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Then big group shot is usually one of the hardest to get as everyone wants to wander off and take their own pictures.  I try to take this as quickly as poss after any confetti or parents shots and clown around a bit on a wall  or other vantage point to get everyone smiling…  I take it as one shot,  then often crop the top half off so it shows all the faces at a larger size over a double-page spread.

The names of the bride and groom and their wedding date have been omitted from this image to respect their privacy and to protect their anonymity.

 One of our former clients sent me this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8292164.stm

about a bride and groom whose wedding video was a disaster  - very dark and horrendously wobbly.

Their photos were just as bad - not even properly framed (heads chopped off when camera held overhead) or any attempt at professional colour and exposure correction. I’ve also been sent this link with other comments from fellow professional photographers who have all made good advice for brides and grooms wishing to avoid the pain and sadness of a total disaster  with the visual record of their precious wedding memories

http://memorygate.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/couple-sue-wedding-photographer-gareth-bowers/#comments

Just so you can see which category we fall into with our video - here are a few links as Jorge spend weeks and months editing our wedding DVD or Blu Ray videos as he cannot bear to just do the same for everyone as his background is with whole TV series and dramas in his own country Cuba: I dragged  him away to from his love so apologise for that when I suggested he come to the UK to work and to marry me!

http://www.vimeo.com/2240729

http://www.weddingphotos-video.co.uk/wedding_video/index.htm

For storybook wedding albums from recent brides and grooms with their chosen images and approved designs:http://weddingphotos-video.co.uk/blog/?7 and here for

International wedding photographyhttp://weddingphotos-video.co.uk/blog/?cat=14

Hope this helps.  We are members of the SWPP and have obtained offical recognition through their qualification system, though do of course have full Public Indemnity (in case anyone trip over our legs or anything - though always shout warnings if kneeling down)  and Professional Liability insurance (though no-one has ever needed to claim on this!)Enjoy your wedding research! You are always welcome to visit us here anyway and we have more than 200,000 whole wedding images online - enough for even the most curious and thorough bride and groom to be to learn what its all about…

http://www.swpp.co.uk/members/Borges-Ibanez4082.htm

The above link will lead you to the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers’ site.

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xx Elaine & Jorge

This is the image the bride and groom chose for their album cover.  I would have liked the one below best, but its always the couple’s choice as it is their album first and foremost, not a just piece of personal art and design for me!  The red line is not part of the design, but denotes the safe area as the Graphistudio usually needs to crop part of the pages to ensure correct edge to edge printing.

So I used this image at the end of the book instead - if you scroll down to the last double page spread you will see how it ended up…

Here the bride and groom’s black cat is all dressed up for the occasion on background of red bridesmaid’s bouquets, further decorated with the bottle opened to celebrate the occasion with the bride’s Dad and bridesmaids.

The bride looks into the mirror,  getting the first glimpse of herself on her wedding day while trying on the veil.

Such funny speeches - all day wedding photography comes as standard as we love sharing your day!

Wedding pictures during the evening light outside by the infinity pool at the KP Club in Pocklington

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Sorry about the word “Proof” spoiling these lovely images of Martin and Leanne’s wedding at Waterton Park Hotel  near Wakefield!  They have their album already, as their wedding was earlier this year - 31 May -  and I invested in a copy for us too,  so you can see the real thing if interested!

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Martin & Leanne have chosen lots of posed family pictures from a selection of the literally hundreds of reportages shots taken  on their wedding day.  We don’t mind which pictures the couples choose so long as we have covered everything to give them those choices - sometimes even choices they didn’t ever imagine in advance - but in this case Martin & Leanne had it all planned out!

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wedding storybook cover as chosen by the bride and Groom at Waterton Park Hotel

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 Anne Marie & Graham got married last year in Scotland on a sunny snow-covered Winter’s day in Perth.  After moving house and settling in they have just ordered their storybook wedding  album.

Everyone was told to come in black.  The bride wore a full-length jewel-encrusted black laced gown and her civil partner a decorative black suit and cravat.  The  setting?  -  the Woodlands Hotel in Leeds.

A year or so ago I had wandered into the drop-in centre at Dewsbury Hospital with my granddaughter I think, and got talking to a lovely lady called Anne.  I gave her a business card and she passed it on to her sister, Dawn.  So that’s how I ended up being booked to cover this unusual event.

Civil partner Helen arrives with her family in a black Limo, then is photographed with her Mum.

Civil Partner Helen greets her guests  at the Woodlands in Leeds.

Dawn goes down the staircase to have her civil partnership wedding.

Dawn arranged a surprise helicopter ride for her civil partner, Helen and two passengers.

After this photo was taken,  Dawn accidentally knocked the taps on and jumped  screaming - with laughter - from the bath!