WHY SHOULD I HIRE A PROFESSIONAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER?

My third week planning guide is following on from last week's post of choosing a wedding photographer, which might bring up the questions of...

Why should you have a professional photographer capture your wedding?

It's possible that at some point in your search you will have gone 'Oh god, it's so expensive! Can't we cut a corner and just get disposables / use our camera phones / get your uncle to do it?' The answer is yes, of course you could. The same way you could get married in shoes from Primark and eat Tesco buffet lunch. But I’m betting you wont. With photography it's hard to see the value of it before the wedding, when you’re stressing about budget and costing up tangible items like rings, dresses etc. But you really need to try and think about AFTER the wedding, a week after, a month after, two years after, fifty years after when the memories of the day have all but gone.

Wedding AdviceFlorence Fox2 March 2017Comment

How to choose a wedding photographer

Blog post all about how to choose your wedding photographer including discussing different styles of wedding photography.

Wedding AdviceFlorence Fox14 February 2017Comment

How to plan your Wedding - 1

How to plan your wedding - survive the stress, beat the budget and ENJOY IT!

Planning my own wedding last year has given me a new appreciation for how god damn exciting is to be getting married, and I seem to have fallen even deeper in love with documenting such an important day . Its also given me an appreciation for how unbelievably stressful it is to make so many decisions, be asked so many questions, try and keep so many people happy, mediate between families and friends, try not to go completely broke, not throttle each other over the table plan arrangements, and above all try and create a day which the both of you will actually enjoy.

Personal, Wedding AdviceFlorence Fox13 February 2017wedding planning, wedding adviceComment

Why should we have an engagement shoot? (TL;DR they're actually really fun)

I wanted to write something a little more in depth about e-shoots - I think there can be a bit of speculation and confusion about what they're for and why they're useful. Some people think they are super cringey (and some can be!) but really there's a whole host of reasons why they're a great, fun idea. Here's a little bit more why I think it's so important that I include it as standard with all my couples..

What is an un-plugged wedding?

An unplugged wedding is simply where the couple request that phones, iPads, cameras and other recording devices aren’t used during the ceremony. This can be just for the service itself or even for the whole day if it's something the couple feel strongly about (although much harder to enforce!)

We chose to have an unplugged ceremony ourselves and made signs to let our guests know it was a phone and camera free zone while we were doing the actual marriage part - I’ve been at too many weddings where people’s faces are hidden behind screens. Technology is part of our every day life, we can’t ignore that and it’s very hard to make a wedding an exception, however I do feel with that the wedding day can become so saturated with cameras and it's nice to take a step back from that at the ceremony.

Wedding AdviceFlorence Fox10 October 2013wedding, unplugged, unpluggedwedding, photography, technologyComment