While brides get ready (normally the final stages) there are many photo ops like this one of Lucy - hope you like this shot.


It's a great time to get brides and their bridemaids used to having me around - let's face it I'm normally at weddings through to the first dance; getting used to ignoring me and my camera is the perfect way for me to blend into the background and capture the magic of your wedding day without turning it into a photo shoot.

Black & White photographs are included...

The links at the top of the page take you to galleries of wedding photographs I have taken at weddings. I am gradually working through the many weddings I have photographed over the years with a view to showing a small number of photographs taken at each wedding. The galleries of wedding photos include some descriptive text and include what the couple wanted from their wedding photography.

Some of the gallery photos will show photographs with a classic emphasis, while others will be more focussed towards reportage or candid as it happens photographs taken at the wedding, dependent...

How to get married in Cornwall or where to get married in Cornwall. Well I guess this depends if you would like your wedding ceremony to be a civil ceremony or a religious ceremony and how many guests you expect to attend your wedding.

For civil weddings there are many wedding venues licensed for civil wedding ceremonies; many hotels throughout Cornwall are now licensed and will accommodate large numbers of guests to the smallest of weddings when the only people attending the wedding are the bride and groom. There are castles, underground caves and a tin mine for...

There are many hotels in Cornwall where couples can get married; they are licensed for civil weddings and partnerships. There are a wide range of wedding venues from large hotels catering for 150 or more guests and smaller venues which cater for smaller weddings and wedding parties.

The larger hotels often have more than one room licensed for weddings. The popularity of hotels for couples to get married has increased because Cornwall weddings are very popular with people who do not live in Cornwall.

Many hotels have beaches nearby which make fantastic locations for wedding photography;...

Getting married in Cornwall? It's Pervaiz here and first off congratulations; preparing for a wedding is hopefully proving to be an exciting time for you and not too stressful. So many couples are choosing to get married in Cornwall it really is becoming one of the major destination wedding locations in England.

Living in Cornwall really is special especially being a wedding photographer and although I do cover weddings out of the county the majority of my work is Cornwall based.

...

Family wedding photography is always a popular aspect of photographing weddings after all where would any of us be without our families.

The family groups tend to be relaxed and informal in order to capture the true personalities of the family members in each photograph. The number of family photographs taken is entirely up to the bride and groom; some couples have not wanted any of the more formal groups but when they realised how I work they were happy to have some done; many people think they take ages to do. This is not the case, however...

Civil Wedding Ceremonies in Cornwall

Civil weddings have become more popular in Cornwall for couples preferring a civil ceremony to a religious ceremony. Civil marriages take place mainly due to Cornwall being a destination wedding location and church weddings are still more difficult to plan if you do not live in Cornwall

Civil wedding ceremonies can be themed to your preference and so can your marriage vows. Most civil wedding venues will allow the room in which the marriage will take place to be decorated; flowers are often used to decorate the room to make the...

Bridal photography is an area of wedding photography that principal photographer at Shah Photography, Pervaiz Shah, has been involved with for over 30 years during which time he has become a leading bridal photographer having photographed brides in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Bristol, Oxfordshire, Sussex, Hampshire, Lancashire. This bridal photographer also photographs brides in London, Berkshire and Surrey; a style of photographing brides that ensures each bride looks fantastic in their bridal portraits.

Demand for Pervaiz's bridal photography takes him to other parts of the country. For any venues that Pervaiz has not photographed weddings at he will check...

Many wedding photographers do not allow photographs they have taken at a wedding to be used on Facebook; Shah Photography does so your family and friends can share the enjoyment of your wedding photographs if you wish. We provide an on line gallery for each of our couples and Facebook ready photos are also available.

Facebook ready photos are resized and processed to provide the best quality for your Facebook friends. We do like to watermark the images so people know who took the photos; on request watermarking is a stage we can leave out.

With...

It's always great to meet couples in the early stages of planning their wedding and listen to their ideas and to get their reactions to the wedding photography and albums etc. Although the web is a wonderful shop window couples frequently comment how amazing the photographs look when we meet; after all who knows how their monitor is set up, if the web site is being viewed on a laptop, particularly an older one, or if it's been viewed on a portable device.

Yesterday I posted about photographs being supplied on disk, the digital image files, and during...

Do you do a disk of wedding photographs? This is one of the questions asked by many of the brides to be when they make an enquiry about the Shah Photography wedding photography services. We supply the photographs on disk as standard as we want our customers to get the maximum enjoyment from the collection of photographs taken on their wedding day.

In the days of film this was not possible as we would not have had a copy of the images for our use for example for promotional purposes about our wedding services.

When a...

I had to see a couple in Truro and was delighted when they booked me to photograph their wedding; being in Truro I thought I'd pop in to the Hall for Cornwall wedding Fayre where I met up with Bob from Strawberry Leisure who was showing his VW Camper Vans; he was frozen even though he had his thermals on. On one side of Bob was a white Range Rover Sport and on the other side a vintage touring car. It's amazing how much choice couples have these days for their wedding transport.

It was great to catch...

Seems hard to believe that we're in mid July. One of my busiest weeks took place in June covering no less than 1500 miles photographing a wedding at Polhawn Fort near Torpoint, shoots in London on different days, meeting with couples in London and Cornwall who are getting married in Cornwall.

I am thrilled with the responses from people I am meeting; the studio galleries are so well received and I'm really looking forward to the work that's in the pipe line for the rest of 2011.

The photography industry fascinates me; so many changes and...

Why do wedding photographers do this?

I watched Watchdog on BBC1 this evening in which there was a feature about a wedding photographer who was providing a less than professional service to couples getting married, claiming to be a photographer with many years experience. The programmer highlighted several dissatisfied couples whose weddings this photographer had photographed. In one case he had booked a wedding and assured the couple that he would be the photographer who would photograph their wedding; he sent a photographer to cover the wedding photography who the couple had never met and the photographer was...

Church weddings, ceremonies, getting married in church

From a wedding photographers point of view here in Cornwall, I have seen a marked increase in the number of weddings for which the wedding ceremony will be held in church. We had a church wedding which I have to say was amazing; I guess a church makes much more of an occasion than a licensed venue, putting the religious aspect aside church weddings are, it would seem, on the increase.

Unique atmosphere for your wedding ceremony

The events that have taken place in churches over many...

Professional Wedding Photographers

With the huge number of wedding photographers to choose from it can be confusing so I hope this may be helpful to future wedding couples. Professional wedding photographers will have a reputation to uphold and will be known to other people within the wedding industry. Many keen amateur photographers are advertising their services; although they may be good photographers, shooting a wedding is a specialist area of photography and experience is so important.

Personality

The personality of your photographer is very important as your photographer will, at times, be...

Here's a photograph of one of my favourite beaches, featured in my wedding photographs in Cornwall, where I often go to enjoy all it has to offer. Fresh, clean air, normally a breeze gorgeous sea views and toady glorious sunshine. This is Gwithian near Hayle which is only a few minutes drive from where I live and where I love to walk to think and focus on my plans for the future and how I will get there. This photo was taken on my phone camera; I must take my point ans shoot camera out with me to share some...

Welcome to the first posting on the Shah Photography blog; not so much a blog but ramblings about all things wedding and photography. Featured weddings  photographed at the many different wedding venues in Cornwall that I have worked at over the years, the majority of which are in Cornwall. It will be great fun talking about the different weddings; each totally unique and I shall be giving information that will be useful to couples getting married.

...

Cornwall wedding venue Polhawn Fort has been the setting for many weddings I have photographed and is a great venue for couples looking for an unusual setting for their wedding celebrations.

Licensed for civil weddings and partnerships this venue has much to offer wedding photographers being located near the private beach, great sea views across the bay, spacious grounds with the fort itself providing an unusual backdrop for wedding photographs.

Here are some shots from Lara...

Wedding photographers in Cornwall Shah Photography. Wedding photographer Pervaiz Shah covers weddings throughout Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire plus in and around London.

Experienced photographer who specialises in providing wedding photography services including bespoke wedding albums designed to a very high creative standard