Based in the heart of Dorchester, Dorset, Smiling Tiger Studios specializes in documentary-style wedding photography and videography. Their expert team focuses on capturing the genuine emotions and fleeting moments that make your wedding day truly unique. By creating a visual story of your celebration, they ensure your memories are beautifully preserved without interrupting the flow of your day.
Smiling Tiger Studios believes the best wedding photos come from real, heartfelt moments. Their subtle and emotive approach highlights the joyful tears, laughter, and candid interactions that make your day special. Instead of posed shots or artificial filters, they capture natural moments—like a knowing glance or a gentle hand squeeze—so your photos and films genuinely reflect how your wedding felt. The result? Timeless images that you’ll cherish forever.
With nearly 15 years of experience and over 400 weddings captured, Smiling Tiger Studios brings expert knowledge to your celebration. While based in Dorset, they frequently work across Hampshire and Somerset, using stunning local landscapes to enhance your wedding photos. They are familiar with iconic venues such as Kingston Maurward and Lulworth Castle, ensuring smooth, professional coverage wherever you say “I do.”
Smiling Tiger Studios focuses on your unique story, delivering images and films that are unmistakably you. Couples appreciate their calm, professional, and friendly approach, which helps everyone feel relaxed and natural in front of the camera. Trust them to capture your wedding day with care, creativity, and expertise.
free, natural, intuitive, truthful, beautiful
Our consistent delivery of great work to happy couples, along with a continuing desire to transform our working practices, utilising the latest technology to improve our products as well as our client experience.
Hire a photographer who acts more as a consultant, showing expertise in the field as well as providing a valuable insight into anticipating and anticipating problems. Such experience will always lead to a trouble free experience, along with imagery that you value, having captured the vision you really had for your day.
Beautiful hand painted signage at a wedding describing how the couple met - at a friends wedding.
After the initial enquiry, we invite couples into our office for a consultation. It gives us the chance to connect and understand their vision for the day along with explaining how we can assist in making it happen. Collections are discussed and upon booking we then implement a rigid client care workflow. This entails regular contact, gathering all the vital suppliers information, possible venue visits, along with a timeline walk through over Skype. Come the wedding day we are fully briefed and both our team and the couple know exactly what will happen and how we will work to capture it all.
We see every couple as unique, so there is no photo we or they have to have. We know and understand every element so capturing the flow of the day is second nature. If we had to name one photo NOT needed - it would be of the wedding rings. Why photograph an inanimate object that should be on your hand for the rest of your life? Better to capture real people and real emotions!
If they are asking - they have seen it somewhere before - so no originality there! Originality comes from freedom and spontaneity.
Umbrellas!