We just wanted to share a quick picture from Bali
More to come soon.
We love photographing engagement sessions! The sessions are usually very light hearted, fun, and it’s usually the first time we get to interact with our couples on a more personal level outside of our photography studio. Our couples always ask us for ideas as to how they can make their session more personal. Everything from choosing the perfect location, ideal season, props and clothing can really impact the look and feel of your session.
For example, last year we photographed Shireen and Ranjeev’s engagement session at the Montgomery County Air Park. They had a long distance relationship. She lived in Texas and he lived in London. They spent hours jetting back and forth to visit one another. Private air planes, corporate jets, luggage, aviator sunglasses and even a Bentley were significant for this couple because it symbolized their long distance relationship.
Pick a location: Choices such as the location of your first date, your alma mater or even a location that represents your relationship well are ideal.
Pick a season: If you’re getting married in the winter plan a spring or summer engagement session. Picking a season which is different than the season your wedding is taking place during will provide different and dynamic photographs. Also keep in mind your timeline for save the date cards and other photography products such as guest signature books and canvases that you may want to display on your big day.
Pick some props: Props always add a fun dynamic to your engagement session. If you’re having a summer engagement in amusement park for example, consider utilizing funnel cakes, ice cream cones and baseball hats.
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In 2011 we photographed some absolutely gorgeous weddings in some fantastic locations. Throughout the year we shot thousands upon thousands of frames in the process we have edited each wedding down to a single image to show our favorite images of the year!
We are so thankful for meeting so many amazing couples in 2011, all of whom we can call friends now. Thank you all for believing and supporting us in our work, our passion and our dream. We truly believe that after the cake is cut, the wedding dress is put away and the guests are gone the only memories that last a lifetime are the beautiful wedding pictures.
We can’t wait for what 2012 has in store for us as we have met more amazing couples with fantastic wedding days planned!
Here are a few of our favorite wedding portraits that we took in 2011, please vote
Contest:
We wanted to start the year off right and give away a beautiful 16 x 20 canvas; a $480 value! To one of our wonderful 2011 Brides! Use the buttons below to vote!
Rules:
All you have to do is use the voting buttons below to vote for your favorite image, the couple in the image with the most votes on January 24th at 8PM wins the canvas!
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Your wedding décor plays a major role in setting the mood for your big day. First take a look at your overall theme and budget.
Figure out the style and mood for your wedding day. Are you going for a casual, sophisticated or romantic feel? You may decide you want a traditional evening wedding ceremony with lots of candles and flowers, or you may decide on a contemporary setting with tons of fabric and fun lighting.
It is vital to know your budget. Knowing your budget gives you a good idea of how many decorations you can reasonably incorporate into your wedding. Remember that careful planning is necessary to avoid costly mistakes. If budget is an issue, choose only two or
Consider these key things when choosing and creating your wedding decorations:
• Color Scheme
• Available Space
• Number of Guests
• Mood/Theme
• Time of Year
• Time of Day
• Location/Setting
• Family Traditions
• Budget
Consider décor needs for these key areas:
• Altar/Pews/Mandap
• Flowers
• Gift/Cake Table
• Favors
• Guestbook/Pen
• Food/Cake Tables
• Guestbook
• Getaway Car
• Chair Backs
• Walls/Doors
• Accessories
• Ceilings/Floors
Keep in mind that your venue may already be very festive or decorative and therefore may require less, or even no wedding decorations at all!
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As a kindergarten student with beautiful corduroy clothes down to my corduroy socks (my mom shopped for me) at the wee age of five I had an aunt (at that age everyone older than me was an aunt) who would pick me up every day from the bus stop after kindergarten. She would hold my hand and walk me back to her house asking about my dubious day of coloring and playing with legos.
Once we got to her house she would make me a grilled cheese sandwich with the crusts cut off what was perfectly toasted. At the dining table while I nibbled on the greatest grilled cheese sandwiches ever she would ask me about my day and always without fail she would always ask me “have you failed yet?” in a loving sweet motherly voice, if I ever answered “no” she would replay “well you aren’t trying hard enough!”
It was a phrase than rang through my head all through high school and a phrase that always makes me smile even to this day. My aunt was always pushing me, even at the age of five (mostly to reach the toilet and not the floor) but she always pushed me to reach for the stars.
Every year around this time I sit down with paper and pencil in hand to make a list of goals for the year. But this year I wanted to first see what I failed at; the goals that I didn’t quite reach. After all we learn from failure must faster and easier than success. Of the 30+ goals I had; three weren’t achieved…yet.
We plan on getting the majority of our 2011 and 2010 wedding published and we will get at least two weddings published in print! – We didn’t realize how long it takes to get weddings published in print! About 70% of our 2011 weddings have been published with a few more this month and next and two print publications in the works!
We will implement time saving techniques to get our clients their wedding pictures faster and easier We sped up our post processing process (try to say that 5 times fast) making it MUCH faster; this year we averaged getting weddings completed in 3-4 weeks – and although we technically accomplished this goal we want to make our processes even faster and easier for our clients within the upcoming year. Neeva was scouring facebook liking, downloading and saving our wedding images that our friends and family took even before the cake was cut. We will work on speeding up our process even more while still delivering high quality work (obviously).
We will spruce up our editing room and add a bit of inspiration. – Something tells me that day old Chinese food and candy wrappers wasn’t what I had in mind; still working on it…I think I might have to transfer this goal over to Neeva…
With Love,
Sunny B) (the smiley face has sun glasses on…you know because it’s Sunny…I thought it was funny)
A picture of me and my cousin playing in the snow at the age of 5. Waiting for the snow to come this year…
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by Sunny Mathur
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