Manchester wedding photographer Phil Salisbury loved this moment as groom Dan, a proud member of the UK’s Royal Air Force, stood awaiting his bride Aimee to join him at the altar. The wedding, held at Beeston Manor in the UK, was one Salisbury remembers fondly.

“I love that Dan appeared so still, calming himself for the moment when he layed eyes on her. It’s almost like he was envisaging what she would look like when he saw her for the first moment,” says Salisbury. “For me, this is a moment that Dan will treasure,” he adds, “poised and waiting for his wife-to-be, a memory encapsulated for him to revisit those feelings whenever he wishes by looking at the image again and again.”

The moment, adds Salisbury, was captured with natural lighting. Because he works in a documentary fashion, he says that “moments are everything for me; witnessing Dan as he began to breathe deeply and his eyes started to close allowed me to compose my shot and wait for the magic moment as Aimee arrived.”

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