Photographs are an important part of a wedding because they can capture the moments that you don’t have time to experience and save them for long time on hard-drives.
Wes Robitaille, a professional photographer with over 10 years of experience and the owner of love knots photography in London says, wedding photographs are more than just photos.
“So, what we try to do as a love knots theme, we have tried to photograph it as a story. So, from the beginning of a person getting ready to the ceremony and reception. So, they can have it as a story either for a blog a book to show with their family.” Robitaille says.
He says, the cost of wedding is already a lot just for decoration and catering, and photographs on top of that have extra separate costs.
“On an average in London it’s three thousand dollars for a full day, one event,” says he.
“Wedding planners have added colors to the weddings bringing in new trends and setting new standards.”
Wes Robitaille has been in the photography business was years and he says, a lot of trends have come and go but things have changed a lot with social media.
“So, what’s changed from when I was doing it over 10 years is to now is that social media is the biggest influencer with marketing and young people developing a business and as me as an older photographer, I have found it hard to understand the discipline of using social media to promote. So, it was very easy to phase out of being as popular as I was four years ago,” says, Robitaille.
Telling more about photographing in weddings, he furthers about the challenges they have to face while capturing special moments of someone’s special day.
“Most of the family members are excited and they interfere without knowing that they are interfering, because they haven’t seen their family members for sometimes 10 years and they would like the day to go, the way they would want it. But as a professional we have either a strict timeline or a way that we would want the day to go. So, navigating, keeping everyone happy and the flow and process of the day is probably the hardest part,” says the phot-
Photo by Beatriz Pérez Moya
ographer.
Robitaille recommends the couples getting married this year to look deep at all options for all the vendors.
He says, “Don’t assume if someone’s cheap that you’ll get something good and if someone’s expensive you are going to get something good. So, work on referrals and work on your gut.”
