Your Experience with Andrew Miller Photography.
“People don’t buy what you do. People buy why you do it.”
Your Experience with Andrew Miller Photography
From “Hello” to “Wow!”
You find my website, are amazed at my utter brilliance and proceed to stalk me on social media. Sometimes before your partner has even asked you to marry…
You eventually get in touch via my contact form.
I respond with either “Yes – let’s get together”
or
“No…I’m sooo sorry I’m booked :-) “
You say “Yes -what now? Can I book you?!!”
I say, “Hang on a cotton-picking minute there, pardner…” (John Wayne style), and we arrange a date to meet up someplace, old-fashioned Face to Face. Unless you are on Quebec then it’s Zoom!
I introduce you to my personality…I want to meet every single couple Face to Face. Afterall…if I’m going to spend 16hrs+ with you, we NEED to get on like a house on fire. Besides, it gives you a chance to give me the Jaffa Cakes for your 10% discount and practise your tea making skills ;-)
You ask to meet, and start worrying about how I like my tea…and then research it on my YouTube channel. After all, not getting my tea right is a bit of deal breaker according to my website!
We meet. I Show you my excellent wedding albums and my amazing work and enthral you with my amazing sense of humour and crap jokes.
You enthral me with ideas for your wedding, ask me thousands of questions, make me tea and give me Jaffa Cakes.
If I like you, I’ll ask if you want to book.
If I don’t like you, I’ll take the Jaffa Cakes and tell you I’m not the right guy for you.
You get excited about booking the Worlds Most Handsome Jaffa Cake Eating Pony Tail Wearing Bon Jovi Loving wedding photographer
I get back to the office and eventually send out the paperwork and invoice. I hate paperwork and I hate admin stuff. So nag me if you have not received anything in a week ;-)
You ask me tens of thousands of questions via WhatsApp, Text or Messenger on anything and everything concerned with weddings.
But usually, you send me pictures of wedding dresses and ask for advice on how to tell that auntie and uncle to “do one” as you don’t want them at your wedding.
Along the way you get a pre-wedding shoot date arranged :-) and plan for it by buying me Jaffa Cakes. Again.
We meet for the pre-wedding shoot and you are blown away at just how easy it is to work with me, and cringe at the crappy jokes I tell.
If you remembered the Jaffa Cakes, I’ll make you both look amazing.
If you don’t remember the Jaffa Cakes your booking is seriously in jeopardy – so make sure you have a good excuse…
We meet again. And again, you buy me Jaffa Cakes. By now you are getting the hang of my addition to Jaffa Cakes.
We discuss, plan and arrange the timelines of your wedding day. Usually, totally ignore the wedding venue, who want you to have the first dance at 7pm in the summer and the buffet an hour after you finish your wedding breakfast.
The wedding day arrives!!
I arrive so early as to have to shout, loudly, to make sure you are all awake and out of bed. You look grumpy as hell but decide to play along with me as I’ll be the one editing your face in the coming days…
You give me Jaffa Cakes, DeCaf Yorkshire Tea and in return, I’ll edit you to look amazing and cook your breakfast.
I run around like a blue-arsed fly and make sure your wedding day goes to plan. I like a plan.
By the night time I will (usually) have some sneaky peeks up on my Facebook Page.
You go off on honeymoon /mini moon / back to work with the excited look of joy after your wedding. And probably a hangover.
You nag me to ask when the photos will be ready…even though it’s only been 36 hours since I last saw you staggering around the dance floor with a tie around your head giving it some (very weird) shapes.
In less than a week I’ve edited, retouched and made all those people who bought me Jaffa Cakes and made me weak decaf Yorkshire tea look even more amazing.
I’ll also send you the link so you can share it with your friends and family.
You get in touch to say how wonderful I have been (I know), and how amazing your friends and family thought I was (I know), and how your grant loves me to bits (I know).
Along the way, you also write me a spectacular 5* Google Review. Don’t. You.
I send you the links to choose your wedding albums favourtites.
In next to no time it’s 6 months past and I nag you again for your wedding album favourites. And a 5* Google Review.
You respond with how busy you have been and how hard it is to choose your faves (I know) and eventually you send them over to me.
Then less than 24hrs later you are nagging me for the design…
I send the design, you sign it off, and I sent it to print, and 5 days later, you are nagging me where the album is.
I reply that “Perfection Takes Time” and that “it can take up to 10 weeks” and “Where’s that bloody Google Review?”
You buy me Jaffa Cakes and make me a perfect 10/10 weak DeCaf Yorkshire tea as I hand over your amazing wedding hand-crafted wedding album, chock full of your favourite images. You smile, laugh and probably cry. I hand out tissues…I bring them especially ;-)
We part…but I know I have left a legacy that will outlive us all.
Andrew Miller
Weak tea-drinking, crap joke-telling, Jaffa Cake eating, Bon Jovi loving, incredibly handsome wedding photographer (probably).
As a tea-sipping, pun-cracking, Jaffa Cake munching, Bon Jovi enthusiast, and strikingly good-looking wedding photographer (most likely), I am more than just a Bristol-based wedding photographer.
Wedding photographers in Bristol, like myself, often go beyond just capturing images.
I meticulously plan, organise, and create lasting wedding memories for weddings in Bristol and Somerset. My camera bags carry more non-photography related items than most would carry in a purse... Hairspray. Brush. Hair Grips. Jaffa Cakes. Deodorant. Blister kit. Plasters. Paracetamol. Crochet hook. Unicorns. Eyelash glue. Sewing kit. Heel Protectors. Scissors. Nail file. Bust tape. Umbrellas. Emergency hygiene kit.
Why do I do this? Because the last thing you need on your wedding day is to stress over the small stuff. Let me handle those details while you focus on celebrating the day with your loved ones.
And did I mention my fondness for Jaffa Cakes? I usually have a box or two on hand, just in case! ;-)
Red Flags When We Meet
NO Jaffa Cakes. You bring me a box (or more if you fancy) of Jaffa Cakes when we meet and I’ll give you a 10% discount. No Jaffa Cakes, no discount. This is firm rule (not a guideline by the way).
I don’t share my Jaffa Cakes. Don’t make me fight you to prove it. I have no scruples when dealing with Jaffa Cakes.
NO Bon Jovi. Optional, but bonus points if you like Bon Jovi!
NO Weak De-Caf Tea. Optional...but you'll get hundreds of points if you can make me a cuppa that is perfect. Decaf tea, no milk, no sugar and weak enough to see the bottom of the mug easily.
TL;DR
No pretentious crap. Just solid hard work and amazing wedding photography. Just buy me Jaffa Cakes.
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