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How to Choose Your Wedding Dress Style
The most important choice you'll make about your wedding dress should not be the prominence of its designer or the trendiness of its cut but rather the style of the dress and choosing a style that suits your body shape is vital for looking your bridal best... |
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Guide to Engagement Session Photos
There are plenty of reasons why so many couples are choosing this option. For one, the engagement photos can be included in your wedding album to create a prequel; leading into the wedding day story... |
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Wedding Invitation & Stationery Guide
One thing that is a must for most brides and grooms is that their friends and family are there to join them in celebrating their big day. With this in mind, getting your wedding stationary in order is a very important part of the pre-nuptial preparations... |
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Weddings on a Budget - Take 2
Gone are the days where you, the bride-to-be, can afford to go all out on that Gucci dress. This how-to guide focuses on dressing down, money saving presents and thrifty trips to get your wedding planning started... |
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Weddings on a Tight Budget
I frequently encounter clients asking how they can plan a beautiful wedding that fit into their tight budget. They want to know what the secrets are and how they can cut costs but not compromise their wedding experience and photography quality. Here are a number of great tips I would like to share... |
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Choosing Your Wedding Entertainment
The first question you need to ask yourself is whether you want a live band or a DJ. While both are popular options for a wedding reception, they offer different things and the main advantage of a band is the atmosphere it helps create. However a band may lack the variety and diversity of music of a professional DJ... |
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3 Steps to Choose Your Wedding Photographer
The first fundamental step in identifying a good photographer is a distinct style that sets him/her apart from the competition. What often overlooked, is the work and output consistency from a photographer's shoot from a single wedding... |
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Achieve a Picture Perfect Wedding Day
What should you consider when choosing the right photographer? Which photography styles should you consider? How can you help ensure you get the picture perfect photos... |
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How Much is Wedding Photography?
How do you know if you're paying fair price? What about determining a photographer's skills and your anticipated quality standard to match your budget? We ask such questions to photographer and one-time bride herself: Caroline Ghettes; on her take of wedding photography cost... |
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10 Wedding Day Photo Tips for the Rest of Us
You might be surprised at how much you can provide to your photographer to improve your wedding day photo. From lighting, decoration, to the proper way to put on your wedding rings, let's review some photography tips you can take away on your wedding day... |
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What Do Wedding Planners Do?
However, for those who have yet to tie the knot, what a wedding planner does is largely just one big mystery. Wedding planners can be involved as much or as little as you like. The most important thing for your planner to take care of is getting you the best service possible at the best price... |
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A Pirate Ship Wedding Photoshoot
Whatever theme or ideas you may think about incorporating into your wedding, be sure you include your wedding photographer when brainstorming possible ideas. In this photographer interview, we cover the backstory and challenges for this unique pirate-theme based wedding photoshoot... |
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Should You Propose To Your Man?
Most women spend their entire time willing their partner to propose to them. But few take matters into their own hands. Getting sprung with a surprise marriage proposal is half the fun of getting married. However men love it when women make the first move but they're always saying we don't do enough of it... |
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Print and Create Your Wedding Album
Consider how expensive wedding album packages are, there is an easy way to reproduce, print, publish and share your wedding memories with loved ones without possessing the professional know-hows or break your budget... |
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Are You Ready for New Wedding Traditions?
When it comes to modern marriage, many old rules continue to pressure us to be bound by traditions. There are certain wedding traditions that are not quite a given anymore. Let's review the pro's and con's of four of what are becoming the "new traditions" in tying the knot... |
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How to Choose the Best Wedding Photographer
One of the first qualifications a bride should consider researching about their potential wedding photographer is their credentials. Have they been qualified and screened by an organization? Have they been honored by their peers, hold any awards, or certificates?
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The Do's and Dont's of Saying "I Do"
When it comes to wedding planning, you need to take the driver's seat. To invite the world and its mother or just the world? To ask the groom's opinion (and to take it?!) Focusing on the top 5 most debated wedding topics, here is a compiled list of the do's and don'ts...
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Find Your Wedding Videographer Part 1:
Planning & Research
Most wedding couples spend a significant amount of time in choosing their photographer, and overlook the importance of choosing a qualified wedding videographer. This article discusses some of the most important tips on how to approach wedding videography...
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Wedding Planning Checklist Tips Part 1
As you are planning your wedding day, an item often overlooked is the time allocated for traveling to and from the wedding destination. When planning seating and table arrangements, keep divorced parents, and anyone else that might clash together far away from each other...
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How to Schedule Your Wedding Day
When planning your wedding day, take into consideration of travel time, loading your car, time to eat, etc. Your plan should leave considerable room for slack time; you would rather have too much time to spend with your friends and family then be rushing around and feeling stressed...
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Danger in Online Wedding Photo Sharing: JPEG Privacy Alert
Wedding couples and professional photographers might not realize the risk of privacy exposure via online sharing of JPEG digital photos. JPEG's metadata is often manapulated by spammers, and non-FCC compliant online marketing agencies to expose the consumer privacy...
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Digital or Film for Your Wedding Photography?
So when does digital versus film matter? Maybe you feel a romantic attachment to the notion and "look" of film (sometimes I do, too), but you're wrong if you assume that film still looks like film. Your photographer's workflow (including the lab your photographer uses, if any) can greatly influence the look of your finished prints...
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How to Look Your Best for Wedding Photos
A good photographer who specializes in photojournalism will capture those shared looks, laughter and fun. In theory, such capable wedding photojournalist can make any situation work. However, both the photographer and the bride and groom would have to collaborate: take what happens and make the best of it...
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Wedding Bridal Boudoir Photography
Bridal Boudoir Photography takes place in the privacy of your home, your bedroom, or in the space you choose. It can take many forms depending on your level of comfort or personality. Make it playful or sultry, subtle or shy, or just let it happen. It can take place days or weeks before the wedding day...
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Disposable Camera Madness - How to Take Better Wedding Pictures
Quickk Tip: here's a better way to accomplish what you were hoping the disposables would: have your fiancé and yourself divvy up all the wedding guests so that all the various factions are clumped into groups. Afterwards, figure out whom in each group is a shutterbug...
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Interview: Learn to Dance for Your Wedding
You should be able to socially dance the type of dance that you have chosen for yourself and maybe even another dance without stopping and feeling self conscious. You’ll be able to have a lot of fun. There are also considerations on how to dance and look your best for your wedding pictures, most of which involves collaboration...
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Private Wedding Photo Session
The photographic environment is utilized as a stage setting. This setting creates an atmosphere for the wedding couple to step into a fantasy world where they become whoever they wish to be. The couple is often directed through various poses and creative ideas at the gentle coaxing of the wedding photographer...
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JPEG: Hidden Secrets of Wedding Photos
Posting on wedding sites and blogs, sending pictures via cell phones, wedding couples rush to share their newly photographed wedding pictures to friends and relatives. JPEG has quite a few hidden levels of data and information that most users do not realize exist...
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Wedding Crasher Alert
This past weekend someone crashed a wedding that I was photographing. Wedding crashers are out to spoil your wedding date. In one witness acount, a crasher was brash enough to come up to the bride and ask her to dance by grabbing her left hand and pulling her over. He was literally trying to pull the ring off her finger...
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