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Late availability wedding photography

April 26, 2010

July Wedding Photography

Late Availability

Today Nikki and took the decision to cancel our 3 week holiday to The United States.  Since Soukie is turning 1 this months, we had booked up to make a surprise visit to the States for the most of July and drop in a  our friends from over there.

We had closed availability to the whole of July however due to the Volcano in Iceland and the travel chaos it has caused and the reports on the news this this could be going on all year we thought it best to stay over here this year and go visiting next year.  I would feel really really bad if we got stranded in the States as August is my busiest month of weddings and letting down couples is not worth the risk.

What this means is that if your suddenly stuck for a wedding photographer for July and think its too late to find one, I have lots of late availability wedding photography dates open in July.

I have also been redoing my website over from top to bottom – you can see my whole new website by visiting my site at www.davidpurslow.com

I specialize in Wedding photography for Birmingham, wedding photography in Worcestershire, Wedding photography in Gloucestershire and wedding photography in the West Midlands.

Before our move to the Midlands in February this year we had lived in Pembrokeshire West Wales and as such we have lots of places to stay so we love photographing wedding in Pembrokeshire.

Please visit my website for more details, complete price information, to check availability or to view my portfolio.

Take care,

Ciao

dp

David Purslow
West Midlands & Birmingham Wedding Photographer
www.davidpurslow.com
01299 250114

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Sami & Matt’s Engagment Shoot

March 24, 2010

Sami & Matt’s Engagement Session

A Fun Family Day at the Beach !

Hi there guys, dp here from David Purslow Photography – if you post via a search engine then can I highly recommend you visit my wedding photography website located at www.davidpurslow.com

A little while back I had the pleasure of shooting (in the nicest possible way) Sami and Matt’s engagement session – I am sure Sami will jump up and down when she reads that her wedding is very fast approaching.    Sami and Matt seem to have booked me as their wedding photographer years ago, I am not sure if it was in 2009 or 2008 but it was a very long time indeed.  The reason I say this is when they booked me I was not offering signing books……

Whats a signing book – well its a beautiful wedding album that is printed on fine art paper that you can write on, the basic idea is you put together a collection of nice romantic photos from your engagement session into a presentation with lots of white space around the pages and then people can write you a message in the white space.

I have one I use as a demo album and I get brides who’s weddings I have shot to write in them or couples who have booked me to pop a few words in there as to why they picked me to be their wedding photographer.  In this picture you can see what Sami and Matt wrote in my book after their engagement session.

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If you want to see more pictures of my album styles just click on the photo above !

So back to Sami & Matts engagement session.

Well as I was saying I shot their engagement session and their wedding is fast approaching.  We finalized the signing book album design and I wanted to share it with you.

Signing books make for a GREAT talking piece but more than that they make for a FANTASTIC keep sake and a totally unique memory of your wedding day.  Just imagine lots of pages filled with comments from all your friends, family and loved ones.

So here it is – I cant show you the cover as currently its somewhere over the Atlantic on its way over to  – bet Sami is jumping up and down again:-)

*** How to use the Slide show ***

  1. Click the play button – then a little menu pops up at the bottom of the slide show
  2. If you do nothing the show will start in about  a second or so – but for the full effect – at any time, just put your mouse over the slide show and……
  3. Click the icon second from the right hand side to view in FULL SCREEN MODE !!!!
  4. Pressing escape will bring you right back down to earth

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I hope you enjoyed.

I recently moved to the West Midlands area and now provide wedding photography for Birmingham, Worcester, Solihull, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Kidderminster and pretty much anywhere in the West Midlands.

I still shoot wedding in Pembrokeshire, West Wales and dont charge any extra for traveling !

Ciao

dp

David Purslow
Wedding, Portrait & Boudoir Photographer
Birmingham & The West Midlands
www.davidpurslow.com
David@davidpurslow.com
Phone 01299 250114

Posted in Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Engagement Photoshoots, engagement session, For Brides, Solihull, Wales, Weddings, West Midlands, WorcestershireTags: , , ,

Blog Update

Birmingham wedding photography

March 16, 2010

Hello there peep’s

Over the next couple of days I am going to be giving the blog a bit of a makeover – so if you come here looking to have a good look at the blog and you find some of it or all of it missing – dont panic it will be back before you know it !

Forgive the mess while we make it better for you

take care

David

Wedding Photography for Birmingham and Worcester – www.davidpurslow.com

Posted in Birmingham, Boudoir Photography Birmingham, Solihull, Weddings, West Midlands, Worcestershire

Storybook Album Cover – Martin and Keyleigh

March 12, 2010

Storybook Wedding Album Front Cover

A simple and elegant design

Hey guys, dp here from www.davidpurslow.com – Wedding and Portrait Photography for Birmingham, The West Midlands, Worcestershire and West Wales !!!

Just wanted to share this cover with you.

This is the cover of a beautiful wedding album that is off to the printers today.  The album is a story book wedding album and the cover will be a spectacular acrylic cover and will shine and be stunning.

The wedding was actually shot in West Wales for good friends of mine and it was great to see the whole family again – I think I have another wedding coming up in the same family in the next 12 months:-)

The cover photo is one of the favorites of Martin and Keyleigh so it took a little designing to get it right, I like full page covers but since the album is a portrait album that opens up into a beautiful landscape album and the photo the guys chose was a landscape I could not do the full wrap.

Here is the cover, cant wait to see the finished album, its going to look amazing

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I should have put a border on the picture for the web as the green (picked from the grass) colour fades to white as it cascades across the front of the album but on my background it kind of gets lost:-(

Anyway hope you like it.

Ciao

dp

David Purslow
Wedding and Portrait Photographer
http://www.davidpurslow.com
Phone 01299 250114
Mobile 0759 007 6666

Posted in Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Solihull, Uncategorized, Wales, Weddings, West Midlands, WorcestershireTags: , , ,

Birmingham Wedding Photography Special Offer

March 11, 2010

Wedding Photography for Birmingham and Worcester

Local wedding photographer covering The West Midlands and Worcestershire

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Hello there, dp here from www.davidpurslow – and I am a professional full time wedding photographer based out of the West Midlands.  I am based in Hartlebury just outside of Kidderminster.  I am about 35 minutes from Birmingham and cover all of Birmingham including Solihull, Birmingham Town Center as well as the outskirts of town.

Chances are you have not heard of me before and thats because prior to February 2010 I was living and working in Pembrokeshire West Wales.   We moved to be closer to family following an illness with my mother who lives in Kidderminster.  I have been a professional wedding photographer for over 10 years now and have shot weddings all over the UK including London, Holy Island, Worcester, Birmingham, Codsall etc.

So being the newest Wedding photographer in the Birmingham area I needed to come up with something really special to help me stand out.  I dont know why I was surprised really having spent the past week looking at wedding venues in Worcester, Birmingham, Solihull, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, Codsall nr Wolverhampton and Gloucestershire its obvious to me that first, there are LOTS AND LOTS more brides and grooms getting married up this way (lets face it, Birmingham and the Midlands come second only to London in terms of population) The second thing I noticed was there are some amazing Stately Homes, Country Houses and Boutique wedding venues in this area – these are my kind of venues and the perfect place for my flamboyant and creative style of wedding photography.

As soon as I arrived in the midlands I visited a wedding fair and was shocked that pretty much all of the wedding photographers in the Birmingham area are offing albums that limited the number of photos or pages in the wedding albums and some started off with really small wedding albums which in my humble opinion should really be parents albums not wedding albums.

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Wedding at The Elms Hotel – Abberley Worcestershire

So to introduce myself to the Birmingham Wedding Photography scene I have come up with what I think is an amazing special offer !!!!!

Birmingham Wedding Photography Special Offer

I have designed a special collection for the first 3 couples who book me for wedding up this way. (again if you found this post via a search engine then I suggest you visit my West Midlands & Birmingham Wedding Photography Page and the ON YOUR WEDDING DAY) So for the first 3 couples who book me for wedding taking place in either 2010 or 2011 this is what you will get.

  • Wedding photography coverage from Bridal Preparations till your first dance
  • 50 thank you cards featuring your favorite wedding photo and information for your guests how to view your online gallery
  • An online gallery of all your wedding photos split into catagories and with slideshows for each one
  • A CD of all the images at web sized for facebook etc
  • A DVD of all the digital files from you wedding – the digital negatives so to speak
  • A DVD of your wedding album set to your first dance song that you can play on your TV and show off your wedding on the big screen
  • An UNBELIEVABLE wedding album – A huge story book wedding album with up to 80 pages and up to 250 photos included

All this would normally cost £3100.00 via my normal prices however for the first 3 couples who book me now I have moved I am making this available for only £1600.00 thats a saving of £1500.00 – The album is an 8×12 inch story book wedding album – you can see exactly what it looks like by visiting my Albums page on my website and you can also view a slide show of an 80 page album by clicking here.

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If you would like to splash out just a little bit extra then for an additional £399.00 for (£1999.99 in total) I will upgrade the wedding album to the totally awesome and monstrously big 10.5 x 14 inch album – its lush, big, heavy, super duper impressive and guaranteed to make your friend and family’s jaw drop to the floor !

This offer is applicable to weddings taking place in…….

  • Weddings in Birmingham
  • Wedding in Bromsgrove
  • Weddings in Solihull
  • Weddings in Codsall
  • Wedding in Sutton Coldfield
  • Wedding in Worcester
  • Weddings in the Kidderminster
  • Weddings in Strouport On Severn
  • Weddings in Hagley
  • Wedding in Stourbridge

For select weddings taking place in other parts of the country I may well consider extending the offer to you, so if your wedding is not taking place at any of the venues listed above call me or drop me an emial – my number is 01299 250 114 / 0759 007 6666 and my email is David@davidpurslow.com

If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch,

talk to you soon,

ciao

dp

David Purslow
Wedding Photographer
http://www.davidpurslow.com
01299 250 114
0759 007 6666
david@davidpurslow.com

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Worcestershire Wedding Photography – Special offer

February 27, 2010

Hello there, David (dp) here from www.davidpurslow.com – I am a wedding photographer based in Worcestershire in the West Midlands.

The following two photos were taken while I lived in Pembrokeshire and are of fantastic couple who’s wedding is coming up pretty soon.  The photos were taking during an engagement shoot – which I include in some of my packages.

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The following image has had a bit of an ‘art’ touch added to it – for web sized images it does not look its best but as a big wall art sized photo it looks amazing:-)

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So what does this have to do with special offers ?

Well check this out.

Worcestershire Wedding Photography Offer

Since I am have only just moved to Worcestershire and many of the couples up this way may not know much about me, I am going to give away 2 FREE engagement shoots for the first 2 couples having Worcestershire Weddings, Gloucestershire Weddings, Birmingham Weddings, Codsall Weddings or Solihull Weddings.

If you found this post via a search engine and have not visited my website yet, your can visit my Worcestershire Wedding Photographers website by clicking here.

On my website you will find.

Full wedding photography prices

Photos of wedding albums and other great wedding photography special offers

Reasons to book a professional wedding photographer

Customers testimonials

An availability checker to see if I am available for your wedding.

So dont forget – for the next 2 weddings booked in the West Midlands I am going to include a free engagement shoot.

ciao

dp

David Purslow
Worcestershire & West Midlands Wedding Photographer
http://www.davidpurslow.com
david@davidpurslow.com
01299 250 114
0759 007 6666

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A couple of Black and White wedding photos

February 23, 2010

Hello there, dp here from www.davidpurslow.com – we provide upscale wedding photography for Worcestershire & West Midlands.

Today as well as other things I was putting the finishing touches to the story book wedding album for Lorraine and Mark whos wedding I shot last year.  The day of their wedding was a challenging one weather wise with high winds and rain throughout the day – but its that kind of challenge I think separates the men from the boys.

So while choosing images today there were 3 that stood out to me as great candidates for conversion to black and white photos, 1 is one of my favorite wedding photos from last year and is up on my website and was one I featured in the Gallery at Courtneys Bridal.

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I just love these 3 photos, and they bring back good memories for me, ones where I was getting wet while lying on the floor in puddles of water to get the shot of the couple by the castle – but thats just all part of the job – its also why there is always a complete change of clothes in my camera bag:-)

I cover weddings mainly in Worcestershire and the West Midlands however I am happy to travel pretty much anywhere in the UK for nice weddings that will create visually stunning photos:-)– you can find out more about my wedding photography here.

Also if you look at the post below (if your on the main page) or click this link if your not – Currently I am offering a MASSIVE DISCOUNT for couples looking for a wedding photographer in Worcestershire, Birmingham and a whole lot of other places around the Midlands, Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds. – The reason is that I have just moved to Worcestershire so am pretty much unknown here at the moment.

Right off to bed, hope you like these 3 photos, I think they made cracking black and white conversions.

ciao

dp

David Purslow
Wedding Photographer
www.davidpurslow.com
01299 250 114 / 0759 007 6666
david@davidpurslow.com

Posted in Birmingham, Solihull, Wales, Weddings, West Midlands, WorcestershireTags: , , ,

Worcestershire and West Midlands Wedding Photography – special offer

February 22, 2010

Hello there, dp here from www.davidpurslow – and I am a Worcestershire and West Midlands Wedding Photographer

Unless you found this link via a search engine, I hope by now you know that I am a wedding photographer based out of Hartlebury, just outside of Worcester in Worcestershire in the West Midlands.  I am fairly new to the area having previously been based in Pembrokesshire in West Wales.  I moved to The Midlands at the start of February which came right in the middle of the booking season for 2010 / 2011 weddings.  We moved following health issues with my mum and decided we needed to be closer to the family so we made the hard decision to leave our beloved Haverfordwest but family comes first.  I still shoot weddings in West Wales with over 20 there this year and 1/2 a dozen so far there for 2011.

So being the newest Wedding photographer in Worcestershire I needed to come up with something really special to help me stand out.  Yesterday I visited the Worcestershire Wedding Fair at 6-ways at the Worcester Rugby Club and saw that there are some really good photographers up this way and was actually surprised that the cost of high quality wedding photography was actually higher up in the midlands that in wales.  I dont know why I was surprised really having spent the past week looking at wedding venues in Worcester, Birmingham, Solihull, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, Codsall nr Wolverhampton and Gloucestershire its obvious to me that first, there are LOTS AND LOTS more brides and grooms getting married up this way (lets face it, Birmingham and the Midlands come second only to London in terms of population) The second thing I noticed was there are some amazing Stately Homes, Country Houses and Boutique wedding venues in this area – these are my kind of venues and the perfect place for my flamboyant and creative style of wedding photography.

What I did notice at the wedding fair is that pretty much every single photographers were offing albums that limited the number of photos or pages in the wedding albums and some started off with really small wedding albums which in my humble opinion should really be parents albums not wedding albums.

So whats the special offer I decided to come up with  – here is is

Wedding Photography Special Offer

I have designed a special collection for the first 3 couples who book me for wedding up this way.  (again if you found this post via a search engine then I suggest you visit my wedding photography website and the Why book David page on my website)  So for the first 3 couples who book me for wedding taking place in either 2010 or 2011 this is what you will get.

  • Wedding photography coverage from Bridal Preparations till your first dance
  • 50 thank you cards featuring your favorite wedding photo and information for your guests how to view your online gallery
  • An online gallery of all your wedding photos split into catagories and with slideshows for each one
  • A CD of all the images at web sized for facebook etc
  • A DVD of all the digital files from you wedding – the digital negatives so to speak
  • A DVD of your wedding album set to your first dance song that you can play on your TV and show off your wedding on the big screen
  • An UNBELIEVABLE wedding album – A huge story book wedding album with up to 80 pages and up to 250 photos included

All this would normally cost £3100.00 via my normal prices however for the first 3 couples who book me now I have moved I am making this available for only £1600.00 thats a saving of £1500.00 – The album is an 8×12 inch story book wedding album – you can see exactly what it looks like by visiting my Albums page on my website and you can also view a slide show of an 80 page album by clicking here.

If you would like to splash out just a little bit extra then for an additional £399.00 for (£1999.99 in total)  I will upgrade the wedding album to the totally awesome and monstrously big 10.5 x 14 inch album – its lush, big, heavy, super duper impressive and guaranteed to make your friend and family’s jaw drop to the floor !

This offer is applicable to weddings taking place in…….

  • Weddings in Worcestershire
  • Wedding in Birmingham
  • Weddings in Solihull
  • Weddings in Codsall
  • Wedding in Sutton Coldfield
  • Wedding in Gloucestershire
  • Weddings in the Cotswolds
  • Weddings in Herefordshire
  • Weddings in Shropshire
  • Wedding in Staffordshire

For select weddings taking place in other parts of the country I may well consider extending the offer to you,  so if your wedding is not taking place at any of the venues listed above call me or drop me an emial – my number is 01299 250 114 / 0759 007 6666  and my email is David@davidpurslow.com

If you have any questions please feel free to get intouch,

talk to you soon,

ciao

dp

David Purslow
Wedding Photographer
http://www.davidpurslow.com
01299 250 114
0759 007 6666
david@davidpurslow.com

Posted in Birmingham, Solihull, Weddings, West Midlands, WorcestershireTags: , , ,

Worcestershire Wedding Photographers :-)

February 17, 2010

Hello there,

David here from www.davidpurslow.com

If your new to me, welcome I will fill you in all about me in a moment- if your a regular visitor and I know there are dozens of you, welcome back.

Its official We have moved from Pembrokeshire to Hartlebury in Worcestershire.  We moved due to health issues with my mum, over Christmas Nikki and I made the heartbreaking (but easy to make) decision to leave Pembrokeshire and move up this way to be closer to the family.

I have over 20 weddings in Pembrokeshire in 2010 and will be traveling up and down to cover each one, I have talked to my brides and made them all aware of the situation.   I am also still accepting wedding in Pembrokeshire for 2010 and 2011 as I have plenty of places to stay and its only 3 hours away.

But that now means I am a……..

Worcestershire Wedding Photographer

Since we are located in Hartlebury in Worcestershire, between Kidderminster and Worcester to be exact, it means we are well placed to cover the whole of not only Worcestershire but Herefordshire, Birmingham, Solihull, Wolverhampton, Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Malvern, Worcester, Staffordshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and The Cotswolds.

When people first view my work they describe it as  a mixture between contemporary and reportage wedding photography.  What I aim to do is tell the story of your wedding day as it unfolds.  My typical coverage provides you with photography coverage from  Bridal Preparations all the way through to your first dance as man and wife.

I produce beautiful story book wedding albums  – To mark our move from Pembrokeshire to Worcestershire we totally re-did our website so we have an all new Worcestershire Wedding Photography website located at www.davidpurslow.com On our website one of the new pages is the Wedding Albums Page – this page gives you a really good view of our Fine Art Story Book Wedding Albums, Photo Story Book Wedding Albums, Our Guest Signing Books, Traditional Matted Albums and a range of Modern Wedding Albums.

To give you an idea of what you will see there, here is a photo of some of the albums produce.

Another great new page on our website is the Why Book David page – this page has been in development for a while and really explains my shooting style and give you a great idea of what to expect.

The funny thing is I am originally a Worcestershire wedding photographer having grown up in Kidderminster.  Nikki and I moved 6 years ago as a result of being booked for a wedding down that way.  After a couple of weeks back in the Midlands its starting to feel like home again.  I remember lots of great wedding venues around Worcestershire and the West Midlands, places such as Grafton Manor, Hagley Hall, The Lygon Arms, The Abbey Hotel, The Curradine Barns, The Elms and the place Nikki and myself got married – The Lenchford Inn.

We offer an all inclusive wedding photography package which includes everything you could want and we DONT charge extra for traveling within Worcestershire, Herefordshire, The West Midlands, Birmingham, Staffordshire, Gloucestershire, Avon and Bristol, The Cotswolds, Warwickshire or pretty much anywhere in the UK.

Talking about wedding photography in Warwickshire, one of our favorite venues for to take photos at  is the Arrow Mill Hotel the grounds here are beautiful.

Warwickshire Wedding Photography

Over the next couple of Months we are going to offer ridiculous special offers on Wedding Photography so if your looking for a wedding photographers in Worcestershire, The Midlands, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Wolverhampton, Birmingham etc then give us a call.

Be sure to check out our wedding photography website to see all our prices and check often as our specials will change on a regular basis.

We are proud to be the newest wedding photographers in Worcestershire we think this makes us work harder for you as each new wedding is a way of us building up our reputation up this way.  Make no mistake, we are not new to wedding photography and we are not a part time wedding photography business – this is what we do full time, this is all we do.

Being heavily inspired by some of the best wedding photographers in the world means I dont stand still with my photography.  When I am not shooting wedding or engagement shoots, I am constantly taking courses and challenging myself to grow as a photographer.  I have been lucky enough to study with not 1 but 2 of the Top 10 Wedding photographers in the WORLD !!!!!

We also shoot Bridal Boudoir and we pride ourselves in the sensual quality of our Boudoir photography – Being masters of lighting makes our boudoir photos stand apart from the rest. – We dont often publish our boudoir photography photos  due to client confidentially however from time to time are are lucky enough to work with clients who allow us to show the kind of quality we produce.

We also LOVE shooting engagement sessions – this is a photo shoot for you and your fiance and one that produces some amazing results.

This photo was shot in Pembrokeshire and is of Sami and Matt whose wedding I am shooting later this year.  I am very eager to start shooting engagement sessions in Worcestershire and we will be including FREE engagement sessions for Worcestershire Weddings and giving away a few free prints also !!!!!!

A lot of my clients use their engagement session to produce a beautiful guest signing – story book wedding album that guests actually write messages in on their wedding day.

Here is a shot of what they look like

You can learn more about photo signing books on my story book wedding album page on my website at www.davidpurslow.com

Also on our new website we have put up 8 – that’s right 8 amazing wedding slide shows for you to watch.

The first two are ‘Best of’ slide shows – they show some of our favorite wedding photos from 2008 and 2009 – then there are 6 slide shows that show complete client wedding albums – there are a few story book wedding albums, one of our contemporary wedding albums and one from one of our traditional matted wedding albums. This gives you a great insight as to the kinds of albums we design and produce.

Our new Gallery page with all of these slide shows on for you to enjoy can be found at www.davidpurslow.com/gallery.html

So if your looking for a wedding photographer in Worcestershire, The Midlands or pretty much anywhere why not check us out by visiting my

Worcestershire Wedding Photography website – www.davidpurslow.com

To give you a good idea of the quality of our wedding photography and the kind of of slide shows we produce, below is the show we produced of our favorite wedding photos of 2009

Take care, talk to you soon – Remember you can always call us,  our phone number are Office 01299 250 114 or Mobile 0759 007 6666

You can also email us at david@davidpurslow.com

bye for now

David.

Posted in Birmingham, Uncategorized, Weddings, West Midlands, Worcestershire