The Martins Photography, 5 locksley grange, Belfast (2026)

Name: The Martins Photography
Address: 5 locksley grange, Belfast, BT100DW, GB
Telephone: +447921612495
Price range: £££

just a creative little wildling based in Northern Ireland, specialising in documenting Elopements and intimate weddings in Ireland
⚡Carefree photography that makes your heart skip a beat⚡
Ѧѧ breaking rules
⋒ having fun
⸙͎۪۫ creating magic

02/08/2026

Magical majestic humans with magical majestic horses

Wee bucket list moment of getting to meet and photograph the amazing horses from Crindle Bespoke for Andrea and Chad's elopement

22/06/2026

"We want photos that say we got married in this beautiful place, and loved every single bit of it."

No big show. No hundred people watching. Just Khaye and Jude, choosing themselves on a coastline that spoke to them.

The dress billowed across the basalt at the Giant's Causeway. The lace headdress caught the wind at Dunseverick. And then somewhere along the way the nerves just... went. They ran through long grass, spun in the rain, threw themselves into the landscape like it was theirs. Because it was. Wuthering Heights could never.

They wrote private vows. Nobody else heard them. I'll never take for granted getting to be the only other human getting to whitness 2 people sharing such an intimate and personal exchange

In a world where it's so easy to get swept up in the big show, these two just went and did it their way. Quietly. Completely. On the north coast of Ireland in the rain.

08/05/2026

In fits of giggles thirty seconds before it started. Then they looked at each other and everything went quiet.

Kinbane in that light, at that time of day. We planned it exactly. It still managed to be so much more than anyone expected.

Louisa and Jordan gave me both sides. The silly, the chaotic, the spontaneous. Running along the cliff edge, the cape doing something genuinely unhinged in the wind. Then in the next breath, completely soft and still with each other.

Getting people there. Comfortable, unselfconscious, actually letting go and being in the moment and experiencing. That's the job before the camera even comes out.

The photos are just what's left when it works.

The era of the cape continues, and I am very much here for it.
Wonderful Ceremony by
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02/05/2026

Three locations. One coast. A handmade cup, a secret, and a cape that deserved its own credit.

Morgan is a ceramicist. The quaich they drank from at the ceremony, she made it. Her own wheel, her own hands. Not because she had to. Because when the day is only yours, you have the space and the reason to make it mean something.

They planned the whole thing in three months. No venue visits, no tasting menus, no two-year countdown to something that was always going to happen anyway. Just a decision, a date, and someone who knows this coast well enough to handle the rest.

Nobody knew. Not that morning, not while it was happening. The whole world just carried on being the world while Morgan and Drew got quietly, privately, completely married in the valley at Dunseverick.

we aimed for some sunset chasing and by f**k did we get treated to the most delicious golden spring light, it genuinely gives me goosebumps every time it happens.

for the eagle eyed watchers who caught .emerald.explorerr drone clip from last week, you've seen what it looked like from above. These are the moments that got them there.

and If you're wondering whether it can feel like enough without the crowd, the room, the production. Morgan and Drew are your answer

Wonderful Celebrant
Accommodation
Check out Morgans beautiful pottery

12/04/2026

Everyone books Summer. I understand why.

𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.

The Causeway Coast in winter is not a compromise. It is a specific, extraordinary thing that the other seasons cannot replicate.

Yes, on paper it sounds bleak, winters can be wet, windy and grey, but in person it is something else and utterly cinematic

From October onwards, there is a massive reduction in the number of tourists, so you can have popular locations almost entirely to yourselves.

There is a light quality that exists nowhere else at any other time of year. A quietness to the landscape. In December, the sun sits low above the horizon. In summer, it very high ( and very harsh). What that means in reality: 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧. Not just the last 45 minutes. From around 10 am until the light drops, everything is directional, cinematic, and flattering in a way that summer light isn't.

The Causeway Coast in winter is a completely different place. The sea goes pewter grey. The ruins look ancient because they are. The cliff paths are empty. There is an intimacy and quietness to it that makes the whole thing feel like it belongs only to you.

It is also, not for nothing, significantly cheaper. Flights, accommodation, vendors. A different season entirely.

𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲. They're for couples who are dramatic and certain. They choose atmosphere and mood over aesthetics. They hear "empty cliffs, churning seas, blue hour at 4 pm" and feel something move in their soul. They want mood, feeling and an experience that is like no other.

If that's you, the full breakdown is on the blog.

Link in bio.

08/04/2026

Rain.
heavy rain, sideways rain....Always rain. Rain that arrived before the couple did and had absolutely no plans to leave.

Forgetting the handfasting cord
We made one on the spot, from whatever we had, while they stood on the cliff edge laughing at the chaos of it. Nobody watching the photos back would ever know. It doesn't show. What shows is the two of them, hands bound, completely present.

The mud.
Mud. So much mud. The shoes that did not survive. The dress that has a story to tell for the rest of its life. One of them going down in the mud about 10 mins into their elopement. Full slide. Not a gentle stumble. A proper, committed, horizontal situation. They got up, checked nothing was broken, looked at each other, and kept walking. It was the first moment of the whole day and it set the exact tone for everything that followed.

Arriving late.
Showing up forty minutes late because the GPS took them down a road that technically doesn't exist anymore. The cliffs don't care what time it is.

The wind.
Wind that was, at points, genuinely trying to take the dress. The dress that had a whole separate agenda. The veil that made a break for it over the cliff edge and somehow came back. The wind doesn't ruin elopements. It makes them

The weather warning.
A weather warning that changed the entire plan with less than 24 hours' notice. The original spot not working out, so you ended up somewhere you'd never have chosen but turned out to be perfect.

The forgotten vows.
Forgetting every single word of the vows. Standing there, looking at the other person. And then saying the thing they'd actually been carrying around for years but hadn't planned to say out loud. Unscripted and unrepeatable and so obviously true that everyone present just stood in silence for a moment after.

None of it. Not once.
The only thing that has ever ruined an elopement is spending it performing for other people instead of living it. And that's not something I've ever watched happen on a cliff in Northern Ireland.
Everything else, the weather, the timing, the plans that fell apart, the nerves, not once did it ruin an elopement

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Address

5 Locksley Grange
Belfast
BT100DW

Telephone

+447921612495

Website

https://Www.themartinsphotography.com/

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