Category Archives: 05 – Wedding Tips

A place for wedding tips and tricks to create a successful planning endeavor for future brides and grooms.

5 Tips for Planning Your Wedding Day Portraits

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You probably read it everywhere: “Your wedding will be here and gone before you know it!” Unfortunately, it’s true. If you’re not a fan of planning, perhaps this is a blessing, but at the same time the one day you look forward to for so long can be over in a blink. One of the...

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Help with Print Ordering

Photo Crops

I wanted to quickly share this helpful photo-cropping visual with all of you! I get lots of questions about print cropping when ordering, so hopefully this will help. I shoot (except for family portraits) for composition in-camera, so prints are best at 16×24 of 20×30. Hope it helps!

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Cathy Crawley - That is a great idea for your clients! Most people don’t usually realise that photos are cropped from the original shape.

Conquering mall vendors

Pittsburgh wedding and engagement photographer

I haven’t stepped foot in a mall in a few weeks. And… as I wrote that as the clever introduction to my story I realized I was there last Thursday. Dang. Even I must be in denial. The malls, I suppose, are unavoidable. Once you’re in it’s an instant barrage of sweaters, sweet leather boots,...

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New Wedding Book: Matthew Robbins Inspired Weddings

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If there’s one thing that always just pulls right at the heartstrings, it’s the fact that weddings are family events. In more than one way. Weddings are gathering places for long-lost family members, bringing loved ones back to your hometown, and there are always creative ways to incorporate your love for family members – both...

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Dana Scheller - This is cool. Have you read it yet?

10×10 Flush Mount Wedding Album: Kristen & Joe

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Kristen and Joe’s wedding colors were dark plum and chartreuse green, so I l-o-v-e-d their choice in album cover leather! It just pops, yet is so beautiful. They received the 10×10, 30 page flush mount wedding album as a memory of their event in just September! The pages are nice and thick, and also warp-resistant....

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