out some of the crazy photography experiments I had in mind. Emma and Paul were good sports and were super patient as I brought on smoke bombs, prisms and tried a Brenizer panorama.

The Barn on the Bay is a quirky, boutique wedding venue. It really suits couples looking for an alternative wedding venue. People who love the outdoors or a festival vibe especially.

I met up with Hannah and Faraz at Chopwell Woods in Gateshead for our forest hike engagement shoot. They proved to be very easy to direct and were totally unfazed by public displays of affection, so the shoot became very intimate very quickly.