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Put simply, your wedding day is probably the most important day of your life. When that day is over, other than your memories, the most cherished things that remain will be your photographs, images that hopefully you will treasure for the rest of your lives.With all the pressures and costs of preparing for your special day you could be forgiven for not fully realising the importance choosing the right photographer.

Bridgehouse Wedding Photography is owned and managed by Martin and Tracey Hopkins. If you decide to entrust your special day to Bridgehouse it will be Martin himself who will be capturing those fleeting moments in the relaxed reportage style that has become his trademark.

‘We feel that today’s couples are more comfortable with this informal style of wedding photography where they and their guests appear unaware of the camera.
It is that ability, perfected through hundreds of weddings over the past 13 years, which is behind our success; it has also brought immeasurable happiness to countless couples, their friends and their families’.

Do you cover our area?
Most definitely! In fact we offer almost a nationwide service*. Again, unlike many companies who employ a chain of photographers, with Bridgehouse it is always Martin himself who takes your photographs.

A fact which means it is best to check his availability as early as possible.
Whatever you decide, all the best for your special day……hopefully we’ll see you there!

Martin & Tracey
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Martin Hopkins started as a wedding photographer in 1991 just doing friends weddings initially, then after going to college in 92 for 2 years tried a business as a professional wedding photographer. This occasion it wasnt meant to be as a full time venture so he carried on just doing some for friends and doing some photography jobs in his spare time. Finally in 2005 Martin set up 2 business, Senecca multimedia and Bridgehouse as a professional wedding photographer. "Being a wedding photographer is a challenging job but also very rewarding, you can’t mess up, you have to be 100% concentrated on the job at hand. Other aspects of being a wedding photographer involve being courteous & fun but also the ability to direct a 100 people who dont want to be disturbed! So you have to do this in a fresh polite manner, but do it all the same!" "I think the best thing about being a wedding photographer is meeting interesting people, you meet literally allsorts, and 99% you can have a rapport with your customers, which has lasted long after the wedding. I have close friends who Ive met either being their wedding photographer or the friends of the couple." Martins mostly self taught, but has had some great advice. "I’ve been lucky enough to assist on a couple of jobs in the past with another wedding photographer, he taught me some good things but also I came away thinking, I wouldn’t do it like that, like with all experience, you take out what you think is of use!

Martin has photographed weddings at the guildhall london, where people like prince charles and elton john got married, to dover castle, sutton bonington hall, swinfen hall, blenheim palace,

Bridgehouse weddings photography coverage: nottinghamshire, leicestershire, oxfordshire, manchester, lancashire, buckinghamshire, lincolnshire, warwickshire, birmingham, northamptonshire, cambridgeshire, derbyshire

Wedding photographers

Wedding photographers have changed in recent years, for the better I think, In the 70's and 80's it was quite cheesy, but so also were some of the dresses! Digital has changed the way lots of wedding photographers work, as there’s no film and you can take about 1000 images without changing the memory card, it makes things a lot easier in the fact you can afford to take more, however, you still have to not have the "machine gun" approach too much just because you can! Wedding photographers in general, I think all use digital, there’s a few people on film, but as with the industry it’s dying out, I hear of a lot of wedding photographers being rude, mostly not considering the church aspect of the day, so this can ruin the next few wedding photographers chances of taking shots in the church which is unfortunate. I don’t look at many other wedding photographers work, other than when a customer has shown me a particular shot they’ve liked, but they are some amazing ones! I think unlike lots of wedding photographers that either just do traditional or reportage, martin tries to do both, "well I’ve seen 2 wedding photographers working together and I think while its a good idea and it can work for some, I like to know what shots have been taken, so I think I would think has this or that been taken, so I take it on myself! Also, although I cover most of the UK, I do all the weddings myself like most wedding photographers, I like to know the job will get done and don’t like to trust things out to someone else! I think most people looking for wedding photographers should look at a few before deciding, as all wedding photographers styles and personalities are different!

Wedding photography

While wedding photography has been around for years, I think it’s nice to stay fresh and try to challenge yourself. Wedding photography is probably the most important service of a wedding day, because you will forget if your soup was cold during the reception after a while but if your photos haven’t turned out, then that’s a different story! The different styles of wedding photography are classical, contemporary and Reportage. Reportage photography is similar to photojournalism - it captures an event in a realistic way. Where traditional wedding photography focuses on staged photos, reportage wedding photography aims to pictorially capture the spirit and feel of your wedding or civil ceremony as it really is. Laborious photo sessions are kept to a minimum, and the day’s moments are photographed without fuss in an unobtrusive, relaxed style throughout the day.