OT: Anyone planning to get married on a tight budget? : Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:44 am  

If anyone is planning to get married in the near future, but is working to a very tight budget, I may be able to help with the photography. I am about to set up my own business as a wedding/portrait photographer and am looking for some weddings in the near future which I will be able to use in my portfolio. If you don’t mind taking a risk with a new wedding photographer (actually not that much of a risk, I’ve been a keen amateur photographer for 30 years, and you don’t mind a few of your wedding photographs being used on my website, then I will do a deal for cost. Please PM me if you or anyone you know may be interested.

Re: OT: Anyone planning to get married on a tight budget? : Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:23 pm  

Honest Joe wrote:

If anyone is planning to get married in the near future, but is working to a very tight budget, I may be able to help with the photography. I am about to set up my own business as a wedding/portrait photographer and am looking for some weddings in the near future which I will be able to use in my portfolio. If you don’t mind taking a risk with a new wedding photographer (actually not that much of a risk, I’ve been a keen amateur photographer for 30 years, and you don’t mind a few of your wedding photographs being used on my website, then I will do a deal for cost. Please PM me if you or anyone you know may be interested.

I done it once, still having the nightmares

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:31 pm  

We’ve got a great photo in our album, the best man all sh!tted up in top hat and tails, he dropped the Wife’s ring and it rolled under the church, he was on his hand and knees retrieving it. I’d guess today Photoshop or something would ‘clean him up’, but in ours it looks like a mud wrestler presented the rings.

Re: OT: Anyone planning to get married on a tight budget? : Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:17 pm  

trainee_lobbygobbler wrote:

I done it once, still having the nightmares

i've done a couple and they are a little stressful

good luck with the new venture

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:18 pm  

mr. chairman wrote:

how you fixed on the 7th may , daughter is getting wed in cyprus

if you sort out the travel and lodgings i'll do it for free

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:37 pm  

Same as him

: Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:36 am  

Wayne, Keith,

Thanks very much for the support. I realise it will be hard work, especially to start off with, but it's something I've wanted to do for a long time, and circumstances at work now mean I have been given no coice but to look at an alternative way of making a living.

: Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:56 am  

Hope it works out for you, Good luck.

: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:03 am  

mr. chairman wrote:

how you fixed on the 7th may , daughter is getting wed in cyprus

That's 2 from the east getting married in cyprus that week..My nephew-in-law (Damon) gets married there on the 13th.

: Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:32 am  

Joe and anyone else wanting 'work' I started up videoing weddings a couple of years ago but had to stop because of ill health, there aint many around at the moment and if you have a good knowledge of cameras the transition to video ones isn't rocket science that and a working knowledge of computers to edit on.
There is a fair amount of work out there and with upwards of £1500 per wedding (I didnt charge anything near that amount by the way) it can be quite lucrative and enjoyable, because with all due respect to photographers there are quite a lot of them.
A couple of grand out lay could reap dividends.
I'd be only too willing to give my (what little I have) knowledge out to anyone thinking of doing it.