Intimate Moments – Alex Kilbee, Suffolk Photographer

Wow, it’s been 18 months since I relocated to Elmswell and started my path as a Suffolk Wedding Photographer!

Of course, I’ve been a wedding photographer for a lot longer than that, but in South Africa. So to celebrate that fact and to brighten up a grey day I’m going to showcase some of the wonderful brides I’ve had the opportunity to photograph in the last year and a half.

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Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending the Best of Bury St Edmunds annual birthday party at the Ickworth Hotel.

Ickworth Hotel is just outside Bury St Edmunds in the lovely village of Horringer. Recently they underwent a change in management and the new team there are doing a fantastic job! All the guests at the birthday bash were treated to amazing canapés and champaign on their arrival.

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When you and your partner decide to get engaged and start planning your wedding, there will be a lot of things you’ll need to do that you’ve never done before – one of which is most likely to visit your local registry office, which in my case would be the Ipswich registry office.

There are a few steps you need to take when having a civil marriage, be it at a registry office, or a licensed venue.

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Allow me, if you will for a moment, to toot my own horn as it were.

One of the most rewarding and wonderful things about being a wedding photographer is that moment when you show the couple their wedding photos for the first time .

As a Suffolk photographer I have a collection of testimonials and reviews from brides and grooms with whom I have had the pleasure of working with. Today I thought I’d share some of these with you.

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Earlier this year I had the pleasure of shooting Sam and Graham at the Angel Hotel Bury St Edmunds.

This was a special wedding for me personally as they were the first couple to book me as their wedding photographer when I moved to Suffolk from South Africa two years ago!

It was a wonderful Spring day back in May when I met them at the Angel Hotel in Bury St Edmunds…

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I was recently speaking with friends of mine who are getting married next year and one of the things that I found telling when they were discussing their planning was that it ‘feels like a job’.

Of course it shouldn’t feel like a job at all! It’s one of the happiest days of your life and with a few simple steps you can make the planning *almost* pain free…

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Quite often, one of the first things that a bride and groom will ask me regarding their wedding photography is about how it will effect their wedding. No matter where you are, in Suffolk or the Sudan, timing can play a major role in your wedding day.

Here is an excellent article from the “weddingsbyzoelingard“‘ blog.

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Seeing as the wedding season is taking a little bit of a breather, I thought I’d talk about some of the venues it’s been my privilege to shoot weddings at here in wonderful Suffolk.

I’m going to start off with the Grange Hotel in Thurston – A wonderful late Victorian house (well, I say house, it’s more of a mansion!) in the Tudor style, which is a very popular wedding venue here in Suffolk between Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket.

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No doubt by now you’ve visit tons of bridal sites, read hundreds of magazines and been confronted by a whole heap of hints and tips regarding sourcing your wedding photograper.

They are all full of helpful ideas about what your photographer should do on your wedding day, but offer scant advice as to what they shouldn’t do. There is one very very important thing that no proper wedding photographer should ever do under any circumstances at all.

Take over your wedding.

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Something brides quite often ask me is – ‘what happens if it rains on my wedding day?’

Now that Autumn is upon us and soon we will be in the winter, the weather is playing more of a role in planning for your wedding day. While everyone knows that the “Great British Summer” isn’t exactly the most stable of weather periods, people are less worried then about the chances of it being rainy on their wedding day.

Brides are naturally worried that if it rains on their wedding day that they won’t have any good images of themselves. After all, we generally picture sunny days and blue skies when we think of outdoor wedding photography.

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