Pre-wedding shoot abroad

Pre-wedding shoot in Turkey

A sky full of hot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise, a bazaar lit by a thousand lamps, tea in tulip glasses, and the Bosphorus where Europe meets Asia.

Best time: April to June and September to November; golden hour in the valleys, mornings in the old town.

Where photographers take couples

Galata Tower
Built by the Genoese in 1348, the stone tower has watched over Istanbul for almost 700 years.
Hagia Sophia
Completed in Istanbul in 537, it was the largest church in the world for nearly a thousand years.
Bosphorus shore
Istanbul's Ortaköy mosque, from 1856, sits on the edge of the Bosphorus, right under the bridge between Europe and Asia.
Grand Bazaar
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, begun in 1461, is one of the oldest covered markets in the world, with around 4,000 shops under its domes.
Fairy-chimney valley
In Cappadocia, volcanic ash worn away over millions of years left valleys full of soft, pale rock towers locals call fairy chimneys.
Cave-house rooftops
In Cappadocia, houses are carved into the soft rock, and at dawn the sky fills with hot-air balloons.
Old town
Old Istanbul, between the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, where the trams glide past and the street cats are everyone's pets.
An old-town café
In Turkey tea comes in small tulip-shaped glasses, and nobody ever hurries you.
Hot-air balloons
On calm mornings more than a hundred hot-air balloons rise over Cappadocia's valleys at sunrise, the most photographed sky in Turkey.