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Dublin Wedding Photographer - Kathy Silke Photography

Editorial Wedding Photography Ireland

Editorial Wedding Photography Ireland

Collections and Investments

Editorial wedding photography in Ireland isn’t one-size-fits-all and the way you’ll want to relive your wedding isn’t identical to anyone else’s. 

Some couples want to flick through their photos on an iPad during a Sunday flight. Others like the weight of a book in their hands, something they can pull out on a rainy afternoon with a pot of tea, pages creaking softly as they turn. 

Some just want day coverage, others know their story won’t feel complete without the midnight moments. That’s why my collections exist: as different ways to carry your story forward, in the format that feels best for you.

THE COLLECTIONS

Niamh and Ollie Editorial Wedding Photography Ireland - Kathy Silke Photography

The Token Collection

This is where editorial wedding photography in Ireland meets the digital-first couple. The ones who’d rather carry their memories in your pocket than on a shelf. For the couple who’ll send a link to friends abroad, rewatch a highlight reel in the kitchen on a Friday night with a glass of red, or scroll through together when the house finally quiets.

It’s also for the planners, the curators, who’ll take their gallery straight from laptop to printer to design a wall of frames, who’ll share their favourites on Instagram before the thank-you notes are even written, who see their photographs not just as keepsakes but as part of their daily world.

What You Receive Expand
  • Morning-to-dinner coverage - the spine of your story: vows spoken, glasses raised, shoulders finally unburdened with laughter.
  • Pre-wedding consultation - a conversation that maps the emotional terrain of your day.
  • Cinematic highlights slideshow - a moving narrative set to music, that makes even your cousin who never cries message you in tears.
  • Curated online gallery - high-resolution, artfully edited, photographs delivered in an easy-to-use online gallery, you can revisit whenever the time feels right.
Your Investment Expand

€3350

 

The Essential Collection

The Essential Collection is for the couple who don't want to miss a thing. The ones who know their story doesn't begin at the aisle or end after the speeches, but unfolds in the quiet anticipation of the morning, the joyful chaos in between, and the first dance that welcomes everyone onto the dance floor. If you want the complete story of your wedding day, this collection was created for you.

It's for couples who value photography and want to ensure every moment is captured with honesty, beauty, and care. Full-day coverage preserves not only the milestones, but the atmosphere and feeling of a day you'll carry with you forever from start to finish.

What You Receive Expand
  • Everything from the Token Collection (A pre-wedding consultation, cinematic slideshow and your photos displayed in an online gallery).
  • Morning-to-first-dance coverage – the complete rhythm of your day, from quiet anticipation and deep breaths to a dance floor finally full, when the celebration stops being planned and simply begins.
Your Investment Expand

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The Signature Collection

This one’s for the couple who know themselves: yes, you’ll scroll the online gallery, send the slideshow to friends abroad, maybe even plan your gallery wall from your laptop. But you also know there will be moments when only a physical album will do.

When your little one climbs into your lap years from now and asks what the day was like. When friends are over and the conversation drifts to weddings, and you want to pass something across the table, not just a phone. When it’s a rainy Sunday, the fire’s on, and you’d rather turn pages than swipe screens.

With this Collection you get it all: digital ease, a tangible album and the full story. Not just the vows and champagne, but right through to the wild hours when your uncle’s wearing a photo-prop moustache, your bridesmaid’s mid-chorus with arms flung wide, and you’re catching your partner’s eye across a packed dance floor thinking: this is it. This is us.

 

What You Receive Expand
  • Everything in the Essential Collection (Full day coverage with a 10:30pm cut off, a pre-wedding consultation, an online gallery and cinematic slideshow)
  • A fine art 8x8 album, now holding the entire sweep of your day. Handcrafted to be held, shared, and passed around the table, your first family heirloom, where your wedding day finds its final home.
Your Investment Expand

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The Heirloom Collection

This is everything from the Signature Collection, plus more of everything that matters. More time. More angles. More permanence.

It’s for the couple who knows their photographs aren’t just for them, but for their families, their children, their children’s children.

You’ll have it all: your engagement session, the reassurance of two photographers watching from every angle, the grandeur of a 10x10 album and smaller versions for your parents who will never stop showing them off. Add to that the cinematic highlights and complete gallery, the digital ease, the physical permanence, nothing left undocumented.

What You Receive Expand
  • Everything from the Signature Collection (full-day coverage with a 10:30pm cut off, cinematic slideshow, curated gallery).
  • An engagement session - a rehearsal in laughter, intimacy, and ease before the day.
  • Second photographer for the full day - two sets of eyes, twice the security, every perspective covered.
  • A 10x10 fine art album - bold, enduring, designed to sit in the company of heirlooms.
  • Two 6x6 parent albums - because stories deserve to be shared.
  • Cinematic highlights slideshow + curated online gallery - digital and physical, together, forever.
Your Investment Expand

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Editorial Wedding Photography Ireland - Kathy Silke Photography

“You captured so many unreal moments of the day of ourselves, our family, our two baby girls and our friends. I will never be able to thank you enough Kathy for just how fabulous you were before our wedding day and after.

Jenny & Eddie

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Ready to Begin?

If you already know exactly which collection feels like you, wonderful, just let me know when you enquire. But honestly, that’s rare. Most of my couples prefer a call, because choosing isn’t just about coverage or albums, it’s about energy.

Having a photographer by your side all day is a big deal. You want to know how it feels to have me there. That’s why I always recommend a no-pressure call. We’ll talk through your options, figure out what matters most to you, and decide together which collection will serve your day best.

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Your Questions Answered

What is editorial wedding photography in Ireland? Expand

Editorial wedding photography in Ireland takes its cue from magazines: luminous light, refined composition, images that look like they belong in print. It’s about telling the story of your day. With me, it isn’t only about the picture-perfect portraits. Yes, you’ll have the kind of frame-worthy images you’ve saved on Instagram a hundred times, the ones where the light flatters, the setting looks flawless, and you look like you belong on the pages of Vogue. But…you’ll also have the real ones: the best man’s tie askew by midnight, your bridesmaid singing off-key into a candle, your mum’s tear-streaked laugh when she thinks no one’s watching.

This is editorial wedding photography for couples who want it all, the timeless, elegant portraits and the unguarded, human moments.

Do you travel outside Ireland for editorial wedding photography? Expand

No, my work is exclusively based in Ireland. I focus solely on its castles, country houses, and landscapes, which provide the atmosphere that defines my photography.

What’s the difference between editorial wedding photography and traditional wedding photography? Expand

Traditional wedding photography is about documenting, but it often misses the quiet in-between moments that tell the real story.

Editorial wedding photography is about storytelling. Think of it as the difference between a school photo and a magazine feature. The former records; the latter reveals.

In practice, that means:

  • Editorial photography captures the atmosphere, the emotion, and the narrative running through the day.
  • Editorial photography gives you luminous portraits, cinematic details, and the in-between moments you’ll never stage twice.
  • Editorial photography lets you relive it.

My take on editorial wedding photography in Ireland? It’s not style over substance. You’ll have the striking, fashion-inspired images you love, but also the real ones.

Niamh and David Editorial Wedding Photography Ireland - Kathy Silke Photography

Kathy Silke is an Ireland wedding photographer, serving couples in Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, Wexford, Kilkenny & beyond.

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Old houses steeped in history, overgrown gardens a Old houses steeped in history, overgrown gardens and a very well dressed amazing couple. It doesn’t take much to make me happy ✨

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A little Belle Isle Castle romance for Stephanie a A little Belle Isle Castle romance for Stephanie and Matt ✨ 

An old castle, wild autumn colour, rooms full of pattern, the prettiest flowers and two people who somehow managed to be both incredibly elegant and completely incapable of taking themselves too seriously. The perfect kind of combination.
There was so much beauty in this day, but also so much heart and love and emotion, family everywhere, plenty of laughter, a few tears and lots of time to make something beautiful together.

Exactly the kind of Irish castle wedding I love: romantic, full of personality and very much about the people at the heart of it.

The Team:

Venue | @belle_isle_estate 
Photography | @silkephotos 
Videography | @lymansky 
Coordinator | @amysweddingcreations_ 
Flowers | @fmk_the_flowersmith 
Make Up | @maidbysineadbridalmakeup 
Hair | @roseybreen 

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I think I might have a type… Old houses, beautifu I think I might have a type…

Old houses, beautiful gardens, wild florals, black tie, a little drama and couples who make their wedding completely their own.

If this looks a little like the wedding living in your head, I think we’ll get along very well.

2027 weddings now booking.
Nicola & Barney at Powerscourt ✨ Wonderfully cal Nicola & Barney at Powerscourt ✨ 

Wonderfully calm, beautifully stylish and completely effortless.
Nothing ever felt hurried or stressed, it was just a beautiful day with two amazing people completely at ease with each other, and a lot of very happy people around them.
Exactly the kind of vibe I love, the kind that feels thoughtful and beautiful but still utterly relaxed and full of feeling. 

The Team 
Venue | @powerscourt_estate 
Photography | @silkephotos 
Content Creator | @treasure_forever_moments 
Planner and Coordinator | @feastcatering_ireland 
Florist | @_bunched_ 
Make Up | @brownsugar_ie 
Cake | @ferncakery 
Music | @manilastrings06 
Brides shoes | @manoloblahnik 

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Alyssa & Kevin… what a wedding! 🤍🏰✨ Not only were Alyssa & Kevin… what a wedding! 🤍🏰✨

Not only were these two genuinely two of the loveliest people, but their entire day was just unbelievably gorgeous from start to finish.
It’s no secret that I ADORE a castle wedding… but safe to say Luttrelstown Castle has me in a chokehold 😍 The setting, the atmosphere, the details, every corner was just perfect.
Add in the most gorgeous couple, their incredible family & friends and an energy that was unmatched all day long… this one was seriously special. 
Alyssa & Kevin, you were an absolute dream. Can we do it all over again?! ♥️

The Team
Venue | @luttrellstowncastleresort 
Planner | @infusionweddings 
Photographer | @silkephotos 
Florals | @frogprinceweddings 
Make Up | @makeupbymandijay 
Hair | @tiffanyflynnhair 
Shoes | @christianlouboutin 
Cake | @evescakesdublin 

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It’s probably the combination of too many old movies, gothic novels and period dramas over the years, but this is the stuff that captures my attention and imagination. 
So when I arrive at a wedding and find an old castle, an ethereal bride, incredible flowers, a dress with a little drama and a landscape that feels like a film set…I’m already fizzing with excitement! 
These are the weddings that remind me exactly why I fell in love with photographing them in the first place and constantly inspire me. 

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Give me the flowers, the old houses, the beautiful dress, the table someone has spent six months thinking about.
But what makes me really interested is finding out why.
Why those flowers?
Who did the ring belong to?
Why this venue?
What’s the story behind the thing you’ve carefully tucked into your bouquet?
Because once I know that, I’m not just photographing something because it’s pretty. I’m photographing a little piece of your history. And those are often the details that become more meaningful with time.

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Masha & Hugh at Markree Castle 🏰 There’s somethi Masha & Hugh at Markree Castle 🏰 

There’s something about Markree that feels like stepping into another time. The old-world interiors, rich history and beautifully moody corners created the most incredible setting for Masha and Hugh’s day.
And these two couldn’t have been more fun to photograph. Completely laid-back, up for anything and happy to trust the process, the kind of energy that makes everything feel effortless and such a joy to be around from beginning to end.
Their styling felt like it belonged in the castle too. Deep burgundies, rich greens and gorgeous textures, all working so beautifully with those old world surroundings.
Elegant without feeling overly formal, full of personality, and just really, the best day. 

The Team
Venue | @markreecastlesligo 
Photography | @silkephotos 
Videography | @daydreampictures.ie 
Brides Dress | @romanova.atelier @salonwhiterose 
Grooms Suit | @kirbysmenswear 
Florals | @theflowershedsligo 
Make up | @selina_g_makeupartist 
Hair | @irma.hairstylist 

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Still smiling thinking about Ellen and Joe’s gorge Still smiling thinking about Ellen and Joe’s gorgeous day at Mount Juliet ✨ 
There was so much to love, the soft blush pinks and baby blue florals, the simple, elegant tablescapes, and of course the beautiful Manor House making the dreamiest backdrop for their ceremony.
But what I’ll remember most is just how much fun these two were.
Ellen and Joe spent the day laughing, smiling, tearing up and laughing some more, completely relaxed and never letting any stress creep in. They just soaked it all up and enjoyed every minute, and that energy was infectious.
Beautiful details are always lovely, but the people and the feeling are what make a day really memorable. And this one had both in spades 🤍✨

The Team

Venue | @mountjulietestate 
Photographer | @silkephotos 
Videographer | @eyecaptureweddings 
Florals | @soahflowers 
Make up | @ad____makeup 
Hair | @kathleenr.hair 
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Cake | @coolbauncakes 
Band | @electriccircusweddings 

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So I am probably going to tell you that you look g So I am probably going to tell you that you look gorgeous approximately 47 times on your wedding day. Not because I’m trying to flatter you into smiling for the camera but because I genuinely want you to feel good! 

I know what it feels like to be the awkward person who has absolutely no idea what to do when a camera is pointed at them. So I completely understand when couples tell me “We’re really awkward in photographs.” Honestly? Perfect!
You don’t need to know what you’re doing. You don’t need to be naturals in front of the camera or know how to pose. You just need to trust me a little.
I’ll take care of the rest, and probably hype you up while I’m doing it! 

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