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Hi, I'm Hollie & Patrick 👋
Artistic
Award winning
Authentic
The UK's Best Documentary Wedding Photographers
We are Patrick and Hollie Mateer, Husband and wife documentary wedding photography duo - 2023 and 2024 This Is Reportage Wedding Photographer Of The Year - 2024 International Wedding Photographer Of The Year Double Category Winner - 2022 TWIA UK Photographer Of The Year - 2022 Professional Photo Magazine Top UK Photographer List - 2021 PKIR Photographer Of The Year
The Mateers Pricing & Costs

Pricing for suppliers

Prices Start at
£2,000
Maximum price
£4,500
Award winning documentary wedding photography by world renowned photographers, Hollie and Patrick Mateer 'The Mateers' 2023 and 2024 This Is Reportage Wedding Photographer Of The Year 2024 International Wedding Photographer Of The Year Double Category Winner 2022 TWIA UK Photographer Of The Year
The Mateers Details

Photography Style

Documentary
Artistic
Natural

Products and Services

Bridal Prep Shots
Back-Up Equipment
Photo Printing
Flexible Hours on the Day
Last-Minute Orders
Stay Through Speeches
Stay Through Dancing
Online Shop
Thank You Cards / Photo Stationery
Second Shooter Available
Wedding Albums
Personal Online Gallery
Pre-Wedding Consultation
Large Group Shots
The Mateers Full Description
Our photography style is natural, relaxed and unobtrusive. We won't pose you, we won't set up, engineer or create moments. Your wedding is all about you. We simply let your day unfold, photographing everything in our own natural wedding photography style. We are based in Yorkshire, but from one wedding to the next we can go from Cornwall to Cheshire, from The Home Counties to Scotland and from Wales to the Lake District. We love the variety this brings to our work - every wedding really is unique.

Personal Message from the Manager

Name of Wedding Contact: Patrick and Hollie - M and G Photographic
If you'd like to check our availability for your day, please contact us here. We would love to hear all about your wedding plans!

Experience

Year Business Was Established
2014
No. of Weddings Hosted
More than 50
Public Liability Insurance
Yes
No. of People In Team
2
Reviews
(324)
(197)
Hannah and Josh
Happy couple married in January
January 2025
Definitely recommend to other wedding couples

Wonderful experience ! Very professional, kind, relaxing. Absolutely in love with our pictures, they captured the day beautifully. Best memories of our special day. Definitely recommend to other wedding couples ! Thankyou so much again for being our photographer x

Emma and Josh
Happy couple married in December
January 2025
The most natural photos

I can’t recommend M&G photography enough. From the start to end they was amazing. After having to change our date 3 times they were most accommodating each time. The communication was brilliant throughout. As for the photographs we received of the wedding I was blown away with how they captured the day from start to finish. The most natural photos I have seen. Looking through them is like reliving the day over and over. M&G did not disappoint. Thank you once again Emma & Josh

Kirsty
Happy couple married in January
January 2025
We are so happy

Patrick and his team are amazing. They were fantastic to work with, even with COVID disruption to our wedding and they were brilliant on the day. We loved our photos and are so happy we picked M and G Wedding photography for our wedding.

Becky and Taylor
Happy couple married in July
January 2025
Thank you so so much

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you so so much. We will be forever grateful.

Stevie and Eddie
Happy couple married in March
January 2025
We couldn’t recommend Patrick and Hollie any more

We couldn’t recommend Patrick and Holli any more! If we could give them more than 5 star’s we would. Our images are amazing and the support and care we received on the day was priceless. They captured so many moments and emotions from our day. I can hear people’s laughs when I look at our photos, which is just a huge testimony to Patrick’s skill and craft. If you’re looking for a wedding photographer, please search no further - your only regret will be not booking them! Thank you for everything

Zoe and Jon
Happy couple married in April
January 2025
Perfect combination of beautiful and hilarious

Honestly don't know how it's possible for somebody to be so inconspicuous on the day and create so many mind blowing images of us and our guests. Patrick was a pleasure to plan with and so relaxing on the day, we were nervous having our photo taken but we honestly barely knew he was there- and the photos are the perfect combination of beautiful, touching and at times pretty hilarious! Thank you for the most wonderful memories of our day, we couldn't imagine anything better.

Kerri
Happy couple married in May
January 2025
There are far too many to pick favourites!

We barely noticed they were there, and yet they managed to get the most incredible photos. There are far too many to pick favourites!

Claire
Happy couple married in July
January 2025
Wow

Wow!! Honestly from start to finish we were blown away by the whole team. So friendly, professional and discreet! You managed to capture everything on the day and the photos are honestly incredible. We didn’t even know you were there half the time! They say a picture is worth a thousand words and this couldn’t be a more accurate way to describe the photographs you took on our special day

Debra
Happy couple married in August
January 2025
Best decision ever

Thank you for everything you have done for us over the last three years. To any future brides reading this debating on booking Patrick and his team, do it!. My main priorities were the venue and choosing the right photographer. Best decision ever. 🥰

Victoria
Happy couple married in December
January 2025
A beautiful collection of photos

We absolutely love our photos and will gladly recommend them to anyone who wants a true, unique and beautiful collection of photos to document their big day!

The Mateers Location & Contact Details
Address
Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
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FAQs
Find out a bit more from our FAQs

What is your most memorable wedding?

Our own! We got married this August 2019 in our busiest ever wedding season. We had a DIY wedding - It was such a perfect day. An outside ceremony, personal vows, so many emotions and all our closest friends and family having the best day ever. We have now experienced weddings not just as photographers but as a bride and groom too. This gives us such a special insight into what all our couples go through while planning a wedding. It is such an exciting but very hectic time! Having our own perfect wedding day has made us love weddings and our job as wedding photographers even more!

Describe your style in 5 adjectives.

Natural, relaxed, artistic, original, unobtrusive

What about your business are you most proud of?

We won the TWIA Wedding Photographer of the year 2020!

What is your No. 1 wedding planning tip for couples?

Book the suppliers whose work you love the most - this is the most important thing. So book the venue you fall in love with, the photographer whose photographs you love the most and so on. It seems like an obvious tip - but it's easy to get lost in sales techniques and package details.

What is your favourite personal touch you have seen at a wedding?

A wedding which we photographed recently - straight after the ceremony the couple went to a tattoo shop and got tattoos to celebrate their marriage, what's even more incredible is that the groom is a tattoo artist. It was such a fun and unique moment to get to photograph a groom tattooing his bride! Every wedding is so personal to each and every couple though and we love how all the personal touches that we see means no two weddings are ever the same.

Describe your typical process with a couple.

We let our couples get on with enjoying their day, while we capture all the emotion and fun of their wedding as unobtrusively as possible. Apart from any family / formal group shots that our couples request, our style is completely documentary - we let moments happen, we don't create them.

What is the No. 1 photo that you think every couple should take?

There really isn't one - we feel a couple should enjoy their day and forget about their wedding photographer. Pre-planning photography just puts pressure on the couple and detracts from them having an amazing day as they have to worry about where they're going to be taken to next by their photographer. When our couples receive their photographs they are able to relive their day as it really happened - they also notice so many moments they didn't know where happening at the time.

What is the most original photo you’ve been asked to take at a wedding?

If we were asked to take it... it wouldn't be original! All our work is our own - we don't pre-plan things or copy other's work. We always say just enjoy your day and we'll do the rest!

What do you recommend for a rainy day wedding?

The weather shouldn't affect your wedding day - you can't control it. Whatever the weather, your wedding day will be amazing!

Describe how you got into photography.

We have been best friends since meeting at university, where we studied Fine Art photography. Photography has always been a passion of ours and we are privileged to make a living out of something we love doing.
Press & Awards
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