I have two friends who have recently gotten married (and by recently, I’m talking they have gotten married within the past month). Coincidentally, both of these blushing brides have had photographer catastrophes. Double coincidentally, they both got married on the same day..
To protect these brides identities, let’s just call them Exhibit A and Exhibit B.
Exhibit A’s disaster: The photographer of Exhibit A had a young and an inexperienced photographer that was also this young bride’s friend. Everything was going perfectly. The engagement photos were gorgeous, the save the dates looked amazing, and so who would have thought disaster would strike during the most important segment for the photographer: the actual wedding. The new photographer double booked herself for the night before the wedding (she was supposed to go to the church to figure out lighting and go to the rehearsal dinner and make sure she had the lighting figured out at the reception hall). She never showed up, which made the bride very angry. She called the photographer, who then said that she had “double booked” and since they were friends she knew that they would understand. The bride didn’t understand. Not one bit. Who would expect her to? She finally let it go, thinking “as long as everything turns out ok tomorrow, we are in the clear.” Well the wedding comes around the next day, the lighting was so completely off you couldn’t even see the couple’s faces in half of the pictures from the reception OR the wedding, and the photographer was trying so hard to play with the lighting during the reception that she missed half of the important events.
WOW. Awful. Nightmare.
Exhibit B: Exhibit B had a photographer that was not exactly a friend, but was an acquaintance. This acquaintance double booked her wedding day and didn’t tell her. She showed up to the wedding and stayed for 45 minutes and then left.
Shorter story, but WORSE!
I’m sure there are a million small things that can go wrong on your wedding day, in fact I know several things can, but to have a photographer mess up the way these did is outrageous.
I’m so glad I have the best photographers around doing my pictures (you can view their website here: http://www.beatyphotography.com/blog/ ). My biggest issues for planning my engagement pictures were things such as “Honey, should I wear my hair straight or with a few curls??” or “sweets, you can NOT wear that for our pictures.” Locations weren’t too hard for me. I’m not sure about all of you, but we don’t have too many options for good picture places around where I live, so we chose places that reminded us of good times. We thought about our interests as a couple and chose a few locations and ideas that matched us and were somewhat significant to our relationship.
First location: A local Country Club with the best golf course around. Charles is a golfer so naturally taking pictures at this beautiful golf course was a must. This is where is did our “dressy pictures.” I am not a dressy person, so we kept it more low key, but still nice. We had a lot of fun here taking pictures at this location.
Second location: A local park which conveniently had Christmas lights up due to the time of year. (We wanted to do a horse drawn carriage ride but go figure, the only night they weren’t running the horse drawn carriages before Christmas was the day of our engagement pictures…). Our photographers hadn’t photographed at this park when the lights were going off before, so we all got to have a blast. Plus, we got to bring our puppies to this location and sneak in a family portrait. Those dogs are like children to us. If you can’t relate, then you probably have no soul.
My recommendation? Pick a place that is meaningful, and pick a place that’s fun! How many people go to the park and play with the Christmas lights for their engagement photos? Not many, I’m sure. As previously mentioned, I’m not the typical bride, we aren’t the typical couple, and I’m sure we don’t do things even close to the way you’re supposed to. Also, be yourself! If you goof off during the pictures and have fun with each other, the pictures will look great! Posed pictures look stiff, look like you love each other and let the pictures reflect your relationship.
Here is just one of the gorgeous pictures taken by my wonerful photographers. More to follow when we receive them, we just took them yesterday so bear with me!
xoxo
Michele
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