This is something that we discuss at length before your wedding because every wedding is different and unique. After the ceremony, it is nice to allow time for you to mingle with your guests and soak in the congratulations and love, plus have a little bit of time to get photos with important family members. Couples choose me as their photographer because they connect with the relaxed, natural images and during portraits it does take a little time to get relaxed in front of the camera. I ask for around an hour after the ceremony and family photos have finished before the reception starts if the wedding is in one place. If you need to travel for photos and to the reception, allow for travel time, plus 30-45 minutes at each location you have chosen, but try to limit the locations to areas close to the ceremony/reception locations, that way you don't spend your wedding day sitting in a car!

Only if you book the package with 2 photographers. My style is unobtrusive so I do not want to be turning up to a wedding with a crew of people to get in the way. I can carry my own bags and I don't treat weddings like fashion photo shoot, so I do not have a whole bunch of lights or reflectors, I have flash & pop up lights for night time but prefer to use natural light as much as possible during daylight!

Photographers that I use for second photographers already own and run their own businesses and for one reason or another are free on the wedding day to second shoot. I need to trust the second photographer to get the shot and therefore bring in photographers I know, trust and work well with

My approach to portrait photos is to try and get you to be as natural in front of the camera, easier said than done right? I want you to talk to each other (topic choice might be that you just got married less than an hour ago!), enjoy being together and I want to capture that connection. If you are very nervous, I will work with a long lens, but as you get more relaxed I will start to do some gentle posing with you to get a variety of images for you but nothing extreme to make you feel more awkward. I am a candid photographer, which means I document what is happening and I do not work off a set list of poses and then manipulate you into these poses.

The focus of my images are couples together, enjoying the fact they just got married and connecting with each other, not connecting with the camera by saying cheese and looking down the lens. The best way to do this is to try and ignore me as much as possible and soak up the atmosphere of your day.

During the reception I try to capture individual people as they laugh, chat, and enjoy the evening, I work most the evening trying to stealthily capture even the most camera shy guest. Sure if someone asks for a photo, I take it but I find it quite intrusive to walk around, interrupting conversations and getting two people to squish in and smile at the camera. If you want group shots of tables or people looking at the camera definitely dedicate a special corner or space to get those photos at your reception or consider the DJ organising with me a photo dash where you get a shot with a group of all the guests during one crazy song - the Muppet song perhaps?