Intimate Moments – Alex Kilbee, Suffolk Photographer

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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It seems that not that long ago, a wedding photographer having a blog on his or hers website was something unusual, novel and interesting.

Then they exploded, along with Facebook accounts, Digg it buttons and the twittering of tweets. It seemed that everwhere you looked there was yet another wedding photographer who had a blog with one or two posts, a few pictures, and masses of buttons begging you to ‘follow me on <insert social networking of choice here>’.

It was very rare that these blogs actually had anything useful on them for a Bride and Groom to read. Mostly it was just another medium to post pictures on. Us photographers love that – something to post our pictures on – but we can also miss the point sometimes. If you are reading this blog post, you are, hopefully – for the sake of my business – a bride to be, or a lucky man who has had the woman of his dreams say yes to his proposal. Either way you are taking your first steps into a world that you most likely haven’t been part of before – PLANNING FOR YOUR WEDDING.

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