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…
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…
This one is one of my second shooting jobs for another photographer. Second shooting is when another photographer requires an assistant and a second pair of eyes to capture some enhanced coverage of the wedding. The second shooter is very useful during the bridal and the groom’s preparations where just one photographer cannot be possible…
Fiona, Sean, and their families are probably one of the nicest people I have ever met in my life. We’ve met first in London for a pre-wedding consultation and we immediately clicked together. It’s very important to get along and be on the same wavelength with your clients and vice versa so I was very happy…
Ok, I have to admit Dawn and Tom are one of my favourite couples ever. From the moment we’ve met at London’s Victoria Station all the way to their happy and gorgeous wedding. We clicked together from the moment we met and it shows throughout the wedding. Dawn is probably the happiest bride I have ever…