10 Questions to Ask Your Wedding Photographer (And My Answers): You are over the moon excited as you have just gotten engaged, but now what? Where do you start planning, how do you pick vendors that best fit your style and vision for your wedding day? How do you pick vendors that fit into your budget? How do you know if they are reputable and are going to show up on your big day? These are all great questions and important questions! I know when I was a bride and was planning my wedding (pre Pinterest I might add), I fully relied on friends and family for recommendations for vendors, as well… Keep Reading
Top 5 Tips for Finding the Perfect Wedding Dress | Calgary Wedding Photographer
One of the most exciting parts of planning your wedding day is finding the perfect dress. This has long been a time to hang out with your closest friends and play dress up like you did as a kid. A lot of brides have envisioned what their perfect dress looks like LONG before they are even engaged. However wedding dress shopping can be a bit of learning curve. I mean it isn’t something that most people shop for on a yearly basis. Before becoming a wedding photographer I actually worked at a bridal shop as a bridal consultant, so I have seen it all as far as the wedding shopping… Keep Reading
5 Rules You Can Break on Your Wedding Day | Calgary Wedding Photographer
You have announced your engagement and now all at once you get flooded with questions about dates, colors, venues, cake flavors, and which wedding traditions you want to incorporate. I am sure everyone has heard of the older traditions for weddings like wearing “something borrowed, something blue” or having the groom carrying the bride over the thresh hold. These are all traditions that you can either choose to incorporate or not. One thing you shouldn’t be doing is loosing sleep over trying to keep these traditions in your wedding day if they just don’t feel like you. It is 100% up to you which traditions you can break and which ones… Keep Reading
How To Use Pinterest the Right Way to Plan Your Wedding | Calgary Wedding Photographer
How To Use Pinterest the Right Way to Plan Your Wedding It is no secret that Pinterest has completely changed the wedding industry. Before Pinterest you had to look through magazines for inspiration, dream up color schemes and plan every detail at your wedding from your own imagination. Don’t believe me? I was married pre Pinterest (which was only 9 years ago if you can believe a time before Pinterest) and my mom and I spend 100 of hours flipping through magazines and DIYing our hearts out. My wedding was fabulous but still had elements, corners and areas that I didn’t even think to plan or decorate for. Pinterest is… Keep Reading
You’re Engaged! Now What?!? | Calgary Wedding Photographer
Congrats you’re officially engaged! The ring is on your finger, your favorite person asked you to be their forever, but now what? Wedding planning can be hugely daunting. Everyone wants to have their say in your day and ideas on how to start. Because of this I have put together a list of things you should be doing next after saying the big “Yes!” Pop the Bubbly! I mean your engaged after all so it is a time to celebrate! Also take some time to just be you two and settle in to the words finance coming out of your mouth instead of boyfriend or girlfriend. 😉 Call Your Family… Keep Reading
Answering Those Awkward Wedding Photography Questions | Calgary Wedding Photographer
Its not uncommon for brides to come to their initial client meeting with a list of questions in hand. This can be anything from how long will it be after the wedding until we receive our images or how many photos do we receive? I have also had those slightly more in depth questions like do you have liability insurance or how do you handle low light situations. All these questions are 100% ok to ask and love it when brides come in prepared. A lot of the time these list of questions are things they have found while checking out Pinterest. Over the last couple years I have found there… Keep Reading
Can Photographers & Videographers Get Along? | Calgary Wedding Photographer
It is becoming more and more common at weddings where there is not only photography coverage but also videography coverage. I have shot many weddings in the past couple years where along with Jason & myself there is a team of three or four vidographers. This makes for a lot of camera gear in your face, and a lot of people all all trying to get the same shot. I have shot weddings where the videographer stood behind the JP the entire wedding so every single shot had the videographers face (face palm). So today I thought I would write a blog post on tips for photographers to work a… Keep Reading
What to Pack in Your Wedding Day Survival Kit | Calgary Wedding Photographer
If you have been a part of wedding before you have probably heard the term “Wedding Day Survival Kit”. If you haven’t I am sure you are wondering what exactly this is all about. No matter how much you plan and how detailed your day-of binder or dou-tang gets, wedding day hiccups are bound to happen. And that’s where this handy little (…or not so little) kit comes in! Everything in this kit are for those just in case moments. You plan for them and hope they never happen. This could be anything from a heel braking, a stain happening to the beloved wedding dress, blisters from those brand new… Keep Reading
