New Blog is here!

The Brand New Urban Bridesmaid Blog!

The brand new Blog is HERE....

All the new shoots will be going on the new blog so jump over to http://blog.urbanbridesmaid.com/ and bookmark the blog so you can get all the photographs with personality in your RSS reader!

See you on the new blog!




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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.
For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!
London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

Website Maintenance

Most likely you will be asleep during the short period of essential maintenance on Saturday. However if you are awake or browsing in a different time zone, the website will be unavailable between 2-4am BST on Saturday 10th July. Email will be unaffected.


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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.
For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.
To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!
London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

Hitched raffle engagement prize

If you are getting married, a great forum to hang out while planning your wedding is the Hitched forum. Not only is it a friendly place to get answers to your wedding planning questions, it is also the home to the Hitched raffle. This happens every year in April and always supports a great charity. This year over £500 was raised for Macmillan Cancer Support and Alzheimer's Society. HIBs (Hitchers in Business) offer wedding related prizes. 


Recently I managed to meet up with the winners of my Hitched prize - an engagement shoot with personality! The location we choose was the gritty underpass that is the South Bank - where apparently it is legal to graffiti.






The bride and groom were fantastic to shoot and absolutely loved their prize!





We had a fab fab photo shoot with Louisa (Urban Bridesmaid) a couple of weeks ago, and the pictures arrived in the post today (very snazzy CD case!) I LOVE them. Thanks Louisa - seeing these has put me on such a high all day long!





The other ladies on Hitched loved them too!


• wow - I love them!


• They're fab! What a great raffle win!


• They are fab! I especially love the first one and the piggy back one, really natural and beautiful shots x


• really lovely. You must be so happy with them.


• Wowzers! I love, love, love these - especially the first two piccies! Gorgeous! :)


• Oooh,they’re lurrrvly!!!x


• Sorry, but another WOW! What a prize to win. just the style I want for the wedding.


• Wow! Love the style of these shots. They are just amazing!


• Brill photos!!! x


• Wow, they're absolutely amazing, you must be so pleased! You both look really happy too x


• Wow these are lovely, you're a very pretty lass........your wedding day’s going to be a fabulous affair!


• They are brilliant. x


• Ooh they are fantastic!


• Well done Louisa!


• Wow - these are just gorgeous!!


• SO so natural and fun - i love the shoe one.


• They’re lovely pics, you both look so happy x


• Fantastic pictures x


• Gorgeous photos


• omg!! amazing pics, wot a fab prize, lucky you!!!!


• They are fantastic - they look like the uber cool american shoots that I keep seeing. Well done urbanbridesmaid! x


• They are really, really lovely so natural looking and looks like you both had fun.


• Hard to choose..!






Keep your eye out for another raffle in 2011 - there may be hopefully even another raffle prize with personality from me! If you would like your own engagement shoot with personality (and I know you do!) shoot me an email and we can talk over the options!




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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.
For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.
To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!
London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

Rock n Roll Bride Features The Photography Parlour G2G & Me!

As you may remember I recently attended a G2G in Bristol organised by Rosie Parsons of The Photography Parlour.

A big Photography Parlour Flickr group has been set up to view the fantastic images - which you can find here.

Kat, who writes the Rock n Roll Bride blog, is the doyenne of all wedding bloggers, and is at the bleeding edge of all that is happening in the wedding world, especially in the UK.

Today there is a post on Rock n Roll Bride about the G2G and also a selection of my images from the day - woo hoo! I am so excited!







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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.
For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!
London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

2010 World Cup 11 June - 11 July

The baby wants you to support England in the World Cup 2010!




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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.
For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!
London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

Website Maintenance

There will be a brief period of scheduled maintenance on the website http://www.urbanbridesmaid.com/ Sunday 23rd May for around two hours between 5am and 7am BST.

You may experience a delay in response to any emails sent to me over this period.  If you don't get a response to your portrait/wedding photography query within 24 hours, please send it again.

Thank you for your patience during this time.

Louisa




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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.
For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!
London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

New Facebook Home Page

I have been thinking it would be good if the Urban Bridesmaid Photography Fanpage - now a Likepage (!?!) looked more like a homepage of a website instead of just a wall of posts.


And funnily enough, other people have been thinking the same too. FB Adz have come up with a video and tutorial of how to make a new custom welcome page for your facebook fan page - over on their website. It is easy to do and you don't need in depth knowledge of FMBL.




Here is my new facebook fan page in action - what do you think?  Check the new UrbanBridesmaid Facebook fanpage and become a fan/like it!




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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.
For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!
London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

Your London Wedding Magazine: Wedding of the Year

My recent January 2010 London wedding has been featured in the Your London Wedding Magazine - Issue 11 May/June 2010 issue.


Sam and Rob have been shortlisted for the first round of the Wedding of the Year Competition so go and give them your vote!


More exciting than the General Election on 6 May, you have until 21st May to vote! Remember every vote counts!

VOTE SAM AND ROB









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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.
For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!
London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

Eyjafjallajokul and volcanic ash: UK airspace now open

Good news -  UK airspace has been opened at 22.00 today, though it may be some time flights are back to normal. 



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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.



For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.
To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!


London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

Happy Easter and a Prize!

If you are planning your wedding or just got married, and you're a member of the Hitched forum, Urban Bridesmaid Photography is donating a 1 hour engagement session to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

The engagement shoot can be pre or post wedding, or a trash the dress session, or even just wear your wedding dress again, or just a plain engagement. The session will take place in South London.

For the full list of prizes (currently running over £3,000) and how to donate to Macmillan Cancer Support see the forum post below....

http://www.hitched.co.uk/Chat/forums/t/161165.aspx

The closing date looks like it will be 19th April. Go, do your bit for Macmillan!

ETA: 15.00 £175 has already been raised!


Happy Easter!



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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.



For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.
To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!


London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

Don't tell the Bride: Star in the next series!

BBC Three are looking for more brides and grooms to appear on Don't tell the Bride! Details on how to apply are below - don't forget to hire me as your wedding photographer for your wedding photographs with personality!

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Girls, do you have a perfect vision of your wedding day? Have you bought all the magazines, prepared the scrapbook, and now are you just waiting to afford it? Is 'your wedding day' the most important day of your life?


Or...


Grooms, do you think you could pull off the ultimate wedding? Prove that you can do something right? And create a day you will both remember?


If this sounds like you or your other half, the BBC have £12,000 to make your big day.


Don't Tell The Bride is produced for the BBC by Renegade Pictures.


More about Don't Tell The Bride


To apply


Age limit: Applicants must be 18 years of age and over.


Phone: 020 7449 3291


Standard geographic charges apply and calls may be included in your telecoms provider's call package. Calls from mobiles may be higher.


Email: weddings@renegadepictures.co.uk


Write:


The Casting Team


Don't Tell The Bride 4


Renegade Pictures


Unit 5


6 Erskine Road


London


NW3 3AJ


Closing date: 31 May 2010
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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.


For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.

To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook or follow on Twitter!

London wedding photographer //Wedding photography London

Resources and Reciprocal links

Urban Bridesmaid Photography now has a new resources page. If you are a wedding related business and would like to be added, just add me to your website and shoot me an email with your details as below.
Your Name
Email
Details
Website URL
Reciprocal
URL
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Option 1
URL - http://www.urbanbridesmaid.com/
Title - Wedding photographer London
Details - Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.

Option 2
URL - http://www.urbanbridesmaid.com/
Title - Wedding photography London
Details - Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.


Option 3
URL - http://www.urbanbridesmaid.com/
Title – London wedding photography
Details - Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.


Option 4
URL - http://www.urbanbridesmaid.com/
Title – London wedding photographer
Details - Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.

VAT returns to 17.5% on 1st January 2010

A small reminder that the temporary reduction in VAT to 15% will end on 31st December 2009. The standard rate of VAT will return to 17.5% on 1st January 2010.


This change affects any VAT registered businesses which sell or purchase goods or services that are subject to the standard rate of VAT.

The packages for 2010 have already been updated to take account of the VAT changes.


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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.


For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.

To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook!

FREE 2010 Wedding Photography Calendar

31 days to Christmas! And here is my present to you – a free 2010 wedding photography calendar you can download featuring some wedding photos by a London wedding photographer i.e. me!


FREE 2010 CALENDAR


You don’t have to be getting married to find the calendar useful – just enjoy looking at wedding photographs with personality!

 For those getting married, it could help you to have a few ideas around your wedding theme. The calendar features bridal bouquets, flowers for button holes/, big red London buses, red shoes, engagement rings, novelty wedding cake toppers, wedding cakes  and even a classic black taxi - in short a wedding fest!


 You can print off as many copies as you need - one for your handbag, one for home, one for work etc.

It is in a pdf format so if you don’t have Adobe Reader you can download it from here. It is also not a huge file so it won’t take ages to download.


If you find the calendar useful, don’t forget to share with your friends and family! Don't forget to come back and leave a comment in the comment box below on how you intend to use your 2010 calendar!


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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.


For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.

To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook!

Nominate Urban Bridesmaid for Best Local Blog

Every vote counts! Don't forget to vote daily for your favourite London wedding photography blog using your Facebook or Twitter log in!

Wedding Photography Survey 2009

Hi All

I would love to know your thoughts on professional wedding photography.

Thank you for filling out this short survey! It will only take about 2 minutes to complete.

Please feel free to forward to anyone you know that is getting married in the UK!

Click Here to take the wedding photography survey

Website Maintenance 17th October

There will be a brief scheduled outage on the website http://www.urbanbridesmaid.com/ on Saturday 17th October for an hour between 5am and 6am BST for maintence.

You may experience interruptions on the site and any emails sent to me at that time.  If you don't get a response to your email within 24 hours, please send it again.

Thank you for your patience during this time.

Louisa

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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.


For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.

To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook!

Urban Bridesmaid Photographic Business cards

Check out my new look photographic business cards as designed by Moo.

Related posts: Goodprint business cards

New Look Blog!

The blog has a new look courtesy of Rainy Day Templates, which specialises in beautiful templates for Blogger blogs! Now I can have even bigger photos of personality on the blog! Go check out the new look blog!


Also if you are a bride getting married, Rainy Day Templates also have two wedding website designs called Love and Love II to keep all your wedding info in one place!




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Urban Bridesmaid Photography is a new concept in contemporary wedding and portrait photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London and beyond.


For enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London, UK and beyond contact Urban Bridesmaid Photography.

To be the first to see all the latest work, become a fan on Facebook!

Out of office

I am currently out of the office with limited access to the internet and phone. I will endeavour to respond upon my return on the 22nd August 2009.



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Urban Bridesmaid Photography... is a new concept in contemporary wedding photography, with a mission to provide photographs with personality, in London, UK and beyond.

http://www.urbanbridesmaid.com/

For any enquiries for wedding and portrait photography coverage in London and the UK, contact Louisa on louisa@urbanbridesmaid.com