I really want you to enjoy your visit to my web site and I hope it gives you a little insight into me as a person as well as a photographer. I also would love it if when you have finished here you feel the time was well spent and you gained some insight into exactly what is available for brides and grooms in terms of wedding photography, albums, photo shoots, gifts for parents, bridesmaids etc, etc, etc.

I honestly believe that choosing your wedding photographer is the second most important decision you have to make when getting married. The first and most important decision is of course who you are going to marry and I have a feeling you made the perfect choice with that one otherwise you would not be here :-)

You will spend Days, Week's, Month's or even Year's planning the most magical wedding day. For the rest of your life the only lasting memory of this will be your wedding album - and the story it tells.......

So here is a simple question for you... "in 20 year time how will you remember your wedding day & what kind of story will your wedding album to tell ?"

Whether or not your wedding day turns out to be the fairy tail you had hoped for, your wedding album WILL BE if you happen to choose me as your photographer.

That's my promise to you.

It’s true 100% true. I believe this is what made me decide to become a wedding photographer. Wedding photography is a passion for me, it’s not just a job, it’s something that comes from deep within my own heart. I truly believe that to become a really really good wedding photographer you have to really love weddings and all they entail.

My background has always been in photography, I used to be as a press photographer specializing in professional sports, rock & pop concerts and royal visits but gave all that up to followed my dreams and become a full time wedding photographer.

I pride myself on being different and on breaking away from tradition. My wedding photography is focused around the bride and the groom telling their love story. I only see the best in everyone and nothing makes me happier than working with a couple who are truly and deeply in love with each other.

Couples spend what seems like an eternity planning every minute detail and nuance of their wedding day and I see it as my responsibility to capture all of these and then turn them into a visually stunning wedding album that will capture the spirit of your day telling an emotionally powerful story.

I am based in the beautiful village of Hartlebury just outside of Worcester in Gloucestershire and am only minutes away from the M5 - I photograph weddings all over the UK and DO NOT charge any additional costs for travelling. I may request hotel accommodation the night before your wedding if it's more than two hours from home to ensure I am fully rested for your wedding day.

Your wedding day is going to be one of the greatest days of your life, you will smile the whole day long and probably will shed a tear to two, and its the groom I am talking to at the moment.

Why do I enjoy wedding photography so much? Well its because the whole day is just like a fairy tale. Most brides have been dreaming about their wedding day since they were about six or seven year's old and first heard the story of Cinderella. Today is the day when you become a Princess, you will look perfect, your hair will be amazing, your makeup will be flawless and you will get to wear a fabulous wedding dress and marry the man of your dreams - your Prince Charming.

Everyone will fuss over you, people will cry when they see just how beautiful you look and for the whole day long you and your new husband / wife will be at the centre of everyone's universe. You will get to eat amazing food surrounded by great company.

Once you finish your dinner, people will stand up and tell stories about you, your childhood, your teens and your life in general - Everyone will listen intently because they want to know about you two the couple the all came to see The Bride and the Groom.

The day will fly by in the blink of an eye and at the end of it all you will start a whole new exciting adventure together as man and wife, united by the love you share and the promises and commitment you both just made to each other.

Weddings really are the fairy tale come true. No matter what the weather, no matter what's going on in the world outside everything is always perfect on your wedding day.

This is why I think its SO IMPORTANT for you as a couple to be happy with your choice of wedding photographer. Whoever you choose is going to be with the you for the whole day, shadowing you around like a Secret Service body guard. When you get dressed they will be there, when you get out of the car they will be there, when you walk down the isle they will be there, when you first kiss as a married couple they will be there and when you sneak off for a quite 5 minutes it will be you, your new husband / wife and the photographer !

I offer engagement photography sessions which are a great idea for many reasons. If we work together prior to your wedding, you will be so much more comfortable and relaxed on your actual wedding day. The engagement sessions generally produce some fantastic photographs and many couples choose a photo from their sessions for their wedding invitations. Recently lots of my couples have opted for a guest signing book - this is a smaller album normally around 10 inches square which has lots of white space around each photo - your guests write you a personal message in the actual book itself which you get to keep forever.

In the years to come if you pull out your signing book and you wedding album I guarantee you will cry like a baby when you relive the day and read the fantastic comments your guests wrote you on your wedding day.

This is a GREAT question and one I love to answer face to face. I will try to explain about my style in a second but to get the whole picture you really need to come and visit with me and view my portfolio. I offer a hastle free no obligation consultation where you visit with me and take your time to look over complete wedding albums (copies of actual clients albums) I also have on show a selection of parents albums, bridesmaids albums, brag books, book marks, framed photos, wall art, canvas's and beveled edge wooden prints

I know not everyone due to distances etc can get to me and that's why I have an extensive online gallery showcasing my work. I also a page dedicated to trying to show off my albums but If I am totally honest with you, the web site does not do them justice. One of the most common comments couples make when they receive their finished album is something along the lines of "OH MY GOD, its so much better than it looked on the web site."

I am happy to spend as much time with you as you need looking over and discussing exactly what it is you want for your photography on your wedding day. I have an almost endless supply of Tea, Coffee, Wine, Soft drinks and if your really lucky Nikki would have cooked some of her home made banana bread which is killer and to die for :-) but if she hasn't, don't worry we always try to keep biscuits in but now that Joshua has found the cookie jar its proving a harder job than expected.

If for some reason you cant get to me, I am available to come to you, naturally I wont have everything I have at home to show you but I do bring a whole selection of albums etc - So give me a bell and lets get together and sort out your wedding photography so you can cross it off your list of outstanding jobs.

Right back to answering that brilliant question. What kind of photography style do I shoot ?

Depending on how the conversation is going I often answer this question with "I shoot in a Paul Daniels or David Copperfield kind of style" and then look at the couples looking very puzzled. - I then go on to explain that in essence I am a documentary style wedding photographer (reportage photographer if you like) but I KNOW HOW TO MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN - Yes I like to be as unobtrusive as possible, I like to record things as they are happening and from the side lines however if you want the magic photos, the killer shots in the album and on your walls then you have to decided that if its just not happening naturally do you want me to wave my magic wand and make the magic happen for you ?

I am not talking about taking over the whole wedding but you are going to invest a lot of money on getting married to each other, this is a ONCE IN A LIFETIME event with no way to go back and recreate it and that's why I feel you deserve to have the very best photographs possible

I know right about now your thinking to yourself this all sounds fantastic but I bet he's going to be really expensive so lets deal with that and get it out of the way once and for all.

Yes I am :-) - I think it was the world famous painter Whistler who once said

An artist is paid for his vision not for his labour......

Seriously I have no idea of the budget you have in mind or what you consider expensive or inexpensive so you will have do decide this for yourself. I remember when we were planning our own wedding how precious time was and how little time we actually had to spare so I have put together a detailed prices page that list everything from the cost of reprints all the way through to the cost of parents albums, wall canvases etc.

That way you can take a look at it and if you like what you see, give me a call and lets get together and I will show you exactly what it is that I do.

One of the things I like to point out is just how picky I am about the products I produce

I don't use the Graphi wedding albums like 99% of the photographers in the UK . All the albums I delivery to my clients are hand made either right here in the UK (storybook wedding albums) or in New York City (my fine art wedding albums) - There is not a lot wrong with mass produced story book wedding albums from the likes of Graphi & Simms etc which have flooded the wedding photography market in recent years. I just prefer book produced by a master craftsman lovingly assembled and finished to perfection - in short a book that will last a lifetime and a book you can pass down from generation to generation.

You really need to come visit me and see the my albums in the flesh !