Category: Wedding

Recently, I contributed an article to a website that offers simple tips to digital photographers. While the content is geared to photographers, the tips are also helpful for brides and grooms planning their wedding day timeline.

A wedding is a big event. Planning a beautiful party for 200-300 guests takes a lot of organization, time and work! You want everything to be perfect–and you want to enjoy the day.

There is a lot to consider when deciding on the timing of the wedding day events and how they will all work together so the wedding party and guests have a relaxing, wonderful experience. Being prepared is the best way to make sure your day runs smooth.

In the article, I offer tips like figuring out how much time you really need. This applies well to wedding couples, since knowing the full itinerary factors into the schedule. It makes sense to find out before the wedding day how long your stylist will need to do your hair. Also, the time it takes to travel from one location to the next, such as from the salon to the church or the church to the reception needs to be added to your timeline.

I also suggest checking in with all your wedding professionals. Find out how everyone from the florist to the caterer will fit into your day. The follow questions may help you:
• Ask when hair and make-up appointments are scheduled to be done;
• Find out where the flowers are being delivered and at what time;
• Ask how long the ceremony will last and decide if you’ll do a receiving line, or somehow greet guests formally right after the ceremony;.
• How much time does your photographer need for photographs;
• What time will dinner be served
• When would the DJ or band like to start the dance.

Another idea I suggest in the article is to consider a “first look.” If your time between ceremony and reception is tight, it can be hard to get all the photographs that you want done in that window of time. Allowing a special moment for the bride and groom to see each other for the first time at the beginning of the day can open up the idea of doing photographs before the ceremony.

When you look at all the elements that go into the schedule on the wedding day, you can be prepared. When you see how the photography fits into your schedule, you can make sure you’ll allow enough time for all the photographs you want.

As wedding photographers, we love to think photography is the most important element of a bride and groom’s wedding day. Surely they want fabulous wedding photography, so certainly they will give us all the time in the world to create beautiful images. But it doesn’t really work that way. Weddings are busy. Often you are […]

Click the link to read my whole article over on the Digital Photography School website!

Source: Digital Photography Tips and Tutorials – Digital Photography School

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial.

 

To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. 

 

But to be fully known and truly loved liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.” 

The couple wrote their own vows for their wedding on Saturday. The bride was beautifully inspired by Timothy Keller. The words resonated because you realize everyone needs to be “seen” or “known” and loved for who they really are.

Everyone loves to eat cake!

From today’s wedding:

Here’s a few images that I’m working on: Laura & Joe were recently married in an outdoor ceremony and had a “barn” wedding reception. More images to come soon!

“Thank you both so much.  We love the book!  My mom even got teary eyed looking through it.” ~Laura

It’s wonderful to see a review like the one Nic and Laura gave us. (You can see more of their wedding images here. Plus, you can see their engagement images here.) We strive to give every bride and groom amazing images, so we really appreciate hearing that we succeeded and our clients are happy with their wedding photography and albums!

“My husband and I were so excited about our wedding album. Becky and Chris did such an amazing job of capturing our day.

Neither one of us look forward to getting our picture taken, but we hardly even noticed they were there. They were even able to make us feel comfortable for our engagement photo shoot, which we were both anxious about. I don’t think we could have picked a better duo! They did such a beautiful job!

-Nic and Laura Burt”

Wedding albums are important because you can’t ask your family and friends to hop onto a computer every time you want to show off your images from the big day. And certainly you can’t ask them to flip through hundreds of proofs, either. You want to easily share just the ones you love best. Having a beautifully designed album is the perfect way to do that.

I love to see all of a wedding couple’s favorite images, together in one place. Laura and Nic selected the images they loved and I designed them into this custom 10×8 album. The satin-finished cover showcased two romantic photographs, one on the front and one on the back and included their wedding date on the spine. It’s so important to me that couples loves their album, and I love it even more to hear it brings them to happy tears!

Working hard! Here’s a quick peek!

Laura and Nic had a simple, classic fall wedding that was both beautiful and elegant. From the unexpected blues in the bouquets to the rich reds, oranges and yellows at the park that we used for photography, the palette was stunning.

The wedding was held at Lutheran Church of the Living Christ with the reception at Madison Marriott West. The amazing flowers were by Simply Glamorous and the cake was by Rolling Pin.

I’m working on editing a wedding, which always takes longer than actually shooting the wedding. Here is a sneak peek of a few images of the bride and groom, the ceremony and rings.