The Chance to Be Photographed Without the Rush

A bridal portrait session gives you something incredibly valuable: the chance to be photographed in your wedding dress without the timeline pressure of your actual wedding day. The morning of your wedding is almost always one of the most rushed parts — hair and makeup, bridesmaids, travel, nerves.

A separate bridal portrait session means you can slow down, work with different locations and lighting conditions, and really create something intentional. It can take place days or weeks before the wedding, or even the week after.

These sessions also serve as a final dress rehearsal — you'll know exactly how your dress photographs, how it moves, and how you feel in front of my camera before your wedding day.

No wedding day timeline pressure

Your choice of location

1–2 hour unhurried session

Multiple looks if desired

Can bring a makeup artist

Delivered within 2 weeks

Everything You Need to Know

When to Book

Bridal portrait sessions can take place days or weeks before the wedding, or even after. Many brides revisit their favourite venue the week after in completely relaxed circumstances.

Location

Your venue, a beautiful garden, woodland, a historic building — anywhere that resonates with your aesthetic. I'll travel to you and work with the natural light available.

What to Bring

Your wedding dress and veil, shoes, jewellery. Consider bringing a second look — a different outfit midway through adds lovely variety. Especially beautiful with veils.

Gallery Delivery

Your bridal portrait gallery is delivered within 2 weeks, fully edited. Prints and albums can be ordered directly from the gallery. You'll receive a beautiful high-resolution collection.

Bridal Portrait Sessions — Beautiful Portraits of You, Without the Wedding Day Rush

A wedding day is one of the most photographed days of most people's lives — but it is also one of the busiest. Between ceremony, guests, family groupings and celebration, there is often very little time for the quiet, unhurried portrait session that produces truly beautiful photographs of the bride alone. Bridal portrait sessions exist to solve that.

Booked separately from the wedding day — typically one to three weeks beforehand — a bridal portrait session gives you unhurried time in your dress, at a beautiful location, working with Yana one to one. No timeline pressure, no family waiting, no guests to manage. Just the dress, the light, and two hours to create the most beautiful photographs of you that have ever been taken.

What the Session Includes

Bridal portrait sessions typically run 90 minutes to two hours and take place at a location chosen specifically for its beauty and alignment with the feel of your wedding — a country estate, a walled garden, a cathedral close, a beach, a meadow. Yana will suggest options based on your dress, your aesthetic and what's practical for your location. Hair and makeup should be done as for the wedding day. The images can also serve as a beautiful reveal for your partner, or as the source for your wedding stationery portraits.

When to Book a Bridal Portrait Session

The ideal timing is 1–6 weeks before the wedding — close enough that the dress alterations are completed and you feel completely confident in how you look, but far enough before the wedding day that there is no pressure. Many brides also book a day-after shoot — returning to a favourite location the morning after the wedding while everything is still fresh and the dress can be worn again more freely.

Available across Cambridgeshire, London, the Home Counties, East Anglia and across the UK. Destination bridal portrait sessions in Europe also available.