My Wedding Photography Story – Part 6

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

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 3

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

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

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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