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01 Oct 2019

Great Wedding Photos In The Rain

Being a great wedding photographer means that you don’t just take great pictures on beautiful sunny days, but you also make stunning pictures on rainy days. A lot of planning and thought goes into your wedding photography with Mykey Day Photography, but as much as we’d like to we can’t control the weather! Please find below some tips on how to make the best of your wedding day, whatever the weather! Getting Amazing Wedding Photographs on Rainy Days On a wedding day […]

02 Apr 2019

A Wedding Industry Insiders Guide Avoiding Wedding Photos That Your Friends Will Make Fun Of On Facebook

A Wedding Industry Insiders Guide Avoiding Wedding Photos That Your Friends Will Make Fun Of On Facebook Wedding-day wardrobe malfunctions, missed photos – or photos of things you won’t be able to share from your wedding – don’t fall prey to these wedding day disasters that will ruin your re-tweet-ability! 1. Rushed Photos Not allowing enough time for photos is bad enough, but then rushing through all the photos is even worse. If you want wedding day photos where […]

Tips & Tricks / Wedding Advice

10 Feb 2019

Six Ways To Get The Best Out of your Wedding Suppliers

Six Ways To Get The Best Out of your Wedding Suppliers This year we’re shooting a wedding in Kent for a couple where the groom is a professional lighting technician for a major events company that travels the world. He was super keen to show that his wedding vendors would be treated like VIP backstage crew at his wedding as he “knows what it’s like to be treated like dirt” at an event. As well as showing himself to […]

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03 Mar 2018

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Kent Wedding Glossary & Terms

Kent Wedding Terms & Glossary From ‘bespoke’ Kent Wedding packages to Cathedral Length Veils, from ‘Wedding Breakfast’ to ‘Fish Bowls’, there are some weird terms in the wedding industry to wrap your head around! Here we’ve compiled some of the more popular and more obscure terms for you to revise! Backpiece– This is the decorated comb used to attach the veil. Bespoke– ‘Custom built’ or ‘tailored specifically’, this is (in our opinion) an incredibly overused term in the wedding […]

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20 Feb 2018

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What To Do When You Receive Your Wedding Images From Your Kent Wedding Photographer

What To Do When You Receive Your Wedding Images From Your Kent Wedding Photographer So you’ve just received your wedding photos from your wedding day? How exciting! But… Now what?! Don’t worry, we’ve got the most common FAQs people ask after receiving their wedding images covered below. From printing photos from your USB, to dealing with the plethora of requests from other wedding suppliers wanting images – we have it all answered here! 1. Please READ the ‘Please Read Me’ […]

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05 Nov 2017

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Five pitfalls to avoid when planning your wedding

Recently in Kent we’ve had a major Kent Wedding Venue as well as a major Kent Wedding Photographer separately let lots of couples down in a huge way; the first by going into administration and creating a nightmare for brides letting them down (sometimes last minute), whilst the Kent Wedding Photographer who was recently jailed for having indecent images of children was perhaps even worse as this supplier had been taking deposits for weddings he knew he could never shoot right […]

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23 Oct 2017

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How Soon Should I Book My Wedding Photographer?

As top Kent Wedding Photographers we love to share our tips and tricks for weddings across Kent, Essex, London, and beyond… Whether it’s information about the best Kent Wedding Venues, or even what to do during your first dance, we have lots of information we love to share… When To Book Your Wedding Photographer We’ve mentioned many times before when looking for the best wedding photographer that usually the best ones are booked up 1-2 years in advance. Often if you are looking to […]

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31 Jul 2017

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Planning the Perfect Wedding

Planning the Perfect Wedding – Designing a Wedding Day Timeline to make the most of your Dream Wedding “True love stories never have endings.” Richard Bach So you’ve booked your dream wedding venue, your favourite wedding photographer, your perfect wedding DJ, and even had the tasting of your wedding food. But what now? Sure you’ve been to plenty of weddings, but you’ve never organised one before – and now the MUA (Make-up-artist) is asking what time they should arrive? […]

Tips & Tricks / Wedding Advice

12 Jun 2017

The Four Types of Wedding Photographer

The Four Types of Wedding Photographer Wedding Photographers come in all shapes and sizes; from the have-a-go-hero to the full-time professional, from the weekend-warrior to the jack-of-all-trades… Each one has their pros and cons, and finding the right one for you can be a balancing act against these factors. But we find often most clients don’t even realise there’s a difference! We feel it’s important to educate the public about our profession, so please see below for our guide on […]

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23 May 2017

10 Misconceptions About Weddings

Top 10 Wedding Misconceptions You’ll wish you knew before you started planning… We’ve mentioned in other blogs posts how there is a lot of information we pick up as wedding photographers. Having shot hundreds of weddings in countless venues across multiple countries we have a unique insight into weddings that all other vendors do not. Even your venue has only seen weddings done the way ‘they always do them’ at their own venue. Whereas we’ve seen lots of different weddings from […]

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