Author archives: lrphotography@mac.com
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- Did you get engaged this Valentine’s Day? Know someone who did? Message me on Twitter or Facebook and you could win £1,000 of wedding photography, for FREE! But hurry – last entries are this Friday…
Apparently, of all the proposals that will happen this year, 30% happened on Valentine’s Day. [...]
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- Want a low cost way of doing something brilliantly romantic this Valentine’s Day? Well…
When was the last time you revisited your wedding venue?
Yep, thought so. It’s strange isn’t it? The biggest day of your life and the scene of such a celebration, and yet we rarely go back. So this Valentin[...]
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- Getting married this year? Know someone who is? Message me on Twitter or Facebook and you could win £1,000 of wedding photography, for FREE!
According to Brides magazine, the average cost of a wedding in the UK is £24,000. Yikes.
I can’t take away the cost of the reception, the rings, the[...]
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- How do you blend Formula One and Christmas into your winter wedding theme? Like this…
Spend long enough as a Preston wedding photographer and you start to develop a strange kind of immunity to the incredible things event dressers can do to your wedding venue. While guests gasp in admiration, [...]
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- More suites, more options and more packages make Ribby Hall the perfect wedding venue - whether you’re planning the most lavish ceremony or carefully managing a budget.
You might be tempted to think that a Preston (well, Wrea Green) wedding venue that promised to satisfy practically every wed[...]
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- You can’t stop them growing up, but at least you can capture them doing it.
I’m a dad, so I know exactly what it’s like. One minute you’re thinking you really must get a professional portrait of your children before they grow up; then next minute you find they already have.
Everyone says “[...]
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- Admit it. Every year, you talk about how you really must get around to arranging a proper, professional family portrait before everyone grows up. Make this year the year you actually do it.
That’s exactly the situation Wendy found herself in recently. She’d wanted a family portrait for years [...]
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- Why it pays to pick a professional.
Browse this blog and you’ll find barely a word said about other wedding photographers because a) your reviews are the ones that count, not mine; b) I’d rather focus on what I do well, and c) I know lots of professional photographers and the vast majority are re[...]
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- In the latest of an occasional series looking at what I love about the Preston wedding venues I shoot most often, it’s time to head west.
Wrea Green is the sort of village you might imagine doesn’t exist anymore. It’s got a green. And a duck pond. And a (rather good) village pub and restaurant. A[...]
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- A change of plans inadvertently invents a new type of Lancashire wedding photography…
Sometimes plans change. Take Gemma. She’s marrying Jamie next month (I’ll be at The Villa, Wrea Green to capture the celebrations) and we had a pre-wedding family portrait planned as part of the wedding photogra[...]
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- With a Winter Wonderland portrait, your Christmas portrait photography doesn’t have to be Christmassy.
This post is about Christmas portraits, but I figure I’d best explain what I mean by that. You see, mention ‘Christmas portrait’ to some people and thoughts automatically turn to the sort of thi[...]
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- Civil partnership and same sex wedding photography – the changing face of Britain, as seen through a lens.
We’ve come a long way. When I started out as a Preston wedding photographer (and it’s really not that long ago) the weddings were exclusively bride/groom affairs, most of the ceremonies [...]
