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My Wedding Photography Story – Part 8

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Reviewing our first wedding photography year

Having shot our last wedding of 2012 it was time to look back and assess how it had gone and where I wanted to go with my wedding photography. We’d gone into the year with about 50% of the weddings we worked on booked, the other 50% were late or short notice bookings. Going into 2013 I hadn’t advertised anywhere other than the work intranet. I was still getting regular enquiries, via word of mouth or being booked on recommendations by my clients from 2012. That was really nice, and encouraging.

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My Wedding Photography Story – Part 7

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A pre wedding shot or engagement shoot with Luke and Ashleigh. We used this image to make up a signing board at the couples reception.

The one with the stroppy Church Warden.
A late booking to shoot Luke and Ashleigh’s wedding meant our final wedding of 2012 would be in November at Aust, South Gloucestershire. Luke had ties to the church there and the couple very much wanted a church wedding, which was followed by a reception at The Grange Hotel in Winterbourne.

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My Wedding Photography Story – Part 6

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The one with the Videographers.

October and the wedding of Tom and Sam, my first professional booking although by this time we’d shot ten weddings. Sam had booked a small wedding venue in North Somerset which was part of a carp fishing lake complex. The venue had two barns, at right angles to each other. The main ceremony room was quite well lit with natural light but it was quite narrow with the desks, the registrars were going to use to run the ceremony, very close to the rear and sidewall.

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My Wedding Photography Story – Part 5

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Button hole duty for Lin whilst grabbing guest shots.

So, on into October and the last two weddings of the first year ahead of us. I say us because by now Lin, my wife, had become my permanent assistant at every wedding. I only shot one wedding without her help and found it a lot more difficult. Originally she was just going to help me with equipment and organising but her role became much more than that.

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My Wedding Photography Story – Part 4

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The one with the missing Wedding Co-ordinator.

After the two weddings in April I had no further bookings until September when I had three weddings booked. Mark and Sarah’s wedding was the first that month. Although it was a lovely day, it was memorable as the event wedding co-ordinator went AWOL for an hour just after the registrars had set up and were ready for the ceremony.

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My Wedding Photography Story – Part 3

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The one where we went hungry.

Following Chas and Katies wedding my next bookings came a few weeks later. I was then booked for a least one wedding a month, through until November in 2012. April began with Steve and Derek’s Civil Ceremony at Priston Mill near Bath followed by Ricki and Sally’s wedding, the following day, at Coombe Lodge, Blagdon. Both were lovely, wedding specific venues and it was my first experience of having a wedding co-ordinator running the day.

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My Wedding Photography Story – Part 2

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The one where the flowers were thrown out.

So, having decided I was happy to start shooting weddings and taking on paying clients, I suddenly became very busy. Aside from the wedding photography training there were a host of other things to organise and sort out.

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My Wedding Photography Story – Part 1

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I think any keen amateur photographer, would at some time or another, have been asked to photograph a friend or family members wedding. Leading up to when I did actually take the plunge into weddings I know I’d been asked numerous times. I had always avoided it and made my excuses, partly because I didn’t want the responsibility and because I doubted that I would be good enough to photograph a wedding….

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