North Wales Elopement & Wedding Photographer
Elopements & Weddings across Eryri, Anglesey & the Llŷn Peninsula ask me anything - book a free disovery callElopement Wedding Photographer based in North Wales
What if you planned your wedding day around how you actually want to spend it?
I plan & photograph elopements and very small weddings across North Wales for couples who want to get married somewhere beautiful and spend the day doing things they genuinely enjoy – just the two of you, with your kids, the dogs, or with only a handful of your favourite people.
You don’t need to know where to go or have the whole day figured out. Tell me what sounds like a really good day to you, and I’ll help with the locations, timings and all the practical bits that turn it into a wedding day that actually works.
Then go and enjoy it. I’ll photograph what happens.
Based in North Wales, I photograph elopements & small weddings across Eryri (Snowdonia), Anglesey, the Llŷn Peninsula and the Clwydian Range.
Hey there, I’m Babs.
I’m drawn to quiet stories and wild places.
Laid-back wedding and elopement photographer based in the Clwydian Range, where I live with my husband Rich and our three slightly wild (but very lovable!) collies. We’re always up for discovering beautiful places in the camper; you’ll usually find us somewhere in the mountains of Eryri or along the windswept coastlines of the Llŷn Peninsula. Life with our dogs is chaotic in the best way – a bit unpredictable, often outdoors, and a daily reminder that the best moments aren’t planned. Just like the couples I work with, we’re most at home in the wild corners of North Wales, following our own path and seeing where the day takes us.
Thinking about an elopement in Wales?
Explore my free elopement guides – everything I’ve learned about planning a brilliant little wedding day in Wales.
From quiet lakes and woodland around Beddgelert to the valleys and mountain paths of the Ogwen Valley, Eryri (Snowdonia) is an incredible place to get married if being outdoors is already where you’re happiest.
I’ll help you find somewhere that works for the wedding day you actually want to have – not simply somewhere that makes a good photograph – and put together a loose plan that gives you plenty of time to enjoy being there.
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Planning a relaxed wedding in Wales?
Explore my small wedding guide – practical advice for keeping the bits you love, leaving out the ones you don’t & planning a day that works for you.
Small & micro weddings in Wales
A small wedding doesn’t have to feel like a shortened version of a big one.
With fewer people and fewer things you have to fit in, you’ve got much more freedom to decide how you actually want to spend your wedding day.
Maybe you get legally married with your parents and siblings there, head off somewhere beautiful for a few hours together, then meet everyone again for dinner. Maybe your closest people come along for the whole thing – kids, dogs and all. Or maybe you keep the ceremony tiny and save part of the day just for the two of you.
You don’t need to fill the time with wedding traditions simply because you’re getting married. Keep the bits you love, leave out the ones you don’t, and we’ll build the rest around what sounds like a genuinely good day to you.
I photograph small and micro weddings across North Wales and the rest of Wales, and I’ll help with locations, timings and figuring out how all the different parts can work together – without turning the day into one long photoshoot.
Have a really good wedding day first. I’ll worry about the photographs.
Do the legal bit. Then make the rest of the day yours.
Most couples who contact me are looking for something pretty simple and beautiful – a legal ceremony followed by a few hours outdoors, doing something they actually enjoy.
You can get legally married at a local registry office or a small licensed venue such as Penarth Fawr on the Llŷn Peninsula, then head off into the mountains, along the coast, into the woods or beside a lake for the rest of your wedding day.
And the nice thing is, the legal ceremony doesn’t have to be the most personal part. You can save your own vows, exchange rings outdoors, bring cake or a picnic, go for a walk, find a pub afterwards or simply spend a few hours somewhere you love.
It works particularly well if you’d like your parents, kids or a couple of close friends there for the ceremony but also want some of the day to yourselves. Or you can keep the whole thing just the two of you.
Get the paperwork done. Then go and have your wedding day.
Recent wedding days in Wales
You don’t need to know what to do in front of the camera.
I’ll give you a little direction when you need it, but I also know when to leave you alone.
If you’re laughing, talking, hugging, wandering off somewhere or just having a quiet minute together, I’m not going to interrupt because I’ve got another photograph in mind.
It’s also why I don’t cram your wedding day with locations, activities or a rigid timeline. I’d much rather give you enough time to actually enjoy where you are and who you’re there with.
Because I don’t want to spend your wedding day constantly creating photographs.
I want to photograph the wedding day you’re already having.
Why get married in North Wales?
Because you can have a completely different kind of wedding day here.
Mountains, lakes, woodland and coast are all within relatively short distances of each other, which means you don’t have to spend half the day driving around to fit more than one thing in.
You could get legally married in the morning, head into the hills afterwards, bring the dogs for a walk, have cake beside a lake, stop at a pub on the way back or finish somewhere overlooking the sea.
And if you already have memories here – family holidays, weekends in the mountains, camping trips or somewhere you keep coming back to together – even better.
North Wales gives you plenty of room to make the day your own.
If you’re thinking about getting married somewhere in Wales and doing things a little differently, I’d love to hear what you’ve got in mind.
You don’t need a finished plan – a date, a vague idea, or simply knowing you want to spend your wedding day somewhere beautiful is plenty to start with.
Tell me what sounds like a really good day to the two of you. We’ll figure out the rest together :)
Plans still a bit vague? That’s okay. I’m here to help you figure it out.