We are giving it a whole new name and approach. We already decided that we were going to call the pre wedding shoot a pre wedding date before today when our landlords came to see us. While they were looking at the pictures of pre wedding shoots on the walls, James said they look like they’re on their first date. Well, that’s what we thought as well and inspired by Mart and Suzanne’s story of their first date, eating fish and chips sat on the wall at Tynemouth Beach where we photographed them a couple of weeks ago, we decided we would change the whole concept of pre wedding shoots.
We always had a slight problem with the concept of pre wedding shoots. Our style of wedding photography is all about being an impartial observer. Watching for the decisive moments that provide a narrative of a wedding day. However we also like meeting people and getting know them before we photograph their weddings so we went with the tradition of the “engagement session” or as the new generation of wedding photographers are calling it, “the pre wedding shoot”. So now the dilemma, as observational story tellers how do we square the contrived concept of making photographs of a couple for no other reason than to make photographs? Ok, this new concept is still a little contrived but it does sit better with us.
The idea is for us to go on a date, just the 4 of us, romantic hey? We can go for a walk, train ride, boat trip, order fish and chips, coffee, play crazy golf, feed the ducks…we are open to suggestions but keep it cheap and we never kiss on the first date.
It was Andy and Michelle who started the rumor that we only get booked because of the chocolate biscuits. So we knew they had the sense of humor to be up for the whole first date thing. We had already arranged to meet them on the beach at Hest Bank. It was very windy, Andy and Steve were quite jealous of Michelle and Josh’s tussle with hair and wind. We did try to get fish and chips but the chippy was shut, so was the beach café, but we all had such a lovely time it didn’t matter.
That bus never came you know.
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