I spoke to a lovely bride-to-be last week and who shared how she felt a little overwhelmed with planning her wedding. What exactly to have and choose, where to put everyone, what to do…
… and I completely understand the confusion.
Especially when you have wedding magazines giving you lists of “100 things you must do otherwise you won’t conform appropriately”!
So when it comes to the best location for wedding photos…
… I feel it’s like asking “Where can we do the photos?” before you’ve hired a photographer.
I’ve found there is a bit of a common misconception out there suggesting wedding photography is almost entirely about the location. Which may be true for a certain type of photography (that focuses more on the setting, details and replicating photos, than on the subtleties of our real experiences of our own life with the people we love).
It’s completely understandable that so many get fooled by this myth… as I’ve lost count of the number of times people call telling me other photographers “just take the same photos“.
Or “It’s like looking at the same image over, and over again“.
Because if all you see is a location, you’ll just see the same image made over and over again only exchanging the people. I would doubt that you’re really connecting with an image if that’s all you’re seeing. I think you’ll agree, it’s quite impersonal. When an artwork really speaks to me, I connect with it on a much deeper level – it may have an aesthetic beauty, but it’s content, it’s meaning, also moves me.
So a better question is Who do you want to experience your wedding day with?
Want to spend most of your time just together on your own, jetting around seeking the typical wedding photo locations? Perhaps… Have your loved ones travelling across continent and want to ensure you spend quality time with them?
Again, put this top of your list. And make sure everything else fits with this.
If you want that laid back, festival feeling, outdoors in the fresh air with the theater & spontaneity that spins off from it… simply make this your setting, not a 2 hour trek from your guests. Put yourself and your wedding exactly where you want it to be.
Now that you have that worked out, it’s worth seeking the photographer who’s right for you.
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