The ones that got away

When we got married we hired a photographer. This wasn't an easy thing to do because . . .
a) It's hard to pay for someone to do what you could do yourself.
b) They try to take you away from your friends and family to pose stupidly together when all you want to do is have a drink and feel elated.
c) When it comes to editing, Photoshop is most wedding photographer's God (I don't want to offend wedding photographers - there are some great ones out there - we just couldn't afford their superior editing!!) and only the hideous misty filter button seems to work. That and the 'let's make everything black and white except for the pink roses' option.
However, we didn't feel like we could prevail upon any of our friends to do the job so we picked the company as carefully as we could and were very strict about not posing and the lack of editing we required. Needless to say, they did get us to pose a bit and we were too dizzy with the day to say no, but we got a nice  album out of it with a few gems amongst them. Then, last week, they wrote to ask if we would like to buy the copyright to our images for a special cut down price. Of course, we jumped up and down (or I did, Simon said that's good then - he's not very excitable in that way) and thanked our lucky stars that we'd never ordered reprints at a horrifically inflated price - because now we can print as many as we want! Hooray!! AND - there are some really beautiful and natural photos amongst the ones we never saw.
Like these (edited by me, taken by Memories Photography)

For any friends and family that are interested I'll bung a few more of these up on Flickr over the next week and will happily print you any that you'd like.

Now - time for me to stop daydreaming about one day, three years ago. There's a baby to bath and and a meal to have with my husband.(I remember when I thought I'd never get used to that word!)

Have a lovely weekend.

 

Comments

[Amy]

Oh, the details and the people in your photos are so beautiful!
I especially love the flower garland and paper lanterns! Wish I'd thought of something so sweet when I was married.

I agree with all you've said abt. wedding photographers! Glad you now have this wonderful set to work with as you please!

[Katy]

Thank You Amy! We rented a big house and did all the flowers and stuff ourselves - mostly ransacked from ours and our neighbour's garden. It was a lot of hard work and I may been slightly dictatorial in the days before - but worth it in the end.