Find your perfect Bath wedding photographer with these helpful hints

Congratulations on your engagement, the question has been popped, the response has been positive, now it’s time to start planning your big day.

Find your perfect Bath documentary wedding photographer with these handy hints and tips. With so much to organise and book, it can seem to be an almost never ending list that you’re faced with when planning your wedding. Flowers, dresses, suits, venues, and the reason you’re reading this, photography!

The choice is out there

Wedding photographers, there is SO MUCH CHOICE! A quick google and the first couple of pages are stacked full of a whole range of photographers, all offering great work, all suiting a range of budgets. Not only that, but I’m sure you’ve also seen countless Facebook adverts, advertising all sorts of special offers and ways of luring you in. So, with this much choice, how do you choose?!?!

What do you actually want?

Well, first things first, you need to work out what sort of photographer you’d like at your wedding, this really comes down to your personality, and whether you like posing for the camera, or prefer your photography to be more relaxed and real. Now, I’m not here to tell you that one is better than another, but rather to explain how I work differently to other photographers.

Hands off, not hands on

When I’m photographing a wedding I’m totally hands off, I let your day flow, photographing it as it happens, with no direction or fussing. My outlook on weddings is that they should be about you and your mates and your family, not about the photographer bossing you about.

Whilst it is very true that all wedding photographers shoot a certain number of documentary images at a wedding there is a difference. I see myself as a true documentary or reportage wedding photographer. I have a desire and want to photograph un-posed images, and not as a fill-in or as a second thought. I am passionate about photojournalism and want to create images that aren’t controlled and without affecting a moment or event.

Have a good old (Pat) butchers

Once you’ve decided on the type of photographer you think you’d like, check out their websites. Don’t just focus on individual shots, look at their blogs, this gives a much better idea of the types of images you can expect to receive. Oh, and don’t be deceived by buzzwords. Pretty much every photographer market themselves as ‘documentary’, check the photos on their website, are they full of posed shots and detail shots? True documentary wedding photographers will have work that shows this.

Money talks, or does it?

Next is budget, now, there are few things that will last after your wedding. Flowers will wilt, dresses and suits get put away, but the photographs last forever! They are viewed by generation after generation, shared across social media, printed and cherished. It should be one of suppliers where you invest heavily in. There are loads of cheap photographers around, offering all sorts of deals and chucking stuff in, ask yourself why they are cheap, or why they are offering discounts?

I keep stuff simple, £950, and you get me all day, from the prep to the dancing, I offer no gimmicks, or offers. What I offer is genuinely awesome photography, which is funny, emotive and relaxed.

Have a nose

If you are interested in booking me for your big day, take a look around at my portfolio and my blog and drop me a line to chat more. Be awesome to find more out about your big day!