Another wedding booking in the post this morning. We had lunch at Leekes and then a major food shop at Tesco in Talbot Green.
Met with another lovely couple this evening who are planning their wedding next month.
David called in to use the computer.
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A relaxing Sunday
A quiet morning then lunch at the Hollybush followed by a brief visit to Sommerfield to buy a few essentials, a little work on the computer followed by a relaxing evening.
A bright Saturday
Checked out of the Travelodge and called over to Spixworth for a quick visit before driving back home. Arrived home at around 6 o’clock fairly shattered.
A very difficult Friday
In Norwich for the inquest into James’ tragic motor bike accident. Can’t say it was a pleasant experience far from it but fortunately we all had people with us helping us to get through it. The coroner conducted the inquest in a very sensitive way. The outcome was a verdict of accidental death with no blame being attributable to any party. James struck a lorry which was pulling out from a lane on a bend, the lorry was completely across the carraigeway as James came around the bend on his motor bike, like so many accidents a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A cold Thursday
Travelled to Norwich today a bitterly cold day and some brief heavy snow during the journey. Checked in to the Travelodge.
Wednesday and it’s all white outside
Dydd Gwyl Dewi – St David’s Day
About half an inch of snow this morning which cleared around ten o’clock when the sun came out. Visited Leekes and had a look at shower cubicles and bathroom suites and also had lunch there. On the way back called over to see my mum but as usual see was out!
Good news from Vonage, they’ve reduced the monthly fee for the service from £9.99 per month to £7.99 per month, even better value!
Es i dosbarth nos yn y clwb rygbi, Pentre’r Eglwys noswaith yma, dysgais i Cymraeg. I went to Welsh class at the Rugby Club in Church Village this evening.
Called in to see my mum this evening – she was in!
A Tuesday with snow
A trip to the bank and processing images took up most of the day.
The bride to be that re-booked me for her wedding yesterday is unfortunately having problems arranging the ceremony venue so I’m waiting to hear whether she’s managed to sort everything out.
I met with a lovely couple this evening who were guests at a wedding I photographed last year and I’m delighted that they’ve booked me for their wedding in May of this year. 🙂
A cloudy Monday
A nice start to the day, a bride who had cancelled her wedding plans for later this year rang to say that the wedding had been re-scheduled, luckily we’re still available for her new date and we’ve now re-booked her wedding. 🙂
Wedding dates for 2007 and 2006 are steadily booking and we’re also receiving enquiries for 2008, we always advise people to book early to avoid disappointment, we only photograph one wedding a day so once we’re booked the date is no longer available. When we first started photographing weddings in the early 90s people generally arranged their wedding a year or two in advance, many people still do this but in recent years there seems to be more of a trend towards people making the arrangements three to six months before the wedding. This unfortunately often means we are already booked on their wedding date. The shortest notice wedding we have so far booked is a week before the ceremony, I believe the couple had booked the venues over a year in advance but didn’t make all the other arrangements until just before. Another interesting trend over the last few years is that the ‘traditional wedding season’ has shifted to later in the year, when we started April, May and June were often our busiest months with weddings begining to slow in September. Over the last few years the early months have been less popular with a large number of weddings continuing through to October.
We are very lucky that in South Wales we have a very wide range of beautiful venues from small country house hotels, castles, former stately homes to up market modern hotels, with such a wide range of lovely venues there is less of a need for couples in the area to arrange their weddings on a Sunday due to limited venue availability, although we are now starting to see a marked increase in the number of Friday weddings and a slow increase in Sunday weddings over the last couple of years.
I’m very grateful to Rhys Wynne who tried to post a comment to one of my posts and was kind enough to email me letting me know that there was a problem with the comment processing. I’ve now fixed the problem. 🙂
A relaxing Sunday
We had lunch and watched the rugby match at the Hollybush – Unfortunately after a good start by Wales they were thrashed by Ireland. 🙁
A very cold and windy Saturday
Replaced the ink cartridges on my Canon i9100 printer and realigned the print heads. The rest of the day was spent processing images.