Recent Posts by Lina Orsino-Allen
Ten years of Lina & Tom: 10 top tips for your wedding planning
On July 4th we celebrated 10 years since our first wedding as the official photographer. Over those ten years, we have seen trends come and go, experienced all kinds of wedding from an intimate guest list of 10 to a 400 strong raucous farmers wedding. We’ve travelled from Cambridge to Cancun and beyond. We’ve seen laughter and happy tears, and some not so happy (but only some…) We’ve learned from every single one, all of them. We’ve attended conferences, workshops and seminars, constantly striving to be better for our clients, and the next one is in November. We’ve won various international awards for individual wedding photos and overall as a couple. We had too had a wedding in 2014, allowing us to call ourselves one of the UK’s best husband and wife wedding photography teams (natch.) Lina has spoken about our work and brand at various conferences including the Fearless Photographers European Conference, for which she still pinches herself. She also had our logo tattooed on her arm after that, Tom…well not yet.
Our ten top tips for your wedding planning
So as we’re in this historic month for our business, and have just shot our 322nd wedding on the beautiful island of Guernsey, we are going to kick off a series of ’10 Years…’ blogs starting with the 10 top tips for your wedding, what we have learnt from all our experience. These are certainly not meant to dig at anyone, but rather convey things we see time and time again and hope to give a little tried and tested advice… So, in no particular order:
10 Creative Twists on Wedding Traditions – So You Can Be You!
You know us, we are 100% when it comes to encouraging you to eschew the standard wedding traditions and do things your way – it always makes for the most interesting weddings!
Today on the blog we welcome BiBi Raven of Truly Experiences who has some great ideas to shake things up a bit when it comes to your wedding. Some of these we’ve started to see, so hopefully you can be inspired to go for what makes you happy!
Fun at the Fearless Photographers Conference 2018 in Split Croatia with Lina on stage!
As I write this, we should be in Germany at the 2019 edition of the Fearless Photographers European conference in Aachen. We’re not, and I’ll come back to that shortly.
June weddings round up: boho weddings, fun on the farm and a Boreham House wedding extravaganza
A smashing summer start featuring a woodland wedding, two multicultural weddings, and a chance for us to save the day! Read on for our June wedding photography round up…
Summer fun in Greece, Aynhoe Park and Granary Estates – May wedding photography round up
Need super summer wedding planning inspiration? Take a look at our May wedding photography round-up, which includes a Harry Potter-themed day, our first Aynhoe Park wedding and trip to sunny Santorini for a Greek destination wedding. Let’s go…
Masters of Wedding Photography UK Award Winners Lina and Tom
You may have seen a post last year when we were celebrating Tom coming Top 6 in the Best of 2017 Awards. Well this year Lina raised her game and came Top 10 for 2018! As we wait for the start of the 2018-19 season in September, here’s our 2018 award winning wedding photography.
Upcoming Wedding Shows for Lina and Tom
As the summer heatwave fades I don’t know about you but I am starting to look forward to Autumn; the turn of the trees and that renewed sense of starting afresh (we may also be going on holiday, but nothing to do with that of course!)
You may have put your wedding planning aside to enjoy the summer or maybe you’re newly engaged and want to get cracking! We’ll be at two fab wedding shows in September so why not come along and have a chat about your wedding photography? Reading this and thinking of someone else, do let them know where we will be!
Our business exists because of the amazing referrals from our clients, it is so important for us, so if you know someone engaged, please pass on our details!
First look: April weddings and a destination engagement shoot
The theme of April was definitely spring, with (blue)bells on! From lush blossom to a field of Dutch tulips, we shook off the winter in style for sure. Read for a peek of what our couples had in store for us this month with some fab April weddings and shoots…
First look: March Madness! Photography at home and abroad
Our March photography was pretty epic as far as March’s go. Despite Spring not wanting to arrive, we still had a spring in our step this month! Here’s why…
