Royal Terrace Hotel in Edinburgh for Raye and Howard’s wedding, on Saturday I’m at Norton House Hotel and the Hilton Edinburgh for engagement shoots and then next week I’m at Craighouse on Tuesday for Corinne and Stuart’s wedding and then back there again on Saturday for Morag and Alistair. So having such a busy week already booked up is the reason I can’t do the Royal wedding on Friday ;)Royal Wedding fever is of course beginning to grip the UK as we build up to next Friday’s wedding. As you already
know I am involved in Radio Forth’s 'Win Your Wedding' competition which is now down to the final four couples. One of these couples will win their entire wedding! Norton House as their venue, wedding gown from Emma Roy, honeymoon from Bryton Travel, photography from myself and much much more including their wedding car, flowers, cake, groomswear, rings, etc. It’s one of the biggest ever prizes on local radio! However, coupled with that Scottish Television's "The Hour" program is featuring a wedding slot every day running up to the Royal Wedding next Friday and I am one of their selected wedding photographer’s being showcased on their website. So things are really exciting just now!
However, you may wonder why I’m posting a couple of wedding cake photographs. Well periodically I do a
google search of "Philip Hawkins Photography" just to see what comes up and where my images are being used. I also regularly use the search term Wedding photographer Edinburgh, wedding photographer’s in Edinburgh and Edinburgh wedding photographer, to check that my website ranks on the first two pages of google. Sometimes it can be quite surprising the places I find my photographs or the websites that quote from my articles. And that was the case this time. A well known wedding information website was running a 'Wedding cake inspiration' feature. Alongside their advice and information they were using a few photographs to illustrate the piece and also perhaps provide inspiration for other couples. I was delighted to see the majority of pictures were mine!
It also got me thinking too. Yes, I know that can be dangerous! lol When I’m at weddings I do of course take a great many pictures and because I work for most of the time photo-journalistically I like to obtain photos that will capture the entire day pictorially including many elements of the day during the time for which I’m booked. The wedding cake is of course a central element and I’ve taken so many photos of wedding cakes I’ve lost count. However, when I select images to be used for promotion or advertising or when I’m asked to supply photos to the Radio and Television stations I invariably use photographs that have the bride and groom in them. Or perhaps just the bride depending on the purpose. I don’t think I’ve ever used a photo of a wedding cake.
So, hmmm, I’m now thinking in future maybe I should consider it. Anyway, here’s the wedding cake photographs that were used and I’ve also included Raye and Howard’s cake from Sunday’s wedding...just to let you know I’m telling the truth, lol.
