Category Archives: Photography during the ceremony

Rantarama – the Church of England

Just what is it with the Church of England? Why is it that with one exception, every single time we’ve had a priest ban photography during the ceremony it’s been in a C of E church? Just what is the problem with photography during weddings which seems to exercise so many of their...

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Sun rises in West in Wiltshire

Well OK it didn’t really, but there’s equally astonishing news just in from the county – if you’re having a civil ceremony in Wiltshire, you can now have pictures of it!
Gasp!
Apparently it’s true: the total ban on photography during civil ceremonies in Wiltshire is no more. No longer can wedding photographers expect to be...

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Today Georgia, tomorrow … Surrey?

I was fascinated to learn today that should you be getting married in a certain church in Atlanta, you are provided with a list of “guidelines” to give to your photographer. These are of the don’t move about, don’t use flash, don’t stand in the centre aisle type, and although they’re strict this is...

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Can you please get your photographer …

to sign this and return it to the parish office no later than two weeks prior to the wedding? So says the vicar in her covering letter to the couple two months before their wedding at one of the oldest and most interesting churches in West Sussex …

Sorry that’s fuzzy – I got it...

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“Churches woo brides and grooms …”

or at least they do according to a story about the Church of England’s new guidelines in yesterday’s Telegraph which includes this little gem:-
The guidelines also recommend providing “Kodak moments”: “If you restrict photography during the ceremony, why not recreate the moment later? Stand the couple at the front facing each other, and invite the...

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