Thursday, July 31, 2008

Welcome Tyler!

I just love it when I get a call from a past bride to tell me that they want me to photograph their brand new baby!!  Kristen and Tom were married a few years ago and now they have added a beautiful little boy to their family. I am just so happy for them and he is adorable!  Shhhh...take a peek! 

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Sweet!

Aren't these just the yummiest??   Such a fun idea and these were at 2 different weddings in the same weekend! Love it!!  

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Cupcakes 2

101 Reasons to Hire a Professional Photographer #2

So I was talking the other day to the owner of the lab that does my processing. Very cool guy who has been in the business a long time. He said there's a lot of people having a friend or family member take their wedding photographs and it's causing so many problems!!  Of course I was curious about what he meant, and here's what I learned from him.

The pictures, for the most part... suck.

Sorry, don't mean to offend, but they do. Now keep in mind this is him telling me what he is seeing come through the lab.  If you're really lucky, you can see the person's face in the shot, but most of the time they are blown out or underexposed and everyone has red eye.  Everyone. Wow. Just what you want for the wedding you just spent thousands of dollars on to be perfect.

So then they blame him. Seriously!!  It's all his fault, the processing was bad.  Can you believe that?  Then they want him to 'fix' them all. It's impossible. A bad picture is a bad picture, it can't be fixed.

Now comes the perhaps the worst part of all.  Your relationship with that person will never be the same. Whether a friend or a family member, it has forever been changed.

So is it worth it?  When you're wondering why it's expensive to hire a professional photographer, keep in mind what I've written here.

I'll be writing more on how to save some money on your wedding in the coming weeks.  Real information, not the blah, blah, blah you are reading in magazines and on the internet now. 

Thanks for 'listening'....

Val

Sunday, July 27, 2008

We're alive! I swear!

Yep we're here, alive and kickin' but as you can imagine with wedding season in full swing we are really busy concentrating on client images and haven't had much time to blog. Bad, bad, bad!!

Anyway just sitting here cranking through images like crazy and thought I'd share one I really like. It's from Crystal and Scott's wedding back in June. Isn't it cool?? A little secret sauce has been applied of course ;)

Hope everyone's enjoying their summer! Talk to ya soon!

-Bruce

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Suggestions Welcome!

Hey there!  Our website needs a little upgrade so I'm kicking around some ideas and would love to hear what you think!  So let me know what you like, love, hate, want...whatever... creative ideas are most welcome!  Send me an email at valeen@thesweetestdays.com and tell me your thoughts.  Thanks!!

~ Valeen

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Happy 4th of July!

Hey there!  Just in case you're wondering if we've been on vacation or something because there hasn't been any blog posts lately... nothing could be further from the truth!  We have been super busy shooting so many fun and beautiful weddings, we just haven't had much chance to post anything!  We have one tomorrow too, which should be so cool being the 4th of July and all, we're looking forward to it! 

Anyhow, we'll try to catch up shortly and in the meantime, check out the awesome wedding slide show that we just posted for Becky & Gil on the homepage at www.thesweetestdays.com

Happy 4th to everyone, enjoy the day and have fun!

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Valeen