Your Second Most Important Decision is your Wedding Photography!  Here’s why….

Cake gets eaten and is no more, the car is there for an hour or two then gone, the trinkets on the tables go in a cupboard and the flowers will be with you at home for a week before they wilt.

Your photos are with you forever:  your photofilm too. In the morning you’re busy getting ready but you don’t see the other side of the story of what your fiancé is getting up to.  That’s why for me having pictures of both sides of the story is so very important. Once you come together and say those special “I Do’s”, have photos with those special people and have photos together your story is being taken in by you, your mind but also your photographer.  Those photos and voices become that trigger in your mind: that look from your parents when they saw you for the first time, the smile on Nan’s face when you turn around after having that first kiss as a married couple are enhanced by the voices of those with you. These memories will be with you for a lifetime.  That laugh of Dad’s as he gives his toast to your marriage, the story from the best man’s speech about how you got together, your husband or wife telling you why they love you, that giggle from the crowd as you drop the registrar’s pen, and possibly most of all those tiny little snivels and sniffs as you stand there together at the front saying your vows.

Yes, other prompts and triggers exist:  your dress or your suit hanging in the wardrobe, your shoes in a box under the bed, congratulations cards in the drawer under the TV.  But your photos and your photofilm are everywhere: on your phone, your computer, social media and accessible in a flash. Without photos and a photofilm these moments may be gone or not be so strong.  So I ask a deliberately provocative question: “How important to you are these memories?”

This is why I am so passionate about the quality of the photos and the photofilms I do:  yes of course I’m not wholly impartial but I love this job so much because of the special days I experience, the amazing sights I see and most of all witnessing two very special people in love enjoying all that they deserve.  I truly believe everyone should be able to have special memories at an instant which brings everything that your day was about back to you. This is why I record the audio of the day, why I take so many photos and why I put it all together in a six minute photofilm.  This is also why I take time to get to you know you and your family in the run up to the big day so I know why this day matters so much and how you’re likely to be together on your big day.

This is also why I’m so passionate about you having a wedding album to remember your day by.  But not an album that sits in a cupboard unloved and never viewed.  I want you to have an album that you can proudly keep on your coffee table, or in the lounge, so you constantly have reminders of the memories of that special day you said “I do!”  You can read more about the albums below.

This paragraph is deep and emotional so be warned:  this is the key reason I do photofilms. Many moons ago a bride contacted me to say her wedding was coming forward 2 years because her Dad wasn’t going to be with “us” much longer.  I knew I had to get his voice, his words and those emotions captured for the years ahead. For obvious reasons this photofilm is no longer in the public domain. I still speak with this bride:  I know she watches her photofilm frequently to bring her Dad’s voice back to her. I still watch it as a reminder of why I do what I do and its importance: I’ll also admit it still makes me cry.  And this film gave me a truly compelling reason to get better at them and make them for YOU!

The below video is not “the” video:  but it is one that is also very important to me.  I’d known the bride for years, and whilst everything was perfect she was missing her “the one”.  At her best friend’s wedding she met one of the best men, and the rest is history.  On their wedding day she was pregnant and little one was “cooking nicely” inside:  a few weeks later little one arrived to complete the family.  It really was written in the stars!

If this photofilm has peaked your interest, you’ll find more photofilms and UNUNUN’s here.  You’ll find a little more info on why I do them, what each of them is and how I put them all together.

Happiness and giving my couples and their families the ability to trigger all those memories is everything to me:  that is why I do what I do. And why I’d also like to do it for you.  I’m well aware this opinion is very relative and also subjective:  this is why below you’ll find some thoughts from my previous brides about this exact topic.  Truth be told before publishing this article I asked them if they thought what I was saying was fair:  I was overwhelmed by their responses hence why I asked them to let me publish them as well.

If you like the sound of the above, you’ll find more kind words from my previous couples in the testimonials section.  Link below as always 🙂