MARMALADE DOES A WEDDING

The alternate title should be: why Marianne is very tired this rainy/overcast Sunday morning.

I was up until 3 a.m. getting images off my cards so that I could get a preview up for Rachel and Paul. If you've looked in my Discovery I gallery on my website Marmalade Photography you will see images from Paul & Rachel's engagement session. Some background, Rachel is a friend of mine, a dear, lovely woman who I have known for about 7 years now and whom I cherish. I was thrilled that Paul had proposed to her and even more thrilled that she enjoyed my work enough and trusted my vision enough to hire me on as her photographer for their big day to capture the moments that you can't really repeat. Weddings are truly fast paced, a lot of work on everyone's end--and it's just the beginning of my work because while everyone is done enjoying the fruits of their labor from the wedding, I get to edit all these terrific images that I was so fortunate enough to be allowed to capture.

I think good wedding photography is underrated, many wedding photographers that I admire would probably agree. Too many people believe that all it takes is a good camera and an understanding of how to just point and shoot and fortunately/unfortunately it takes oh so much more. You need to be prepared, not just with equipment, but mentally. There is so much more work involved with a typically wedding event, if I estimate that it's 4x the work of a portrait session, I don't think I'm overguessing it.

Wedding images SHOULD be special, they should showcase the two people whose lives are to be united for a lifetime, the images should be artsy and show off the beauty of those being photographed, they should feel somewhat dreamy, they should be a bit showy...so much work and preparation go into the big day---why choose anything less than spectacular for your images. So much more goes into the wedding photography aspect than many other things on the wedding date and the images are treasured forever (vs. only a day with some of the other wedding details).

Now that I have sort of soapboxed my feelings on weddings, let me just say, I had fun. I may have sore feet and a stressed out mind right now--but the wedding is over and the images are GORGEOUS and I am thrilled that I was allowed to photograph this event for my very dear friends.

Will I do more weddings? Well the jury is out on that one! ;) Will Rachel & Paul think their wedding preview images are all that and a bag of chips--I think so. Rachel, thanks so much for being a terrific friend (I will never forget you were there for me when I needed you most), a supportive client (allowing me to do "whatever") and truly the ANTI-Bridezilla, you were so mellow--I really wanted to check your pulse!!

Please see the above post and images in Discovery I for images from the engagement session as well.