Kind words
Wow
Dear Jay. I can't fully express my thanks to you in words. On the day, you were so calm and able to smile through some of our moments of stress and nerves! You made Jamie and I feel so at ease and relaxed that we actually enjoyed having our photos taken. When I eventually got to sit down and enjoy each picture I was so overwhelmed with the images you captured. Not only are they beautiful but so full of emotion and they bring me back to one of the best days of my life. I could not speak highly enough of you and we are so lucky to have had you as our photographer. We will get around to choosing the album, we are halfway but it's hard to cut some out! Thank-you. You were wonderful. All our love, The Clarkes xxx
Thank you for everything
Jay, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for capturing our day so beautifully. You were wonderful leading up to the day and just brilliant on the day. Thank you for everything. All our love Cecilia & Matt xxxx
Absolutely amazing!
Thats the only way to describe both the end photos and the overall service from Jay. My wife has incredibly specific (and excellent) tastes and while she didn’t start with a pre-formed vision of our wedding day, there were a few things she knew she didn’t want including a stereotypical wedding photographer. Kelly spent many hours looking at different photographers’ websites and we met a few at wedding open days.
When Jay popped over to see us, at our home, to talk about the wedding we instantly knew we had our man. And in retrospect, we were absolutely correct. Not only does the work on Jay’s website truly reflect the style and quality of the photos he takes – his whole approach is incredible professional and soothing. Nothing was too much to ask (either before or after the day) and it was a complete joy to have him there as part of our special day. In fact if we’d known him longer there is a fair chance he’d have been on the invite list as a guest!
His eye for detail combined with his photography skills (which were tested in the low light of a late November day), mean that we have hundreds of great photos of the day. They capture the sentiment (a lot of fun!) as well as fact, and they tell a story in a classy, contemporary and stylish manner. When we had to narrow the photos down for the wedding book we, quite literally, couldn’t reduce them!
As with many elements of organising a wedding you have to think about the value you are getting from each component. One of the joys of working with Jay was that his whole approach was different to everyone else we spoke to. He didn’t fix the number of hours he’d be with us. He didn’t expect us to fit in with his photo ideas. He just committed to doing the best possible job on the day, and to do it in a way that would add to our enjoyment of the day. And that is what he delivered. I genuinely can’t recommend Jay enough. Any couple who want to create for the rest of their lives a visually stunning, detail enabling, warmly told story of their day in pictures should choose him. You’ll enjoy working with him.
Thank you Jay – we will treasure your images for decades to come.
Nathan & Kelly
Wonderful
Dear Jay. We would like to thank you for the incredibly beautiful photos from our special day. We are so happy with them! We are not very comfortable posing in front of the camera but Jay, you made us feel relaxed and comfortable.
We love how professional you were on the day but yet so friendly and really just like one of the guests! We had so many comments about how lovely you were. We really are so over the moon with our photos and are so glad that we chose you. We will be recommending you to any of our friends and family that are getting married.
Love Lee & Iris
Incredible!
Dear Jay. Thank you so much for being such an incredible part of our wedding day. We really can't thank you enough. It was such a pleasure to work with you and everyone has remarked on how you put them at ease.
We absolutely ADORE our wedding photos - choosing one for the thank you card was so hard :) We would be delighted to recommend you to absolutely everyone and we are more than happy to act as a referee at any point in the future. Please use us! We hope you have a really lovely holiday and that we get to see you again in the future.
With love, Lisa & Jordan xxx
Thank you so much Jay!
Dear Jay. We just wanted to say a huge thank you for all your hard work you put in over our wedding. We were so thankful to have you be a part of our big day, not only as a photographer but as an all round great wedding guest!
All our families and friends loved meeting you too. We are really, really happy with all the shots and finding it very difficult to choose which ones to print off and make into the album! Hope to be able to use you again in future!
All the very best, Emily & Alfred Waring x
Wonderful
Dear Jay. One of the most valuable bits of advice I received before getting married was to choose a great photographer, after all, the photos are the only thing you have to look at after the day has been and gone. What a fantastic piece of advice that turned out to be as it meant we found you.
What you did for us that day was truly above and beyond what a photographer should do – you didn’t just turn up and take photos.... you were very much a part of the wedding party, capturing each moment in a special unique way.
When I look back now to the time we spent in the cornfield it was without doubt the highlight of the day, all 3 of us having a laugh and enjoying every moment. When we look back at the photos now, the cornfield ones are absolutely stunning – it doesn’t really look like Joe & I, more like a set of a film – how did you do that?
I could ramble on all day about how wonderful you are all day, the photos we have we can cherish forever, thanks to you and your unique ability to convey love and happiness through a lens.
Many many thanks.
Max & Joe x
We can’t recommend Jay highly enough
Having been recommended the services of Jay Rowden on Facebook by someone who was a guest at a wedding where he was the photographer, I had a feeling that Jay would be a lovely person to work with. And I was right.
From the moment my husband, Jonny, and I met him at our house, we felt instantly confident that that aspect of the day was under control.
Despite the weather being rather inclement (!) on the day, you wouldn’t know it from the photographs. Jay managed to simply work round the obstacles and get the best weddings shots we could possibly have hoped for. They are natural, unposed, and convey the feeling of the day perfectly.
We particularly loved the fact that we don’t only have pictures of the bridal party but almost every single guest was captured from the shots Jay took during the line up. And when we nearly ended up without group shots owing to the fading light, Jay got everyone organized and took the group shots so quickly and easily, so that what normally is a long winded tedious experience was fun and over in a flash, all the photographs we wanted of the day captured expertly.
I like to take a photograph or two and felt a bit bereft on the day not having my camera but everytime I saw something I wanted to take a shot of, Jay was there taking it for me.
So many people have commented on how lovely our wedding photographs are and how they wish they’d used Jay for their wedding. We can’t recommend Jay highly enough.
So thank you Jay for capturing our day better than we ever could have imagined, we will treasure the photographs for the rest of our lives.
xCelia and Jonny
Moments captured beautifully
To dearest Jay.
How utterly wonderful to have you with us at our little wedding, thank you so much for coming.
It meant a lot to have you there to capture our day and you did so beautifully (of course!).
We will always have those great memories of our jaunt through the woods in the rain.
Thank you again. We hope you're well and we hope to see you again soon.
Lots of love H&D (and bump!)
Blown away!
We’re blown away by what Jay has done. Utterly charming, thoughtful and unobtusive, he managed to capture the spirit of ‘us’ to a T.
We think our photos look incredible and we’ve had hundreds of great comments. I would recommend him to anyone with delight.
R+N
The best service
Dear Jay. You might recognise the photos on the front of the thank you card I sent you! Some lovely talented photographer took them!!
Just wanted to say a big thank you for being such an amazing person to work with for our wedding. Your service was the best from start to finish. We will treasure the photos forever.
Love Hazel + Paul xxx
Amazing photographs!!!
Dear Jay. We just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for helping us make our wedding day truly special. Between your kind manner and amazing photographs, you did absolute wonders and we are truly grateful!
We absolute can't wait to see the albums and we are so excited that we will have the photographs to remember the day by. You really have a remarkable ability to capture the spirit, love and emotion of the event. Thank you so much again!
Henry & Hannah -x-
We met Jay at a friend’s wedding and remembered him as being a fantastic photographer who not only takes great photographs but who goes about his work in a great manner. My now wife and I were extremely happy we found out he was available for our wedding.
Jay will take on board exactly what the bride and groom would like to see in their photos and this, matched with his vision and expertise, provides the perfect combination for photographing your special day.
He also blends seamlessly into the day and manages to take countless photos of guests mingling naturally with each other which really adds to capturing the day. Unlike most other photographers, Jay will also stay all night for the party which is where some of the best and funniest shots are taken!
Added to this, Jay is genuinely such a nice guy and was a pleasure to have around at our wedding, so all in all we can’t recommend him enough.
Jen & Mikey
Amazing!
To Jay. Just a note to say thank you for being our wedding photographer last week + for all your hard work on the day. The photos look amazing. We're delighted with them! Thanks again for all your help.
Katie + Chris Abraham-Lopez
Best photographer you could wish for!!!!!!
A picture truly is worth a thousand words, and the story of the best day of our lives found a master story-teller in Jay. Within minutes of meeting, one of the most important decisions we had to make had decided itself. We couldn’t have wished to meet a nicer person whose character and passion for his art translated so brilliantly to his work.
The wedding day blew our minds, and Jay captured so many of these amazing memories it made it almost impossible to put the wedding album together. The album itself is just perfect, and every time we show it to family or friends, the memories fly back and stories flow like it was yesterday.
We look forward to seeing Jay again next year as our friends were so impressed, they booked him straight away….you can’t say more than that. Quite simply the best photographer you could wish to have for the best day of your lives!!!
S&D
Simply the best!
Jay is quite simply the best wedding photographer we could have wished for. He pulls off the astonishing feat of being both everywhere, and nowhere. He’s everywhere in that he takes the most captivating, beautiful and creative photographs of every part of the day.
Best of all, he really captures the joy of every moment (including a good many moments we ourselves missed!). He’s also nowhere in that he’s so subtle and so unobtrusive that you’ll wonder how he took any shots at all. Those friends of ours who did get chatting with him, loved him. So many compliments. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
With much thanks, Matt & Amy.
The best photographer a bride and groom could ask for
To Jay. Thank you so much for being the best photographer a bride and groom could ask for!! We really wanted wedding photos that were natural rather than the formal stiff portraits and you gave us exactly what we wanted!
The photos are so beautiful and will provide us with the most amazing memories. You really captured the day and the feel of the wedding. You simply melted into the background. It was like you were one of the guests who we'd known for a long time and several people commented on how charming you were. We really couldn't recommend you enough and certainly will be doing so to anyone we know who is getting engaged. Thank you again.
Best wishes, Gemma & Ian xx
We loved having you there
Dear Jay. Thank you for being part of the best day of our lives.
Thank you so much for being such an integral and incredible part of our special day. We loved having you there and adore the photographs. Love Sarah & Richard xx
Amazing photos
"He worked so hard. He hasn’t stopped smiling. Such a nice guy."
These were the comments we received during and after our wedding and we couldn’t agree more.
When you are spending all day with your photographer, it is just as important to get on with them as it is for the photos to be perfect. So when a friend recommended Jay from a wedding she had been to we knew it was a good sign. Then upon meeting him for a coffee in Putney it didn’t take us long to decide he was the photographer for us.
A genuine lovely guy who we knew would become as much a part of the day as our friends and family. His portfolio
was amazing and there was no question that he would capture the perfect memories.
From the moment Jay arrived at The Elvetham he put everyone at ease…it was so lovely to have him around, while chatting to him and enjoying his company we didn’t even notice he was walking about taking pictures…yet he caught every moment in the most beautiful, fun and heartfelt way…now looking back I am reminded of when it took six bridesmaids to unstitch the tissue paper still attached to my dress; when my Dad’s shoe came apart; when we laughed at the readings; when we cried at the speeches and when we found ourselves ‘on stage’ dancing with the band.
While every good wedding may not always go to plan, with Jay doing the photos we knew that he would create images to be treasured forever and we know that in years to come we will look back at the photos, we will laugh, we will cry and we will relive our special day like it was yesterday.
Thanks Jay for the amazing photos.
Roberta and Nick
Beautiful reportage style
Ruth and I could not be happier with the wedding photographs, the album and the all round service that Jay has provided.
The reportage style was exactly what we wanted, as neither of us are too keen on, or comfortable with staged photographs. The most important aspect though, was just how nice and enthusiastic Jay is with regard to weddings.
All day, he genuinely seemed excited to be at our wedding and was there to the very end. Many of our guests had a chance to chat with Jay and all of them have commented on how nice he was.
We cannot praise Jay highly enough, and would strongly recommend him to anyone requiring a photographer
Rob and Ruth (Royal Society of Arts,London
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Beautiful!
Jay, from the moment we first saw your work we knew we wanted to involve you in our day. To then get the opportunity to meet you before the day and discover what a lovely guy you were absolutely sealed it.
I don’t think we ever could have imagined our wedding pictures capturing the spirit of the day like yours do Jay. You made, not just us but all of our friends and family, feel so comfortable and relaxed in your company.
People have not stopped commenting on how beautiful and natural the photographs are, what a nice guy you were and how late you stayed to capture everything. A hearfelt thanks from the both us.
Love James & Lydia
Spectacular!
Dear Jay. Hope you like our choice of photo for the thank you card!! Just wanted to say a massive thank you for everything. You put us at ease from the moment we met you and really enjoyed having you there at Kew Gardens. The photos, needless to say, are spectacular. Best of luck with everything and have a great Summer.
Hugh & Meera
Fantastic wedding photographer!
Dear Jay. We just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for being a fantastic wedding photographer. We love all the photos so much and look at them almost every day. They capture the atmosphere and all the fun and emotion of the day.
It was great having you there and the day, it felt just like you were one of the guests.
Thanks again and will be in touch about the book.
Love Steph and Matt
Amazing pictures
Jay, Tessa and I would like to thank you for the amazing pictures that you have given us, everyone who has seen them has been totally blown away by them – in fact a few people have even cried… (in a good way, I assure you). I cannot describe well enough just how beautifully your photographs capture not only the tiny details, but also the movement and the atmosphere of the day. Looking back through them it’s amazing to think of how you even managed to capture some of them, it seems you were always there in the right place at that perfect moment in time.
Having you there was great, and you were fantastic at setting our minds at ease. It was almost as if we were being photographed by a friend or family member. I especially loved how you both seamlessly blended into the background, silently snapping away and only coming forward at key moments- a tactic which was especially crucial in obtaining photos of some of my own family who are very camera shy.
In the run up to the wedding, everybody I spoke to told me that the day would go fast- and as it turns out they were right! The day was perfect, but over too soon- and with your photographs Tessa and I will be able to look back on our special day in perfect clarity for the rest of our lives.
Many thanks for all your work in achieving this for us.
Kindest regards
Jamie & Tessa
Fabulous photos
Hi Jay.
Linley and I just wanted to say a huge thank you for the wonderful photos you took at our wedding. Every single photo is not only amazing, but brings back so many memories for us. You really captured the essence of our day, and of us! All our friends and family have commented on what fabulous photos you took. You are an amazing photographer, a total professional and a lovely, lovely man!
The photos you took of us in that gorgeous yellow field of rape seed are extraordinary – not just as wedding photos, but as pieces of art.
Thank you so much again for everything.
Lots of love,
Sara & Linley
Amazing!
Dear Jay. Thank you so much for being such an important part of our special day. Your photos look amazing and your professionalism amazed us.
We LOVED working with you - thank you for making us look so good! P.S. Look forward to working with you again in the future.
Thank you!
With love from Sophie & Lee x
Thank you for capturing our day so beautifully
Dear Jay
Just a note to say thank you for helping capture our wedding day so beautifully! You've been great to work with from the start. You made us feel at ease in front of the camera and fitted in with our guests like a 'trendy uncle'!
Thank you for the thoughtful sixpence and the stunning framed photos. We love it and it's taken price of place above our bed!
We hope you enjoyed the day also.
Wishing you all the best for the future!
With love, Rachel + Phil xx
Best photographer ever!!
As soon as we got engaged we knew who we wanted as our photographer. After seeing the incredible photos you took at two of our best friends weddings, there was no contest, it had to be you! Jay, you made us feel at ease from start to finish, always there when you needed to be. Having you as the photographer at our wedding felt like having an old friend there with us and we loved sharing our day with you.
Not only did we (and all our friends and family!) have such a great time with you on the day but now we have all of your amazing photos to look back on again and again. You're an artist with a camera Jay. The photos truly capture the feeling of the day, not just how it all looked. For anyone who is trying to choose their photographer, your search is over! Jay is without question the best photographer ever!! Thank you so much for being a part of our special day. It's been a pleasure to get to know you over the last year. It was truly like having a great friend as our photographer.
Your photos are wonderful. You captured the day perfectly and have allowed us to look back and relive the day again and again. Thanks again for everything! Best photographer EVER!!! Lots of love, Laura & Richie x
You absolutely nailed it!
When I stumbled upon your website I knew that we had to have you as our wedding photographer. Best decision we ever made!
Our wedding was slightly out of the ordinary as we’d had our actual ceremony in South Africa so you had the tough job of combining an intimate family lunch with a proper knees up in the evening.
You absolutely nailed both. The photos are brilliant fun and they absolutely capture how much we enjoyed the day. They are beautifully composed, lit and shot and everyone has gone wild for them. Not only are the photos stunning but you are such a lovely relaxed presence and you managed to capture really special moments without being bossy or intrusive as some photographers can be!
We both felt totally at ease with you which is saying something for two total photo phobics. All our guests commented on how lovely you were too and even in the run up to the wedding you always made us feel that we had your undivided attention.
We really can’t thank you or recommend you highly enough. You are a consummate professional who made the whole wedding day that extra bit special. THANK YOU so much, it really does mean the world. I’m now racking my brains to think of another occasion that I can have an excuse to use you for! Wedding reunion maybe! Thanks again so much.
Sarah and Gareth xxx
Stunning! The photos look like something you might see in Vogue!
I just wanted to say thank you so much for photographing and being part of our wedding day. The photos are breathtaking and really brought everything back. We loved the way you captured all the small, but v important details e.g the copy of mum’s speech in the hotel, the flower arrangements and the tying of the ring to the cushion!
The photos of ‘getting ready’ were stunning and really captured the beautiful details on the dress as well as highlighting the various elements of the bridesmaids dresses which took a fair few days to put together. The photos look like something you might see in Vogue!
We were so pleased you were a bit naughty and managed to take a few shots of the ceremony – those photos are particularly special to us.
There were just so many beautiful shots I could comment on each one!! The photos outside the Cathedral really captured the atmosphere and the group shots were perfect – a lovely balance between formal and friendly and great for the family album!
And as for the photos you took of the two of us. THEY ARE STUNNING. Neither of us enjoy having our photo taken yet you managed to put us both at our ease and we are so pleased with the results. Some of the photos were so tender and other had a real sense of humour about them – especially the photos on the escalator!!
And we marvelled at the shot of us and The Shard – I always assumed it was almost impossible to get the whole building in one shot! The reception photos were a joy to look at and every guest is in a least a handful of photos. Your photos of the speeches made them come to life again, especially the reactions from the audience and amazingly you managed to get some nice shots of the first dance (which was both found excruciating!!!)
Everyone looked so natural and happy in your photos and the venue looked GORGEOUS. The drunken, dancing pictures were funny and the ones of my friend Colin in my mum’s hat was hilarious!!! We laughed loads!!!
We would definitely like a photobook and will be in touch at the end of the month. Once again many thanks.
All our love,
Filiz & Stephen xxx
Unobtrusive and professional
Dear Jay. You captured the essence of our wedding day perfectly! From the moment we first met you, you put us at ease, and on the wedding day itself, you were so friendly and unobtrusive, that many people thought you were a member of the family!
But the shots you captured put paid to that idea – the quality of the photos is truly professional, and you managed to capture all the small moments of the day. We love the photos and they will always bring a smile to our faces.
Thank you truly,
Sarah & Daniel
Stunning photography
Dear Jay. Our wedding was one of the most profound experiences of our lives. You not only captured the sense of joy, wonderment and celebration in every frame but you also immortalised moments and idiosyncratics that could never be retold in words alone!
The images are so evocative, rich and effortlessly beautiful that we can recall each and every moment of that weekend whenever we look at them.
Thank you Jay for being a part of our wedding – not only as our photographer but as our new friend as well!
N&C
Best photographer ever….
Dear Jay. Thank you so much for cpaturing our wedding so authentically. You are truly gifted. Everyone has said how great you were and we feel so lucky to have had you there. You are the BEST PHOTOGRAPHER EVER!!!
Much love, Vanessa & Ben x
Amazing photos
Dear Jay. Once again thank you. Thank you for capturing our big day and enabling us to see those moments we may have missed.
We had such a wonderful and felt incredibly lucky. Thank you for sharing your birthday with us. We hope you enjoyed it! We loved every minute of it. As you could have probably guessed by our constant smiles!
Thank you again. We can't wait to share all our amazing photos with our friends and family. Love Jennifer & Nick xxxxxx
Fantastic memories
Dear Jay. Thank you so much for photographing our wedding. It was a pleasure having you at the wedding (and the pre-wedding at Willow Road).
So many of our guests have commented on how sensitively you were working on the day, and of course thank you for the wonderful photos.
They will certainly provide us with fantastic memories of our special day.
With love Anousha & Will
Beautiful photography
Dear Jay. We wanted to write and thank you for all your beautiful wedding photography on 13th August. The photos are absolutely perfect.
They are all so beautiful and capture the emotion of the day perfectly. It was an absolute pleasure to have you with us all day. The prints
we've ordered are fantastic and the frames photo is perfect.
We cannot wait to hang it in our new flat. We love looking through our album too.
The photos will help everyone to remember the happiest of days and we have really enjoyed showing all of our guests the online slideshow.
We hope to meet again in the future.
Best wishes Anna & Mark x
Can’t thank you enough!
Dear Jay. We really can't thank you enough for the amazing photos of our wedding day.
As well as being creative and talented, you were fantastic company and a huge hit with our guests too!
Much love Jan & Al xxx
You are amazing!
Dear Jay.
I know we've already said it, but thank you so much for being our wedding photographer! You were the perfect guy for us, fitting in with our guests amazingly!
We absolutely love all the photos and can't wait to print some to put up in the flat - thank you so much for your hard work.
We hope you and Sam also got to enjoy a bit of Berlin even though it was a busy marathon here!
We hope our paths cross in person at some point in the future and we'll definitely keep in touch!
Thanks again Jay, you are/were amazing.
Our love Fran & Timo xx
A talented, professional and personable artist
Jay, you are simply the best wedding photographer!
You are talented, creative, genuine, reliable and easy to work with. Our wedding became a fairytale under your camera lens!
Our guests only have great things to say about you and gave us rave reviews on our wedding photos. Thank you for your dedication and for delivering more than 100% throughout our wedding weekend.
We enjoyed every moment we shared with you especially our adventure photo-shoot trips to Cote D’Azur and Gorges du Verdon. You captured all the important moments beautifully and naturally. Each photo tells a great story. We won’t recommend anyone else but you to our friends and family and look forward to working with you again at other occasions!
Thank you so much for being such an amazing photographer and guest at our wedding. You have faithfully and beautifully captured the whole wedding weekend for us and our family.
We are so grateful for your beautiful photographs - they are something we will always treasure!!!
You are a very talented, professional and personable artists. It is so rare to have all three qualities! We have so many photos which we love! Thanks again Jay!
Keep in touch!
Jean-Francois & Jessica
Intimate photos
Dear Jay
It's not been over a month and we are still talking about our big day and what fun we had with all our close friends and family.
Betty & I are thrilled with the photos and we both felt so relaxed with you there capturing the special moments, in particular the the photo on the thank you card.
The family all remarked on how professional you were and how discreet you were in taking some of the more intimate photos.
Thankfully my ushers did a great job job on the day, even Pete excelled himself and we love the shot you got of him during his reading.
We had a wonderful four days in venice and we are going to Mauritius in May for a proper honeymoon.
Thank you so much for staying so late on the day and for making our day so special!
Look forward to seeing you soon.
Love and best wishes,
Andy & Betty x
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We had Jay take our wedding photographs on Sunday 28th August 2016. With Jay’s help we had a perfect day from start to finish. Jay is one of the nicest people you could ever meet. He is professional, polite and charming. In addition, Jay is an amazing photographer. We love our wedding photos – Jay managed to capture lots of formal, family poses plus captured a large number of natural scenes which we will cherish forever. The final product (USB stock with low resolution and high resolution photos) was very nicely packaged and presented.
All in all, we would highly recommend Jay to anyone looking for a high quality, reliable and also very personable wedding photographer.
Thank-you Jay for everything!
Best wishes,
Richard & Sonia.
Jay, Stunning Stunning, Stunning! The most professional but gentle & charming photographer to have on your wedding day. You couldn’t ask for anyone better. He floats around both as part of the party but also subtle…. blending in with the background and managing to capture moments that you didn’t think possible (until you see the pictures!)
I cannot compliment Jay enough, I must have said thank you to him a thousand times. Such professional after care also. We have so many amazing memories from this day, all thanks to Jay 🙂 xxx
As keen photographers ourselves, Jake and I feel really uncomfortable on the other side of the lens, we wanted the photos to represent the feel of the day which we hoped would be about a celebration of love and all relationships rather than just being about us. We were looking for photographs that would capture all the important moments rather than overly staged or stiff images that just didn’t represent us.
When a friend recommended Jay to us we took a look at his previous work and knew instantly that he was the man for the job. After chatting to Jay we felt so relaxed working with him and totally confident in his ability to capture on film “The Jolly Wedding” as we had planned.
On the day of the wedding, Jay was an angel he was so professional (and with excellent dress sense too!), he felt like a member of the family in that we all felt so at ease with him and because of that the photographs we have are just perfect. I am not sure how he managed to do it, but every shot encapsulates the happiness that everyone was exuding on the day. His photographs are second to none and above all we both feel so lucky to have been able to work with such a kind and talented man.
Thank you so so much Jay, you have recorded the happiest day of our lives in the most beautiful and natural shots that allows us to relive the whole day every day.
With Love,
Jake & Holly
Jay – What can we say? Other than THANK YOU SO MUCH! for our amazing wedding photos! They are quite simply stunning! I have had so many compliments from friends and family about not only the photos, but also about you! It wasn’t like having a photographer at our wedding, you became another guest……everyone commented on what a lovely person you are….and you are!
Jay manages to capture the atmosphere, the light, the moments….his pictures tell a narrative from beginning to end…..his pictures hold such intimacy……something only a true gentleman could capture.
Love Sarah & Jonathan xx
Photography is important to us, so we wanted the right photographer for our wedding. Someone to capture the day and all those moments we would miss. Photographers are artist, so we were looking for well-presented websites full of works of art. We also wanted a photographer to do what we wanted and provide all the photos to us on a disk without watermarks (you’d be surprised how many don’t).
Of hundreds of websites we visited none came close to being as impressive as Jay Rowden’s. This is even more true of his photos; and after meeting him for the first time we were sure he was the man for the job. We were not let down, in fact we were amazed (as were our guests) by how professional, kind and charming Jay was.
Jay is a reportage photographer, he wears a suit and slips into the background of your wedding to capture the little details, the big details, the laughter, the tears and all those moments you wish you could experience on the day but can’t. And for the most part you’ll hardly notice he’s there. If you don’t fall in love with his photos we’d be amazed, we cannot fault JR!
Thank you Jay!
Nick & Jen
I had no idea what to expect from our Photographer –
I had only really had experiences of over-zealous, trigger happy and less than artistic ones previously. You put my mind at ease from our very first meeting at Soho House a few months back.
It’s fair to say that almost everyone that said anything to me after the wedding included you personally in their praise. For myself, I thought you did a sublime job – blending into the whole weekend, capturing the best parts of it, and creating a series of photos that will jog our memories when they grow old, and keep the biggest smiles on our faces when we look back. You did an outstanding job, and I really can not thank you enough for it.
Jay,
I’m not sure if its possible to convey how utterly overjoyed we are with the pictures of our wedding. We love them and everyone who has seen them has commented on how stunning they are, you have such a skill for capturing the most simple things and making them look breathtaking,your ability to capture the best lighting is outstanding. So many of our guests have comented on how well you fitted in to the day.I must have gone through the pictures a hundred times as they bring me back to the moment each time. I will be recomending you to any friends who get engaged as in my opinion you are simple the best!!
Many thanks and best Wishes
Julia and Ol
Jay is the perfect combination of what you look for in a wedding photographer; he is utterly charming, happy to be collaborative, and easy to work with, while at the same time being a consumate professional, and an extremely, extremely good photographer.
In all our meetings & correspondence with Jay – before, after and on the wedding day itself – he was a pleasure to deal with. Not to mention entirely unflappable despite being asked to photograph close to 250 people throughout several Jewish traditional ceremonies, and never without a smile.
And the end result is just magnificent. We absolutely love our album. We have another photo blown up and framed hanging on our wall. The images are both aesthetically beautiful and hugely personal; Jay managed to capture incredible moments we simply couldn’t have noticed on the day. And everyone who has seen them has commented on how brilliant they are (and a few have said they wished their wedding photos were as good!)
Simply put, we could not have found a wedding photographer more perfect for capturing our day and all those special moments. Thank you Jay!
Looking for a wedding photographer seemed to be harder than we thought, we knew what we wanted from the beginning.. Classic, beautiful photos that would tell the story of our day, without all of the forced, cheesy snapshots that seemed to be in a lot of portfolios. We wanted photos that looked more like pieces of art that we could hang on our walls.. That’s exactly what we got when we found Jay!
Not only did he make us feel completely at ease in front of the camera and give us some breath-taking beach wedding shots, he completely fitted in with our day, he was more like a close member of our family joining in the fun!
Thank you so much Jay, we couldn’t have imagined the day without you.
– Helen & Kev
Having Jay at our wedding meant we had so much time to think about everything else and truly savour the day. We knew we were in good hands having seen so much of Jay’s work and the air of confidence he instilled in us when we met him months prior to the wedding day was mirrored upon seeing our final photos. Not only do we have a large selection of beautifully composed photos that have really captured the day for us, but the numerous guests who got a chance to speak with Jay all enjoyed his company and the ease at which he put them when taking their pictures.
A massive ‘Thank You’ to Jay for the fantastic photos he gave us – we can’t recommend him enough!
Sarah and Ian
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As soon as we had our initial meeting with Jay, we knew he was the photographer for us. It was extremely important that we would feel comfortable with our photographer throughout the day , from the pre-wedding excitement and nerves on the morning of the wedding, through to those moments on the dance floor when friends and family were all letting their hair down. We knew, without a doubt, that not only would we be comfortable with Jay but that he would fit in perfectly with our guests.
A huge thank you for the most beautiful photos we could have wished for and for being an absolute pleasure to be around. Our photographs and Jay, have been at the top of the list of comments when we’ve been talking to our family and friends about our wedding day.
We would not hesitate to recommend Jay to anyone who is looking for a wedding photographer. THANK YOU! Sarah and Alasdair xx
Hi Jay,
We just wanted to say a massive thank you for being such an amazing wedding photographer. Not only are the pictures incredibly special but you captured it beautifully and we hardly knew you were there! (you were more like a guest to us than a wedding photographer) we have the pictures to last a lifetime and the best memories made easier by you and your easy attitude and professionalism. we would recommend you to anyone – they would be stupid not to use a pure professional like yourself who has an abundance of talent. Love P & K
We met Jay a couple of years ago in London after we had initially booked him to be our wedding photographer. As soon as we met with him, we felt instantly comfortable in his company…it seemed as though we were just catching up with an old friend! This was even more evident on our wedding day when many of our friends and familiy thought Jay was one of our guests! He made everyone feel totally relaxed and as a result has created photographs which capture every moment of our special day and will be memories we treasure forever. The standard of the photographs are absolutely stunning and the album Jay created for us is exquisite, we cannot thank him enough for all of his hard work and incredible talent!
Working with Jay was like working with a good friend and he is such a lovely, kind, fun, creative and professional chap. All our guests, from our 91 year old Granddad to our 6 year old niece had great things to say about you.
I still can’t quite believe how lucky we were to find someone like you without a recommendation. Without doubt, one of the best decisions we made about our wedding.
On the day you made us feel at total ease and gave us some great tips for when we having photos of just the 2 of us.
Every photo that you took is so perfect in its unique own way and you completely captured every detail of the day. We love all of them so much especially the one of us sat on the steps showing our shoes. I even got told it should be on the front of a vogue magazine!!
A very big thank you (and hurray!) to the best photographer ever!!
For anyone who is looking for a wedding photographer, don’t hesitate to book Jay!!
Hazel & Paul xxx
Hi Jay,
Sara and I would like to thank you for your relaxed professionalism at our wedding. You took some cracking snaps and every intervention you made to the somewhat chaotic flow of events was an enhancement to the day rather than feeling like a necessary interruption. Everyone was charmed by your presence and it was a pleasure to have you there.
All the best
George and Sara
Jay – the photos you took really told the story of our wedding day. Each one is beautifully shot, atmospheric and considered. Thank you for being a joy to work with, nothing was ever too much trouble. All the very best, Rebecca & James Richer.
Thank you, Jay, for these stunning photographs! It was a pleasure to have you at our wedding, and we could not be happier with the photos! You were able to capture all the details of our wedding, big and small. Now we have something to send to our relatives back home that couldn’t be with us on the day – it really means the world to them and to us to have these memories preserved by you in such a spectacular way!
We got married at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park on 12 September 2012 and we are very pleased that we chose Jay to be our wedding photographer. He took the most beautiful pictures and managed to capture the whole day with great attention to little details that made the day special! He captured not only details but also peoples’ emotions and expressions perfectly. We were thrilled with the photos Jay took and they will always remind us how wonderful the day way. Jay is not only a great photographer but also a pleasant person to deal with who’s truly enthusiastic about what he does. We’ve had so many positive and lovely comments about Jay’s work and we couldn’t recommend Jay highly enough! Thank you so much!
Terry and I could not have asked for a more memorable wedding day, so we were delighted to see that it had been so fantastically captured.
Whilst the weather wasn’t kind to us, your passion for photography shone and all of the photos taken were fabulous! Everyone has commented on how amazing the outdoor photos under the umbrellas are… so a nice sunny day is definitely not everything. You put everyone at ease and were a pleasure to deal with from start to finish and so genuinely enthusiastic. We are so glad we chose you to capture our special day – the photos are amazing. Thank you so much!!!
Vicky & Terry