Mason said he wanted a Star Wars stormtrooper for a wedding cake topper and I lucked out and found what are possibly the most adorable set of bride and groom appropriate stormtroopers ever. Mason wants to fashion a cute little top hat for his and maybe I can make a little veil for mine~! :B *Very excited for eBay order to arrive*
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They passed my screening questions with flying colors, have a great portfolio, shoot an unlimited amount of photos for the full day, do touch ups, include an engagement session, are one of the more affordable ones on my Top 10 list, aaand they come highly recommended from our family friend! A+! (Plus they didn’t piss me off at any point during the screening process. One of the photographers I emailed was very arrogant; another broke the very golden Brenna Rule and tried to bypass the email entirely and wanted to set up a phone call. NO, I will not have a phone conversation with you until you answer my simple screening questions! Stop messing with my system! D:{ -100 points!!!)
In any event, I’ve sent a message to Scade Photography asking to meet with them to talk about booking. I’m so excited for pretty wedding photos~ *^^*
Since our ceremony and reception are looking to be fairly close together time-wise, we may have to end up doing some of the formal photos before the ceremony to avoid running out of time before the reception. (I don’t really want Mason to be able to see me in my wedding dress before the ceremony though… Maybe I can talk to the photographers and we can come with a way of doing photos of the groom and bride’s sides separately…?)
They also like to do multiple photo locations for the formals, so I’m trying to think of other (free) locales near the Citadel where we could do some shots before the ceremony. Maybe even outside if the weather is nice. Ideas?
Instead of the typical materials thrown at weddings — confetti (too messy); rice (kills the birds); bubbles (okay I really have no objection to bubbles at all) — I was thinking maybe paper flowers~? Each guest could be given one when they walk in for the ceremony and then everyone could throw them in the air when we finish! Y/Y?
They’d probably take a while to make (we’d need around 100 of them), but I could just start doing them while watching TV or something at night. We could do them in blue and brown paper to match the wedding colors~ :3
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I’ve also been trying to think of some sort of ceremonial thing we could do, but Mason thinks the whole sand pouring and candle lighting stuff is tacky. I did some Googling of other traditions people do and we’re thinking of doing a ceremonial wine drinking; however, since I hate the taste of wine, we’d substitute it for something more Brenna-friendly like, say, wildberry cooler? :B It all looks the same when it’s in a glass!
I need to start looking for (affordable) shoes! I’d prefer something with a bit of an open toe with a style along these lines:
I like how they sort of emulate the ruching effect. I think they’d look really cute with my dress~ :3
I also need to find a second pair of more comfortable flats in case my feet object to my pretty ceremony shoes later on in the night. I don’t want to go the ballerina shoe route because I think they look goofy, but maybe something like these?
Question: if you buy dyeable wedding shoes, can they be re-dyed again after the wedding? Or is it a one-time only thing? I’d love to take what ever shoes I end up getting and dye them a more wearable color afterward.
This whole photography thing has been both very fun and overwhelming. When I started my search I wasn’t aware that I would find so many as well as get so many recommended to me by others. It was a lot to look through. *Sweatdrop* (THANK YOU, BUT NO ONE REC ME ANY MORE PHOTOGRAPHERS, PLEASE! …my brain will explode…)
So originally I started off with a list of 30 and managed to chop a third of them off during a second very long look-through, but then still had 18. D: By use of wonderful spreadsheet though and some side-by-side comparisons, I’ve narrowed it down to a much less intimidating 8 10 11:
Anyone heard or have any reviews of any of these? (The above are based mostly on their portfolios at this point, I have to contact them all for specific price and package details.) I also e-mailed a family friend who teaches photography at NAIT to get his opinion and if he knows of any well amazing recent grads that fill what I need (hence the hasty addition of two more to the above list.)
Brenna photography must-haves (I’m very picky):