Wedding Photos
Please take a look at previous wedding photography below and also photography planning tips and advice.
A Brief Guide to Planning Your Wedding Photography by Sarah Powles
Plan Your Budget:
I have set wedding packages to suit all budgets, please enquire for more information or take a look at my Wedding photography package page.
Find Your Venue:
Please make sure you provide all address details for all locations you would like the photographer to attend and be clear about the distance and travel time between each location. If the venues require a lot of travel, additional travel expenses will be applicable unless travel is provided by the bride and groom.
I will always visit the locations beforehand to plan ideas and to make sure I know my way around on the day. You are very welcome to come along and discuss ideas or features of the location that you would like to include as a backdrop.
Preparation:
If you can provide an itinerary of the full day, this will help me to know what is going to happen when and allow me to plan photo sessions. Don’t worry if you feel that everything is not going according to plan, this will allow for more natural photographs, capturing the moment, as it happens.
Your ‘Shot List’:
Your budget will also decipher how many guests you can invite to your wedding. It is always useful for me to have a copy of your guest list to allow to prepare for numbers and to start to get to know people’s names. Please note that if I am required to stay throughout the meal, a meal should be provided.
You will be asked to complete a list of photographs you would like to have as part of your wedding album i.e certain elements or features at your chosen locations; standing by a lamppost, on the red carpet, in the hall, next to the stair banister etc. You will also be required to list names of family and friends to be included in your album photographs. This is particularly helpful when taking grouped family photographs.
Family Photographs:
It has been useful in the past for the Bride and Groom to nominate a family member who can act as director and call relevant family members to the shot, round people up and just simply help with family photographs to allow the bride and groom to then get back to their day.
Evening photographs:
Why not get your friends to be your evening photographer aswell, leave a disposable camera on each table and let them capture natural snap shops of other guests and the fun as it happens. This may also work out slightly cheaper than hiring a photographer to stay later into the evening. I will gladly stay up to 9:00pm when you book the entire day package to capture your first dance together. Your first dance, should therefore be before 9:00pm.
A few things to think about when filling out your photography service agreement with me:
• What style of wedding photographs do you want?
• What’s your budget?
• Am I available on your specified date?
• Which wedding package and photograph album are you interested in?
• Have you got any pre-arranged ideas for some of the family pictures you want to be taken?
• Do you require extra prints and extra albums?
Wedding Gift Ideas:
Why not give parents and other family members their own photograph album to remember the day.
Why not give the bride and groom a unique hand made photograph album to hold any additional photographs they might want to show off from their guest’s cameras.
An enhanced slideshow of their photographs on DVD with special transition effects and music throughout would allow everyone to view the photographs time and time again.
Selected photographs can also be enhanced inserting different backgrounds or elements to make a fantasy environment or magical feel to your photo.
The Finishing Touches:
Everyone has their own special song to dance their first dance to, please can you make the track known to the photographer and this will be laid over your basic photograph slideshow on DVD.
Your hand finished album will be presented within a box wrapped within tissue paper and hand tied with ribbon to protect your wedding photographs.