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Brochure Issue 8. 2020/2022

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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM: Hello to you all and a very warm welcome to the eighth edition of our photography brochure. 2 Wedding Rings Photography It’s safe to say that as you have received this brochure, you must www.weddingringsphotography.co.uk have recently got engaged, so a massive congratulations to you and 5 Hana Laurie Photography your partner! Or, perhaps you are looking for another photographer www.hanalaurie.co.uk because your wedding day had to change due to the Covid 19 situation. So many dates, venues and suppliers have had to alter to 6 JPAD UK accommodate adjusted plans, but we are confident that you still get to www.jpaduk.com have your very special day, albeit a bit later, love conquers through… 7 Diane Frazer Photography The journey of your wedding preparations is all extremely exciting www.dianefrazerphotography.co.uk and planning is such a big part of bringing your special day together, 9 Kathryn Harker Photography so remember to enjoy it along the way however frustrating or stressful www.kathrynharkerphotography.com it may feel at times! Covid 19 has certainly made some situations very challenging for everyone, but we promise you will have a fabulous 13 Natalie Chiverton Photography day and all your hard preparation work will be worth it in the end. www.nataliechivertonphotography.com Inside you will find some of our recommended photographers 14 Ajie Jones Photography offering different styles and budgets. We suggest you meet with a www.ajiejonesphotography.co.uk variety of individuals as it’s so important to have a close and relaxed relationship with the person behind the camera, who in effect, is a 15 Red Fox Henley guest to your wedding! (Top tip - don’t forget to fuel them with food www.redfoxhenley.co.uk and drink). You will also find a couple of articles offering useful advice 17 Lee Alexander Photography and tips to help make your day go smoother. www.lee-alexander.co.uk Also included in this edition are details of a video and photobooth 18 The Best Photo Booths and a magic mirror company. Both can capture those ‘live moments’ www.thebestphotobooths.co.uk and sometimes the funniest one-off memories that your guests will talk about for years. 19 Paige Mary Photography & Makeup www.paigemary.co.uk Our wedding fairs are the ideal opportunity to meet some of Special Offer: Free Engagement Shoot the advertisers included in this brochure as well as many other Back Cover Eton Photography professional wedding suppliers, all covering your wedding related www.etonphotography.com needs. We offer free attendance and also provide goodie bags, some We are offering all visitors to a Wedding Fair event a freebies and great offers on the day. You can browse at your leisure, FREE ENGAGEMENT SHOOT Page 3 and front cover photos supplied by meet some lovely people and get all your wedding requirements with every wedding photography booking Berkshire Wedding Fairs booked under one roof, and the icing on the cake, they are all hosted in very beautiful, but different venues. We look forward to seeing you soon, but in the meantime, happy www.weddingringsphotography.co.uk Details of our wedding fair dates and planning, keep positive, and always remember, love will never be venues can be found on pages 10 & 11. cancelled. facebook.com/weddingringsphoto [email protected] To advertise in our next edition please contact: Jackie & Joanne xxx [email protected] Berkshire Wedding Fairs 2 3 Book YOUR wedding, not someone else’s! Bear with me here Multicolour is more my vibe, and I’m thinking because I’m going a bright theme would suit just perfectly. With to have to go all the right photographer, the memories would be vibrant and exciting forever! hypothetical and introduce you to an 4) All food and booze - imagined “Mr Right” Oh it’s just all gorgeous. I (here’s a photo of us can’t cope with a sit-down ♥) - you’ve got your Mr 3-course meal which could or Mrs Right, so let’s get leave me feeling a bit porky… And anyway, how planning the PERFECT on EARTH do you choose personal wedding. what to eat? A festival The most successful weddings I see are the street vibe with food vans ones with a bit of style, a bit of panache. The serving tacos and crepes and chorizo scotch ones we all go home talking about are where the eggs… you name it! There’d be something for couple have put their stamp all over the place everyone and icecream/candy floss for pud! and created a day which is “so them”. Too often 5) Classic car pootlin’ - couples book themselves into a country house/ I’ve grown up lucky hotel and book the suppliers, sashes and favours enough that my Dad that they’ve seen others having because it feels owns a classic car. He like that’s the right decision. drove me to my prom in IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY! it, and I hope he’ll drive If I wanted to plan the perfect wedding for me me to my wedding too. then I have to look at WHO we are. Below I’ve I’m double hoping he’ll taken the liberty of bullet pointing things that then let me drive me I (and I hope my future Sidekick) love and to my honeymoon! V8 extrapolating that into some awesome wedding honeymoonin’, headscarves for everyone! ideas. 6) Music, from pop to A key part of any wedding is the two people silly metal - As Frank getting hitched; be unapologetic in your Turner said back in the selections, be bold and confident in yourselves day, “If music was the food and you’ll create memories (+ photos) which will of love then I’d be a fat, make your heart buoyant foreverever. romantic slob.” 1) We love walking and being outdoors - It’s powerful stuff. I’m So naturally, the ideal venue would be outdoors! feeling a Spotify playlist I live in Alton where we have a steam train line, in the day full of our and I love heritage and vintage things. Fawley Hill favourite music + suggestions from our guests (Henley-on-Thames) is about the most perfect (ask on the invite!) and then an absolutely rockin’ place I’ve ever seen. They have a steam train and Silent Disco later. You only need three channels; station, a working carousel, eclectic animals and Unashamed Hair Metal, Cheesy Classics (think a HENGE. Be still my beating heart! Spandau Ballet/Queen/S Club 7), and Taytay (who is Taylor Swift anyway?). 2) DOGS! - Dogs on leads are welcome at Fawley and I’d love to include #ernieschnauzer If I could urge you as a wedding photographer, to in the ceremony. Post that, companies like 2 Left prioritise anything for your wedding day, it’s YOU Paws are amazing doggo fans who will collect, and your partner. You don’t have to do anything walk, groom and board your Furbag while you get a certain way; go all out wed and party! and have the perfect day, personalised to you. You’ll I’ve had every 3) Bright colours are the best - thank yourself for it, and colour in my hair, and I love bright decor and the photos will be amazing! flowers. I’m not a pristine white person and I think I’d look weird in a posh white dress! 07920 041920 / [email protected] 4 5 Wfoerd dyoiungt o Premhemobteor graphy

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The question I often ask couples at wedding fairs is: equipment, a professional film maker will produce beautiful, sharp images, bright and crisp sound “Have you thought about and edit it to the highest standards. In fact it’s having your wedding filmed?” hard to tell a decent wedding film today from a TV documentary. Surprisingly most of the couples I speak to have Many couples who didn’t have their wedding filmed not even considered having the most important day look back and wish that they had: of their lives filmed. Unfortunately many people’s “We barely even considered hiring a videographer, experience of a wedding video is what they have but after the wedding I really wished we’d had one. seen on You’ve Been Framed… awful quality and We really underestimated how much we would then someone falls over. It isn’t like that any more. want to relive the day and see things we missed. Our photos are wonderful but video captures something photos don’t.” And most couples who did have their wedding filmed would strongly recommend that you do too. They’ll tell you how much it shows of the parts they had forgotten about, or didn’t see at all, such as the bride arriving with her very proud father – such an iconic wedding moment that almost nobody sees, and now they can! I spoke to a bride I had filmed a few WORKING WITH TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS TO CAPTURE YOUR WEDDING AS IT HAPPENS The fact is on your wedding day you will have spent years ago who several hours having the most amazing makeover. told me her & A FREE PRE-WEDDING SHOOT ON LOCATION IF YOU BOOK YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY WITH US You will look better than you ever have, or possibly four-year-old will again. This is without doubt the one day in your saw a photo of mummy life it would be great to have on film, and in years to facebook.com/kathrynharkerphotography come you will be reminded of how fantastic you all and daddy’s looked on your special day. wedding and asked her Photography and videography do two different about it. She was so happy to be able to sit with jobs and both are valuable. Where photographs him and show him the film of how it all happened, generate smiles, a video generates laughter and and point out the people he knew, and a few that tears. sadly he never would know, rather than just look at A photograph provides memories of how everyone pictures! She said it was one of their most magical looked; a wedding film brings the memories to life days together. – you can hear your grandfather’s familiar laugh; So please don’t join the large number of couples smile as the suited toddler runs across the lawn; cry whose one regret is that they don’t have a film of as your father says how proud you have made him. their precious day. Your wedding film will become How else would you see the look on your partner’s part of your family’s heritage, and as time passes face as he sees you for the first time as you walk up you will appreciate more and more the value of the aisle, or your smile as your eyes meet? These are having a film of those wonderful people enjoying truly priceless sequences that work so much better your day with you. in a moving, speaking image. If you’re going to have a film of your amazing Posterity Video Productions day you will want it to be stunning, and it can be! www.posterityvideo.com Armed with today’s high-definition video and sound 07954 174427 www.kathrynharkerphotography.com / e: [email protected] 8 9 ALL SHOWS - FREE ADMISSION Organised by & FREE PARKING *FASHION SHOWS • 07708 249 440 Wedding Fairs 1PM AT SOME VENUES DIFFERENT SUPPLIERS AT EACH FAIR • 07990 711 444

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My name is Tonja Fritz-Johnson and I have photographed weddings for over 20 years. I frequently look at online wedding forums to better understand what is important to couples. The main and very pertinent questions seem to be ‘How to choose..’ and ‘What is a good price…’ Most importantly you need to find a photographer you really trust! You need to ‘click’ with a person- after all they will accompany you throughout an The truth is - wedding photography is an investment. emotional and unique day and whilst offering you a If the overall cost seems a bit out of your range, professional service, they should also feel privileged consider asking for payment options, as spreading to be with you. the cost might help. Never hesitate to discuss the cost with your photographer, they will understand Your trust will be based on considerations like how your concerns. well they respond to your wishes and expectations. You will also want to check the photographers’ Good luck in your search for the photographer that is portfolio, to make sure they deliver the style and right for you! quality you want in the time available on the day. After all, you should spend the day with your guests, not the photographer. Additionally you Lastly my top tip: Make a scrap book to show will want to know about details like the equipment your photographer with images you like, wherever My £650 Gift To You used, insurance, service/products on offer and you find them. It will give them a good idea of professionalism. It is also really important that the what you are after. Don’t hesitate to speak to your photographer is not a ‘one man band’, so you can photographer repeatedly about what’s worrying be assured that your photographer can provide you, so they have a chance to help with any an equal replacement, should he/she be unable to questions. attend. To that extent, you should always be offered a contract that spells out what they will be providing to you. It may seem bureaucratic, but it will ensure clarity and manage expectations and above all, avoid misunderstandings and disappointment. And what about the budget? This is an emotive subject, no doubt, and also a very personal one. I am always worried when I see requests on the forums for a full day coverage for a very low price- that deal that seems too good to be true. The photographers offering those deals will have to operate well under the minimum wage. Everyone NATALIE CHIVERTON WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY is on a tight budget and it is well worth shopping around. Be realistic though and consider what you www.nataliechivertonphotography.com are asking for. It may be a low cost, but are you [email protected] confident that you are going to get those images that will remind you of a fabulous day for years to www.wallingfordportraits.co.uk 07813 325276 come? 07876 293377 12 13 Luxury Wedding Photography. We capture your perfect day, beautifully.

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You’re not the only one! I hear this comment lots from couples. To be fair it’s really only professional models and celebrities who are used to having their picture taken frequently. So don’t worry, I do understand it can be slightly unnerving. Choosing the right photographer will help. I recommend meeting your photographer face to On your wedding day, you probably won’t notice face or virtually on facetime. Have a chat and a your photographer much. You’ll be busy saying coffee together. You’ll get to know each other, your vows, talking to your guests and caught up share your big day plans and tell them a bit about in the moment. For couple portraits, doing them you as a couple. Don’t be scared to share your away from friends and family in the grounds of photography concerns. You’ll build rapport and your venue can help you feel relaxed. Having before you know it you’re relaxed. You should feel a little time together, just the two of you is comfortable in their company and happy to be priceless. around them. It’s almost a gut feeling, you just know when you’ve found the right one. A bit like My best advice is to take a few deep breaths and husband’s! have fun. Enjoy being with your soulmate on your most special of days. Another way to overcome any nerves is to have an engagement photoshoot, it gives a great idea Annabel Farley Photography offers natural, of what to expect on the day. Again this gives romantic wedding photography with a friendly, a chance to connect with your photographer. unobtrusive approach. Berkshire based. Feeling comfortable with them is key to feeling comfortable in front of the camera. Some of my couples said they were feeling uneasy before the shoot but by the end they had fun and enjoyed it. Some of the self-consciousness around having ✧ Relaxed, professional, creative ✧ Tailored packages available photos taken is fear of the unknown. Pre-wedding ✧ ✧ www.annabelfarleyphotography.co.uk Free consultation without obligation Fully insured sessions will disperse those fears and put you at Tel: 07956 211969 ease for your special day. w: lee-alexander.co.uk e: [email protected] m: 07902 153821 16 17

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