Pretty hotel wedding photo background

In professional wedding photography it’s essential to find or create a good background for the wedding photos; professional wedding photographers either try to find a good background or create their own, using studio photography backgrounds

By `good’ I mean pretty – a good background is a pretty background, an attractive setting. The alternative is to take the wedding photographs against any kind of background, whether it’s pretty or not, but no professional wedding photographer will do this.

Wedding photo backgrounds competition

So there’s a kind of `competition’ between the backgrounds that are available at the wedding venue and the wedding photographer’s own backgrounds. Sometimes the backgrounds at the wedding venue win, sometimes the photographer’s studio backgrounds win.

Wedding photographer as a scout

When I was the wedding photographer at this wedding, held at the North Shore hotel, Skegness, Lincolnshire, the available background – the background that was at the wedding venue, won (there are plenty of scenic backgrounds in the hotel grounds but the wedding was held after dark, on a late November afternoon.)
Although I took plenty of photography studio backgrounds, including some with a specially-designed wedding theme, none of them was as natural as the background in the photo above.
After looking around for a good background, I found it in a room that was just off the main function room of the hotel. It had everything; it was tastefully decorated and there was even a large plant pot of ferns.

Hotel room with wedding theme

Probably the ferns decided it, they were the major factor. Ferns are often used at weddings, as a backdrop for floral bouquets, so these ferns gave the room a kind of `wedding theme’.

Hotel wedding photography check list

The conclusion has to be, it doesn’t matter how good your photography backgrounds are, it’s a good idea to check out the backgrounds which are available at the wedding venue.
*My thanks to the staff of the North Shore hotel for allowing me to use the room.