How to choose a wedding photographer

You have made some very important decisions....They will have lasting effects on your lives. These decisions will culminate in a very special day, a day filled with anticipation, intimacy, excitement, and delight. How beautifully this day is recorded photographically depends on another important decision: Your choice of a wedding photographer.

How do you do this??? I'll bet you have never been married before. Now you have to hire a photographer to photograph your wedding. What credentials should you be asking for? How do you compare photographers? I have a great idea!!! Have a "trial" wedding and have a few photographers take a "crack" at it, and pick the best one. Sounds like a good idea, but we both know it doesn't work that way.

During your search for a wedding photographer, I'm sure you have read a lot of "ad copy". I love to look in the Bridal Mags, surf the net, and check out my competitors. I have noticed an interesting pattern, which you also may have seen. There are lots of "appealing" words in the ads, but very few photographs.

I never did any advertising before the net "came about", mainly because I didn't have any "appealing" words to throw around. What I did have were many creative images for people to see. Now, with the ability of the web to display my images, I feel I have found the right medium in which to display my work. I let my pictures do the talking.

After the bouquet has been thrown, after all the food has been eaten, after the tuxedos have been returned, what do you have left from your wedding day? Your pictures!! We take each one very serious, that's why we only photograph one wedding per week. That way we can get to know you, and your friends and family. I don't want to say "Best Man, do this or that"; when with just a little effort I can say John, could you please,..... Details make the difference, and no detail of your wedding is to small for me to pay attention to.

I photographs weddings to communicate, visually the warmth and emotion between a bride and her groom; as they start on their new life together. I have a real feel for weddings; and are familiar with the journey you will be starting. It is our great joy to attend hundreds of weddings; each one as unique as the bride and groom themselves.

Who cares if your photographs are technically brilliant, if your photographer makes your wedding experience unpleasant? This is what is important on your wedding day; the great time, and wonderful memories, that happen on that all to short day. All you need is a photographer who is not polite to you or your guests and goes around like a bull in a china shop. Suella and I will help you with your day. It will be a fun day, with memories that will live in your heart forever. And to top it off, you will have great photographs, so you can share those memories with others.

If you have taken the time to read all of this, thank you. You will find, I am sure, that a little extra time invested on your part now will be rewarded later. I am glad you invested some of your time with me. Again, thank you.