"If you don't pay attention...you will all end up as wedding photographers" ...The standard threat the tutors directed at us while studying photography in the early nineties.

Wedding photography (and to be fair, the weddings industry as a whole) during that period was viewed as formulaic and stilted, lacking in creativity and the bottom of the barrel dregs for any photographer.

How things have changed eh! 

The Digital age arrived and the wedding industry was picked up by the scruff of the neck, slapped around the chops and given a thorough shaking down.

The Internet gave us the tools to widen our search and get creative, these days we personalize our weddings with our own unique touches.

Pimms & lemonade has overtaken the bubbly as the tipple of choice,Curry and comfort food such as sausage and mash are regular wedding breakfast choices and your just as likely to hear the bride walking up the isle to snow patrol as you are to the traditional Mendelssohn

Wedding photographers have embraced the new approach to the big day and in a small amount of time have changed perceptions to such an extent that many students inspire to wedding photographers

The days of the old boy with the step ladder, slipping tights over the lens for a "blurry" effect are long since gone, and I'm pretty sure if my dear old tutor was still plying his trade today he wouldn't be trotting out that "you'll be a wedding photographer" line to get us motivated

The madhouse

 It's always nice to be told that my arrival has caused butterflies to flutter around a brides tummy and as much as i like to convince myself it was all due...ahem...to my chiseled looks...cough...the truth of the matter is that the arrival of your trusty photographer signals its all systems go and the official start to the best day of your life


Throughout the hairspray haze and the nose clearing scent of perfume, there is a real sense of expectation, that makes for fantastic photographs.


Champagne glasses with lipstick marks adorn the kitchen worktop, Mum would have been ready within an hour of getting out of bed and Dad will no doubt be sitting in the corner, keeping out the way awaiting his cue, which usually comes bellowed in the form of  "DAAAAAD GET READY NOOOW"


Remember to keep in mind that buttonholes are delivered with the bouquets so don't forget to arrange for a member of the wedding party to pick them up in advance.


Buttonholes are worn on the left hand side - a men's buttonhole should be worn on the outside of the buttonhole of the left lapel: Not in the button hole 

                                                                                       

                                        

                                                  

Highlands House, Chelmsford, Essex

Highlands house is that cool mansion you see when parking your car at the V festival, here is a small selection of pics taken from the weddings of Sarah & Paul and Pauline & Richard