Inspired Portrait Photography

Wedding Day Photography

Looking ahead at my summer, I am thrilled for the amount of Brides and Grooms I am going to be working with. This past week my inbox has been full of 2010 brides asking about weekends available next year for their weddings….and it has inspired me to write this blog.

It was December of 2003, a frigid, frigid day in Fulda Minnesota, when I stepped in front of my first bride and groom. It was a typically first wedding for a photographer, I wasn’t getting paid (because it was good practice), no one arrived early, my palms were sweating, one of my main pieces of equipment wasn’t working(I had a trusty backup to rely on) and at that time I had no tricks to make people smile, I’m suprised I got to wedding #2.

Fast forward to the summer of 2007, when Danie and I traveled up to St. Cloud to a full days work. There I experienced the most beautiful church, all available light everywhere(leaving any pro speechless) perfectly decorated reception, and a grand party on the golf course. I remember this wedding most because of my effort to get the perfect shot. I posed the bridal party on a bridge stretching over a marshy area on the golf course. To get the best angle I had to literally hop my way into the marshy middle under the bridge. The swampiness didn’t bother me at all(although at anytime I could have dropped the camera into it), it was the tall “wood tick filled” grass I have to maneuver through first, ewe. The perfect shot is always worth it!

Fun facts about my days as a wedding photographer
*I have photographed 4 weddings on my birthday weekend
*I have photographed one bride & groom twice, one ceremony before Iraq and one following
*My cousins, sisters, sister-in-laws are not allowed to hire me, I have a no family policy
*Over half of the bridal parties I’ve met were dressed in green or purple
*My favorite church was St. Peter’s Catholic church, great light!
*The happiest couple was….jk way to hard to pick!
*I’ve only left one thing behind at a wedding(that I know of), a battery charger
*I listen to Christian rock to get my mind ready for the big day
*I’ve worked with three different assistants
*I never job shadowed any other wedding photographers
*I love to work with the kids in the bridal party
* I never stop researching the perfect wedding image, I have an idea book I bring with to every wedding
* I could recite all the brides and grooms I’ve ever worked with by name and in order of wedding day, they are that important to me!