Essex wedding photographers David Islip and his wife Sandra, regularly photograph weddings at different wedding venues throughout the UK from their base in Witham, Essex. They photograph weddings together as a team ensuring that a relaxed, polite and friendly service is maintained, without being intrusive or keeping you and your guests standing around for hours.
They have the passion to create elegant and contemporary wedding photographs in a relaxed, fun and friendly manner. They have captured photographs at around 1700 weddings and are both Qualified to Associateship Level in Wedding Photography with the British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP),which ranks them amongst the best UK wedding photographers. The multiple International Awards of Excellence speak for themselves.
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Our base is in Witham Essex we are happy to travel to all areas of the UK to photograph weddings starting from close by, suffolk, Kent, Herts, Cambs. Increasingly we are taking weding photographs in London. Some of areas we have photographed weddings around the UK are Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Dorset, Sussex, Leicestershire, Northumberland, Lancashire. Our furthest wedding photos so far was just outside Edinburgh -
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As photographers, photographing weddings takes us to some fablous venues, Watergate Bay, Burgh Island, Leez Priory, Fennes, Athelhampton House, Boreham House, Dalhousie Castle, Eastnor Castle, Gosfield Hall, Hedingham Castle, Layer Marney Tower, The Old Kent Barn, Westwood Park, Crabbs Barn, Prested Hall, Parklands, Saunton Sands to name just a few.
We are creative photographers with a touch of photojournalism and reportage. We love couples who want a bit of fun as well as the classic wedding photographs. We are qualified with British Institute of Professional Photograpphy (BIPP) and The Master Photographers Association (MPA). Some of the main towns near us where we photograph weddings regularly are Colchester, Chelmsford, Maldon, Braintree, Ipswich, Brentwood, Basildon, Southend, Harlow.
Our photographs are often on display at wedding fairs particularly at the popular wedding venues of Parklands, Fennes, Crabbs Barn, Prested Hall, Layer Marney Tower, Smeetham Hall Barn. We have now photographed our first wedding at Westonbirt Arboretun and the Hare and Hounds Hotel. Our next wedding photography is at Gosfield Hall, Essex.</i> Essex wedding photographers,
David and Sandra Islip are one of Essex’ leading wedding photographer companies whose attention to detail and originality provide stunning wedding images. David and Sandra have vast experience of capturing fantastic moments at wedding photographs at many venues across the UK. A blend of romance, fun and sensuality makes sure your wedding book will have a fantastic professional result in any environment.
There is no other wedding photography husband and wife photography team in Essex who are both Qualified to ABIPP level which is guide to the satisfaction you will achieve and some truly unforgettable photographs. Having over 1700 wedding of experience you can be sure David and Sandra are have the knowhow and are expert wedding photographers and will get the very best from your special day.
David & Sandra Islip photograph each wedding in a bespoke way to capture the formal and the candid moments with high quality pictures David and Sandra aim to make a stylish portfolio which is your wedding book. Favourite books are supplied by Graphistudio and Queensberry. Using knowledge and experience gained over many years David and Sandra can capture a unique aspect your special day in photographs with emotion, magical moments and make you look perfect.
Their skills of lighting and posing often mean they can capture a perfect photograph without additional technology.
As professional photographers David and Sandra are able to make fantastic beautiful photographs whatever the weather. David and Sandra always dress in suits for weddings – no trendy jeans for us! You have the peace of mind that we will blend with your wedding adding to your satisfaction. Our testimonials show that we are not only excellent photographers but helpful and trustworthy also.
We have so far photographed weddings in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Dorset, London, Devon, Cornwall, Leicestershire, Northumberland, Lancashire, Oxfordshire and Scotland - we still have many places we would like to photograph weddings at!
Still looking for our first wedding outside the UK! Although some may term us as contemporary wedding photographers we also include classical, traditional, reportage and documentary wedding photographs as part of our package - story telling is probably the best description.
We photograph many weddings for Brides and Grooms from Colchester, Essex but are always happy to accept clients from Chelmsford, Maldon, Braintree, Romford, Brentwood, Maldon, Halstead, Basildon, Harlow, Southend, Grays or any other town.
Many people seem to think that we would not travel as far as Ipswich for wedding photography as this is in Suffolk - not true, we travel anywhere for wedding photography.
There are many great wedding venues around Chelmsford but these are not the only ones there are wedding venues all over the UK, some wich we have photographed at others we still wish to visit for wedding photography. This weekend we have photographed Engagenment portraits for weddings at The Royal Garden Hotel, London; Crabbs Barn, Kelvedon, Essex and a marquee wedding near Bury-St-Edmunds, Suffolk. We have just completed photography packages for a couples who got married at Gosfield Hall, Essex and The Fennes, Essex.
Our discussions for wedding photographs in the last week have been for weddings in London, Essex and Suffolk. Venues have been The Royal Garden Hotel, Fennes, Crabbs Barn, Benton Hall and Stoke-by-Nayland Hotel. Our most recent engagement portrait was at The Naze.
A wedding photo created by us at Priory Hall, Hadleigh, Suffolk has just been awarded an Accolade of Excellence at WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International) Convention, Las Vegas
We use albums and books from Queensberry in Aukland, New Zealand and Graphistudio in Italy. All books are designed in house so we can effect changes if required.
This week we have been photographing the new guest rooms at Crabbs Barn for their web site and book.
Today it has been an album plan for a wedding we were the photographers for at Crondon Park, Chelmsford, Essex.
Next wedding fair where we will be displaying our wedding photography is at Prested Hall, Feering, Colchester, Essex on Sunday 29 April 2012
We are proud to be guests at the English Toastmasters Association St Georges Day meeting in Chelmsford where we will be networking with wedding Toastmasters discussing a variety of items and how wedding photographers work with then.
Just now working on a album for a wedding we photographed at Church and then onto Parklands, Quendon Hall, which is a fantastic wedding venue on the borders of Essex, Herts and Cambs
Well if you saw the 'worst wedding photos' article in the Daily Mail you may start to understand why a skilled photographer is needed to photograph your wedding - it may may not be the cheapest thing on offer but then how often is cheap the important thing.
Westonbirt Aboretum, Tetbury has been updated to a slideshow of a wedding book
Just completed wedding photography at St Nicolas Church, Witham; Benton Hall Country Club and Hanbury Manor - coming up is Spains Hall, Essex and a marquee wedding on a farm near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.