{wedding fever}

Since shooting my last wedding, I have had wedding fever! Theirs was my 3rd wedding, and I am smitten with shooting such a special day! I have loved each couple I’ve been honored to photograph and love, love weddings! I am hoping to get more weddings to shoot and thought about the perfect wedding I’d like to shoot, and honestly, it is one like mine. I am still a newlywed, our first anniversary is June 26th, and while I would change some of the smaller details of the wedding, overall, it was ‘us’..and fit us to a T. Small, non-traditional on pretty much every thing and it was the most perfect day. While I was planning our big day, I obsessed over the website  http://offbeatbride.com. Obsessed. Many of the weddings just spoke to me, tattooed couples, funky details, non-traditional wedding dresses, special ceremonies that captured the personalities of the couple. As I thought about the type of client I would love to shoot, I had a light bulb, ‘duh’, moment. I want to shoot weddings with people like me! A little left of center, unique and fun…a couple up for anything! A little like this couple here: http://offbeatbride.com/2011/05/australia-rocknroll-wedding Now, I’m down for shooting a more traditional wedding as well, but I have been researching re-branding and really feeling out the clients that I would like to shoot and who might want me to shoot them, too. I think having two full sleeve tattoos is a part of my thinking process, while a photographer needs to be as invisible as possible, it would surely be easier to fit in at a wedding where my arms, if uncovered, would be less shocking.

Anyway…my mind has been going round and round and I feel like I am in a place to take my business to the next level and do it with a clear purpose and intent. It’s exhausting just thinking about it, and to be frank, something I have been putting off for months. I hate to fail, so if I don’t plan it, it can’t fail, right? So, now I have put this into the universe, and have to plan and make changes, make clearer my ideas and purpose and hopefully get to shooting some fun people along the way. Goals. Gotta have ‘em, gotta try to reach ‘em! Weddings, portraits, I love them. Love people. Love to capture a specific moment. It’s a gift to share in the lives of the people I get to photograph.

Since a post is never any good without at least a couple of pictures, here are a few favorites from the weddings I’ve shot & one from my own, just because

<—photo credit to kristie parker photography