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Questions, questions...

This page attempts to answer some of the common questions people ask me.

Of course if your question isn't answered here or if you just want a chat then please get in touch - contact details are on the right hand side of this page.

By far the most common questions are "Are you available for my date?" and "How much do you charge?" - you can click on either of those questions to get answers. Another good question is "how do I make a booking?" - see the "what next" page.

We’re Pink Approved

Those nice chaps at Pink Weddings gave us the nod this afternoon. PinkWeddingStory is now an official Pink Approved photographer for Kent, Sussex, Essex and London.

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Gay weddings now legal in California - but for how long?

(Image courtesy of GreenHybrid)
So the California Supreme court finally overturned a ban on same sex marriages on Thursday.
Despite the displeasure of Arnold Swarzenegger (who has twice vetoed bills to allow gay marriage) and the expected protests from “families” that this is an “outrage” they ruled that the ban did in fact breach their sacred constitution. [...]

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Fight for your right to be called a lesbian

OK this one is weird. Just plain weird.
According to the BBC “the term lesbian is now widely used to describe homosexual women”. Erm , yeah…….
So you might be interested in hearing about the man who wants to stop gay women calling themselves lesbians….

He believes that it violates the “human rights” of the islanders of Lesbos. [...]

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Dates are booking fast

Wow, I’ve never known a start to the year like it! 2009 is already booking pretty solidly - and we’re not done with 2008 yet!

The wedding photography business runs in annual cycles and right now we are very much in the booking “season”. The last week has seen the trickle of enquiries that’s been building [...]

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So, what else do you do…?

I’m a full time professional photographer. This is all I do which is cool because it means if my pictures are terrible then I starve As it happens I’m doing fine so people must like my pictures! However, I often get asked “what do you do in the winter?”. Here are my usual answers [...]

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We’re 90% Green!

I did something a little unusual for a wedding photographer the other day - I asked GreenUnion to audit MyWeddingStory for environmental sustainability…. That may be true of all the UK.Of course we use recycled office products wherever possible - paper, laser toner, packaging, whatever.Growing our own food didn’t hurt either ;)And what’s all that got to do with wedding photography?

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