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On Hitched.co.uk since 2022
Last update: April 2025
2024/2025 Corporate Live Wire Global Awards Wedding Photographer of the Year
2024 & 2023 Hitched Wedding Photographer of the year Award
2024 & 2023 Lux Life Global Wedding Awards Winner
2022 Winner of the UK Enterprise Awards Best Wedding Photographer (Leicestershire) & Most relaxed Wedding Photographer (East Midlands)
Shelley Costello is an award winning documentary-style wedding photographer based in Leicestershire, with a natural, relaxed and intuitive approach. Capturing your day as it unfolds; the emotion, love, tears, fun and laughter with everything in between, to create your wedding day story. When you look back through your photographs, you will feel like you are reliving your day.
Shelley says, "My aim is always to capture whatever is happening as it unfolds. It's real and the emotion in the photographs brings the story to life. When I give people back their photographs and they watch the the story of their day, it is like they are transported back in time, reliving it over again."
What is documentary wedding photography?
Documentary photography is storytelling. It's about capturing the moments as they unfold. Documentary photography is to capture, what is, rather than creating a version of that or overly setting something up.
The tears your mum wipes away as you walk down the aisle or the little boy sneaking sweets from the cart while no-one is looking.
This candid style is unobtrusive and captures natural moments of expression when no-one is noticing the camera is even there.
There's a balance - capturing those magazine worthy shots of you both and your must have group shots...just with the same natural and relaxed approach.
You will receive a stunning movie slideshow of all your final edited photographs. Much like watching the story of your day and such a beautiful way to experience your photographs. You then receive a personalised online gallery featuring your final edited high-resolution images, free of watermarks, along with a license to download, print, and share.
“We would like to thank you so much for the beautiful photos, they are absolutely stunning and we are blown away. When we watched the slideshow for the first time we were in tears . It was like reliving our day again. The music you chose and everything is just perfect.
Thank you so much for being the most amazing photographer and being part of our special day and capturing the most beautiful photos.”
- Woman-owned
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Reviews for Shelley Costello Photography
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Captured our day perfectly!
Absolutely perfect photography.
On the day, Shelley was very professional and helpful, she even assisted the groom and best man in putting on their buttonholes upon arrival! She put my mind at ease when it rained, reassuring me that umbrellas would create an extra effect. She was right!
We loved her photographic style, particularly the natural photos and some funny ones of family members being caught "in the moment". She perfectly captured the day and sequence of events like a storybook in photos. We also loved the option of both colour and black & white photos within our photo gallery.
Our special day and memories have been preserved by the photos Shelley took for us on our wedding day. She did an amazing job and was great value for money. We would highly recommend booking her for your wedding day.
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We’re incredibly grateful for her expertise and the beautiful photos she took. Each picture is a perfect representation of the day, filled with emotion and joy. We love them all and will cherish these memories forever. If you’re looking for a talented photographer who can make your day unforgettable, Shelley is the one to choose!
A gorgeous mix of posed and candid photos of us and our guests
Outstanding
Cannot recommend enough 10/10
Above and beyond amazing!!!!
Tailor made for our intimate wedding
Fantastic photographer.
My wedding was a small intimate family gathering.
Shelley’s reviews were excellent on your website, and the photos she had taken were amazing.
Shelley went out of her way to make my day very special, you could hardly tell she was there, she blended in so well.
She did a lovely slideshow of my day which is a lovely keepsake.
I would recommend her she is very professional.
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