It's the biggest day of your life (so far) and it's packed with a thousand tiny details... the things that you would rather not do yourself, but who else is going to pay the level of attention that these things require, if they're going to be done the way you've always dreamed? Like they say, if you want something done right...
The anxiety meter is already hitting the red as it is, and you don't a spare inch of patience left to take over yet another task. Into this fray you march, and the temptation is to jettison anything that isn't absolutely required. With all the pressure to create a wedding extravaganza that beats the other fifteen everyone will be attending this summer, it's not surprising that a lot of couples are throwing up their hands and taking the axe to much of the pomp and cirucumstance of the traditional Wedding Day. And one of the details that seems to be getting the axe more and more is the photography. If not the axe, it's at least getting severely pared down.
But despite the supposed sensibility of tossing your wedding portraits to the wind and depending on your brain on those days in the distant future when you decide to take a trip down memory lane, this is the one aspect of your nuptual celebration that you might want to think twice about before giving it the proverbial deep six.
Consider this: You will probably spend somewhere between three and five thousand dollars on your wedding, and that's if you decide to go cheap. And I mean, really cheap. The dress alone will set you back upwards of a thousand, unless you score a hot deal, and don't forget about tuxes, or at least a suit for the groom. Flowers... hundreds, if you stick to just the bridal party. Dinner, if you invite 40 guests for a modest buffet will ring in at no less than a thousand, but more like two.
Of course, you don't want to cut down to much less than these things or it won't seem much like a wedding. At this point, you're probably wondering how it could make any sense at all to throw in photography on top of all this.
Think of it this way... of all the things you are spending money on, what will remain after the day is over? The food? The tuxes? The flowers? Nix. Only the dress, and that's only if you decide to keep it, and not trash it.
Now imagine all the work you've put into making that day so beautiful... the elegance of the flowers, you in your dress with your hair and makeup like you've never done them before... now imagine documenting all of that with nothing more than a bunch of disposable cameras. 400 grain film blotching up your face; poorly lit, red eyed guests with shiny faces, no visible backgrounds. And what color were those flowers and bridesmaids dresses supposed to be? Five years down the road when your memory starts to fade, you're going to want to remember, or maybe show your children what that day was like. And you're going to be scratching your head and wondering what you were thinking.
It may be a fashion statement now to dispense with all the over-the-top commercialization of the wedding industry. After all, we do it for Christmas! But this isn't Christmas. Christmas comes every year, and most of us don't go minimalist on even that more than once or twice a decade. This is your wedding, and if you're not Jennifer Lopez, it will probably only happen this extravagantly once in your life.
You owe it to yourself to pay someone to do it right. You don't want to spend all of that hard earned cash and have nothing to show for it years down the road. It's the one service you really shouldn't toss to the wind.
See the services Iconic Photography provides.
http://www.iconicphotography.ca
The anxiety meter is already hitting the red as it is, and you don't a spare inch of patience left to take over yet another task. Into this fray you march, and the temptation is to jettison anything that isn't absolutely required. With all the pressure to create a wedding extravaganza that beats the other fifteen everyone will be attending this summer, it's not surprising that a lot of couples are throwing up their hands and taking the axe to much of the pomp and cirucumstance of the traditional Wedding Day. And one of the details that seems to be getting the axe more and more is the photography. If not the axe, it's at least getting severely pared down.
But despite the supposed sensibility of tossing your wedding portraits to the wind and depending on your brain on those days in the distant future when you decide to take a trip down memory lane, this is the one aspect of your nuptual celebration that you might want to think twice about before giving it the proverbial deep six.
Consider this: You will probably spend somewhere between three and five thousand dollars on your wedding, and that's if you decide to go cheap. And I mean, really cheap. The dress alone will set you back upwards of a thousand, unless you score a hot deal, and don't forget about tuxes, or at least a suit for the groom. Flowers... hundreds, if you stick to just the bridal party. Dinner, if you invite 40 guests for a modest buffet will ring in at no less than a thousand, but more like two.
Of course, you don't want to cut down to much less than these things or it won't seem much like a wedding. At this point, you're probably wondering how it could make any sense at all to throw in photography on top of all this.
Think of it this way... of all the things you are spending money on, what will remain after the day is over? The food? The tuxes? The flowers? Nix. Only the dress, and that's only if you decide to keep it, and not trash it.
Now imagine all the work you've put into making that day so beautiful... the elegance of the flowers, you in your dress with your hair and makeup like you've never done them before... now imagine documenting all of that with nothing more than a bunch of disposable cameras. 400 grain film blotching up your face; poorly lit, red eyed guests with shiny faces, no visible backgrounds. And what color were those flowers and bridesmaids dresses supposed to be? Five years down the road when your memory starts to fade, you're going to want to remember, or maybe show your children what that day was like. And you're going to be scratching your head and wondering what you were thinking.
It may be a fashion statement now to dispense with all the over-the-top commercialization of the wedding industry. After all, we do it for Christmas! But this isn't Christmas. Christmas comes every year, and most of us don't go minimalist on even that more than once or twice a decade. This is your wedding, and if you're not Jennifer Lopez, it will probably only happen this extravagantly once in your life.
You owe it to yourself to pay someone to do it right. You don't want to spend all of that hard earned cash and have nothing to show for it years down the road. It's the one service you really shouldn't toss to the wind.
See the services Iconic Photography provides.
http://www.iconicphotography.ca
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