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 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. 🙂
We had lunch and watched the rugby match at the Hollybush – Unfortunately after a good start by Wales they were thrashed by Ireland. 🙁
Replaced the ink cartridges on my Canon i9100 printer and realigned the print heads. The rest of the day was spent processing images.
Es i bore coffi Cymraeg yn y Bwtsiars, Llantrisant. I went to the Welsh coffee morning at the Butchers in Llantrisant. Shopping in Pontypridd this afternoon and a fairly quiet evening.
Breakfast this morning at the bakery in Church Village. I spent most of the day creating some new widescreen sample DVD slideshows.
A fairly quiet day spent archiving completed work off the computer to DVD. We create a DVD back up of all images as soon as they’re downloaded from the cameras together with a back up of the corrected jpeg files created after we process the raw images. Once we’ve completed the wedding albums we create a further back up of the album design on DVD. While the images are ‘work in progress’ they also form part of our regular hard disk imaging back ups.
Into Cardiff today, food shopping at Tesco Extra in Gabalfa on the way home.
We went to Leekes today, looked around the fitted kitchens and furniture departments but didn’t see anything we liked enough to buy.
Quite a few wedding enquiries today and another wedding booking, looks like the next couple of years are likely to continue being very busy.
A very quiet day today, we had lunch at home.
Paul called in this afternoon. 🙂