Fantastic Wedding Venues

I consider myself extremely lucky in that because of my role as a wedding photographer I get to work in some fantastic places. The image here for example is the ball room at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

I always try and get an image like this for the Bride and Groom before the room fills up with guests (300+) as it never looks the same once the people have been allowed in. Chances are that as they are the last to enter they would not have been able to appreciate how well it had been decorated.

This shot was taken from a wedding last year I remember it well as a certain Hollywood celebrity was staying in the hotel which meant wherever I wanted to photograph the bride and groom we had to be escorted by security in case I tried to get a sneak photograph of the celeb. A complete pain!

Sometimes it can feel that on a wedding day everything is against the wedding photographer. There is so much that can go wrong (and something nearly always does) that it takes a brave / stupid person to think they have everything under control. I always think if I plan for the worst case scenario than anything less than that is a bonus. Not to say I'm paranoid but on a typical wedding I take no less than five cameras 2 x Hasselblads and 3 x 35mm. Of these I would probably use at least three of them ..... It's so much better to be safe than oh so sorry .....