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Five Sussex wedding venues
Five Sussex wedding venues…that I’d recommend. Sussex wedding venues. I’ve lived in Sussex for almost 24 years, photographing weddings in the county all that time. I even shot many before, when I lived in London. I’ve seen and worked at many wedding venues in that time. It has been rather a mixed bunch, to be…
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Pub Weddings
Pub Weddings Pub weddings or more accurately, pub wedding receptions. I’ve shot wedding ceremonies in a Brewery and a Winery but not a ceremony in a pub I think. But wedding receptions in a pub can be very atmospheric, and lend the images an intimacy as there is usually little space! Imagine a busy, packed…
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Word of Mouth
Word of Mouth – HOW ONE BOOKING LEADS TO ANOTHER Word-of-mouth recommendations that lead to bookings. Wedding bookings/enquiries would need a whole blog post. Some enquiries are bizarre. Some enquiries just get this way of capturing a wedding and book immediately upon checking on my availability. The more creative the couple – I shoot many…
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Wedding Entertainment
Wedding entertainment Wedding entertainment, by which I mean making the drinks reception bit more special for the wedding guests. So I am not talking about the Band, the DJ, the photo booths, or even the fireworks, all that is the evening stuff but what can happen in the afternoon. With the ceremony complete, for most…
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IPhones, iPads and cameras
A few months ago I had an old client get in touch about their image files from their wedding in 2003. Having found the set of images, I ran through them, tweaking the files as much as you can with files from 2003 (Nikon D1X wedding photography). This was still the early days of digital…
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Dark Wedding Venues
Dark wedding venues – working with the light Dark wedding venues is the title of this post and how the light at venues affects the resulting wedding photography. Not every wedding venue has perfect light. This may be due to the layout of the venue, the lighting, the weather, and the time of year, there…
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Highley Manor | Rhys & Chris
Highley Manor wedding photography Highley Manor is a wedding venue that sits just near the Sussex village of Balcombe and a few miles south of Crawley. Not far from where the M23 becomes the A23 and the road heads on south to Brighton. Once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, although that particular…
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Bosham Church wedding | Ellen & Oliver
Bosham Church wedding Bosham church sits close to the quay in the small Sussex village near Chichester. Holy Trinity church, surrounded by flint walls, is considered the oldest place of worship in Sussex. This Grade I listed building sits on Saxon foundations, in turn, that may sit on the remains of a Roman Basilica. The…