u/tobermort

My partner and I answered one of those free videography posts on Reddit months ago, and booked a guy looking to expand his portfolio to film our wedding. We were about to book a paid professional at the time, but this guy was a TV cameraman and his reel looked amazing, so we thought we had nothing to lose. We had a very friendly Zoom where we discussed every detail, including my fear that he might drop out on us. He swore he wouldn't.

Well. Three weeks till the wedding, I reach out and guess what? He's booked a paid gig over our wedding date, and didn't even tell us he was doing it. Now he's ghosted us. Technically I know we had a verbal contract, but short of actually taking him to small claims there's not really anything we can do here.

We're in the whirlwind stage of realising everything else we have to do before the wedding date (September 5th) and I don't know how to begin replacing him. I presume everyone good is probably booked up already, and anyway we've already used the videography budget in other areas.

If anyone knows of a good (ideally cheap) videographer close-ish to Wiltshire I'd be really grateful.

Otherwise, let me just be a warning to other Reddit brides - don't trust a free supplier unless you can 100% do without the service. I wish I'd been less optimistic!

Months ago I arranged to buy about £300-worth of flowers for my September wedding from a local flower farm. But apparently the heatwave has decimated their stocks and they mainly have foliage available. They've offered to order some from overseas but the cost will be much higher (even higher than ordering from overseas usually is, they say, as the demand has risen and stocks are low).

I don't blame them, obviously, but kind of reeling as I'm not sure what I can do to salvage this. Blow way over budget? Decorate the tables with leaves instead? Fiancé loathes plastic so that's not an option, but maybe dried flowers would be ok?

Has this happened to anyone else? What do you plan to do about it?

I've seen a few posts on r/UKweddings of photographers looking to transition into wedding photography and asking to shoot London weddings for free. I'm just wondering if there's anyone in Cardiff looking to do the same?

My partner and I are doing our registry office ceremony at Insole Court in July. It's a gorgeous building, and I may be biased but I think my partner's smokin' too, so there's definitely some good portfolio material to be had! Or good diversification material if you want to get some cute queers in there...

Sorry if this seems cheap - we're paying full rates for a photographer for the big wedding party later in the year, and there's just nothing left in the budget for the legal ceremony. If anyone's interested, drop me a comment and I'll send more details. Thanks so much!

I've seen a few posts on r/UKweddings of photographers looking to transition into wedding photography and asking to shoot London weddings for free. I'm just wondering if there's anyone in Cardiff looking to do the same?

My partner and I are doing our registry office ceremony at Insole Court in July. It's a gorgeous building, and I may be biased but I think my partner's smokin' too, so there's definitely some good portfolio material to be had! Or good diversification material if you want to get some cute queers in there...

Sorry if this seems cheap - we're paying full rates for a photographer for the big wedding party later in the year, and there's just nothing left in the budget for the legal ceremony. If anyone's interested, drop me a comment and I'll send more details. Thanks so much!