As a bride or groom-to-be, you’ll often be advised to choose a wedding photographer who can capture your unique personality throughout your big day. The truth is, however, pretty much ALL wedding photographers can do that. Here’s why.
If you’ve followed your heart and stayed focused on the things that are important to you when planning your wedding, then every wedding detail will exude you – from wedding dress, bouquets and colors, to wedding cake, food and favors. By shooting any or all these things, a wedding photographer will technically capture your personality.
In other words, a wedding photographer need only go on auto-pilot to find your “personality thumbprint” everywhere. If there were such a thing as romantic forensics, the final photographs would incriminate you of expressing all-out love in your own distinct way – in a garden of candlelit trees and strewn rose petals, the elegant centerpieces of a formal ballroom, or the stringed lights dancing in the breeze on the beach.
So what you really should ask a potential wedding photographer is not “Can you capture our personality?” but rather, “Can you capture our essence?” There’s a difference.
Essence is that special head tilt, nose crinkle, smile or touch that melds you together and defines you. It’s your beautiful first looks, stolen glances and mutual reactions to the events of the day.
Essence is those fleeting moments of tenderness, playfulness and deep emotion among you, your wedding party and guests. It’s a story of what happens on your particular day suddenly, spontaneously or according to plan.
You may actually only want an archival-type of wedding photographer who’d document every last personality-infused detail of your wedding day, period. If that’s the case, you’ll find plenty of options. He or she will do a good job of mechanically creating a thorough record of your event – from attires to decor, venues, party and guests.
But for a wedding photographer who’s also a story teller of your essence, you may have to dig a little deeper. Look into portfolios for those special freeze-frame images that will make you stop and look a little longer to glimpse into the beings of the wedding couple and those around them. To me anyway, it’s worth the extra time and effort to find one of these.
Of course, you may already have found one. Just saying.
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