Sharyn Hodges is an award-winning wedding and elopement photographer based in Plettenberg Bay. She photographs Garden Route weddings, celebrations across South Africa, destination elopements worldwide, and the family stories that happen in between.
The approach is documentary and deeply human: gentle direction when you need it, then space for the day to feel like yours.
Local knowledge across the Garden Route
Experience, calm guidance and honest storytelling
Weddings, elopements, families and couples
Choose the path that matches what you are planning. Each one leads to a focused portfolio, useful information and a direct way to enquire.
Garden Route coastlines, Plettenberg Bay venues, Cape vineyards and celebrations that feel entirely your own.
Iceland, Ireland, Norway and wherever your version of the day leads beyond the expected.
Unhurried family sessions shaped around connection, play and the beautifully imperfect season you are living right now.
Relaxed couple shoots for engagements, anniversaries and the two of you exactly as you are together.
Sharyn’s work has been selected and shared by leading wedding and elopement publications around the world.
There is room for the weather, the nerves, the loud laugh, the quiet parent and the moment nobody planned. Sharyn will guide you when it helps, disappear when it matters and keep looking for the photographs that make the day feel real again.
Real weddings, wild elopements, windswept couple sessions and families being exactly who they are.
Being based in Plettenberg Bay means Sharyn understands how quickly the coastal weather moves, where the last light lands and which locations still feel private when the Garden Route is busy.
Explore wedding venue guides for Plettenberg Bay, Knysna, Wilderness, George and Mossel Bay, or begin with the complete Garden Route wedding venue guide.
Awkward nerd, dog mum, coffee snob, light chaser and the person who will care about your people as if they were her own. Sharyn has photographed weddings and elopements since 2015, from her home on the Garden Route to the wind and waterfalls of Iceland.
Her job is not to manufacture a version of you. It is to make enough room for you to recognise yourselves in every photograph.
New photographs and genuinely useful planning ideas from Plettenberg Bay, across South Africa and much further into the wild.
Casey & Orin’s fun-filled Emily Moon wedding in Plettenberg Bay, a relaxed Garden Route celebration packed with laughter, love and personality.
Sara & Ryan’s South Coast Iceland waterfall elopement with private vows at Kvernufoss, dancing at Skógafoss and beautiful Icelandic lupine fields.
Amina & Nick’s South Coast Iceland elopement filled with waterfalls, private canyon vows, Icelandic horses and an unforgettable whale encounter.
Erin & Matt’s South Coast Iceland elopement exploring Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach, Kvernufoss and the mighty Skógafoss waterfall.
Aimie & Kyle’s two day Iceland elopement adventure from Kirkjufell and Arnarstapi to the wild geothermal mountains of Kerlingarfjöll.
Debbie & Chris’s beautiful winter wedding at Emily Moon River Lodge in Plettenberg Bay, filled with love, laughter, champagne and THAT dress.
Short answers for the things worth knowing before the first email.
Sharyn is based in Plettenberg Bay on South Africa’s Garden Route. She photographs weddings and sessions across Plettenberg Bay, Knysna, Wilderness, George, Mossel Bay, Cape Town and destinations worldwide.
Her approach is documentary, emotive and quietly guided. You will receive direction when it helps, with enough space for the real laughter, nerves, weather and people to remain the heart of the photographs.
Yes. Sharyn photographs destination weddings and elopements across South Africa and internationally, with specialist experience in Iceland and a growing body of work across Ireland, Scotland, Norway and Italy.
No. A likely date, season or destination is enough to begin. Sharyn can help with location ideas, light-led timing and trusted planning resources once she understands what you want the day to feel like.
Popular dates can book well ahead, so enquire as soon as you have a likely date or season. Flexible plans are welcome, and an enquiry does not require every detail to be decided.
Wedding, elopement, family session or couple shoot. You do not need a perfect plan. Send the date or season, the place if you know it, and what you want it to feel like.
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