Planning a wedding involves planning a timeline for the day and your photographer is a vital part of this. Use your photographers experience and work together to work out the timings for the day. This is crucial especially for winter weddings when there is less light available so your timeline needs to be agreed in […]

When should your bridesmaids get ready? About half an hour before you do. The same goes for your parents. This ensures that when it is time for you to put on your dress, they are there ready to help. from a photographers point of view you get better pictures as they are not in the […]

Remember your wedding day is all about you, your husband and your love for each other. When choosing locations for your couple portraits it is best to keep things simple. Crowded and over-complicated backgrounds can detract from the simplicity and elegance of the two of you together. When it comes to backgrounds keep it as […]

I am often asked what a bride should wear on the morning of her wedding, as she is getting ready. From a practical point of view a shirt or dressing gown is the best as you don’t ruin all the work with hair and makeup by pulling your clothes up over your head! From a […]

One of my favorite parts of any wedding day is at the brides house on the morning of the wedding day as the house is full of anticipation of the excitement that is to come. Like all girls, I love seeing the bride in hair and make-up and capturing all the details of her look […]

As a wedding photographer I love being creative and taking my photography that little bit further. One great way to do this is on a style shoot. Not only do I get to work with great Irish wedding vendors in some beautiful wedding venues but I also get to imaginatively style a wedding as I […]

I had the pleasure recently of working with Ania Juraszek of Kimono lamps on a photo shoot for her new range of lamp shades. I really enjoyed capturing the beauty of these lamp shades, which are truly couture craft for the home! Born from a visit to Japan, Ania in the search for something really […]

My post on Wednesday got me thinking more about what I had written on the role of the female wedding photographer in Ireland. Then I remembered a conversation I had last year with a male wedding photographer that I met at a seminar in Dublin. We were introduced and began talking shop as you do. […]

When I was growing up dreaming of becoming a photographer the industry was largely a male preserve. That’s how it was and that’s how it looked like continuing. As I think back I cannot honestly think of any female photographers working in my home city back then, yet straight away I can think of three […]

With the most hotly anticipated fictional wedding in tv land upon us, lets take a look at Serena and the other bridesmaids style on the big day. Whatever Serena and Blair wear on the show is always hugely anticipated and then copied across the globe. So what did the bridesmaids wear and what can we […]