Weddings
Naturally Capturing Your Special Day
I love capturing your day as you experience it to get the authentic smiles and joy throughout the day! Capturing the love story and all the moments as it happens will come through your photos and when you look back on them, you will feel all those emotions again. This is the reason you will love looking at your wedding photos in the years to come.
Having photographed 100’s of weddings, planned my own and been in several over my lifetime; this is just second nature to me. I grew up with my mom loving to decorate so she also would help coordinate weddings and decorate before that was even a ‘thing’ or paid position. So while some photographers say they could never be a wedding photographer, that’s too much stress and pressure; I am there to keep you comfortable and figure out plans in case we do run into some bumps. At the end of the day, guess what? You will be married! All that happens in between just enjoy it. You will find out later in marriage that life isn’t perfect but how you handle the situation is what matters. Now with all of this being said, there is some planning prior to, that will ensure a smooth and fun day! That’s where I come in!
Not only am I your photographer, I help you plan and think of things you may not have thought about. Some questions I will ask you and to think about are:
1. What is important to you and your future spouse? (Photos, the reception, vows, traditions, family, partying, etc.) I will plan your day around this to MAKE sure it happens!
My personal example- Naturally when I got married I wanted photos and time with my husband after we got married to just take a breather. I also loved my family’s farm and so we planned 1 hour for photos after the ceremony to travel to the farm and back and for photos. Prior to I had someone holding my horse where we wanted our photos taken and that reduced time wasting once we got there. I made sure the guests had a lot of appetizers, fruit, cheese trays and limited alcoholic drinks at the bar so people were not drunk when we returned. It also takes about 30 minutes to wrangle all of the guests into their seats, 10 minutes to find your bridal party again for entrances; so knowing this I had someone at the reception coordinating all this so Eric and I could just be added in at the end of the introduction line and things moved smoothly upon our return! (See how planning comes in play?)
2. What time are you getting married?
If you value the reception then I don’t recommend getting married late in the day. The reason is you will run out of time to say hello and do all of your dances, cake cutting, let people eat and so forth. If you have rented a venue the entire day, use the time wisely! More time is better than not enough.
3. How much travel time in between the hair salon, hotel, ceremony, reception? Often people do not allow for enough time and this crushes their plans and I have seen it cause more tears than you would think! When I say plan, like we plan down to the minutes of the day, everyone gets a copy of the timeline.
4. What is your budget for a photographer? This helps me understand what packages I can offer you and services.
5. What all do you want in your wedding package? Do you want 4x6 prints of each image? Do you want a wedding album? What about the digitals?
Interview Your Photographer!
- There are many more questions and dialog and for this reason I like to meet my future couples in person at a neutral area like a local coffee shop or something like that. I want you to meet me and I want to meet you both as well! What if you don’t like your photographer in person and you booked them to spend the entire day?! That sounds terrible to me. I can’t wait to meet you both!