Either: Polly and Darren at Tunnels Beach, it was the first time I'd seen an argument between a £5000 dress and a sparkler (luckily her husband is a member of The London Fire Brigade and there were several other members there). Or when Sarah and Simon sent me about 5 WhatsApp photos of their house decorated in dozens of photographs I'd made for them at their wedding.
Friendly, knowledgeable, empathetic, tenacious and fun.
I love that I do a better job by getting to know you and your guests, by being absorbed into your day- this is the most common feedback I receive and makes me very proud of the service I provide.
Buy or make table and venue decorations that you can use in your home afterwards, they'll bring lasting memories.
Dogs. I love it when a couple bring their dogs to a wedding.
We have a chat via email, plan a phone-call or a Zoom (eeeek), perhaps have an initial meeting involving coffee where I learn all about your wedding, you the couple, your friends and family.
Give YOUR phone/camera to a friend, let them take photos of you (not selfies); have photos of yourself from another's perspective.
A guest frog-leaping a bride. And yes, it was a Young Farmers wedding. 😉
Smiles and transparent umbrellas. I bring both.
I've always owned a camera, I have boxes and boxes of photos of family and friends from when we grew up. I originally trained in black and white photography, processing and developing wedding photos on film. At university I specialised in non-digital image projection. Nowadays I shoot digital cameras and I love them; I'm able to deliver hundreds and hundreds of photographs in both colour and black and white (so you can choose which you prefer) that tell the whole story of your day.