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A Personal & Professional Approach to Your Wedding Story
With over 20 years of experience in photography and print, Donna Nicholson offers a warm, expert-led service tailored to your wedding day. Based in Ferndown, Donna is a trusted and fully insured wedding photographer serving couples throughout Dorset, Bournemouth, and Poole. She understands that your wedding photos are a lasting investment and is dedicated to capturing your unique story in a way you’ll cherish for decades.
Your Day, Your Style, Beautifully Captured
Donna’s photography style is flexible and centered around you. She combines different approaches to create a collection of images that truly reflect your personality and the spirit of your celebration. Here’s what you can expect:
- Candid Moments: Natural, unobtrusive shots that capture the laughter, tears, and spontaneous joy of your day.
- Natural Imagery: Relaxed portraits that showcase your connection as a couple without feeling stiff or posed.
- Formal Groups: Timeless, elegant group photos that preserve memories of all your loved ones celebrating with you.
The Experience
Donna believes the best photos come from a relaxed and collaborative process. Before your wedding, she’ll meet with you to discuss your vision and ideas. This helps her understand your preferences and ensures you feel comfortable and confident in front of the camera on your big day. From your first meeting to the delivery of your beautiful images, Donna provides a creative, professional, and stress-free experience designed just for you.
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Experience
What is your most memorable wedding?
There are several, all are unique and personal in their own way.
Describe your style in 5 adjectives.
Thoughtful, Relaxed, friendly, Cheerful, Successful
What about your business are you most proud of?
My style, branding, customer service, and client fulfilment
What is your No.1 wedding planning tip for couples?
Try not to overcook it, be mindful of how much you can do in one day.
What is your favourite personal touch you have seen at a wedding?
A well thought out speech.
Describe your typical process with a couple.
I meet around a month before to get to know the couple further, firstly we pull their ideas into the frame of the day to make sure that I am conforming to their brief and then we have a few practices at posing some call it an engagement shoot, I just use it a method to place each person at ease, I gain a full understanding of what they prefer at this point. The wedding passes, I edit and upload to a private gallery, after a week has passed the couple receive all their images. If the couple require an Album as part of the package, I ask for a selection of images to work with, each album is designed by me and proofs are provided before print. Once the Album is sanctioned and paid for it usually arrives with in two weeks.
What is the No.1 photo that you think every couple should take?
There are a few that I call the back bone to the story, I am contracted to the couple as a priority, but it is important also to cover photos that maybe Parents or Grandparents wish for.
What is the most original photo you’ve been asked to take at a wedding?
Shaped group shots, owls with wedding rings,
What do you recommend for a rainy day wedding?
Not to worry, your wedding unfolds and it's the one thing that we can't change, we will always have a back up! it hardly ever rains all day.
Describe how you got into photography.
My Father placed a Cannon A1 film camera into my hands when I was a child, he told me to learn to make money with it, I soon left school working for a Commercial Photographer as a studio hand, my main job was to maintain 3 wet processing dark rooms and dry print areas for both Colour and Black and white. We canvased traditionally, dry mounted as well as working with advertising agencies and colour separation agencies.