Dover Media Group

Dover Media Group Capturing Your Family's and Business' Story through Photography and videography. Hi! We are Simon and Jodie, Kent Providers of Photography & Graphic Design.
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Whether you are a Family looking for anything from Newborn Photography to Wedding Packages,
or
a Business looking for help with anything from your Logo Design to Branding Photography. We're living the dream on Dover High Street with our very own Photography Studio, which as well as use for our own work is available for hire for other photographers and content creators. Pop by and say hi or drop us a message.

02/09/2026

Jo said we didnt need another tv when i found a free one,
She then said i cant watch tommorowland 2026 as ive got editing to do.
So i proved we did need another tv, and i can watch it while editing today


Not me doing train to deal in the rain for this afternoon’s event because my poor van is a poorly and hubby is off shoot...
29/08/2026

Not me doing train to deal in the rain for this afternoon’s event because my poor van is a poorly and hubby is off shooting his own wedding. Actually don’t even mind, , bring me the ber months now, need me some ‘har har har haaaw’. Can we get off season weddings trending? I’ve decided I prefer winter to summer. Please 🙏 Thanks ☺️ ### … sorry I can’t write as much as Simon does … I’m done… here’s a selfie 😘

19/08/2026

I haven't had time to update the socials today, so here's my important update of the week.

15/08/2026

You cant tell some people.
This morning Jo awoke from her slumber eventually, asked whats the weather like today.
Me being my usual helpful self, advised her it was cooler and windy today, " itll probly be chilly later on knowing where we are today very well "
Jo in her infinite wisdom, chose to ware a dress today, and of course is now cold. She has a great habbit of bringing what she is wearing and not thinking about the many wedding days that by 3pm. She is cold and wearing my suit jacket that I lovingly wore to the wedding incase she got cold. You wont be surprised that today by 4pm she is wrapped up in a blanket, reminding me how cold she is frequently, and that I should have been more useful and bought a jacket for her to borrow 🤣.
Never mind that I have a very good winter jacket in the van that is "too warm" for this time of year, i also have a fleece here that is "not appropriate for a wedding" and a variety of t shirts, a couple waistcoats and a suit jacket here in the van that were "not right to go with her dress" but im not the 1 thats cold. 😁.
How does 1 encourage her to maybe bring her own jacket in future 🤣

Completely stitching up the work experience student with a mug shot here 🤣, she can kill Jo tommorow. Kaiya has been wit...
11/08/2026

Completely stitching up the work experience student with a mug shot here 🤣, she can kill Jo tommorow.
Kaiya has been with us for a couple of days this week on work experience, she needed the hours as part of her collage course, didnt want to have to work hard doing a normal job so chose to come along and play cameras with us instead 😀🤣
She's been on a bit of a fast paced journey this week, arriving on Monday with her camera, being given a professional camera to learn on with the simple instruction, learn quick your shooting a wedding with us on Wednesday 🤣 shes absolutly smashed it. Day 1 shes picked up the main settings to get correctly exposed photos, day 2 a quick lesson on editing yesterday's photos from a walk through Dover. Composition and some quick key bits. Then tommorow our brilliant couple have allowed her to come along for the experience of shooting a wedding in real life. Now thats a work experience journey with real world experience.

I'll be honest, we get a lot of requests for work experience placements which generally we just dont take on due to the collage limitations they place soon us as a business, but as Kaiya has a personal connection to the studio as we have now photographed at 3 of her familys events recently, with another on the horizon, and with many family members yet to marry, we thought we should stay in the family good books 🤣.
Im joking obviously, we knew her and she asked nicely and bribed us with Rum and biscuits 🤣

Anyway, tommorow is wedding day for the 3 of us, and im super excited to show her progression! While she can focus on the wedding with Jodie i can hit the bar for a well needed relax 🤣
Or, that'll get overruled by my manager and we will all be working hard together. Time will tell.

So, time to pack the bags, kick the cat out and be ready.
Update imminent at the brilliant Hoad Farm Venue
Tommorow





Some see this as good progress, more albums are off to the post box. I see this as a sign that roll of carpet sat on the...
11/08/2026

Some see this as good progress, more albums are off to the post box. I see this as a sign that roll of carpet sat on the stairs, would look so much better spread about on the floor 🤣🤣

Weddings dont start at 10am on the wedding day when we roll up in shorts and t shirts,  Costa coffee in one hand and a c...
07/08/2026

Weddings dont start at 10am on the wedding day when we roll up in shorts and t shirts, Costa coffee in one hand and a camera in the other. The journey with us starts wekks, months or sometimes years before that.
From when you first discover us, were here for the questions, chats over coffee, random 1am messages with thoughts or inspo ideas. We meet prior to booking with us, either virtually, or in our own studio on the comfort of the couch.
We then book in the final chat to go through all the details. The wheres, the whens, your ideas, our thoughts and the finer details on how to deliver the day you dreamed of.
The preparations continue right up to the night before, the 10 bay usb charger flat out charging gimbles, light batteries, other light batteries flash batteries, drone, controllers, microphones, dozens of camera batteries and the list goes on.
Clearing the memory cards and the hard drives, packing the photobooth, the props, the lights for it, ligh stands for jodie for first dance, light stands for Simon for video lights, different light stands for the photobooth, the prep lighting,
Then a meticulous bag packing. In order, build up the video cameras, find the tripod mounts, the tripods checking everything twice to be sure.
Its never just grab a camera and go, its 5 cameras minimum, a selection of lenses for every eventuality, do I want to stand close like a wierdo on a short lens, or hide in the bushes like a wierdo with a super long lens, the possibilities are endless 😀 anyway, but thats thats just us and as we write this, we have another videographer working with us tommorow, at home going through the same thing with his own camera bag 😀.
Tommorow the team assembles to make memories. For us, for the couples celebrating falling in love. Full day 2 photographers
Full day videography finishing off the evening with the photobooth,
Then Sunday..... we do it all again 😃 x x x x x
Ps. The cats not comming.




04/08/2026

Great night out for the 4th night in a row with our phootbooth, for the 4th wedding in a row tonight. Keeping it busy doing work stuff. Keeping Frank busy (thats the booths name) keeps Simon out of the studio working so Jo can work late and be productive of an evening. Even better than that we get to provide top quality photos, fun and unposed by us for even more gutless to enjoy.
Knowing photography helped us make the booth with the best photos in the area.


Im ashamed of myself this time. A little while ago, a couple reached out to us and one sentence cut me quite deep. We be...
04/08/2026

Im ashamed of myself this time.

A little while ago, a couple reached out to us and one sentence cut me quite deep. We being the most open minded, treat everyone equally photographers you could ever wish to meet.

"We're a gay couple is that ok, will you still work with us? "

Yep. One of our brides said that. And it got me thinking, what on earth did I do make anyone have to ask if its ok for 2 women to fall in love.
Even more, what message did our socials and website send out to couples looking g to book us.

Then I found it actually very quickly.
There is very little on our website, social media and anywhere else that shows we work with Anyone. Lots of brides and grooms, but very little LGBTQ+ couples.

Now let me get strait to it that we work comfortably and happily with anyone, but even though weve worked with many same s*x couples, weve just neglected to share many of their Images, but that said, we work with many heteros*xual couples that we just haven't posted images of either. Its not because we done want to, its just im pants at posting full stop and generally post when I remember images I can easily access from my phone on the road.
Like now, sat at a venue with the photobooth looking for images to post.

Im a little dissapointed in myself there for not showing acceptance enough, but will 100% be adressing that from here on in.

We love you all equally.

Love Simon and Jodie x x

Team selfie because... why not.

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