Category Archives: Personal

Advice about sharing wedding pictures and other preferences

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Becky

Some great advice about sharing pictures of your wedding dress before the wedding and also everyone taking pictures during the ceremony, from Colin Cowie’s blog: http://www.colincowieweddings.com/articles/wedding-basics-etiquette/wedding-social-media-etiquette?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=howto 1. DON’T share pictures of your dress before the wedding. We girls know there … Continue reading →

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The New Wedding Rules

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Becky

I found this article on CNN regarding the fact that there are no hard-and-fast rules for weddings like there used to be for your grandmothers. http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/living/matrimony-martha-wedding-rules/index.html This picture is from one of my all time favorite weddings, small but very … Continue reading →

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WPPI Master of Photography acknowledgment

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Becky

I did not go to an international photography convention called WPPI this year. Wish I had gone. I just found out that I was listed during awards night with some really gifted photographers, as a master photographer. I feel enormously … Continue reading →

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It’s not just about the pictures in looking for your wedding photographer

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Becky

We saw this video recently on a photography forum. It’s a video from a professional videographer who worked at a wedding that included, what we felt, were two really unprofessional, really intrusive photographers, who really made the job of the … Continue reading →

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The Importance Of A Wedding Photographer

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Becky

This was said recently by a bride to a photographer regarding the importance of wedding photography: “You’re not just a wedding photographer . . . You’re a historian . . You’re an archivist . . You leave a permanent addition … Continue reading →

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Origin of smashing the wedding cake in the bride & groom’s face

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Becky

I would have to say that after doing quite literally HUNDREDS of weddings, that there has been maybe less than 10 weddings that there was cake smashing in the face. (I’m not talking about putting a dab of frosting on … Continue reading →

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