Wedding Photographers in Cornwall Blog

Archive for July, 2010

As wedding photographers in Cornwall and on a personal basis, Iconik Photography have a long association with the Carbis Bay hotel near St Ives in Cornwall, so we were overjoyed to hear that they were voted the winners of the Westcountry Wedding Award’s best wedding venue in Cornwall. Victoria, Carbis Bay’s wedding co-ordinator, works tirelessly to ensure that the day goes exactly to plan for the Bride and Groom with an incredible attention to even the smallest detail. We count Victoria as a personal friend and she has a magical way of making everyone feel special. 

Carbis Bay Hotel is a family owned business and the high standard of service  and comfort insisted upon by the owner, Malcolm Baker and his son Stephen Baker are evident throughout. All of the staff at the Carbis Bay Hotel contribute enormously to the seamless running of events dealing with the large number of guests with a wonderfully courteous ease.

As wedding photographers the Carbis Bay offers us many wonderful photo opportunities. Built in 1894 by the famous Cornish architect, Sylvanus Trevail it’s a wonderful building with manificent features from the elegant marble corridors, the beautifully decorated main dining room, the wonderful conservatories, award winning gardens and, of course, the stunning beach which is owned and maintained by the hotel. There aren’t many beaches in the UK  that can boast such a wonderful expanse of golden sand and truly blue sea.

As the next bay on from St Ives, Carbis Bay  shares the same magical light that has enchanted and attracted some of the world’s greatest artists and inspired authors like Virginia Wolf and Rosamunde Pilcher immortalised the hotel in her novels ‘The Shell Seekers‘ and ‘Winter Solstice‘.

Carbis bay Hotel is richly deserving of its accolade of Westcountry Wedding Awards best Cornwall Venue, and we look forward to maintaining our special relationship with them for many long years to come.

Planning a wedding can be a logistical nightmare trying to calculate to costs of venues, cakes, flowers, dresses.. the list is endless. Nat and I know exactly what its like, we’ve been through it together for our own wedding… OK, I confess,  Nat and her mum Sally did most of it .

One of the hardest parts is getting suppliers to be up front about their costs and to find out about the hidden extras that can often break the budget. It’s with this in mind that Nat and I decided we wanted to find a way to take the uncertainty out of a least one area of the planning – the wedding photography. We’ve tried various options like issuing price lists for fixed packages containing  photography and albums, but there is always that grey area where the packages didn’t quite match the budgets or other requirements.

Dissatisfied with this approach we decided to try and create a way where potential clients can mix and match services and products and get an instant price calculation. Well, after a lot of burning of the midnight oil and several grey hairs later.. I’ve finally managed to create what, I hope, is the perfect solution. The Iconik Photography Wedding Photography Price Calculator (was that a fanfare I heard??)… hmm..  might have to think of a catchier name for it though!

With this brand new tool you can choose the type of photographic coverage you require, add albums and digital Storybooks from suppliers like Jorgensen, GraphiStudio and Flori, order extra DVD’s (all of or customers who choose one of our photographic coverage packages receive a free licensed, high resolution, printable DVD of their images) and get an instant calculation of the total cost.

If your wedding is in Cornwall or within a 100 mile mainland round trip of the County we don’t charge for any travel expenses.  If your wedding falls outside of this area, is overseas  or in the Ilse of Scilly, we’ll be more than happy to work out and agree the best price for travel and accomodation with you before the event so that you don’t get landed with any unexpected fees. There are no hidden “extras” added to the photography and albums package price; the price you see is what the  coverage and products will cost you and, if you choose to use our services, we’ll honour that quote for 30 days from the date you submit your enquiry, even if our suppliers raise their costs during that time.

If you want to have a look and try our new “gizmo” pop over to The Iconik Photography Wedding Photography Price Calculator and have a go.

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A few more images from our trash the dress shoot with Laura.

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