Wedding Photography

Your photographer is probably one of the most important wedding suppliers you will choose as he or she has the task of documenting your whole day on film which will be treasured for years to come by all your family. Reportage Wedding Photography is the popular style at the moment, but whatever wedding photographer you go with make sure you have seen plenty of evidence of their work and make sure you are happy with the results. And for God’s sake get them printed!! A DVD just doesn’t cut it when it comes to Wedding Photos.

Calling All August Weekend Brides!

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Have you ever opened up a magazine to see your favorite celebrity’s weddings covered in fine detail in the pages within? Well now is your chance to get your wedding into the Irish Press!
The Irish Examiner is doing a weddings edition of the Weekend Magazine in August, and as part of that they are looking read more…

Wedding Make Up Competiton

Weddingdates.ie in association with MakeUp by Anne is offering one lucky Bride the chance to win her wedding make-up including full trial!

Makeup by Anne is looking for a volunteer. She is currently setting up a new website, and need some fantastic bridal shots for my portfolio. She’s looking for a bride & read more…

Till Airbrushing do us part?

I spotted an interesting article in the Irish Times today about a couple whose photographer airbrushed all their pictures so that their wedding photos looked a little “plastic fantastic” as if all of the guests had been botoxed in advance of the big day!  As you can see from the photo itself, photoshopping photos can read more…

Real Wedding: Dara & Shivaun

I’m delighted to have some great Real Life Proposal Stories on the blog and also feature some Real Wedding Stories, and I adored reading this story from Shivaune about her “Little Big Day” as well as seeing the beautiful photographs from Bartek Witek, a wedding photographer based in Co. Kerry. I’m sure you’ll enjoy read more…

To pose or not to pose – that is the question!

In recent years it’s become ‘un-cool’ to pose for your wedding photographs – reportage (sometimes known as journalistic style) photography is all the rage. But does reportage really deliver? Here are a few points to start you thinking..

Formal photography as we knew it is dieing away
Couples today don’t want to spend hours read more…

Friday Fun! Hilarious Wedding Photos

As you all know, we like a good laugh here in WeddingDates HQ and when one of my friends on twitter passed this on, I just had to share.
Not looking for stiff-posed wedding photographs?  Well, these are some of the funniest wedding shots out there….might be some inspriration for set-ups for the more quirky couples read more…

Unscrupulous Suppliers

Every couples nightmare, paying a supplier for a service for the wedding, and then the supplier not showing up/delivering the goods…..such is what happened to friend of mine Peter Donegan and his wife who got married 3 years ago and have yet to receive their wedding photographs.
A shocking situation I’m sure you’d agree and one read more…

You can stand under my Umbrella

umbrellas - make your own rainbow!

Looking for inspiration for a blog post this morning, I didn’t have to look further than the office window and face up to the reality that although it IS July, we DO live in Ireland and like taxes another inevitability in this life is Rain.  The majority of couples out there opt for a summer read more…

Say Cheese! Top Photography Tips for your Wedding

Today’s blog post comes from Emily Doran, a wedding photographer based in Cork.  Some great advice below regarding your photos on your big day.  Over to Emily….
Thanks a million Ciara for asking me to guest blog today. You are my blogging icon!
OK, I’m a newbie to this bloggin’ business so I’m just gonna chat about read more…