A boho wedding in Cologne's Stadtgarten with wildflowers, natural light and a very relaxed celebration style. No staging, only authenticity — a wedding that reflected exactly how the two of them are in daily life.
Nadine and Jonas wanted a reportage that felt honest and did not look like standard wedding photography. Boho here is not a decoration concept but an attitude: openness, closeness and joy without perfectionism.
Cologne Stadtgarten // Boho wedding among wildflowers, open meadow and evening light
Nadine and Jonas did not come with a shot list or a programme. They wanted the day to unfold on its own terms and for the photography to capture what actually happened. That is a very enjoyable starting point — but also one that demands full attention because nothing is staged.
The Stadtgarten with its open meadows, old trees and wild flower sections was an ideal choice. Not manicured park design that looks too tidy, but a place with natural imperfection that matched their energy perfectly.
The light in the Stadtgarten in summer is beautifully soft but very location-dependent. I worked a lot with backlight filtering through tree canopies, making hair and fabrics glow without blowing out faces. Wildflowers in the foreground, soft grass in the background — a palette that needs very little post-processing.
With boho weddings the slide into interchangeable 'flowers and backlight' images is easy to reach. That is why I kept pulling the focus back to the relationship between the two of them: glances, contact, movement — the location as frame, not as main subject.
The guests at this wedding celebrated the way people celebrate when they know each other well: loudly, warmly and spread across the whole meadow. For the reportage that meant staying in constant motion, waiting for the right moments and not breaking anything through intervention.
Group images happened, but in a very organic format. No long line-ups and sorting, just small groups coming together briefly, laughing and then drifting apart. The result is group moments that do not feel like an obligation.
The finished gallery carries a very distinct quality: it does not feel produced. You see a real day, real people, real joy. No image looks staged, and yet the series has a visual coherence that holds it together.
For Nadine and Jonas these are not wedding photos in the classical sense. They are images of them and their people on a day that was exactly as it should have been.
When a wedding feels the way this evening did — relaxed, warm and full of real laughter — photography just needs to follow, not lead.
We had no interest in stiff group shots or prescribed poses. With Maren everything ran so naturally that at some point we forgot anyone was even taking photos. The images are exactly like us.