Fiance2wife.com recently posted, on June 29th, 2008, some typical questions that you should ask a photographer. I’ve probably have answered some of these already in my own posts. I’d like to build a dialog; thus i’d like to answer some questions that the blog addressed. Keep in mind their blog is local to the UK so things might be a bit different; Regardless, these are some typical questions a bride would ask.

Questions provided by fiance2wife.com. Many of these are specific to our practices. I just wanted to respond to these questions because they’re commonly asked throughout the internet and you never know who is searching for these answers on the internet.

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Bridget and John Neam got married on June 22nd, 2008. I’m just catching up to their photos right now. I have been busy working on something big. You all will see!

Here Bridget is dancing with John.

I absolutely love this photo. Bridget’s ladies were amazing on the dancefloor. They’re so full of energy  and fun! They were ubiquitous on the dancefloor.

This photo is definately a Kodak moment. There’s so much emotion going around toasts. Here maiden of honor gives a speech right after bridget.

This is Bridget and john walking down eastern market. We were lucky that the rain had stopped that day and we’re lucky to find our way to eastern market with enough time at the end. It was not the most sunniest day but it made for beautiful dramatic wedding photography. As a photographer you have to make good use of unplanned tangents that life throws at you. Another reason why i love my job!

Here they  caught a moment of playing a game that i’ve instructed them to do. They’re pretty good at it. No posing at all! This is actually all natural light shot in front of a metal panel in eastern market. Eastern market is such a great stop for photography. It’s like a playground.

Here Bridget is laughing at some instruction i’ve gave her. I can’t remember what it was. She knows i’m funny. Shes such a fun bride. Here we were shooting under the awning of the Fox Theater to take cover over the rain that day.

Brides and grooms for some reason love photographing jump shots. I don’t blame them they’re fun watching them jump up and down. it’s their wedding day they have lots of reasons to jump up and down. Here John and his crew is doing the same as I instructed Bridget: To jump up as high as they can. This is a great thing to do to build rapport with your client actually. It is all about subject management: which i thank Craig Tanner for teaching me.

Here we see Bridget the bride in Angelo’s (i think her step father’s) Corvette. It’s a beautiful ivory colored corvette. I’m not a car buff so I wouldn’t know what year it is. We decided to have her hop in and take a photo right before she was leaving her mother’s house in Fraser, Michigan.

Here we see Bridget posed right in front of her favorite tree at her mother’s house.

This past weekend I went out to Ontario to shoot with a friend, John Lyons from Chatham, Ontario. Their ceremony was held at St. Rose of Lima Church and their reception was held in Windsor’s Ambassador Golf Club. They had hour dourve hour at the Bethelbaum Bed and Breakfast in Windsor right off of Chappus. Which is shown below:

This is Lovely Nadia at the Bed and Breakfast. The Bed and breakfast was very ornate and was a great place for her to get ready. She was super nice.

This is the Groom, Scott.

This was at the church. I’ve never noticed the great impact of violinists in a church until now. It was way better than hearing chatter or piano music.

Here are some guests arriving at the rose

Another Violinist at St. Rose of Lima Church.

This is nadia walking down the aisle of the church with her father. I’ve never seen a bride smile that much. This is what she looked like all day. Her photos were boring because shes so happy in every picture that all her expressions look the same. Ha, no not really. A happy bride is a great bride.

This is nadia and scott downtown windsor walking around. Probably my favorite photo. I screamed at John, “I told him we gotta shoot here the building is a huge reflector. The light is beautiful here.” So we did for a moment.

This is Nadia and Scott listening to the best man speak at their reception in ambassador country club in [tag]windsor[/tag], ont.

This Dessert was amazing. It was all chocolate flakes around it with a crispy outside and mousse on the inside. very rich. It was awesome with coffee but then I got busy with shooting the dance that they stole my cake away before I could finish it. I was pretty unhappy. oh well so it goes.

This is their First Dance; Their song was sting. See! Look what I mean shes so freaking happy its awesome. It made my job very easy.

Samantha and Rob Leach married at Bethel Lutheran Church in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. The adorable church was of much sentimental value to Samantha’s Parents as they married there years before.

Meet the Bride: Samantha Ryckman (well leach now).

Sam Again

Rob and Sam at the park. We stopped there for some photos and saw couples that got married that had the same idea.

By now sam and her jitters were all cooled down a bit and she had the perfect expression that I was looking for.

The other wedding party was doing a bridge photo to the right of this photo. I framed it to cut them out of the photo. The bride and groom behind them wore loud pink and black bridesmaid dresses.

Probably my most favorite cake shot this year.

This was after Sam and Rob’s first dance.

A very emotional father daughter dance. Dan from hot mix entertainment had interesting led lights that change from green orange and blue. With luck it turned blue and it matched the look that I wanted.

Rob’s mother was the same way. It was hard to hold back the emotions at this point.

Fun and crazy dancing! I think this was when they did the super slow mo dancing. Much hilarity ensued.

I booked this wedding a long time ago. I’ve been excited for this wedding for quite a while. They’re such a great couple. You don’t need to tell them to pose much. They know how to look good if you just stand back and let them enjoy the moment with each other. But of course once in a while some supervision is necessary, since Andy and Mollie occasionally get ADD.

I’m also excited because these are spartans. I’ve had too many wolverine fans lately. This was truely a chance to also remind me of my times at Michigan State when we went around campus to photograph them two. I suggested we goto the riv. They wanted the sparty statue so I went with that.
Here are some of my favorites:

We pulled out of their limo stopped traffic to photograph this. Luckily campus was pretty quiet and there were many other bride and grooms there too. Oh I did my best to tribute sparty by giving this photo the 300 (the movie) look. I loved that movie so much.

This is at the opera house after cutting the cake. Andy is pensively thinking about how much he enjoyed his cake (Probably). Mollie is probably thinking about the weird goofy photographer noises i’m making.

This is outside the Grand Ledge Opera House. It’s such a beautiful venue for a wedding.

First Dance together.

Father daughter dance. Mollie’s father is a super great guy. You can tell his warmth and kindness immediately when speaking to him.

I told myself I should only choose 5 photos. It was really tough. I spent a good half an hour picking what was in and out and went back and forth. So I just was like whatever. Just throw these up. I could be doing something more enjoyable. Like eating ice cream cake. Abby Rose Photo came to assist me too.

So here is to five (plus one more. Couldn’t leave that last one out).

Brian Secord before the ceremony

I guess Lindsay is great with children.

Lindsay and the Bouquet Toss.

Brian with the Garter Toss. I caught a photo of it in mid-air luckily. I love the expression of the people in the back.

Probably my most favorite photo of all of them. This was my day after shoot in Kensington Park, Michigan.

Last one in Kensington park. The bonus track one.

Went to Munster, Indiana to help Jim Karr at one of his weddings.

Here are some photos that I’ve shot: