2025 Wedding Season is here

It’s been an unusual start to the year in 2025. I’m normally in full flow with weddings by this time but one wedding in March, and one in April has been the slowest start to the year I’ve ever had. It’s clearly becoming a defined wedding season in the UK these days if my experience is anything to go by. May arrives with a bang though, I have 7 weddings in May, peaking at 10 in August and then back to only a couple after October.

Pre wed meetings have really begun during April and it’s lovely meeting everyone and discussing your plans for one of the most important days in your lives. It’s not always possible to meet up but where we can I’d really recommend it, and I know every couple that can meet up thinks it’s worth it. Not every photographer does these meetings but they really help to break down any barriers that could otherwise exist on the wedding day. If we were meeting for the first time it takes you a while to get to know me and time is so precious on your big day. During the meeting we can try a few photos and we keep it lighthearted, but you notice the difference in the photos we take and it all helps to make you both feel at ease during your wedding day. Absolutely the reason we do it. You also get some additional photos to keep and hopefully the posing helps with any photos you have taken in future.

I’ve also added to my Camera gear over the last couple of months, always trying to improve and ensure I keep learning. The new lens is an 85mm f1.2 lens this may be nonsense to some but it allows me to take photos with a greater separation of background than I had before. The background will be more blurred and anyone I photograph stands out more as the subject. It also makes photos in low light a lot easier. It’s a slightly different way of working than using a zoom but 85mm is perfect for portraits and I’ll still have the long and wide lens for those off guard moments that everyone loves in their gallery.

This months weddings take me to Bartle Hall, Shaw Hill, Leyland Golf Club, Sefton Palm House, two visits to Singleton Lodge and finally the North Euston Hotel. Im still very lucky I have very few long journeys to my weddings, and I can’t wait to get back into the flow of regular weddings.

I’ve also taken advantage of the slow start to print a couple of albums of photos we took on our holidays last year. It’s nice to be able to print some of what I take for our own memories. There is no doubt that printing is getting lost, we all take so many photos but how many do we actually print? I remember sitting down and going through all the photos my dad took of us as kids it used to take all night. Unfortunately, I think the opportunity for that evening of reliving memories rarely happens now. We all carry around our own little photographic libraries in our phones but how often do we go back through those photos and recall those precious memories. I doubt it’s very often although our phones can remind us of memories, its certainly not often enough. I’m very rarely asked to put together a wedding album, I think most couples do it themselves these days but I have two couples this year who have asked for help. There are so many options, so many styles and the sky is the limit in terms of the cost but everybody used to have a wedding album. I’m sure most people do put one together, but I never see what happens to your wedding photos, which ones are your favourites and which ones you might put on the wall. That would be amazing for me to see.

Anyway enough waffle back to long emotion filled days tomorrow and I can’t wait.