The Story of a Wedding

Get­ting Ready

Rachel arrives about an hour before the cer­e­mony to pho­to­graph the bride’s prepa­ra­tions. She can record the girly humour and excite­ment. Mean­while Phil stays with the groom to record his prepa­ra­tions, guests arriv­ing and the room inte­ri­ors at the venue. Want some pic­tures of the groom and his friends play­ing golf before the wed­ding?  No problem.

Arriv­ing at the Church

Rachel fol­lows the bride to recep­tion venue, whether in a horse and car­riage, vin­tage car or on foot, the arrival of the bride at the cer­e­mony venue is a spe­cial moment. Both Rachel and Phil pho­to­graph this from both sides, and the groom’s reaction.

The Cer­e­mony

Vic­ars and reg­is­trars are some­times con­cerned that the pho­tog­ra­phy spoils the occa­sion. We reas­sure them and take what we can dur­ing the ser­vice with­out dis­trac­tion. We know most of the reg­is­trars and many vic­ars and priests in Worcestershire.

After­wards

We have found it works really well to take the bride and groom off for a few min­utes after the cer­e­mony for a few pic­tures on their own. It’s a spe­cial time which is great to pho­to­graph, and it gives you chance for a chat! After all, you’ve only said “I do” to each other up to this point!  It gives you a breather before every­one kisses the bride!

We like to have con­fetti shots when we can. We can pro­vide a list of conven­tional group shots, but the choice is yours. We try to take a few from uncon­ven­tional angles.

Can­did photographs

Often these are the best pic­tures of the day — can­did unposed shots of the bride, groom and guests as they min­gle and cel­e­brate.  We have a range of lenses and smaller unob­tru­sive cam­eras for this, and act­ing as an unob­tru­sive cou­ple mix freely with the guests.

Speeches and the Wed­ding Breakfast

We try not to pho­to­graph peo­ple eat­ing, but we’re very happy to pho­to­graph your speeches. Nor­mally Rachel records the speeches and reac­tion, while Phil pre­pares the slideshow.  We then play the slideshow for your evening guests — and for you to see your other half’s prepa­ra­tion.  We show this using  a lap­top and pro­jec­tor onto a wall or screen, or using the venue’s own TV sys­tem.  It takes at least two days for us to edit a set of wed­ding pho­tos prop­erly for your prints and album, but using the low res pic­tures we can do a quick ver­sion for inter­net and slideshow.  These are much quicker to down­load and edit (it can take more than 30 min­utes just to down­load the high-res pic­tures from each cam­era) and look fine on a com­puter screen pro­jec­tor, but are not high enough qual­ity for prints or albums. The end result is that you get the best of both worlds — a great-looking set of pic­tures on the screen and on the inter­net straight away, and a professionally-edited set of pic­tures for prints and albums. It also means that your friends and fam­ily all over the world can get the flavour of the wed­ding within a day or two of it happening!

First Dance

Some­times a riot of unex­pected chore­og­ra­phy, some­times just a ten­der embrace. We cap­ture the spirit of the moment.

Fire­works

We’ll stay as late as you like. If you have a late event that needs record­ing, we’ll stay for it.

Pic­tures on the Internet

We’ll put the slideshow pic­tures on the inter­net within a day or two of the wed­ding. We’ll email you a link of the loca­tion which you can for­ward to your friends and fam­ily — even from your hon­ey­moon (assum­ing you’re look­ing at the inter­net on honeymoon!)