End of Year Round Up, 2025
This is my end of year round up, but in love letter form. A thank you note. A manifesto. A slightly emotional, slightly funny summary of what 2025 taught me about weddings, people, and why I’ll never stop being obsessed with photographing them.
Dear You,
If you’re reading this as one of my past couples, please know I still think about your day, probably more often than is normal, and definitely when I’m in the supermarket queue and suddenly remember a speech that made me cry behind my camera.
If you’re reading this as a future couple, hello, welcome, come on in. I hope you like warm hugs, happy tears, and the kind of storytelling that makes you say, “Oh my god, I forgot that happened.”
1. 2025 taught me that your wedding is not a photoshoot
It’s a day where you get to be wildly loved by everyone you’ve ever collected.
So yes, there will be portraits, and you’ll look amazing. But I’m not here to turn your wedding into a content day with a schedule that requires a whistle and a high-vis jacket.
I’m here for the real stuff. The stuff that happens in between.
2. The “in between” is the whole point
The inhale before you walk down the aisle.
The way your hands find each other without thinking.
The side-eye between best friends during the speeches.
That one uncle who treats the dance floor like it’s Glastonbury.
The small, quiet moment where your mum holds your face and you suddenly become five years old again.
Those are the photos that hit hardest years later, usually when you’re not expecting it, usually when you’re meant to be doing something productive. These are the moments that make a gallery feel like a memory, not a highlight reel. 2025 was packed with them, and I’m so grateful.
3. I solemnly swear to protect your timeline from nonsense/cheese!
There are two kinds of wedding timelines:
- The kind that gives you space to actually enjoy your day
- The kind that looks like a military operation and makes you feel like you’re late for your own life
We’re doing the first one.
In 2025, the best days had one thing in common, they had room. Room to talk. Room to hug. Room for the unexpected. Room for you to actually be present in the day you spent months planning.
And yes, I will always protect you from nonsense.
4. I am not emotionally neutral about your wedding
I know I’m meant to be professional, and I am, but I’m also a human with eyeballs and feelings.
So yes, I will tear up behind my camera when your partner’s face changes during the ceremony. I will pretend I’m fine while photographing parents trying not to cry. I will absolutely get emotionally invested in your Nan dancing like she owns the place.
2025 was a year of big feelings. I loved it.
5. Style was strong this year, but heart was stronger
2025 brought beautiful details, fashion moments, candles, colour, elevated tables, stunning florals, and venues that make you want to whisper “WOWSERS” under your breath.
But the weddings that stuck with me most weren’t just styled, they were felt. They were warm. Personal. Full of meaning. Full of people.
Luxury isn’t just how it looks. It’s how it feels when you’re in it.
6. The dance floors were… honestly iconic
I saw polite dancing become feral dancing. I saw “I don’t dance” people become “I am the moment” people. I saw ties on heads, shoes abandoned, and friends screaming lyrics at each other like it was healing. Which it probably was.
If your wedding was in 2025 and your dance floor went off, please know I still think about it with pride.
And if it didn’t, that’s also fine. Some weddings are more “glowing candlelight and soft swaying” than “festival chaos.” Both are valid. I contain multitudes. (But I do love a chaotic dance floor, it what the world needs.)
7. Photography matters, because this year flew by in a blink
This is the part where I get a bit earnest, but stay with me.
Weddings move fast. Like, genuinely ridiculously fast. One minute it’s morning nerves and someone is asking where the rings are (spoiler, nobody knows), the next it’s confetti in your hair, speeches that make your mascara question its life choices, and suddenly it’s the last song.
Photography is how you keep it.
Not just the big moments, but the tiny ones you didn’t see at the time. The hand on your back. The glance across the room. Your friend fixing your necklace without making a fuss. Your mum watching you from a doorway. Your dad trying to play it cool and failing. The people you love laughing with their whole bodies.
At the end of a year like 2025, I’m reminded that the photos aren’t just what your day looked like. They’re what it felt like.
Also, and this is crucial, they’re evidence. Evidence that you looked unbelievable, that everyone cried (including the ones who insisted they wouldn’t), and that at least one guest danced like they were being paid.
8. I’m grateful, and I mean it in the biggest way
To every couple who trusted me in 2025, thank you. Truly.
Thank you for letting me into your day, your nerves, your joy, your family dynamics, your friendship groups, your love stories, your little traditions, your big moments and the quiet ones too.
It’s never “just photos.” It’s your history. And I don’t take that lightly.
9. A few things you can always count on from me
I will show up calm and prepared, even if the day is doing the most.
I will guide you gently, and never make you feel cringe.
I will notice the moments you miss.
I will photograph your people like they matter (because they do).
I will tell your story with care, warmth, and artistry.
And I will also, without hesitation, tell you if you’ve got lipstick on your teeth. That’s love, actually.
10. Here’s to 2026
To my past couples, I’m still cheering for you. Always.
To my 2025 couples, thank you for making this year what it was. You gave me everything I love about this work, connection, humour, tenderness, chaos, beauty.
And to my future couples, I cannot wait to meet you. Tell me what you’re planning, what you care about, what you want your day to feel like, and I’ll help you hold onto it.
With so much love and big hugs!
Sharron xxx
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