Expert Wedding Photographers Can Capture Your Most Precious Memories And Make Them Live For Ever

If you have your big day coming up, there are so many things to be concerned about. While  most of these  tend to focus  on how  to make  the  day a  success, there  is  one  thing that  will ensure  that  your  memories  are remembered forever, your wedding  photographs. To ensure that you get blissful memories of your day, most couples prefer to hire the services of expert wedding photographers. Though these services cost, these experts are the best you can get when it comes to capturing those special moments, so it is more of an investment.

The knowledge of expert wedding photographers becomes more essential if you are having your wedding in an exotic resort, far from home. Professional photographers have an innate knowledge and experience of wedding venues and variable lighting conditions,  and can suggest all the “cool” locations for photographs. With these experts, you are totally assured of professionalism, friendly and personalised services, services  that surpass your expectation.

While choosing  the   right wedding photography  package  can be  a tricky  proposition, your  wedding is  a one-off event and  it is best to leave nothing  to  chance.  If you want your wedding to be a picture perfect event, there are various platforms from which to outsource experienced wedding photographers.  Local wedding photographer’s  with many reviews on Google is thought to be simply the best resource when it comes to choosing your wedding photography. Not only are these professionals knowledgeable of the location and venue, but they also have a proven track record. Reviews on Google give you a third party insight, by real people, as these reviews can only be given by verified Google users. So you can rely on these reviews being authentic and unbiased; you can definitely use them to evaluate a local wedding photographer. At the top of their trade, expert wedding photographers will ensure that the service you’re getting is worth every penny. Here’s how:

Local wedding photographers with many trusted reviews online should be able to show that they have many years of experience and skill.  This is the basic reason why hiring a recommended wedding photographer is key. While this may not seem relevant at first, it will become evident when they start shooting your  pictures. The  truth is  that you need pictures  with  interesting  backdrops not just posed  in front of  a church. If  you hire an expert  local photographer, it  is  most probable  that they will know your venue and the best  locations  to  capture your  wedding  pictures.

Most expert wedding photographers working locally are immensely “connected” to all other wedding service providers. As you know planning and executing a wedding is no easy task. A local wedding photographer can recommended people like dress suppliers, florists and car hire companies, they know a lot more about weddings than just taking awesome pictures. Through their many years of experience and service, they have gained these contacts and knowledge by being specialists in the wedding business. In the event that you require help with a certain aspect of your wedding, it’s possible that a local photographer will help you out.

Remember that through the various reviews on Google local, you can get hold of a professional wedding photographer you can trust. You simply need to see how many reviews there are, then go through them and see what other couples liked about the whole experience. Then it is just a case of feeling if you will be comfortable and enjoy sharing your wedding day experience with your chosen company. Hiring a  local expert wedding photographer doesn't have to cost a fortune and you are guaranteed beautiful, ever lasting memories of your wedding! Congratulations!

Portrait Wedding Photographers provide wedding service across the UK, Europe and USA

World’s Best Wedding Album

In this latest article Duncan Malloch, a professional wedding photographer from the UK. With in excess of 27 years experience, explains, what for him, makes the world’s best wedding album.

Indeed, having being in the wedding photography industry for over 27 years, there has been lots of changes. In the early days was the change from wide format to professional 35mm cameras. Then came along the huge digital revolution and it is digital that continues to expand and provide photographers and brides with more choices than ever before. Since the arrival of digital a new type of wedding album has also gained popularity. It is this which I would like to talk about more here.

For those of you who have seen your parents or grandparents wedding albums, you know the ones. One picture per page with the tissue leaves in between, this new album type is so different. In my opinion I believe it to be better because it is more versatile and flexible.

I suppose the first impression you get of an album is the cover, so this has to reflect your taste and give ideas to the quality within. Of course you can have leather, or the more exclusive cow hide in a variety of colours and embossed too if required. To be a shade different you could have a smooth to the touch, silk cover with your choice of photograph printed into the fabric. Then there is the grooms favourite. The steel cover, heavy and unusual but looks fabulous with your choice of picture printed on its shiny surface. Our couples favourite is the transparent cover which brilliantly protect the album front and back and comes with an image of your choice. This company also do a dust jacket cover, the type you find wrapped around all good hard backed books. So, already you can see you have plenty of choices to choose from.

On opening one of these fabulous albums, two things strike you. Firstly, the pictures on the pages are edge to edge. You do not have that wide boarder, common with the traditional albums. So, as well as increasing the available page area for your photographs, there is another advantage. Because the pages print edge to edge, when you open one of these albums up you can have a panorama style going smoothly across both pages. Wow. Next is the paper the album is printed on. There is the popular lustre semi glossy look, normal photographic, glossy metallic and even a textured paper. Many couples getting married today have already started a family. To help protect their wedding album they can have the pages laminated. Should any sticky fingers get on a page, it can be simply wiped clean.

This type of book is sometimes called a story book album. Because the book can tell the story of your wedding day from getting ready to first dance. These albums do this exquisitely as each page can be individually designed to capture just one, or many different images. In colour, black and white or one of the many special effects the album designers offer you.

This article is titled the world’s best wedding album. Already I am sure you can realise the beauty and potential of the album as already discussed. But these particular albums, made by this manufacturer are particularly well engineered. Like most things in life you have to try and make errors to learn and move on. I have tried many albums from different manufacturers in the UK and abroad. Some bleed the colour out from the central fold, some don’t offer the variety in cover or paper and some just do not offer a quick turn around and great customer service.

So now you know how great they are I bet you are dying to know who they are. They are Graphistudio a company in Italy. Not only do they make these lovely story book albums, but they have parents albums too. If you want what I consider to be the best wedding album in the world ask your photographer for Graphistudio. Or, of course you are welcome to contact me, here at Portrait Wedding Photographers.

Happy New Year

How was your Christmas? Good I hope.

As a business owner Christmas is a funny time of year. In that we don't want to stop trading, but on the other hand it is a great time to relax for a while and chill




So now we're rushing head long into 2012. The wedding photography shows great signs of continual growth, thanks to our internet marketing and our strengthning realationships with local wedding businesses.



Lovers in the snow



Here at Portrait Wedding Photographers we have good news for brides looking to get married in 2012/13. For 2012 all of our wedding packages remain at 2011 prices. There is no need to go out to grab a bargin in the sales, the best bargin is right here. So how does that effect 2013 pricing, I hear you ask. As someone who has been married, I know how difficult it can be to juggle your wedding budget. This is why I introduced a fixed price for our wedding packages. Choose us as your wedding photographers and secure the date with the £100 booking fee and that secures the wedding photography price. It doesn't matter how many years ahead your wedding is - we will honour that deal and fix your price.

Think about it. Normally prices rise at about 10% per year. So if you are getting married one year ahead thats a straight 10% you could be saving. 2 years 20%, or 5 years 50%. Now who would say no to 50% off your wedding photography?

It's worth pointing out that here at portrait wedding photographers, we are no ordinary wedding photographers. Brides often tell us that they consider us experts. Because we only specialise in wedding photography, that and our 27 years experience!

Our advice, whenever you are looking to get married is to. Check out the various wedding photography slideshows, check out the packages, which can be tailored to suit your exact requirements. Have a look at the testimonials on Google and then go to our instant availability checker, pop in your details and wedding date to find out if a photographer is available.

All the staff here wish you all the very best for a love filled 2012. If we can help you in anyway, you can email us HERE or leave a message on our facebook wall HERE.

Happy New Year

Butterflies and Logos

It is a cold December afternoon and for once I am glad to be at home, nice and warm, tucked up next to my computer. As a businessman, there are lots of other things to consider, apart from wedding photography - and recently I have been concentrating on why I do what I do, and branding to get that message across.

Having enrolled on to a referral marketing course, by the referral institute, I have had my eyes opened somewhat. I have found that having a business and having your eyes open is a distinct advantage.

A few lessons in and Allison, our tutor is doing great in getting us to where we need to be. I say we because there are a few of us on the course together.

The reason I do what I do, wedding photography is that I know how precious photographs are, and sadly many people only realise this once it is too late. I discovered this fact for myself, when my Mum died at a quite a young age. Marriage is an important time of life and all I want to do is to show people how important this is. Hopefully then, they would love a top wedding photographer to capture their love and laughter for happy ever after.

On to the logo then.

I spent ages trying to think of some great icon, a nike swoosh, a golden M, or even an apple! Then the light came on, if using your company name is good enough for Coca Cola, then it's good enough for me. The logo is important to me, because as we spread our wings from Darlington to Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, York, Essex, Kent, London and Palm Beach Florida - I needed something to tie everything together. I want this to be the logo above. 
Most of the website are going to be a pure black and white design, with the accent colour being purple.

 The Butterflies are also important to the logo design. Butterflies to symbolise change and there's not many changes bigger than deciding to committ to marriage! Personally the butterflies symbolise the fact that they are there one moment and gone the next. So this ties in with my message of how important it is to capture the beauty, the emotion, the love and the laughter, before it has gone.

The beauty of wedding photographs is that they last forever. Even on a cold winters afternoon, you can re-live your wedding day memories by taking another look at your wedding album.

You can also see that the logo has two butterflies, showing that here at portrait wedding photographers we have balance. Balance to use our expertise as wedding photographers to match the needs and requirements of our brides.

If you have enjoyed our little blog and maybe come to understand the phylosophy behind portrait wedding photographers and want to get in touch this is our EMAIL

Thank you

FREE 9 ways to check out your wedding photographer

1. Are they fully qualified and experienced?

We have over 27 years experience and became Master Photographers in 2005.


2. Do they have Back up plans in case of illness or accident?

We have more than one photographer, providing back up cover if required.


3. How many different wedding albums can they show you?

All experienced photographers will have around 10 sample albums


4. Can they show you genuine customer testimonials?

We have many spread around this literature, on Google and in lots of thank you cards


5. Do they have a team of graphic designers who can create special effects and beautiful albums for you?

We do, and should you choose an album we only recommend the world’s best
GraphiStudio from Italy.


6. Do they know other wedding service providers who could help you save time and money?

We know providers of Dresses, Flowers, Cakes, Jewellery, Room Dressing, DJs, Cars and Limos.


7. How long does it take to see your proofs?

Some Brides have to wait months or more than a year, we provide yours in less than a week


8. Do they only advertise a mobile number?

Many non-professionals do this as they are at work through the week, we are full-time professionals


9. Are you able to pay with a Credit or Debit Card?

With so many businesses going bust, we recommend paying by card, for your safety and protection.


You can be sure that you are dealing with the best at Portrait Wedding Photographers

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Members of the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers

Featured in “Perfect Wedding” magazine

Professional Wedding Photographers

You want a reliable service on your big day from all involved, but after the grand occassion, the photography probably takes on a greater meaning and certainly a higher value. So what are the advantages of hiring true professional wedding photographers for your marriage service.

Reliability. True professionals will have spent years building up their reputation. Do you think they would let all that labour go to waste by being unreliable? Of course not. Professional wedding photographers number one priority is to ensure they arrive on time, capture all the love and laughter and then safely store those memories for you.

Quality. If you do something often enough, whatever it is, you should improve, makes sense? The difference is where the starting point is. Your professional wedding photographers level of ability, at the start, should far out weigh the camera skills of Uncle Tom. Imagine then how much better they would be 10 years, 20 years, or even 25 years down the line.

Organisation. The most important skill your professional wedding photographers must have. You don't want to spend all day, away from your guests. You don't want guests complaining about the time the photographs take. By securing the services of a professional they should run through the timings with you and work out the most efficient route to obtain all the required images.

Friendly. Sounds obvious, sadly, even some professional wedding photographers fail at this challenge. It is far easier to get your guests correctly positioned by asking them nicely, rather than ordering them around. Getting to know the whole bridal party and both families makes it a lot easier to get natural photographs. Who wants to be told to smile all day?! A laugh and a joke, a funny story and people smile naturally.

Flexible. Having a trustworthy relationship with other wedding suppliers, such as album manufacturers means that the wedding professional can give you more options, is aware of new techniques to enhance your wedding day experience.

Guarantee. Because we have been Professional wedding photographers  for over 25 years, we can guarantee you reliability, quality, great people skills and flexible packages to suit your exact needs. There is only one reason not to choose us - Because we are fully booked. You can prevent this by having a look at our website and getting in touch to see how we can make your wedding day even better.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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