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Authentic, Cinematic Wedding Photography for Your Special Day
Based in the beautiful heart of Devon, Lou May is a wedding photographer who specializes in elopements and intimate weddings across the UK and worldwide. She’s passionate about breaking away from traditional wedding photography rules to capture the genuine, unfiltered moments that make your day uniquely yours. Lou’s expert approach focuses on telling your love story honestly and authentically, so your wedding memories feel personal and timeless.
Capturing Real Moments That Matter
Lou May’s photography style is rich, cinematic, and deeply emotional. She has a talent for catching those raw, unposed moments that truly reveal the connection between you and your partner. Using natural light, shadows, and contrast, Lou creates images that don’t just show what happened—they capture how it felt. Expect a wedding gallery filled with the quiet glances, held breaths, and heartfelt smiles that often go unnoticed but mean everything.
Wedding Photography Services Designed for Adventurous Couples
Every love story is different, and Lou offers a range of services tailored to couples who value presence and authenticity over perfection. Her offerings include:
- Adventure Elopements: Whether you’re exchanging vows on the rugged cliffs of Scotland or the stunning coastlines of Cornwall, Lou is ready to capture your love story against breathtaking backdrops.
- Intimate Weddings: For smaller, personal celebrations, she focuses on the magnetic energy between you and your closest family and friends.
- Analogue Film & Super8: Add a nostalgic, timeless feel to your wedding memories with photography on analogue film and Super8 video—perfect for soulful keepsakes.
- Destination Weddings: Planning to say “I do” abroad? Lou is available to document your journey and ceremony with raw, unfiltered beauty wherever your love takes you.
An Inclusive, Heartfelt Experience for Every Couple
Lou May is committed to creating a welcoming space where all couples feel seen, respected, and celebrated. As a proud LGBTQ+ ally, she embraces all love stories, bodies, and identities. Her goal is to capture your wedding day with tenderness and honesty, preserving moments that are vulnerable, genuine, and entirely yours.
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Experience
What is your most memorable wedding?
They all are in their own unique way... ❤
Describe your style in 5 adjectives.
EVOCATIVE | CINEMATIC | AUTHENTIC | UNIQUE | ROMANTIC
What about your business are you most proud of?
The experience that I give to my couples throughout their journey with me
What is your No.1 wedding planning tip for couples?
YOU BRING THE VIBE!
If you’re chilled out, let your hair down and embrace the day, all of your guests will follow suit and enbrace every second
with you. Conversely, if you’re stressed out, worried about everything going to plan and fretting over all the little details, this will filter through to your guests too.
People won’t remember the favours, but they will remember all the feels and the fun! By the time your wedding comes around, you’ve done all the hard work, whatever happens on the day is exactly how your day is meant to unfold - embrace it!
Live, feel and love EVERY moment to the max ❤
What is your favourite personal touch you have seen at a wedding?
Less of a thing and more of approach, but for me it's couples focusing on the people around them and spending time with them and embracing the real meaning of their day, rather than prioritising the details and the styling for the reels.
Describe your typical process with a couple.
Once you get in touch, we arrange to have chat, so that you can get a feel for if I'm a great fit for your day. If everything falls into place, we confirm your date in the diary with a 25% deposit. I then send you lots more information with a questionnaire so that we can start getting to know each other better -building this trust between us is the foundation for honest, real photos. If you've selected my all-day coverage with a Connection Session included we start making plans and sharing our vision for this too :)
We keep in touch in the lead-up to your wedding and once you've filled in a questionnaire to tell me all the details about your day we have another call to chat it through and make sure we're all on the same page, then.... Wedding Day!!! ❤
I deliver you a little peek of your photographs within a few days of your wedding and then spend the next few weeks, lovingly curating and editing your full gallery to recount narrate the story of your day, with all the love and emotion!
What is the No.1 photo that you think every couple should take?
I think this is less about 'a photo' and more about an experience. I suggest to all of my couples that they take at least 10, maybe 30 minutes out together - and this isn't for a photoshoot! But just to stop, catch their breath and spend a moment just together on their day to reflect on their ceremony and embrace the moment... Having this special time captured naturally and authentically is the No.1 photo to get.
What is the most original photo you’ve been asked to take at a wedding?
A wand fight on some rocks on the beach.... :)
What do you recommend for a rainy day wedding?
Embrace it! Dance barefoot in the rain! Or bring lots of brollies, some cute wellies or your walking boots and always have a plan B just in case!
Describe how you got into photography.
After working creatively for years with photography as a hobby, I left my family business to follow my heart and a make a career doing something I loved. I was photographing events and some fashion and helped someone out at a wedding in 2016 and was hooked! I just knew this was what I was meant to do ❤