Your Wedding by fotologic
We have finally launched our brand new Wedding Photography web site ‘Your Wedding by fotologic‘. Your Wedding by Essex photographers Julie & Ian Bonthrone is there to cater for both UK and Destination Weddings. For those who are new to fotologic here is a small bit about us and more importantly ‘Your Wedding by fotologic‘
Tell us a bit about yourself.
Julie & Ian Bonthrone are Your Wedding by fotologic , based in the beautiful UK countryside and seascapes of North East Essex, the setting for the famous landscape painter John Constable.
Julie and Ian both know what it takes to capture Your Wedding exactly how you want it. Highly recommended by our clients we are passionate about capturing the moments you hold dear. We are proud of our photography and work hard to make each and every photograph a work of art. We love to shoot both UK and Destination weddings and have been commissioned for events in Australia, Slovakia, Germany, Dubai, Spain and of course, all over the UK.
Why did you choose to become a photographers?
Photography as a business found us. Julie has always been artistic and learned photography during a Graphic Design course at college; Ian who has enjoyed photography since childhood learned his photographic craft in the military, however the route to photography as a business was varied.
Julie, prior to her photographic career has worked for one of London’s most prestigious hotels, a major record label, Cruise Liners, as a Beach Life Guard and for the UK Coast Guard. Ian has had a full career in the Royal Air Force as a Search and Rescue Winchman/Paramedic and has also worked Stage Security for some of the worlds biggest Rock Groups and Festivals.
9 Years ago Julie & Ian decided to start a small business out of something we both loved and fotologic was born. fotologic, crazy as it sounds now, was started with the intention of not marketing ourselves as wedding photographers, however if people liked our work and wanted us to cover their wedding we did. More & more people asked us to shoot weddings and events both in the UK and internationally and so ‘Your Wedding by fotologic’ was born. Destination Weddings has become a passion, as are the unique challenges they bring.
How would you classify your style of photography?
I don’t think we would put our selves in a pigeonhole. Our Branding of ‘Your Wedding” by fotologic‘ is all about Your Wedding – Not Anybody Else’s
And that is what we want to capture we want Your Wedding to be the very best it can be for you. To Julie and Ian it is helping to craft your memories that is important to us., which is why we want to get to know our Bride & groom, to understand them, to know what they want to work with them to provide their lasting memories. It would be very easy to talk about “us”, “our” or “we” in relation to wedding photography but the most important thing is “you” and “your” .
Do you have any good wedding stories?
We have loads of stories from torrential downpours in promised sun spots, the Groom turning up late, dress disasters to venue’s not quite ready. Destination Weddings bring with them unique challenges. Julie and Ian are up to the challenge. We both have a ‘Can Do’ attitude that has allowed us to capture the best of Your Wedding we want Your Wedding to be the very best it can be for you. We are not just your Wedding Photographers; from the moment you book us we will be your man & girl Friday.
Both of us are no strangers to dealing with any eventuality, we are sure that once you get to know us some of our Wedding and Life experience stories from the past will come out. Our backgrounds ensure the experience needed to deal with all eventualities, not just photography. We are sure that you will not find many wedding photographers with such rich life experiences to underpin what they do for Your Wedding.
What’s your preferred type of camera equipment?
Julie and Ian both use Nikon equipment, because that is what we are comfortable with. Neither of us would be conceited enough to say they are the best. The camera is a tool to a photographer just like a hammer is a tool to a carpenter: The clever stuff is in the eye and mind of the photographer not the camera!
What would you recommend for a couple just starting their search for a wedding photographer?
We wrote a blog post recently about the Can Do Attitude in Wedding Photography. http://yourweddingbyfotologic.com/wedding-photography-a-can-do-attitude/ in essence there are 3 important things to think about:
1. Plan early, by all means look at the awards or price of photographers, but most of all find someone who shares your passion for Your Wedding.
2. Get to know your photographers – are they putting on a pretence or is what you see what you get.
3. When push comes to shove will your photographers put down their cameras, roll their sleeves up and get stuck in to help with any aspect of your day?
Anything else to add about yourself, the wedding industry, photography, brides, grooms, etc?
We have re thought the process of paying for Your Wedding photography.
Weddings are an expensive undertaking for Bride and Groom and for years Brides have been pressurised into choosing and paying for their Album Package when booking their wedding photography and then paying Extra if they later want more images or pages in the Album.
We think this is crazy!
We quote separately for your Album so that you can choose and pay for the size and number of images at any time even up to 12 months after your Wedding Day. This is to ensure that you do not feel pressurized to buy a particular package until you have seen the images. It also allows you to only pay for the Photography element of Your Wedding before the day! – Albums are only paid for when ordered! We will provide you with our Album Prices from the very beginning so that there are no hidden costs.
If you do decide that you would like to purchase your Album up front we will hold the album monies until you make your image choice so that if you change your mind on the size you will only pay the actual difference in price if you choose a higher value product not some crazy extra image or extra page charge!
Julie and Ian look forward to discussing your special day with you and if you decide to book us, you are assured of Julie & Ian’s assistance and help prior to Your Wedding and our undivided attention while we are with you at Your Wedding.
Julie & Ian
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