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Unique
Your Wedding Day
Your wedding day is unique to you. Sure there may be similarities as generally most weddings follow a pattern, but each wedding and every couple are unique to us and treated as such. We’re here to tell a story of your day. We know when to get involved with you and your guests and we know when to be discreet and blend into the background. We know a wedding day story is more than just groups of guests standing in a line looking at the camera. We know the day is about you. Your day is special and talking in person about your day is always something I recommend and what could be better than chatting about your wedding plans with someone as enthusiastic about your day as you are.
Beginnings
The Start of the Day
This is where your story begins (the Wedding Day part anyway) with the details, the laughter, the relaxed calm before the storm as they say. Of course it’s not a storm but a wonderful day full of amazing memories ahead of you. Capturing this part of your day is a great start to the story telling, and it’s always wonderful to capture both of your mornings, so you can see what the other one got up to. Natural moments, happy moments, funny moments…
Ceremony & Reception
The Main Event
You’ve spent months planning this and now it’s time to tie the knot in front of friends and family and enjoy all your hard work (& expense!) Plan your timings so this main part of your day isn’t rushed. Ask advice on how long you’ll need for everything that you want to do and the special memories you want captured; there may be a list of groups, perhaps a couple of special locations for the pair of you, maybe that sunset shot is important, perhaps you have 250 guests you’d like to say hello to? All these ideas take time and you’ll want to enjoy your day as a wedding day flies by fast enough as it is, so don’t spend the day clock-watching, plan ahead so you can enjoy the moments. We want to capture the moments, the moments between the moments, and you and your guests enjoying these moments…
The Evening
The Evening Party
Your day isn’t over yet, you have an evening party to enjoy. If you’re going traditional, kick it off with cutting a cake and your first dance in front of your guests, before the music plays into the night. Don’t get caught up in worrying about dancing in front of everyone, a short nervous shuffle for 30 seconds before asking everyone to join you is just as acceptable as a 2 minute ballroom display. Go with whatever you are comfortable with and don’t fret. Dance the night away, throw your hands in the air, enjoy yourself, take a 10min break from the hecticness, go and smoke a cigar with friends, knock back a couple of shots with friends at the bar, hug loved ones, catch up with friends. All these moments make up the story of your day, so have them captured to look back upon in years to come. Invest in your memories…
“The BIGGEST thank you. You and Sarah kept us so calm throughout the whole day and were so professional. You went above and beyond what we ever expected of a photographer. Thank you so so much”
~ Stacey & Ryan, Romsey, Hampshire
Meet
Chris
Oh maaan, this is the tricky bit. What d’ya wanna know then? That I’ve been in the pro-wedding photography industry for 30 years, that I originally worked a darkroom with enlargers, negatives and elbow deep in foul-smelling chemicals, or how I’ve been a pro-wedding photographer for 20 years, or the awards I’ve won, or the hundreds of awesome compliments and testimonials we’ve received over the years, maybe the changes I’ve seen, or maybe how passionate I still am after all these years and huuundreds of weddings shot?
Or is this the place to chat personal stuff, like being an immensely proud Dad to two wonderful pests who have grown up far too quickly for my liking, or loving (annoying?) partner to the equally awesome photographer Sarah, or my interests like getting on a bike, skating, reading books, listening to music, watching an epic movie or two through an unnecessarily loud sound system, or the crackle of vinyl on turntable, or the challenge I seem to find in devouring food, maybe that I drink too much coffee and eat too many biscuits, or I have a healthy obsession with visiting central Florida, perhaps that I also dig disappearing with Sarah to a shack (must have a wood burner though) in the middle of nowhere armed with books and walking boots?
I dunno, stuff like that maybe?
Meet
Sarah
I should do a poll on this bit to see if you’d prefer me to write this stuff or get Sarah to write this herself… answers on a postcard…
Albums & Wall Art
Go pro.
I am a crusader for couples having professionally printed albums and wall art. Step inside and hear me out on this.
Our Blog
I like to write
Not as often as I’d like, but I pen words from time to time and I’m catching up gradually with a backlog of wedding blogs to show off.