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July 2, 2008 – 3:35 pm

Cool news :: Some of my work is featured in the latest issue of Weddings in Houston Magazine!

Hillary Smith, the wonderful wedding coordinator at the Hotel Derek in downtown Houston, sent in some of our wedding photography images to the editor, and they chose Alex and Nick to be one of their featured weddings for this issue. I am so happy for these two - it couldn’t happen to a more deserving couple! I’m honored that I was able to be the photographer for this beautiful wedding, and I can’t wait to shoot at the Derek again for Jennifer and Anthony’s Houston wedding next year. Thanks, Mr. and Mrs. Luton for all your love and support! If you live in the Houston area, pick up the latest issue of Weddings in Houston and check it out!

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A cool, random note: Most wedding magazines will only feature wedding photography vendors who have paid a lot, lot, lot of money. I know that it requires tens of thousands of dollars to become a featured vendor with most major wedding mags (The Knot, D Weddings, etc), despite the fact that the magazines often pass these advertisements off as “real recommendations by real brides.” I think it says a lot about Weddings in Houston magazine that they would feature my work, even though they have never gotten a dime of my money. That is respectable, and very unusual in the wedding industry these days.

Regular readers may already know about my love of Etsy.com, but I found a new store on Etsy that I am OBSESSED with.  Adrienne of Luxe Deluxe is a lovely Brit who makes some of the most beautiful vintage jewelry I have ever seen.  I have seriously favorited at least 25 of her pieces.  Here are a couple of my faves:

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I love love love her work, and her bridal collection is so feminine and delicate.  If you’re looking for something unique to wear on your wedding day, talk to Adrienne, she is super talented!  My personal recommendation:  The initial cameo (bottom right corner) would be great for a bride - get one with the first letter of your new last name!

Anyone have any cool July 4th plans?  I was supposed to have a mini-family reunion in Little Rock, but a sick little kitty and Jason’s unpredictable work schedule have probably nixed that.  Tell me what you will be doing Friday and let me live vicariously through you!

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News from Nebraska!

June 15, 2008 – 11:47 am

Hello from Omaha!  This place is swarming with baseball fans from all over the country for the College World Series, but the REAL big event was Darbi & Neil’s wedding last night!  It was so beautiful, I had so much fun with them and I have a ton of stories to share, but that will have to wait a bit until I get the many, many photos edited!

I did want to share something with you all though.. At yesterday’s wedding, the shutter on my camera died, the autofocus on my most-used lens died, a flash went on the fritz, and we had a memory card go bad on us.

I am happy to report that none of these things interrupted the wedding day coverage AT ALL!  Whew!  We didn’t miss a beat, and we have a wealth of fantastic, beautiful images from throughout the day.  The reason for this is that we came prepared with backup cameras, many many lenses, backup flashes, and TONS of memory cards.  If we had not had backups in virtually every aspect of equipment, yesterday would have been a very tragic disaster, as there would have been parts of Darbi and Neil’s wedding we would not have been able to cover.

If you are a photographer, and you do not have backups for EVERYTHING (and possibly even backups for your backups), you should not be shooting weddings.  If you are a bride, you need to be absolutely 100% sure that your photographer has at least one backup camera, several lenses, a backup flash, extra batteries, and more memory cards than they could ever possibly use.  If your photographer is not equipped with this, you might want to rethink signing a contract with them.

In the future I’m going to post a lot of “Tips for Brides” and “Tips for Photographers” but no tip I can give will ever be more important than this.  Hopefully it will be of use to some of you!

Now I am off to shoot Darbi & Neil’s Day After session.  They are both pretty smokin’ hot, so that will make my job super easy!  I’ll be back in the Big D on Tuesday!

By stacyreeves | Posted in Tips for Brides, Tips for Photographers | Also tagged | Comments (5)