John Payton Photography

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  Anita Rawlinson

  Where do we start.. John is just amazing. Our day was made so much more perfect just seeing him capture every part of it. From the moment John arrived we felt at home with him. Absolutely fantastic photographer, fantastic person who will make your day stand out. We wanted our day more relaxed and that is exactly what we got. He listens all day to how you want your day to go and delivers every thing and more Thank you John from the bottom of our hearts for helping us make our day as special as it was Highly Recommend

  28-02-2023
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  Shakira Hawthorne

  John was amazing for both our wedding day and pre- wedding shoot. He was so professional, made me and my husband feel comfortable and really made us enjoy our wedding day to the full. He was so patient through the whole process arranging regular meetings and gave us tips and ideas which were really helpful and even made our wedding day even better. All our photos and our wedding video have come out so beautiful and we cannot thank John enough for his hard work and giving us all the memories to look back on and making our day extra special. It was a wonderful day and our friends and family also loved him. He was excellent from start to finish and we look forward to using him again in the future for other occasions. WE WOULD DEFINETELY RECOMMEND HIM!

  29-12-2022
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  Bekah Ellen

  I am so grateful we had John with us to capture the magic of our special day. He immediately put me at ease and seamlessly blended into our day to capture myself, my partner & our friends & family at their most authentic selves. John is friendly, approachable and so so talented. I cannot wait to see our wedding video & get to relive our day over & over again. Thank you John, you were a total rockstar. The New Mr & Mrs Owen!

  29-11-2022
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  aran bajwe

  John you are a true gentleman, we cannot thank you enough for how comfortable you made not only us but our families feel on this our special day! You are a great laugh and have a wonderful talent. When emotions were running high on the day you went out of your way to make sure you got the perfect shot!!! You were able to do this so well because you took the time to get to know me and my family on the months leading up to the wedding. Everyone including my family from Ireland said you were amazing! The picture were only amazing, we have never really liked any pictures of ourselves and we were nervous of the outcome of these pictures but they only filled our hearts with joy and eyes with tears. If we had to do it all again we would only have you Love Anna, Aran & Ellie Mae xxx

  29-10-2022
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  Charlie Williams

  The professional manner John had throughout really put us at ease and we felt in confident in his hands. The clear direction he gave us from the engagement shot to the wedding day really made us comfortable that John was going to capture the important moments of our day. We would 1000% recommend John because he took the time to listen to our ideas and we were amazed at the memories he helped capture. Thank you

  29-10-2022
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  Tyler Spillman

  John is a fantastic professional and made us feel at ease on our special day. Communication about the videography process was clear and communicated before the day which helped us stay organised. Due to this pre wedding meeting we were able to get across our preferences which John was very accommodating about. Weddings can be stressful but with John this will be one item you can tick off and relax about! We would recommend John to anyone booking a wedding who is requiring a professional service.

  29-09-2022
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  Scarlett Richards

  Where do I begin! From start to finish, John has made us feel so comfortable. We had photos done for our wedding day and wow just wow! John from the first FaceTime we knew he was the one who HAD to do our photos. John showed genuine interest and excitement in our big day and done everything to help us get the shots we wanted. May I add within 3 days John has produced us 200 fully edited photos! A 2 hour session and has already made us relive our day! It showed our story and John went to the greatest of lengths to make our day perfect. He even planned the whole afternoon out from what memorials we would shoot in front of and some of the most amazing backdrops. I could not be happier and I would recommend him to absolutely any and everyone! I am so proud of our photos and can’t believe we have these for the rest of our lives. Beautiful, you can truly tell how much John loves his job and will do anything to ensure his clients are above and beyond happy. Thankyou once more John, we will treasure every single photo for the rest of our lives ❤️

  29-08-2022
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  Peter Letch

  John was brilliant from start to finish, a great eye for detail, rapid turn around of photos, and very settling. Captured the occasion, excellently.

  29-07-2022
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  Madeline Carpenter

  John photographed our wedding and from our first meetings, engagement photoshoot, wedding day to the collection of our prints he was an absolute dream. John's enthusiasm and humour was contagious and a joy to have as our photographer (so enthusiastic in fact that when I arrived at the venue at 9:30 I was met by John immediately who had gotten there and completed the drone photography before any of us had even arrived!) On our first meeting, months before our wedding, John asked about our plans for the day in more depth than I had ever considered and because we had had these discussions we were able to discuss the types of photos that we wanted more of - for myself this included pictures with my dad - and those we weren't fixated on having (in our case many posed pictures). I cannot stress enough that the communication with John was always excellent, even for the smallest of concerns - we always felt like a priority! On our actual day we did not have the best organisation thanks to our venue who seemed to not even want to greet us and talk us through how the ceremony would go etc. I, as any bride would, found this quite upsetting, I mention this because John went above and beyond in his role to make sure the day went smoothly, to the extent that he coordinated things on my behalf with the venue which allowed me to calm down and actually enjoy getting ready. Though it sounds cliche John felt more like a friend than he did a photographer - which of course meant we relaxed more and our photos were more natural. His constant smile was undoubtably infectious and we loved all of his cheeky jokes throughout the day. As for the photos themselves, John's shots from our day captured the candid, natural style that we had envisaged - our personal favourite being the confetti shots as they captured everyones expressions beautifully. Despite the day being long we were able to have a huge sequence of sublime photos from the very start of the day to the evening. We got our first look the very next day and thanks to the season of our wedding the pictures within a week. We have just received our absolutely luxuriously packaged prints and framed photo included in the package we chose and we are so overwhelmingly pleased with them all, the presentation of them really made it feel so much more personal and special. We wholeheartedly would not hesitate to recommend John as a photographer - he consistently went above and beyond of what we expected. Thank you so much John!

  29-06-2022
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  kirsty rowland

  We decided fairly late in the process to have a videographer at our wedding and chose John based on his work and the fact that he is a thoroughly nice guy From start to finish he was brilliantly creative about with his suggestions for our video and photos, and captured the spirit and style of our wedding perfectly. He put us all at ease, guiding us through what to expect and how to avoid the camera nerves. He was absolutely brilliant with the little ones, and worked seamlessly with our photographer, we could not have asked for a better team. The end result was a beautiful package of film and photos that made us all cry (and laugh) and was described on instagram as ‘like a movie’- what more could you want?! We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend John for your special day

  29-06-2022