Are you thinking about a first look for your wedding day? This new trend has become more and more popular among couples and the photographers always love it! It helps have less time in between your ceremony and reception as all of your pictures are done beforehand so you get to enjoy cocktail hour! There’s no rush on getting to places or anything!
I actually decided on a first look for my own wedding day! And as a photographer, it makes my life a bit easier because there’s very little stress in between the ceremony and reception!
If you haven’t heard of a first look, let me tell you what it is, it’s a moment when the bride and groom get to see each other for the first time, alone, usually with just the photographer and videographer present for that moment. They let the couple have a few moments alone (or as much time as they would like!) and then we move on to portraits with the bride and groom! This is nice because it gives the couple some moments alone on their wedding day which is in high demand! And if you peruse some photography blogs and wonder how they did all of that within the time frame, it’s because of a first look!
Brides have moved towards this more and more because they want the wedding pictures and still want to enjoy cocktail hour with their guests but don’t want a long gap in between or if they’re having their ceremony and reception at the same place. Also, with doing the photos beforehand we don’t get the paparazzi of family and friends vying for your time!
Today on Weddingistas blog, I was featured for some of the photos of Lauren and Brian’s first look! Along with some other great photographers like Rad Photographer out of Ohio made up of a husband and wife team (wish I could get the hubby more on board for this!) and Kristin Byrum who has the cutest pineapple logo! And Robert and Kathleen Photographers in Connecticut who also have a new blog/site combo like me! And lastly but not least some from Raw Photo Design who showed some from Florida and Katie Ardner Photography who we all had first looks from!
The trend is happening all over the nation!
The Weddingista’s also go over the pros and cons of doing a first look on your wedding day! Check them out! Even though they’re in Connecticut, I have camera, will travel
Here’s my one favorite that wasn’t up:
More soon after a nap and hopefully feeling better!!
Shannon and Matt were the first couple to book me for their wedding last year! Can you believe how time flies? I was just a lowly wedding photographer who didn’t have much on the books but Shannon and Matt took a risk on me and thought that I could definitely photograph their wedding. Their engagement session is still one of my favorites and I believe the first time I ever went to Cantigny in Wheaton!
Any way, we started out the day at Shannon’s parents house in Oswego and then headed to do wedding party pictures in Phillips Park in Oswego. Even though it was so hot out I got everyone through the pictures pretty fast!
Phillips Park Aurora
901 Ray Moses Dr
Aurora, IL
The ceremony was held at St. Anne’s Church in Oswego which had a lot of natural light for me to use!
St. Anne’s Church
551 Boulder Hill Pass
Oswego, IL
The night was finished up at Riverview Banquets in Batavia and we had just a great time with the wonderful wedding party!
Riverview Banquets
1117 N Washington Ave
Batavia, IL 60510
Enough about the day, more will come later but you get the idea, you want the pictures right?
the wedding party was seriously a ton of fun!
I love that when I asked Shannon to go into this field she didn’t even care about her wedding dress! It was all about the photos!
Shannon and Matt it was such a blast to be the photographer for your wedding! Don’t worry, there’s more for you coming!
Kara
Andrea and Adam now live in the sunny state of Florida but still had plans to get married in good old Illinois! We had a lot of fun and Andrea was probably the most relaxed bride I’ve had to that point! She didn’t stress about any part of the day and just laughed things off. I would also like Adam to note that I did include his self portrait in the slideshow when I asked him to hold my camera while I bustled Andrea, Adam decided a self portrait was in order! How funny!
Music generously provided by Andrew Belle Love his stuff!!
So Kim and Mike were my 2nd engagement session for Saturday! They were a bunch of fun and I have too many pictures especially because they wanted some more edgy type feel ones. Done and done. Oh and they wanted to be on the blog, so here they are
We started in Grant Park and Millennium Park downtown located at 201 E. Randolph Street Chicago IL
And there you have some I’m seriously burning through these sessions now, and the last 2 of those are my favs!
