The Wedding is in the Details

A photographer once told me that the wedding is in the details. All of those little things that people agonize over for months to perfect for that one day, and which inevitably get lost in the full effect of the event. Our job as photographers to make sure that none of those details go unnoticed. That all that trouble and choosing gets recorded for posterity's sake.

I truly subscribe to that. A wedding pulls in anywhere from 75 to 300 guests, and in today's day and age, almost every one of those guests will have a digital camera. More than a few of them probably have a digital SLR camera to boot. So why should the hired photographer be there to take the photos that any one of 100 other people can take? I believe that the photographer should capture the wedding in a way that makes it truly beautiful, ethereal, the way you would want to remember it in addition to the way it actually happened. We are the romanticizers. We make the mistakes beautiful, the humor more comical, the beauty more breathtaking. We make sure that each rock is overturned, each face is captured, each memory is etched in stone.

Congratulations to Nicole and Dan on their beautiful wedding.