Just the usual!

This is just something I've started carrying around with me when visiting family and friends... like you do. haha. 

We put all our favourite pictures from our wedding in this frame and it's an absolute pain to take the pictures in and out, so we have resorted to carrying it around with us instead. It proved difficult when showing my Nanna mind. I planned on holding it up so she could have a little look then taking it into the living room so she could have a proper look. Instead I had to hold it up for ages... my arm ached! haha. I can't wait for my other prints to arrive so I don't have to do this anymore. 

Speak Soon,

Katie

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Wedding: Our Photo Shoot

Michael and I have never done a photo shoot before, (unless outfit of the day posts count) so this experience was a little odd. Luckily our photographers were fantastic and made us feel pretty relaxed. We gave them free reign to use their imagination and create wonderful photos for us. In other words, "Michael and I have no idea what we're doing so please help us." haha. It worked. Most of our favourite shots are from us messing around, or basically just having a laugh.  So these are what came of our little shoot...

And there we have it. Only the reception left to go. I love every second of our day, though the reception was just up our street. 

Speak Soon,

Katie

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The Gloss, The Matte and The Ugly

As I'm sure you're aware Michael and I were married 2 weeks ago and of course we had many, many pictures taken. (Like you didn't know. haha.) I'd saved some McDonald's Monopoly vouchers for 50 free photo prints from snapfish. Now I'd never heard of this company before, but I thought, "well if I'm getting summet for nowt then I might as well see what they're like."

Now they are not 100% free, you do still have to pay for postage, but for 99p delivery you really can't complain. I placed my order on Friday and I received my packages on Wednesday morning. I was pretty impressed, and seen as I had never used this company before I half expected that I would never receive them. Does anyone else think like that when they buy from somewhere new or is it just paranoid little old me?

Now I would say that I choose three different styles on purpose but if I'm honest I didn't. Instead I was too much of an eager beaver and failed to check my order before completing. But for the purpose of this review then it worked out pretty well. Now before I go any further I thought that I'd add that though I got these prints for free (because, thank you McDonald's, I won them) I am in no way getting paid for this review. I wish that I was but unfortunately not. Anyway lets continue...

This picture kinda bugs me.. I really should have lined the pictures up better!

I choose standard glossy print, glossy with border, and finally matte with border.

Firstly the standard glossy pictures. 

Now the quality of these turned out great. I only got 20 of these because I used the companies offer of 20 free prints for being a new customer, so I choose to print off the pictures I wanted to hand out to people in their thank you cards. I'm pretty impressed. Though since having borders on the majority of my pictures and seeing just how professional they all look I'm not that keen on standard prints anymore. I didn't know that you could be a print snob, but I guess I am. haha. 

Now for the glossy prints with border.

I love these. Every single picture turned out perfect. The quality is amazing and they really do look rather professional. I love the finish and they just make out wedding pictures look just that little bit more special. 

And finally the matte prints with border. 

These I think are my favourite finish. Now I think the finishes of matte and gloss is just personal preference, but to me having a matte finish gives the pictures that added bit of charm. The only problem I have found with a matte finish is that I want to stroke them. This has started to worry me. haha. Anyway... we had one picture from the matte pile that came out a little wrong. One picture shows Mike having a blue ink splodge on his right ear, which he didn't have. They were free so I'm not going to complain, but I believe that they should all be hand checked before they are sent out for delivery. Yes someone may think that he actually had that ink splodge there and it wasn't a print error, but we were in church... on or wedding day, so I doubt it. 

Overall I'm pretty impressed and I think I would go ahead and make a paid order when the time comes. But for now I still have two more vouchers for 50 free prints so I'm going to go ahead and use them. I love McDonald's Monopoly vouchers, and though I didn't win £250,000 or whatever the prize was, I did win my wedding photos... so in my world that makes me a pretty big winner. It's definitely the small things in life. 

Speak Soon,

Katie 

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Wedding: After The Ceremony

So we're back with the wedding posts and we're almost done. I loved our wedding day so much and it's amazing that I can re-live it all over again with our pictures. Here we are outside the church straight after the ceremony. I didn't want many formal pictures so most of the ones we have are just full of laughter just like our day.

Next up are the pictures from our professional wedding photo shoot. At first these were uncomfortable as it's not something that Mike and I have ever done, but in the end we relaxed and ended up with some pictures that we truly love. 

Speak Soon,

Katie 

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Wedding: The Ceremony

Here we are at my favourite and most important part of the day, the vows. We smiled and laughed so much throughout the day that it was hard to find serious shots. haha. We laughed with happiness rather than through nervousness. If I could go back and relive this part over and over again... I would! 

For some reason I cannot get these pictures equal sizes, even though I have physically re-size all the pictures to the same width. So I guess I will have to make do with a messy blog. I love how these posts are beginning to tell the story of our day, and as you can tell it was a very happy day indeed, with many, many smiles. 

We will see you tomorrow outside the Church.

Speak Soon,

Katie 

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Wedding: The Morning

We received our wedding pictures today and to say that I was ecstatic about them would be an understatement. Both Michael and I are so in love with them. The quality is amazing. The emotions captures are incredible. And the eye for detail is unbelievable.  I'm slowing going through the process of editing the sizes for my blog, and as there are now 100s of pictures I'm going to do each section of our day. Plus I get to prolong our wedding day for just that bit longer this way. Cheeky Katie. 

So here's our morning. Our photographers were a husband and wife team who worked fantastically together to create the brilliant pictures. Though they managed to capture a lot unfortunately they could only be in one place at a time, but the 'best' best man in the world stepped up to the mark and took some fantastic pictures of  Mike on the morning of our wedding. 

We are so lucky to have been able to capture our wedding day. From looking through my Mum and Dad's wedding album it really does make me feel so privileged to have the pictures we have. Years ago when my parents were married it was at a time where digital photography did not exist, so you were lucky to have 20 pictures of your day. Where as now we have over 600 pictures of our wedding day all nicely store on our computers memory. Don't worry I wont put them all on this blog. haha. 

See you soon with our next instalment.

Katie

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