About Julia Healey — York Wedding & Pet Photographer

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My passion is to capture your ever lasting memories and provide stunning, hand crafted wall art and other keepsakes for your home.

Hello! I’m Julia, award winning wedding photographer and pet ‘pawtrait’ photographer based in York, North Yorkshire. A keen snowboarder who also loves the summer sun, I moved to the beautiful city of York that I now call ‘home’ in 2009.

I genuinely love attending weddings, but being the person who gets to photograph weddings as a career and being able to share in other couples’ ‘best day ever’ is an absolute dream. My typical style of wedding photography is vibrant (I love colour!) and fun, yet timeless and romantic. I’m a friendly, enthusiastic and dedicated character, who wants to make your wedding day as relaxed as possible. Every couple and every wedding is different, so I aim to really get to know each couple I work with so I can capture the feelings and memories that make your photographs special and personal to you.

My other passion is animals, and I believe that each animal has their own individual personality just like humans do. Heard the phrase “Never work with animals or children”? Well, I love it, and find photographing animals (and children) to be one of the most rewarding professions.

I’m known to be a little bit of a ‘crazy cat lady’ with two kitties of my own (mad enough to get them painted onto my Doc Martens!). Sadly, our pets are not with us forever, which is why I decided to start pet portrait photography, to capture treasured memories of our furry family members.

Achieving my Master Craftsman qualification with the Guild of Professional Photographers with a panel of 20 cat images has been the highlight of my Pet Photography career to date. Fewer than 50 photographers in the country hold the Master Craftsman title so it really is an incredible accomplishment.

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What Clients Say

Testimonials

Where do I start? Julia is incredible! I was only completely sure of one thing with our wedding photos and that was to get our guests when they weren’t looking, the most natural poses and boy did Julia deliver! Our photos are absolutely beautiful and so natural; Julia helped with ideas and directed us perfectly for some amazing pictures. I still look through all of them and love every single one and I can honestly say it takes me right back to our perfect day! Julia made us feel so at ease, we didn’t have to worry about a thing. She’s very professional and really did do our day justice, thank you so much Julia for supporting me when I was unsure what we really wanted pictures of, for being a friend when needed (while I was very nervous) and for just simply being so fantastic to us and our guests. We have some photos that will allow us to re live that perfect day every day.
– Mr & Mrs Hubbard
What can I say… having Julia photograph at our wedding was an absolute dream. So incredibly friendly and an absolute pleasure to work with. She made us feel so comfortable, and the shots on the day were just beautiful! Thank you so, so much for helping us capture some of the most memorable and beautiful moments of our big day. Wouldn’t change it for the world.
– Mr & Mrs McKibbin
What can I say, Julia is amazing! She fit in at my wedding better than some of my guests, 😀 it’s like I’ve known her for years, nothing was too much hassle for her, she went above and beyond her photography duties for me. The photographs are absolutely stunning, I can’t believe it’s us in them pictures!! 😂 Would highly recommend her, 5* Thank you so much Julia 😘
– Mr & Mrs Mouncey
Having Julia as our wedding photographer was one of the best decisions we made. Throughout the planning stage, there was lots of communication and she offered so much advice, answering any questions we had. On the day, Julia and her second photographer helped with anything and everything they could, really going above and beyond their duties as photographers. They made everyone feel at ease, were full of energy and just effortlessly became a part of the day. We loved the style of Julia’s photography when we initially looked through her portfolio and were blown away when we received our amazing photographs back. So many beautiful memories captured perfectly, moments with family and friends that we will never forget!
– Evangeline Rothery
Julia was the photographer for my daughter’s wedding at the end of September and was so much more than a photographer. Julia fitted my corsage, sorted the boys buttonholes, suits, pocket handkerchiefs, attached the brides veil and so much more.Within the first few hours Julia felt like part of our family & we were so lucky she joined in with our celebrations whilst working hard capturing both formal and informal memories our the special day.Absolutely nothing was too much trouble for her and I cannot recommend Julia Healey photography highly enough
– Debra Boyer
Julia is absolutely exceptional as what she does, we first hired her to be our wedding photographer and oh my goodness she is a breath of fresh air! Not only is she incredibly talented she has the sweetest heart and we could not of asked for anyone more amazing than Julia to capture our special day! We see her yearly now for our annual Christmas photos and when we do she always has the warmest welcome and manages to get the best photos despite my 3 year old running around the place.
– Hannah Cox