Wedding Photographers in Wickford

Tina Wing Photography offers award-winning wedding and portrait photographer with a natural, documentary style with a sprinkle of traditional. They love to create treasured memories for wedding couples but also offer an extensive corporate service from conventions, press launches, products, publicity to corporate headshots.

What do you need to know from an organiser in order to provide a comprehensive quote?

For us to provide a comprehensive quote to a customer, we need to know the date, a brief explanation of the event, the estimated number of guests, the venue, if there is suitable parking (especially in London), and whether you want photographs printed at the event. From this we can then put together a suitable shoot list and plan for the event, including the equipment required to deliver the job.

What advice would you give to a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?

When hiring a photographer for your event, you might like to ask how the photos will be delivered to you. Do you want a USB of images, an online gallery or printing onsite? Also check the reviews and comments online.

Please tell us a little bit about how and why you started the business.

I can sometimes be found at the top of an abseil tower with Bear Grylls!

My daughter’s Brownie pack persuaded me to become a leader, which I still love to do now as a volunteer. In 2007 the World Scout Jamboree was held in Chelmsford. I took my children as day visitors and had an amazing time. This whet my appetite to go to a full one, and a year later I stepped nervously onto the photography team at my first jamboree at Essex International Jamboree in 2008. It was the most fantastic week, and afterwards I did more volunteer photography work with Essex Scouts.

In 2012 I was delighted to be a Games Maker driving the Olympic cars at Excel. I was also honoured, and privileged, to carry the Paralympic flame at 1.30 am in Watford as part of the relay. Sandwiched in amongst these events was Essex International Jamboree 2012. I went back to the photo team, and made lots of new friends. At the end of the event they said I should be a photographer full-time, so in October that year I started Lightning Event Photography, specialising in sports and events with onsite printing.

After a couple of years I also wanted to expand into weddings and portraits, but felt that the Lightning brand wasn’t personal enough. In January 2014, Tina Wing Photography was born, later developing into business and food photography.

Please tell us about a booking you've had through Add to Event, how did it go? Would you recommend us to others?

I've had lots of bookings through Add to Event, and quite a lot of them have been very last minute. I was delighted to help a local Masonic Lodge out earlier this year on a very busy weekend where I was photographing lots of street parties for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. They were delighted with the results, and gave me 5-star reviews for everything. They couldn't understand how I had managed to fit everything, and have already booked again for next year. Add to Event is still growing and I do my part to promote the platform to my hospitality colleagues.