Wedding + Reception: Primrose Cottage
Entertainment: Spectrum Entertainment
Julie + David’s wedding photos online (password required): Julie + David’s Wedding
This was from the last dance tonight. I think it’s my favorite from the whole wedding.
Here’s just one from Sunday’s engagement session with David + Julie. Aren’t they cute?
Visit their full engagement gallery here: David & Julie’s Engagement Session (password required).
I love extreme weather of all sorts. I sometimes, in my crazier moments, wonder what it would be like to sell everything and take up life as a storm chasing photographer. Then I remember that I don’t really like camping, cheap hotels, or bad diner food.
Every now and then, though, extreme weather comes to me. This evening as I was cooking dinner, the tornado sirens at the high school went off. Being the sane and sensible person that I am, I ran outside with my camera to photograph the clouds. The other sane and sensible people on my street were great in pointing out the various cloud formations and potential tornadoes. Nice to know my neighbors are as crazy as I am!
I’m really excited to announce the addition of Digital Media Collections for portraits. For many years we’ve offered the high resolution digital files to our wedding clients – either for purchase separately or part of a package. This year we’re adding the option to purchase digital files to all of our portrait clients as well.
We’ve put together 3 different Digital Media Collections: One allows you to choose 4 files, one allows you to choose 10 files, and one includes all of the files from your portrait session. Each media collection is delivered on a USB drive and includes a bordered 5×7 “match print” of each image. The prints are for you to use to match color quality when you have enlargements made; but they are also full quality prints that are suitable for framing or as gifts.
We’re excited to offer digital files to all of our clients so that they can control and archive their family memories. If you’re interested in scheduling a session, please [email], use the form on our [contact page], or call us.
Just a quick break from image posting and fun stuff to strike a serious note.
I read wedding planning boards and magazines to keep current with the trends and what brides and grooms are looking for. I think any serious wedding vendor does. Recently I ran across a situation where a bride had to cancel her wedding for a very valid reason – the groom died. Some of her vendors wouldn’t return her deposit when she canceled the wedding. As you might imagine, feelings run high on this situation, with vendors trying to explain why they are not being totally heartless to not return the deposit (or only to return some of it) and brides and grooms being outraged that the deposits weren’t returned.
There is a solution here and I think one that more couples should be aware of. It used to be that a wedding cost a few thousand $$ and deposits were small tokens that didn’t amount to much. Nowadays weddings are big events and prior to the day a couple may have spent tens of thousands of dollars in deposits, booking fees, and retainers. In most cases those retainers are NON-REFUNDABLE for any reason.
With weddings costing so much and the amount of money a couple puts out prior to the event being so high, I STRONGLY recommend to my clients that they look into wedding insurance. I know most people have never heard of it … but there are several companies that offer event and wedding insurance in case of cancellation or postponement. The most popular one is WedSafe.
For around $150-$250 (depending on the level of coverage you choose), you can purchase insurance that will reimburse you for your vendor deposits if you have to cancel your wedding for any reason.
Now some people will think that it’s crazy to spend another $150 on your wedding for insurance for something that will probably never happen. Me? I think that if you’re going to spend $10,000 or $20,000 or more on a wedding, then it’s well worth $200 or so (around 10% of the total cost of your wedding) to make sure that you’re protected in case of a death, a natural disaster, or any other event that might cause you to have to cancel or postpone your wedding.
It’s not a fun subject to talk about – just like life insurance, making a will, and other serious things that you should discuss when you join your lives together – but I think it’s important. I really encourage you to look into wedding day insurance, either with WedSafe or another company. I truly believe it’s money well spent.
[Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with WedSafe, I haven't received any compensation for posting this, and I don't know anyone who works for them. I just know their name and have heard good things about them. They don't even know that I'm posting this.]
A lot of times when I meet with a potential client, I’ll find that a bride has picked out her dress (and even her shoes and other accessories) before almost anything else. And why not? A woman’s wedding dress is often the most personal part of her wedding planning. It’s something that many women keep forever, passing down to their daughters and even their granddaughters. Even if the dress isn’t worn again, often the fabric from the dress is made into christening gowns for babies and grandbabies. Very few things hold the symbolism and meaning that a woman’s wedding dress does.
As a photographer I always try to get lots of photos of the dress and the accessories that go with it – both on and off the bride. Very few women will wear a dress like this again in their lives and I think it deserves to be properly documented!
We’ve had crazy weather here in Georgia this past week. Sunday gave us 5 hours of snow, ice, and freezing temperatures. By Wednesday it had all melted. And tomorrow it’s supposed to hit a high of 75. Although I really enjoyed the snow while it lasted, I’m very much anticipating spring; I’m ready for warmer weather, digging in the garden, flowers and green (not brown) grass.
Here’s a preview of what I’ve planned for the front garden this year to whet your appetite for the coming season! (BTW, this image is available as a fine art print from my personal photography gallery. Contact us for more information.)
February was all about the beauty products. I’m not a big makeup girl. At all. A little light lip color, some mascara, and I’m mostly good to go. That’s both the blessing and the curse of a “rosy” complexion. But I am all about the pampering and enjoying good products. So this month I’m listing a few of my favorites. Enjoy!
Michele was the first of our marathon Intimates session at the W Hotel from last week.
