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5 brilliant tips to help you choose your wedding photographer

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Today’s post is written by the super talented  contemporary wedding photographer, Emmie Scott.  Emmie lets us in on  5 tips from the top on what to look out  for when choosing your wedding photographer.

HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER FOR YOU

It is not uncommon at a wedding to have a guest walk up to me and ask me “can you Photoshop my wedding images? My photographer got drunk at my wedding and all my pictures are blurry”. Or something to that affect.

As a wedding photographer who takes their profession very seriously, there is nothing more frustrating and upsetting.

There is a lot of advice out there for engaged couples on how to choose a wedding photographer but I feel that much of it is misguided.

Don’t take the following advice for granted. Your photographs will continue to live on once the memories have long since faded. All the guests have left, the marque has been brought down, the food has been eaten, paper details have been thrown in the bin: your photography will last and continue to bring you joy forever more.

I am going to let you in on not only how to choose your wedding photographer but how to choose the right one for you and what to expect so that you can avoid any rogue traders.

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Wow for the Weekend: 11 July 2014

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It’s been a ‘yay’ kind of  week for Smashing The Glass. Just as I’d finishing celebrating  our  first blog birthday last month, and the new look redesign last week, I found out yesterday that the blog has just been  shortlisted for two Wedding Blog Awards! Yes Smashing The Glass has  been nominated as  Best Bridal Blog Newcomer and Best Real Life Weddings in Wedding magazine’s Wedding Blog Awards  and I couldn’t be happier! Thank you to all of you that nominated me to get me this far but now let’s win this thing!

The next, and final step, is to  take 10 seconds out of your day to vote for Smashing The Glass.  It genuinely takes just moments to vote in both catgeories and it will make me one very happy bloggess!

Have a wonderful weekend whatever you’re up to, and  take a little break from wedding planning with these fun links…

WEDDINGS
♥ A charming  factory space Jewish wedding

♥  A vintage themed Bollywood  Jewish wedding

♥ As a design geek, I love this  CMYK wedding!

♥  A rainbow themed seaside wedding

♥  A fun cowboy themed glamping wedding

 

BLOGGING + BUSINESS
♥  The ultimate guide to creating a media kit

♥  3 ways to build meaningful relationships with brands

♥ Tons of great tips for blogging success

 

STG

♥  My home workspace

♥  Win £100 to spend on luxury bridal lingerie, with Rose Fulbright, plus a 30% discount for every reader

♥  My interview with the woman behind the UK’s most eye-catching luxury wedding cakes, Victoria of ‘Victoria Made’

♥  Gena & Tony’s ‘colour explosion’ Jewish wedding at Sydney Polo Club, New South Wales, Australia

 

Gena & Tony | Extraordinarily imaginative ‘color explosion’ Jewish wedding at the Sydney Polo Club, NSW, Australia

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Epic.

Get your sunglasses ready because todays wedding is a massive rainbow-hued color fest. Gena and her husband Tony had one of those weddings where there are so many details I love I hardly even know where to start.

There’s Gena’s pom pom crown, her crochet dress and her supersize bouquet filled with flowers of every possible hue, glitter, ribbons, and pom poms. Then we’ve got bridesmaids dressed in orange carrying big foil heart shaped balloons with tissue paper tassels instead of bouquets. There’s a super cute dog taking centre stage during the ceremony. And 1200 odd colored ribbons used to decorate the barn and chairs. The handmade resin crayons for buttonholes (a reference to the green crayon hair clip that Gena wore in her hair the night Tony first noticed her) are so cute!). And then there’s the way that Tony looks at Gena…

So have you got your sunglasses ready? Well get your Pinterest boards primed too because you are most certainly going to need them! All of these delectable images were taken by the rather brilliant Lara Hotz. (Oh and check out the mighty cute wedding film at the end of the post by The White Tree too!).
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A RUSTIC VENUE
Our wedding was on a farm at the Sydney Polo Club, about an hour away from where we live. We wanted to have something a bit out of the ordinary (this can be hard with a big Jewish wedding but we knew we didn’t want a hotel reception room) and not expect people to have to travel too far. We ended up having the chuppah and dance floor inside the barn and connected a marquee to the side where the guests were seated. The barn doors slid open to connect the two spaces.
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Win £100 to spend on bridal lingerie with Rose Fulbright, plus a 30% discount for every reader

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A few weeks ago Mr STG arrived  home and told me that he’d stopped by a very cool pop up shop called ‘WISE Creative’ in Marylebone, packed full of  quality, independent British brands.  He had been served by a lovely woman called  Rose, who is co-founder of WISE, and the owner of the  super-chic  luxury lingerie label, Rose Fulbright.

My always-entrepreneurial hubby  immediately spotted that my readers would love Rose’s exquisite  silhouette  designs and told me that it might  be an idea to  contact her about a collaboration. Well I know that wives aren’t known for saying this about their husbands, but he was absolutely right! I’m completely taken with Rose’s gorgeous  designs, seaming and finish, and I know that you will be too.

Her lingerie oozes femininity, and what’s more I love the fact that you can personalise the garments for your special day with a bespoke monogramming service. I very much wanted to incorporate my new initials into my wedding day and I did so by putting  a necklace on after the ceremony, made up of my  new initials, but I have to admit that  monogramming my lingerie would have been even sexier!

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My home workspace

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When the mega-talented Jewish wedding photographer in London Rahul Khona got in touch with me to shoot up a photography storm, I was really into the idea of capturing some images  of  my work / home space, as well as a few portraits.

I adore blogging and running a  business  from my home in Kentish Town, but inevitably, the  boundaries between work,  motherhood, marriage  and ‘me’ time are a continuous  blur. It’s something I’m used to though, as prior to  setting up Smashing The Glass, I was running  a  freelance design business  for 12 years, and working from home for about 50% of my projects.

My work space reflects my design background – there are Apple products everywhere, Pop Art influences, art books, sketch pads, pens and pencils, and a sense of clean aesthetics (that makes me  sound really  w*nky, doesn’t it?!).
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