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Mar 31 2013

Engagement photo shoot at Chillington Hall – Kelly & Peter

Earlier today I spent a great couple of hours going through the order of the day with Kelly and Peter for their wedding at Chillington Hall later in the year. I always go through all of the details on the run up to a wedding with the Bride and Groom, it helps me to get a really good idea of the wedding and how it will run, it also helps the Bride and Groom with their planning as I have been to quite a few weddings and I’m always happy to offer advise or suggestions when required.

Just before going through all of the information for Kelly and Peter’s wedding we spend an hour or so taking some great engagement photographs of them and their dogs in the grounds of Chillington Hall in Wolverhampton. I have included a selection of their photographs below and after spending an hour with them, I know Kelly and Peter’s wedding is going to be a lot of fun (and quite tiring keeping up with the both of them!)

Pre-wedding portraits at Chillington Hall Engagement photo shoot at Chillington Hall Pre-wedding photo shoot at Chillington Hall

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Mar 29 2013

Save on your Wedding photography

I still have a limited amount of 2013 wedding dates available (with a few being June-August) so I am excited to offer this 10% off your wedding photography promotion for any new bookings for weddings taking place in 2013.

This discount can be applied to any wedding photography coverage option at the time of booking but not on album upgrades or extra items ordered after the wedding day.

I expect these dates to book quickly (especially the summer dates) so to avoid disappointment call or email now to book your consultation.

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Mar 27 2013

Wedding photographs at The Mount Hotel Wolverhampton – Jodie & Richard

On Saturday I photographed Jodie & Richard’s wedding at Saint Chads Church in Pattingham with the reception at The Mount Hotel in Wolverhampton.

Jodie got ready for her wedding at her parents house not more than five minutes walk from the Church and I must say, it was one of the most relaxed mornings I have spent with a Bride. Everyone was calm, laughing and joking all morning (things usually get a little more serious the closer we get to the ceremony, but not today) I left Jodie an hour before the ceremony to capture Richards preparations, this is something I am doing this year and it has a lot of benefits. As well as capturing both the Bride and Grooms preparations, I can also capture the guests as they arrive at church, some great portraits of the Groom and groomsmen and it also allows the bride a bit of time to herself to reflect prior to the wedding.

The service was really nice and Jodie’s sister’s singing was out of this world and added a wonderful, personal touch to the ceremony. I have been past St Chads Church a number of times but this was the first wedding I had photographed there and I was surprised how beautiful the Church was inside. I have been very lucky to shoot in some wonderful buildings but the St Chads at Pattingham is right up there with the best.

Once we arrived at The Mount Hotel in Wolverhampton, we had just enough time to capture a series of stunning portraits and finish of the group photographs before the Wedding breakfast and speeches. Jodie had called me the day before her wedding, worried about the unseasonal snow and wanted to know what we should do. My advice was to embrace the unreliable British weather and no matter what it threw at us, the photographs would be great. Embrace the weather is exactly what she did, armed with some brightly coloured wellies we braved the cold and captured some really unique images in the grounds of the hotel.

While I write this I can’t help thinking of Jodie and Richard, about as far away as possible from the current snow we have here, no doubt enjoying the warmth of the sun in Las Vegas right now. Thank you both for inviting me to share your special day with you.

If you think Jodie & Richard look a bit familiar, I recently posted some of the photos from their engagement photo shoot which you can see here

Wedding guests can view the full gallery here

(Gallery is password protected, please see Jodie & Richard for access)

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Diane Powell

Lovely photographs capturing the essense of Jodie & Richards special day – a real warmth from family and friends, the love shared by jodie and Rich and the joy and pleasure experienced by all who attended the wedding.
Thank you so much Martyn for your hard work and wonderful photographs

Di & Len Powell

Martyn

Di & Len,
Thank you so much for making me feel so welcome throughout the day.
I really enjoyed the wedding.

Mar 04 2013

Pre-Wedding photo shoot @ Patshull Park – Jodie & Richard

I spent a very enjoyable hour with Jodie & Richard yesterday at Patshull Park shooting a pre-wedding shoot with them. Like a lot of couples they felt quite nervous about having their photo taken but they very quickly left all of their nerves behind them and we captured some amazing photographs for their wedding website which is now a feature of my coverage.

Each couple that book a pre-wedding shoot get a wedding website where they can write a little about their “story”, share information on the wedding details such as event addresses, maps, times any pretty much anything else you need to share with your guests. As well as sharing all of that, there is also a selection of images from their engagement shoot and once the big day has come and gone, I update the site with some of the wedding photographs too.

An engagement or pre-weding shoot is a great idea for you both as not only does it give you some wonderful images to look back on, it also shows you just how quickly I can put you at ease making your wedding photographs that much better.

I also offer prints and wall art from our shoot and one of the most popular items is the signing frame. Instead of having a guest book which will all to quickly get put away and forgotten about, you could have a 20×16 inch framed memento of your wedding to enjoy everyday. (A signing frame is a photo of your choice from our session with a large white mount or border that your guests can sign and leave messages on instead of a guest book)

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Feb 25 2013

Say hello to our new USB sticks

I am always looking for ways to improve our service or products and I have just taken delivery of one item designed to do just that.

I have grown very pessimistic about the future of DVD and CD disks, They always seem to get scratched, broken or simply fail to work. They are also a very bad way of storing long term data as they are only really designed to work for 12-24 months (the disks you burn at home). To seal the deal, the new laptop I purchased last year doesn’t even have a disk drive in it, so with all these things considered, I had to come up with a new way to supply high resolution images to wedding clients.

Say hello to our new, branded USB sticks

These high capacity, metal USB drives will allow me to deliver all of a clients wedding images, wedding album design files and pretty much anything else you can think of and as they all come with a lifetime guarantee* they are a much safer option for your priceless wedding photos.

Any new clients who opt to include the high resolution images from their wedding or portrait session will now receive one of these drives with no increase in costs.

* guarantee is provided by the drive manufacturer and covers the drive only not the data stored on it, I still recommend making a backup of your files.

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