Another cool card

That's what was inside the small envelope with the Thai stamp on that came in this morning's mail: one of Sam's hand-crafted limited edition (note the 16/70!) save the date cards.

It's really nice textured card maybe 1.5mm thick and about 10 x 8 cm, with two stamp impressions, two textured paper hearts and a piece of textured foil. And in case you can't read the two lines of text at the bottom, it says "Hand-made by Sam with love and lovely things from Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, England and Scotland"

We have no idea how long it took her to make these, but after this we're now wondering what the actual invitation's going to be like ...

More sax please ...

The dude doing his thing here with the soprano sax is the seriously talented Mr Derek Nash, who together with his keyboard and bass players provided the cool jazz at yesterday's wedding.

We've heard these guys at several weddings over the last few years, and have never failed to be impressed - which, considering Ann's an ex sax player and we're both ex music biz, doesn't actually happen very often where musos are concerned. And on top of that Derek's a really nice guy!

Contact numbers are 01322 557720 and 07961 347399

Origami

Top picture is the first page of what has to be the most amazing wedding invitation we've ever seen. Below it is the next two pages. And below that, the directions to the venues, complete with contact details for taxis, hotels etc, which opened out before your very eyes as you turned the page!

This quite remarkable product was designed by the bride herself, as was the rest of the stationery, all of which was of the highest quality. But not content with that, the very talented Caroline also made their wedding rings. And her necklace. And the bridesmaids' necklaces. And the groom's cufflinks. All hallmarked with her own Maker's Mark, registered at Goldsmith's Hall especially.

One other neat touch:the dessert for the wedding breakfast of the new Mr and Mrs Logan was, perhaps inevitably, Loganberry Meringue Fool ...

Photographers and the feeding thereof

Just got an email from Jemma whose wedding we couldn't photograph 'cos we were already booked on her date, asking what the etiquette is about feeding her photographer.

The short answer is that you ask your photographer, who will be expecting you to ask and will certainly appreciate your consideration!

We actually deal with this issue by stating in our literature that we don't expect you to feed us, although we'd appreciate it if some bottled water could be made available to us. Despite that, some couples do still kindly offer us food, and sometimes we actually get to eat it, but for us it always works best if we make our own arrangements. Why? Well ...

For a start we're not your guests, we're your photographers. Operationally, it's a nonsense if we have to eat whenever and wherever your caterers feel like serving us something, which, incidentally, might well be very different from what you paid for. And besides, we're both vegetarian, upon hearing which caterers invariably ask "Do you eat fish?", I start twitching and Ann shuts me up before I have chance to say "No, the clue is in the word".

Which reminds me of the time I was in Waitrose and happened to see a shelf-stuffer putting tuna and cucumber sandwiches in the veggie section of the chiller, so I said to her "How long has tuna been vegetarian then?"

She thought for a moment then said "Well I suppose it depends on what they eat". And to this day I am convinced that she wasn't joking.

Best wishes for a super day on July 15th Jemma!