What are the three things that you will have after your wedding day?
Your spouse, your ring, and your wedding photographs to show you what everything else looked like that you spent all of that money to purchase. A national average for photography seems to be around five percent of the wedding budget. Is that really how important the wedding photographs are? People will not remember what they ate or what they drank, but you will enjoy and cherish your wedding photographs for your lifetime and your children and grandchildren will enjoy them.
I have one wedding photograph of my parents taken over fifty years ago and I would not trade it for any amount of money in this world.
People love weddings and unfortunately sometimes not for romantic and emotional reasons, they love the free party. I can demonstrate to couples how they can afford a much more adequate wedding photography package by cutting the food or bar bill in half. I can do that for you.
Karen and I believe very strongly in wall portraits. Wall portraits allow Karen and I to enjoy the photographs of our children without holding them in our hands or dusting them. I can sit in the comfort of my recliner and watch a football game and during commercials I can enjoy the photographs of my children, which include wedding portraits.
Photojournalism and traditional photography both have a place in your wedding album
Photojournalistic style photography, what we used to call candid, will capture a very specific emotional moment in time. Classic style portraiture, if it is done well, will preserve the memory of the persons in the photograph and people will look natural. We photographed a bride that had a Grandmother make the trip from Iowa to Denver on Amtrak in order to be at her granddaughters wedding. She hauled her oxygen tank on the train and would not have missed the wedding for any reason; I think she would have crawled to the wedding if she had to do so. I took a couple of portraits of the bride, others, and her grandmother together and later that same year her grandmother passed away. What if I had not taken those photographs? What if the couple had decided they wanted all photojournalism and no portraits? Portraits show relationships.
Another situation occurred two
years ago in the summer, we photographed a wedding for Jim and Angie on July 5.
Jim and Angie went on a cruise and when they came home they were horrified to
learn that there home had burned to the ground because of a kitchen fire.
Fortunately the fire did not destroy most of their wedding gifts and items from
their wedding. Unfortunately the train from her wedding gown was lost in the fire. When they looked
through the two volumes of their wedding photographs they shed tears of joy when
they saw the portrait that was taken in the chapel of Angie in her wedding gown
with the train attached. What if I had not taken that photograph? Wedding
portraits will capture the images of those who you care the most about.
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I Have Been Telling Love Stories Since The 1970's Because I Love Photographing Weddings!
I am wedding photographer who provide you with a mix of photojournalistic style photographs with classic style portraits. I have been using color and black and white film from the beginning. I was using black and white film before it became popular again. The black and white photojournalistic style that I developed doing public relations photography is still with me today with every wedding that we capture. I purchased my first 35mm camera in 1978 and knew then that photography was something I really wanted to study. I still love it! At every wedding ceremony there are times when my eyes tear up. At the reception you will catch me smiling from ear to ear at the fun and excitement. We love weddings and we feel that it shows in the photographs we create and in the manner that we treat our couples and their families. Weddings are too much work if you don not like doing them.
A very short period of time passes between your wedding day and the time that you see your incredible wonderful images!
You will be able to view your wedding photographs in about one week to ten days on the Internet. Your friends and can family can view them as well. This is part of unique services that are standard with our studio. A bonus is that any friend or family member can order their own portraits without going through you, whether or not they were able to attend your wedding or not.
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I Know That Takes To Plan A Wedding. Try Planning Two In Ten Months. Karen and I Know What It Takes Because We've Done The Impossible! What Happened To The Budget?
In June 2002 and again in April 2003 we had two daughters get married. This September another daughter is taking a walk down the isle. I noticed something; the budget gets blown apart. I realized after the weddings, my experience in photography makes me a pretty good wedding planner. I know a lot more about planning a wedding than the average father of the bride. It is all those years of photographing weddings. I know what works. I know what does not work. I know what a wedding looks like when everything falls in place and what happens when something goes wrong. The key step of the wedding budget is to prioritize the expenses. Ask yourself, What's most important? How about photography? If it is not a priority we are probably not the studio for you.
Exceptional Teamwork Captures the Emotions In The Photography
My wife Karen is my best friend. She is excellent with the little details on your wedding gown, hair, makeup, so that you don't just get good photographs; you get great photographs! I concentrate of the lighting and the posing when creating portraits. With our studio you get two photographers! A combination of color plus black and white images is standard for every wedding. We use incredibly beautiful flattering light so that you look your very best in your portraits, plus we have some very talented artists that finish the portraits. There are things that you can do to look your very best.
Can you imagine anything better than sharing the romance and emotions of many couples weddings with your spouse? I am lucky because Karen and I do that on a regular basis as we create photographs.
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