Boy have we been busy this month! Since before the New Year we haven’t stopped! So apologies that the blog updating hasn’t been quite so regular, we’ll aim to post a little more frequently if we can.
So what have we been up to? Well lots of wedding enquiries to start with. Each one very special in its own right. For the first time in a long time we’ve also had lots of enquiries for photography in venues which are new to us. Some couples worry a little about this and ask us if we will visit the venue prior to the wedding. Due to the practicalities of working all over the UK and beyond often this isn’t possible. But although some of the bridal magazines and lesser experienced photographers would suggest that it is imperative for your photographer to have visited your venue in order to select the best spots for photographs it’s really not. An experienced photographer will use whatever is available on the day in order to create great images for you.
For an example of why you shouldn’t worry about this take a look at: New Wedding Venue which is an album design for a wedding venue we had not visited before.
What we’ve noticed this year is that there are a lot of “late” wedding bookings compared to previous years. It seems many couples are waiting until closer to the date to establish what budget they have left over for photography. Speaking of budgets we’ve also noticed that budgets are lower than in previous years this year. This is very worrying as we’ve also had towards the end of last year more couples asking us to look at their printable CD’s to see if we can “fix the photos and make an album”. 6 couples in total have asked us this – which is 5 more than the previous year. One couple sadly couldn’t get their promised disc from their photographer who appears to have gone out of business without fulfilling their obligations. Heartbreaking. So, our advice to you is that if you budget falls below £1500 then please check everything very carefully from insurance (Professional Indemnity & Public Liability and your own wedding insurance as a minimum) through to when you can hope to receive your photographs after the wedding. Look at complete weddings – both galleries and albums and ask yourselves are their pictures there that if it was your wedding you would be happy to have on your wall? Are the expressions and poses pleasing to look at? If the answer is “no” then keep searching. Whilst photoshop can make a good picture great it can’t make a bad picture good so this really is a case of buyer beware!
We’ve also been working on our Facebook page. If you haven’t already please “like” our page and take a good browse around it: www.facebook.com/WeddingPhotographybyFNSWeddings – you will find lots of pictures from lots of different weddings on there.
We’ve also been Twittering a little bit more too. So if you’d like to follow us on Twitter just look out for Sharon Malone or fnsweddings.
We’re just in the final stages of putting together a little fun competition from our past weddings so keep watching this space for more news on that one.
On the portrait front we’ve recently photographed the babies of some of our previous wedding clients. We love it when this happens – we usually build up such a lovely working relationship with our couples that from our point of view it can feel a little “flat” when we stop emailing each other after they’ve collected their albums and everything is done and dusted. So it’s lovely when we get some nice news like a baby has been born or is expected.
That I think is about it for now!
Speak again soon!
Sharon & Andy
