We photograph weddings all over UK and abroad, but also love to photograph weddings closer to home, too. We’re based in Cottingham, Yorkshire and we’re happy to offer some special prices for local weddings in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
Four-time winners UK Photographer Of The Year
We’re a married couple ourselves and we’ve won many awards for our wedding photography. These awards have led to us being recognised internationally for our work – and we’re now invited, as educators, mentors and experts in wedding photography, to present at photography conferences all over the world. This feels pretty surreal and humbling for two photographers from East Yorkshire – but makes us very proud, too.
Our national awards include being named the UK Photographer Of The Year by: TWIA, Masters Of Wedding Photography and This Is Reportage (twice). This Makes us four-time winners of the UK Wedding Photographer Of The Year award. Some of our awards – national and international – are collected below. So if you choose us to photograph your day, you’ll be choosing one of the most awarded wedding photographers, not just in the local area, not just the whole of the UK, but internationally, too.
Wedding photography is an investment
We believe wedding photography is one of the most important investments you can make for your big day because the memories it captures last a lifetime. While the cake is eaten, the flowers fade, and the decorations are packed away, your wedding photographs remain a tangible reminder of the emotions, connections, and beauty of the day. So we recommend investing in the very best wedding photography you can. By choosing us, The Mateers — award-winning wedding photographers — you’re ensuring that every moment is captured with artistry and authenticity. We take real pride in creating images that will tell the real and authentic story of your day.
Frequently asked questions
Have you shot our venue before? We travel all around the world with our job – and feel very lucky to say that. Last year we were in Athens one weekend, London the next, the Lake District afterwards and then back to Yorkshire before heading off to Cyprus. This year, we’re heading off Belgium, France and all around the UK. So, we travel to new venues all the time – and we love that. If we’ve not visited your venue before, we’ll love visiting it for the first time. And if it’s a venue we know and love, we can’t wait to go back!
We love your natural style, but do you shoot group shots? Yes! People book us for our documentary photography – it’s something we do like no other photographer and that’s why we’ve won the biggest awards in world wedding photography for what we do. However, most couples still want a few group shots too and that’s absolutely fine – it’s your day and we want you to be happy. We promise though that group shots will never take over your day though. 99% of our work is completely natural – beautiful, funny and emotional moments happen at every wedding without the need to stage things. Group shots are completely optional to you, too – if you don’t want any, you don’t have to have any. If you do, we’ll happily take them for you. The whole process of working with us is completely relaxed and it enables you to get on with you having the best day ever and us taking the best photos to capture so many memories for you.
Are you insured, do you have back up equipment and do we get a contract? Yes, yes and yes! We’ve been doing this together for 8 years now and ensure every part of our business is run to the highest standards, from the images we take down to the customer care we provide before, during and after the wedding. Insurance and a contract is the beginning of this – the incredible images we’ll take of your day, then you receiving and loving them – that will be the culmination of the days and days of work we’ll put into documenting your day perfectly. Please check out well over 100 google reviews to read more about the amazing service we always provide every couple.
Do you take couple shots? Yes! Like group shots they’re completely optional – and we keep our couple shots relaxed, it’s not a stuffy portrait shoot – no cheesy poses! Check out some examples of couple shots on this page. Most couples want some moments capturing of just the two of them together and we love to take them. Just like group shots, couple shots won’t take over your day – no dragging you away from your party for hours. A relaxed walk around your venue is all we need to capture some beautiful moments of you two together.
Special offers for local weddings
We’re happy to offer the following special prices for weddings local to us. Please just drop us an email back to discuss this further: info@mandgweddingphotography.co.uk or contact us here. It’s just a £300 booking fee to secure your date with us. Here’s a behind the scenes shot of Hollie photographing a beautiful local wedding.
Spring / Summer weekend prices (May to September)
One photographer all day, £2400 (usually £3000)
Two photographer all day, £2800 (usually £3500)
Weekday and winter weddings
If you’re getting married during the week in the summer (Monday to Friday) or any day between January to April / October to December, we can offer the following prices (not including dates over the Christmas & New Year period):
One photographer, £2000 (usually £3000)
Two photographer, £2500 (usually £3500)
Included in every package
- Coverage from getting ready – right through to an hour after your first dance, meaning we really do cover from prep to the party
- Approx. 600 to 800 beautifully edited images – hundreds and hundreds of moments telling the story of your day
- Password protected gallery – easily share your beautifully edited images and access them anywhere
- Slideshow of images set to music – featuring the highlights of your day
- Full print licence – to download, print and share your images wherever you like meaning you have complete freedom when using your images
- All images expertly edited in house – each image individually edited by Hollie
- Optional pre-wedding consultation – meet us for a coffee or chat over zoom to get to know us better
- No additional travel expenses – for English weddings (no hidden fees)
Optional add ons to any package
These optional add ons can be made at time of booking, anytime before the wedding – or with albums, you can purchase these after the wedding, too. For the discounted prices, please add on before your wedding day. And of course – we can show you examples of our albums when we meet for coffee (they’re really stunning!).
Standard small album, £300 (usually £400)
Photographic album, £500 (usually £600)
Pre-wedding shoot (for a local location to us, within two hours car journey), £300
Pre wedding shoot (for a location further than two hours away from us), from £500
Unlimited coverage, £300 (more party images – instead of finishing one hour after the first dance, we’ll stay all night and in fact, we’ll be the last ones to leave the dance floor!)
Payment plans can be offered on request to give flexibility to you financially if you’d like to spread the cost of investing in us for your wedding photography – please enquire to discuss further
More of our award winning wedding photography
We’ll leave you with some more of our award winning wedding photography, captured at wedding across the UK and abroad. We like to think that our wedding photography stands out as a little different – we capture moments artistically, but we also ensure we capture the essence of every wedding day we’re part of. Our images really show people for who they are – we show a wedding authentically. We do this by capturing all the humour and emotion of a wedding day – all the tender and beautiful moments, plus moments that were completely unexpected, too. So whatever you plan – whether it’s the most intimate wedding to the biggest party – your day will be uniquely yours and we’d love to photograph it for you. Hollie & Patrick, The Mateers.
