A bride and groom wedding can be the most magical day of their life. Months of preparation, thousands of dollars spent, countless hours of time poured into this one event, this one day, that will forever alter the course of one’s life. Every detail is agonized over, from invitation font, to cake filling, to bridesmaids bouquets, but no detail has such lasting impact as the quality of one’s wedding photos. A good photographer will take good photos, but an excellent photographer will catalogue memories- capturing a moment by moment of this most special of days.
In recent years, there’s been an increased interest in utilizing the photographic technique known as photo-journalism. This technique, simply put, is used by photographers to capture EVERY moment during the wedding and the preparations leading up to it. This results in wedding photos not just of the actual ceremony, but of all the priceless, tiny little details that will make a patchwork quilt of memories to flood the happy couple with a wash of tender memory every time they catch sight of them. Close-ups of the dress, the flower arrangements, the couples’ hands with intertwined fingers and brand-new wedding bands- these are priceless shots which will invoke nostalgia years after the bouquet has crumbled to dust and the last slice of carefully frozen wedding cake has been consumed.
When one looks at one’s wedding photos, one is transported back to the day when two became one- to a time when there were no such thing as the hundreds of fights, the joy and the battles resultant from adding a kid or two in the mix, the cares and financial worries that weigh one down, all of the hundreds of details that smother joy and care-free bliss. One simply sees joy, and joy unfettered. The delight in the groom’s eyes as he sees his bride for the first time, the joyful anticipation of the bride as she nears the altar where her beloved awaits, the pang of sadness as a father places his daughter’s hands, and her future, into another’s- these all can be captured, and the moment relived through wedding photos.
Wedding photos will endure as a testament to the love that was embodied in that day, at that time. Regardless of what storms may come, and they will- it is a mathematical certainty, wedding photos are a testament and a witness that Love was in the proceedings. Love was at the reception, dancing the night away, Love was seated at the head table, and it was Love who was whisked away in the getaway under the shower of rice and well wishes. Love will be what is remembered when wedding photos are gazed upon in the years ahead.
Find a good photographer- one who captures the essence of who you are, and what your love looks like, and through your wedding photos you will remember the best moments of your best day, and briefly, fleetingly, become the best you- the you that you were all those years ago.
