You’re looking for a wedding photographer that will make you look amazing, but also – feel amazing on your wedding day. Let’s be honest. Posing for photos (especially wedding photos) is kind of a weird thing.
“Stand here and look pretty.” or “Stand here and be in love.”
Okayyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Awkward.
It’s awkward for me too. I mean – I don’t need you staring at me for 5 minutes straight while I take a photo. Like I said – this stuff is kind of weird from the get go. Let’s not make it weirder okay? ha.
So. What do I do? What will I do? I’ll take care of all the photography things on your wedding day. Seriously. That’s why you hire a “professional” photographer. You hire your caterer to take care of all the ‘food’ things – and you hire a photographer to take care of all the ‘photo-things’. *raises hand* – that’s ME. I’m your professional photographer. I’ll make you look amazing, or genuine, or honest, or whatever you’re thinking – I can probably convey that in my photos. Now I’m not saying I’m going to make you look like something you’re not – just that I’m going to capture how your day felt. Capturing how your day ‘looked’ is pretty easy.
Capturing how your wedding day felt – that’s what a skilled photographer can do. And I’d like to be your photographer.
Through hundreds of weddings over the past decade – I’ve figured out how to consistently, stress free(ly) make wedding photos in a way that isn’t a terrible experience. In fact – I would say that it’s a GREAT experience. We hang out. We make dumb jokes. We laugh and we move along. You won’t feel like it’s a portrait session. You won’t wish it was over. But most importantly – you won’t worry about your photos in any way.
You won’t worry about being yourselves.
Trust me. I’m kind of weird. Let’s put that out there. So whatever weird you have going on – I’m down. And then we’ll go and make bags full of amazing photos and MOAR. Yes. So much amazing that it’s not just ‘more’ but instead MOAR.
Seriously though – I nearly died two years ago from an autoimmune disease that hit me HARD – and after my near dying experience – all bets are off when it comes to holding back. No holding back in life, no holding back in showing how much we care about each other – and no holding back in taking care of my clients. And I don’t mean that in a ‘I want to be best friends with all my clients’ – but I do mean it in a ‘All my clients are good people and I want to take care of good people’ sort of way.
You’re hiring me for your wedding day. That means so much to me. The way I see it – there are very few truly meaningful ceremonies anymore in Western society (as adults). Weddings are about it. And for you to hire me, a stranger, to spend 8-10 hours with you on such an emotional meaningful day – well. That’s the biggest compliment ever (I mean, the money is also a big compliment too but you know what I mean.)
Years later when you look through your wedding photos – I don’t expect you to even remember me. I don’t expect you to remember them being taken. When you look at your wedding photos you’ll remember how your wedding day felt. That’s what I aim to achieve with every wedding, with every client. (I mean, I want to capture the good feelings of the day, not like, any bad feelings… uh, you know what I mean.)
