Ideas for unforgettable events

This blog is written for someone planning one wedding rather than fifty. It is about the photographs taken on the day: how to collect them, what that costs, which routes exist and where each one falls down. Anyone who runs events for a living will still find numbers here they can work with.

Everything is filed by the kind of article rather than by the occasion. Alternatives for people still comparing. Guides for people who have decided. Comparisons and grids for anyone who needs a number to get past a decision. Ideas for those whose day is already shaped.

Competitor prices and limits carry the date they were read and the source underneath. They move; an article with no date makes a claim about the past and dresses it as the present.

What is not here: advice meant to fit every celebration and therefore fitting none. Every article has an occasion, a guest count and a budget in mind. Where a recommendation only holds for a large wedding, it says so — and where it stops working above about fifty guests, it says that too.

Prices here are in pounds and say whether VAT is included, because most of the tools in this field are priced in dollars and quote the figure without it. A plan advertised at $29 is not £23; by the time it reaches a UK card it has been through a conversion, sometimes a card fee, and then twenty per cent. Where a provider bills abroad, the article says so and gives the landed cost.