The East Wedding Company: Tim & corrine's sci-fi wedding by E J Woodrow photography

Friday, June 6

Tim & corrine's sci-fi wedding by E J Woodrow photography

Tim & Corrine’s Sci-Fi Wedding at Elm Farm, Norwich

By E J Woodrow Photography

www.ejwoodrowphotography.co.uk

Hi my name is Emily Woodrow and I had the pleasure of photographically documenting the Sci-Fi Wedding of Tim & Corrine last month. It was important to the couple to capture their passion of Sci-Fi and create a vibrant and energetic evening reception which they definitely accomplished.

I was so impressed with the level of imagination and ingenuity that was used to create this magical day; I felt it had to be shared! If you are stuck for ideas or would like the knowhow of attracting your guests to the dance floor then please read on….

1) The Sci-Fi theme was amazing, what made you decide to include it in your wedding? Does Sci-Fi relate to how you met?

We didn't meet through Sci-fi but it's always been a mutual interest. Though we're not a perfect match on that front... When we told people we were getting married, all my friends said "Is it going to be Star Wars themed?" and all Corinne's asked if it would be Star Trek themed!
In the end we decided to go for a non-specific theme that brought together elements of all our favourite Science Fiction, which I think ended up being more interesting.

2) I especially liked the setup of the scene from ‘Alien’; did you design and create the Alien egg yourself? How did it work?

Corinne and I made the egg/post-box ourselves and bought a "cuddly" face hugger to try and make the overall effect slightly more wedding-y!
We constructed the egg from the bottom up using paper mache, various paints, glazes and a glue gun. The design itself was an amalgamation of slightly different variations, both of course designed by the amazing artist H.R. Giger, who sadly passed away a few weeks ago.
The mist was created by a smoke machine that the owner of our venue fed through one of the tubes I had attached so that smoke flowed from the top of the egg.

3) What was your favourite part of the wedding day and why?

I think mainly just the way that everything came together after two years of planning and still managed to be better than we had dared hope!
It was also wonderful to see how well everyone responded to some of the more unusual elements of the wedding; it would have been no fun if other people hadn't enjoyed themselves as much as we did.

4) There was an incredible amount of energy on the dance floor, for all of the young couples who are planning their wedding reception, how did you achieve this?

My best advice would be: stick to your guns when it comes to what music you want to play. If you like it and think people will dance to it - do it!

I can't count the amount of our songs that DJs at wedding fairs dismissed as "floor killers". As you saw yourself, they turned out to be anything but! I got fed up of DJs telling me to replace Nine Inch Nails with James Blunt, so I made a playlist based on our friends' music taste and mixed it to remove those awkward gaps between songs. If you know a DJ who you can trust to play the songs you want, use them. Otherwise, do it yourself - it worked great for us!

5) How did you find my photography services and what attracted you to my service?

Steve, the owner of our venue (Elm Farm) recommended you (yet another great thing he did for us!).

We'd spoken to people at wedding fairs who were clearly skilled photographers, but I knew that - between the sci-fi elements and the music - many of them would spend most of the day thinking "what the..?!" and not know where to point their camera!

Once we'd met you, though, it was clear that you "got" what we wanted to do and could therefore take the kind of photos we wanted. Also, beyond the formal group shots, we didn't want people to be distracted from enjoying themselves and made to pose in cheesy positions. We wanted someone who could discreetly capture the true feel of the day - which you did! Looking at the photos you can see that all of them are 100% real, if you stick on the playlist it's almost like being back there!

If you want more in your wedding album than posed formal photos, please get in touch.