La Cannonerie Wedding Photographer

I knew pretty much as soon as I drove into La Cannonerie that I was going to enjoy photographing a wedding here.

The first thing that struck me was the amount of space. It feels open without feeling spread out, and because so much of the venue sits relatively low, the light is able to travel across the grounds rather than constantly being blocked by huge buildings.

For a photographer, that immediately gives you options. For the couple and their guests, it gives you something even more important: a wedding where everyone can move around, find their own space and still feel part of the same celebration.

I photographed Anne-Sophie and Clément’s own wedding at La Cannonerie in September 2026. It was particularly special because they are the owners of the venue, so this wasn’t simply somewhere they had chosen for their wedding. It was their home, their business and a place that clearly meant a huge amount to them.

Why La Cannonerie works so well for a wedding

After spending a full wedding day here, one of the biggest strengths for me was how many completely different parts of a wedding can happen within the same venue.

You can have an outdoor ceremony. There’s the beautiful covered area beneath the stone arches if you want some protection while still retaining that feeling of being outside. You can dine outside completely, or have dinner beneath the arches. Then there’s a proper dedicated space for the evening party.

And you don’t have to put everybody on buses or send guests off to another location halfway through the day.

If a couple asked me the best thing about getting married at La Cannonerie, that would probably be my answer. If you want your guests to have a brilliant experience, you want a great atmosphere and you don’t want everybody travelling from place to place, it works incredibly well.

A brilliant venue for candid wedding photography

That layout also makes my job considerably easier.

A huge part of my work is candid wedding photography. I’m constantly watching for conversations, reactions, people laughing together and all those small moments happening around the bigger parts of the day.

At La Cannonerie there is loads of room for guests to mingle, but people never feel disconnected from each other. Different groups naturally gathered in different areas throughout the day, yet everyone remained relatively close together.

For documentary photography, that’s ideal. I can move between people naturally without feeling like I’m covering several separate events.

How a wedding day flows at La Cannonerie

For Anne-Sophie and Clément’s wedding, preparations took place upstairs in one of the master bedrooms before everyone moved downstairs for the ceremony in the central outdoor area of the venue.

Afterwards, guests could simply move naturally into the rest of the grounds.

Dinner was one of my favourite parts of the layout. It had that feeling of dining outside, but the tables sat undercover beneath the beautiful stone arches. You still have the air, the light and the connection to everything happening outside, without feeling enclosed in a traditional function room.

The evening space works for a similar reason. It’s big enough that the dance floor doesn’t feel cramped, but not so big that everybody disappears into different corners of a cavernous room.

That balance makes a massive difference to atmosphere.

The light at La Cannonerie

I could probably write this entire page about the light.

It seemed to work everywhere.

There are trees around the grounds, open areas, vineyards, stone arches and large doorways. There are also loads of places where you can photograph from a slightly darker covered area towards an open area of light, which gives you plenty of opportunities to use the architecture rather than fighting against it.

I noticed this the evening before the wedding when I photographed Anne-Sophie and Clément’s pre-wedding shoot at La Cannonerie, and it became even more obvious during the wedding itself.

The tree-lined corridor towards the back of the venue was particularly good later in the day, but what I liked most was that I never felt restricted to one little corner because that was the only place where the light worked.

You don’t need hours for wedding portraits here

This is probably one of the things I’d most want a couple considering La Cannonerie to know.

You really don’t need to disappear from your wedding for ages to get good photographs here.

I won’t turn your wedding into a photoshoot anyway, but at La Cannonerie there is particularly little reason to. Give me five, ten or fifteen minutes and we can simply take a walk.

The tree-lined area behind the venue is one of my favourites. I love using the front of La Cannonerie itself too, and there are photographs almost everywhere you turn because the architecture and the light change constantly as you walk.

You don’t need an hour of posing. Walk together, talk to each other and enjoy ten minutes away from everyone. I’ll give a little guidance when it helps, but mostly I want the photographs to represent who you actually are together.

That approach runs through all of my natural wedding photography. The portraits matter, but they shouldn’t come at the expense of actually experiencing your wedding.

One piece of photography advice for a La Cannonerie wedding

I wouldn’t tell couples to build their entire day around photography. Quite the opposite.

But I would always recommend having a conversation with your photographer and wedding planner about where sunset falls within the timings.

If you’re planning an outdoor dinner, speeches or something else important at exactly the point when the light is at its absolute best, it can sometimes be worth moving things around slightly.

You don’t need to lose half an hour from your wedding. Sometimes five or ten minutes at the right time is more useful than an hour in bad light.

La Cannonerie gives you so many options that taking advantage of that final bit of evening light can be incredibly simple.

From the wedding breakfast into the party

This was another part of the venue I really liked.

You can go from dinner beneath the arches into a proper evening party without suddenly feeling like you’ve left one wedding and arrived at another.

Once the dance floor gets going, I tend to disappear into it with everyone else. I don’t like photographing a wedding from the outside looking in. I’d rather be amongst the guests, close enough to catch the reactions and little moments happening around me.

Photographing weddings at La Cannonerie

Having now photographed both a pre-wedding shoot and a full wedding here, I know the venue properly rather than simply knowing what it looks like from a website.

I know where the light travels later in the day. I know how quickly we can get from the wedding to the tree-lined grounds for portraits. I know how the different areas flow into each other and, importantly, I know that there really isn’t any reason to overcomplicate the photography.

My style sits somewhere between documentary and editorial. Most of the wedding is photographed exactly as it happens. I blend in, get amongst the guests and look for the real moments. When a little direction will make a photograph better, I’ll give it, but I don’t over-pose people or constantly interrupt the day.

I also photograph destination weddings regularly, so travelling to France and working within the slightly different timings, light and rhythm of a wedding abroad is very familiar to me.

Getting married at La Cannonerie?

If you’ve booked La Cannonerie and you’re now looking for a wedding photographer, hopefully this page has given you more than simply a collection of nice photographs of the venue.

I’ve actually photographed a wedding here. I know how the place works, I know how good the light can be and I know how little time we need to step away from your guests and still create some beautiful portraits.

Most importantly, I’d want you to spend your wedding enjoying La Cannonerie with the people you’ve invited rather than feeling like the photographer has taken over the day.

If that sounds like the way you’d like your wedding photographed, arrange a relaxed video call and tell me a little about what you’re planning.

You can also explore more of my wedding venue photography in France, or visit the La Cannonerie website to find out more about holding your wedding there.