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on weekends in Aspen, California, Italy, Mexico, Bali & anywhere else good love is being cherished.
This is what everyone tells you:
You should book ten hour day; here's the schedule. Sorry, there's no room to breathe because your photos are going to take 45 minutes. I know, we already did 30 minutes worth, but it isn't enough. Sure it would be great to be at cocktail hour and see all your loved ones, but we need to spend more time posing your wedding party. Set apart thirty more minutes for portraits at your welcome dinner. You never look this good, take advantage. More photos! Your guests have some drinks and wait for you to arrive. And wait. And wait.
You've seen it. You've been to how many of them? Copy. Paste.
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Weddings are boring...
But they shouldn't be.
This is the ONLY time in your life (other than your death) that everyone both of you love is in one room. Why spend it wrapped up in inflexible schedules that don't let you lean into each other? Lean into your loved ones? Lean into the experience you've created with your planning team. It reflects YOU and shares your heart and life with those same loved ones.
How magical it is to host this day? To bring all these people into one space to love on, to eat with, to watch you declare a sacred vow, to party with until you feet hurt...what an unbelievable gift to have the honor of living.
Your photographer should let you do that.
Be emotional. Be authentic. Be present.
Let's get rid of the expectations others place on you. Just be yourselves. Those photos are the ones that will matter to you. Honest. Simple. Elegant. We'll capture some traditional moments for legacy-sake, but let everything else unfurl the way your day does. Drink it up.
An informal heart to heart...
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film wedding photography
There is just something about film. Besides the timelessness of film and its colors, there is an element of nostalgia that it naturally imbues.
I love that when I take a film photograph, there is no checking to see if its perfect, there is only accepting whatever it will be. I don't get to find that out for weeks, until it has been developed, lovingly, by hand, in a lab, and because of the way film exists, it feels a little sacred. Like it can be trusted with those tiny, fleeting moments. Like it can really embody the essence of wild laughter on a dance floor.
There's nothing else, really, that comes close.
Using a variety of film stocks and formats is something I love. It brings an element of art back into the day, but it also honors how impermanent each moment is. Your gallery will be full of natural colors and blend of the perfect and imperfect.
For documentary wedding photography that still feels timeless, I think everyone should have at least a little film on their day. Me? I'll be bringing a lot.
