John Wellings · Swansea

About

Hi, I'm John. I photograph weddings the way they actually happen: people, moments, and the things you miss in the blur of your own day.

Approach

I studied documentary photography and spent a few years in London shooting and picture editing for the Financial Times before I came back to Wales and started photographing weddings. That grounding is still how I work: present, watching, letting the day run itself rather than arranging it.

There is no shot list and no standing around for forty-five minutes doing formals. I will give you a gentle nudge where it genuinely helps, and otherwise stay out of the way. If that sounds like the sort of thing you want, we will probably get on.

I shoot digital with 35mm film running alongside it, which is where a lot of the character in these galleries comes from. Originally from Cardigan, based just outside the Gower, and happy to travel anywhere in the UK, Europe or further.

John Wellings, wedding photographer, sitting in a living room
John Wellings · Swansea
Nolton Coast wedding photograph by John Wellings
Nolton Coast · Nolton, Pembrokeshire

What I shoot

  • Coastal03
  • Elopements02
  • Weddings10
Years shooting
10+
Images, full day
700+
Previews back in
48 HRS

Tell me about your day and I will let you know if I am free.

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