Editorial Wedding Photography
Couples often have many questions when trying to find the right wedding photographer. It’s such an important celebration, and you want to feel comfortable, stylish, beautiful – and most importantly, truly yourselves – in your photographs.
A good place to start is by refining your search down to a style of photography that resonates with you.
My style is editorial wedding photography – but what is editorial wedding photography? Let’s look into it, to see what this style of photography could capture for your celebrations.
What is Editorial Photography?
Traditionally, editorial photography is photography that accompanies an article in a magazine, newspaper, or online publication.
It is photography that helps to back up the message of the article itself, conveying the same feeling or telling the same story as the words do.
How is editorial photography different from commercial photography?
Editorial photography, as described above, enriches a story already being told, in the accompanying article, in words. It is designed to enhance the narrative of the article – not, like commercial photography, to sell a product. The focus is on the story, not a sale.
Open a copy of Vogue and you might find an interview with your favourite Hollywood star, promoting their new film. The photography which accompanies this will draw out the narrative of the article.
Has the article cast this star as an approachable ‘girl next door-’type? A powerful businesswoman? Whatever the nuance of the article, you’ll see the photography tends to follow suit. Whilst the ‘girl next door’ narrative might choose young, approachable fashion and an informal, smiling shot, the businesswoman will likely wear a tailored, androgynous suit and be shot looking serious, directly down the lens. Photography is storytelling, and images are immediate. They set the tone.
What is editorial wedding photography?
Editorial wedding photography captures the essence of editorial photography – storytelling – and its aesthetic, too. Those fashionable, composed shots that could’ve been lifted from the pages of a magazine.
That’s what makes editorial wedding photography so special – that combination of the high-end, glossy fashion photography with an innately personal approach, designed to capture who you are, your story, and what your day was like.
As a London editorial photographer, my clients come to me for this unique approach. Although expressive and candid, I seize unscripted visual moments between my couples and their loved ones; moments which take photographic experience and an artistic eye to position and capture.
Documentary photography implies a simple ‘I’m not here, ignore me’ photographic style, where moments are snapped exactly as they are, as they unfold. The reality of my editorial wedding photography is that the most beautiful, editorial-worthy moments to cherish for a lifetime do capture that natural story, but refined through very gentle artistic direction.
The Nathalie Delente editorial wedding photography style
Unusually for many wedding photographers, I love the editorial feel of flash, tending to use flash for about 70% of a wedding celebration. Browse my portfolio to see this aesthetic in action.
For me, flash is very much linked to the editorial movement. There’s something both kitsch and high-end fashion about the feel flash gives when used right. The feel of an editorial on an exclusive celeb party at a member’s club – intimate, hedonistic, glamorous, once-in-a-lifetime.
Nathalie Delente photographs are images designed to grace a magazine. They’re stylish, appealing, and attractive, as well as personal and unique to you and your story. I love to create a cinematic, Silverscreen, Old Hollywood feel; shots that make you feel your most beautiful and refined.
For me, the skills of editorial wedding photography are a combination of subtle posing and artistic direction, ease with my subjects, advanced lighting skills, the way I compose images, and also the way I edit them.
“Oh my goodness Nathalie, they are more amazing than we could have ever imagined. We are in shock! You’ve made us looks so cool!” – Joe & Alfie Childs 2024
My style certainly falls under editorial wedding photography, but wedding photography always encompasses more. Shooting styles meld, as I shoot what needs to be shot that day to capture your story.
It might be that I use a product photography style with an editorial feel, as I photograph a pair of Dior heels, or your vintage-inspired bridal clutch bag. Perhaps you’ll see some documentary photography as I shoot the spontaneous reactions of your nearest and dearest during the speeches. I’ll likely do some portrait photography, too, as I weave in and out of your guests.
I will be shooting in so many styles with so many techniques, to ensure your wedding gallery comes alive with real-life, documentary-style, candid imagery, whilst also focusing on that fashion-forward, filmic, and editorial approach that makes editorial wedding photography so unique. Editorial Wedding Photography lends itself to a certain aesthetic and Londons town halls have become ever increasingly popular – a few of my regular Town Halls are Old Marylebone Town Hall, Chelsea Old Town Hall and Islington Town Hall.
PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE contemporary COUPLE
If editorial wedding photography is the aesthetic you want for your celebrations, fill in my enquiry form or get in touch today.
