Want to spend more time together on your wedding day?

As wedding photographers, we spend a lot of time at weddings- I know I’m stating

the obvious, but I really mean when I say, we get a real variety of weddings, but they

all follow the same timeline as they are, well, a wedding. When we first started this

business one of the things we noticed is time allocations in a schedule. Brides and

Grooms come up with these strict schedules for how the day should go, and this is

completely understandable as there’s so much to get through on a wedding day! But

we did notice one thing… no bride and grooms were allocating time for themselves.

And when I say themselves, I mean they didn’t allocate time to just be together.

Sure, you have time for couples’ photos, but they’re often spent posing and

concentrating. We decided this would not do. Afterall, your wedding day is all about

you two, your love and a celebration of your love so far and the thoughts of a

beautiful future together; but realistically none of the couples we photographed spent

any time together on their wedding day and instead spent all day amusing guests,

sticking to schedules and doing ‘routines’ and what was expected of them. By the

time the day is over they often go to bed exhausted (and sometimes drunk) and

didn’t get to celebrate together the most important part of getting married. Each

other.

Richard and Lei enjoying the view from their wedding venue together in the designated 'couples photos' time

We aren’t saying you need to take extra time in your very tight schedule to allocate

time for this, as we know this can be difficult. But what we are saying is, we got you.

During your ‘couples’ photos’ we don’t spend ages posing you or bossing you

around. Instead, we ask (most often) that you just take the time to explore your

wedding venue together and just chat, hug, laugh and enjoy some peace and quiet

just the two of you for a little while. Occasionally we will give small pointers, like ‘can

you stand and look at each other whilst chatting’ or redirect you to another area of

the venue but this is just so you get variety in your couple’s photos. Other than this,

as candid photo documentary photographers we just stand back and take photos as

you naturally interact, and let you catch up and spend valuable time together on your

big day.

Josey and Jake enjoying exploring their venue and chatting

It is important to us to ensure that as the VIP’s of the wedding, you get to relax and

spend time just the two of you. If you ever want to get away but don’t want guests to

follow, don’t hesitate to ask us to go for ‘couples photos’ so we can remove you from

wherever you are and get you some peace and quiet. People tend not to question

photographers after all!

Nicola and James enjoying walking together in their 'couples photos' time outside their venue