Get Your Groove On

Everyone loves a good dance tune.

It doesn’t matter if you can dance (and who decides, anyway?). It’s a wedding! The dance floor is another great opportunity to catch some of those hilarious moments…

…and faces…

…and moves.

And every once in a while, one of those "awwww" moments.

So go on, get your dancin' shoes on!

Because this photographer is going to make sure that everyone remembers those shoes - long after you've kicked them off.

Karen

The Art Of Laughter

To me, one of the most amazing things about photographing a wedding is the view that I get of people. Deep conversation over here in the corner…

Enjoying the speeches at dinner...

...but everywhere, all day, laughter.

As C.S. Lewis puts it, within the true joy that causes human laughter “some pretext in the way of jokes is usually provided, but the facility with which the smallest witticisms produce laughter at such a time shows that they are not the real cause…Something like it is expressed in music, and something like it occurs in Heaven.”

Laughter at a wedding is abundant and flowing – it’s all part of the day.

And being able to grasp that laughter and hold it still for a moment – or a lifetime – is one of the things that the art of photography is all about.

Enjoying laughter over the small things,

Karen

Beauty in the small things

One of the things I love about wedding photography is that there is beauty in the small things. It’s everywhere. Not just the flowers, and the shoes, and the veil – but right down to the different colours of confetti, and the sparkle of light on the bride’s ring.

As my brother-in-law says, “Only at a wedding do you create a piece of art in black-and-white of a fork.”

All these details are the result of months of planning, and as such every detail deserves its own honour. The hours spent tying ribbons on invitations. The careful choosing of the best hairdresser. The shoes polished to a gleaming shine. If it’s going to be the most important day of your life, every aspect of it will reflect that.

So too when choosing a photographer. Make sure you get not just a series of formal photos, and a few artsy ones thrown in, but the whole picture of the day from the putting on of the lipstick in the morning, to the kicking off of the shoes at the end of the evening. The emotion and the laughter and a few tearful moments. Because everything about your day is beautiful.