There is a particular look couples get about ninety minutes into a big wedding fair. Slightly glazed. Holding four tote bags. Somebody has just offered them a discount that expires at 3pm, and neither of them can remember which florist said what. I have stood on the other side of those tables for years, and…
Cheshire has one of the highest concentrations of stately halls and country houses anywhere in England, and around 122 wedding venues listed in the county on the major directories alone. That is a wonderful problem and a genuinely overwhelming one. So this is not another list of pretty photographs. It is a Cheshire wedding photographer’s…
There is a reason Cheshire punches so far above its weight for weddings. Drive twenty minutes in almost any direction from the middle of the county and you will pass a sandstone castle, a Jacobean hall, a lakeside barn, a Georgian country house and about four hundred acres of extremely photogenic farmland. Then consider that…
Ask ten wedding photographers what style they shoot and you’ll get ten different answers – several of which mean the same thing, and a few of which mean nothing at all. “Timeless.” “Authentic.” “Editorial with a documentary edge.” “Romantic and natural.” The vocabulary of this industry is a soup of overlapping labels, and couples are…
There’s a sentence I hear at almost every consultation call, usually within the first five minutes, usually delivered with an apologetic laugh: “We should warn you — we’re really awkward in front of a camera.” Couples say it like a confession. As if they’re the exception, the difficult case, the pair whose wedding gallery will…
There’s a moment I see at almost every wedding I photograph. It’s around eleven in the morning, and it goes one of two ways. In the first version, the bride is laughing with her friends, hair finished, glass of something cold in hand, with half an hour of nothing scheduled before the dress goes on….
One of the questions I’m asked most often is what to wear for an engagement session. Some wedding photography packages at Lumen Atellier include a complimentary pre-wedding shoot, and most couples choose to have one. The moment they do, the same question comes up: how should we dress, and are there any clothing taboos to…
Unlike your other wedding vendors (music, flowers, catering or cake), photographs are not something you can hear, taste, smell or even see in advance. You are not really sure what you are getting until after the wedding. That makes careful research into professional skill, artistic style and personal character extra important when choosing your wedding…
Your wedding photographer is the only supplier whose work you will still be looking at in fifty years. The flowers will be compost by the Monday. The cake gets eaten, the dress gets boxed, the band packs up at midnight. But the photographs are the entire surviving record of the day: the only proof of…
You’ve probably noticed that some of my wedding collections at Lumen Atellier include a complimentary engagement session. I love doing these, mainly for two reasons. First, they let me get to know my awesome clients a little better before the big day. Second, they give me almost unlimited creative freedom in my work. At weddings…
