This is the part of wedding planning no one really warns you about. You get plenty of advice on budgets, timings, and colour schemes. What doesn’t come with instructions is what happens when you bring a lot of history, opinions, and complicated relationships into one room and politely ask everyone to celebrate together. That’s the politics of a wedding day. And if you’ve already found yourself lying awake thinking about seating plans, awkward conversations, or who might feel left out, you’re...

Planning a wedding has a funny way of creeping up on you. You start with excitement, ideas, big smiles and a vague sense that you’ve got time. Then one day you’re deep into planning and suddenly everything has a price attached to it. Some expected. Some… not so much. If you’re planning a wedding in 2026, you’ve probably already realised that budgets don’t stretch quite as far as you hoped. That doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong. It just means you’re planning a wedding in the real world, not...

A couple of years ago, I tried something a little different. Instead of doing things the usual way, I opened the door to skill swaps. Photography in exchange for a service or product another business offered. No awkward haggling, no favours owed, just two business owners backing each other. It turned out to be one of the most rewarding things I’ve done since starting Jonathan David Photography. Not just from a business point of view, but on a human level too. The connections, conversations,...