Well the 2009 wedding season starts for us next week, and as the sun begins to shine down here in Fareham, Hampshire we are starting to pick up more and more portrait and commercial work. This week we were shooting some portraits at the beach and also looks like we have won a really nice event coverage job in May and some corporate portraits.
So just in time for this, and the upcoming weddings we have pretty much finished all of our re-tooling with new office equipment, and some new software and products. Notably for our wedding we have new style gallery cards for the bride and groom to hand-out or send to their guests. These cards have a customised side with images from the pre-wedding shoot and then gallery access details on the back. We received Andrea and Dale’s in the post today and they look lovely. I’ll try to get some images done to add to this blog entry.
We are also in the final stages of updating our new online gallery/cart with some new software this year replacing the cart we have been running for the last two years. This one has some nice features like zoom on mouseover, showing the crop of a print, showing a B&W view and also an ability for us to offer more products through the system. Again Andrea and Dale will have the first live wedding on there – but we will be migrating over their pre-wedding shoot, and a couple of weddings from last year which have not quite yet finalised all of their orders.
We have sent out letters at the start of the month to most of our 2007 and 2008 clients to advise them but our old cart will be deactivated and deleted on the 31st March 2009 and any outstanding orders should be placed ASAP to avoid disappointment.
by Mike French
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