Racquel & Jeremy

Racquel and Jeremy were married last weekend at The St. Regis Hotel in Houston, TX. Their wedding was the last of my weddings for this year!

A warm embrace in the Honeymoon suite at the end of the night.

California Wine Country Weddings This Weekend

Stay tuned….weddings in Sonoma and Livermore California this weekend. Weather should be beautiful. Will update with photos from each. Possible engagement session in San Francisco while I am in town for one of my Texas clients who are getting married in December.
For those unaware, I am looking into doing more work in the San Francisco Bay Area, so if you know of someone needing an excellent wedding photographer, send them to my website www.mhphotographyhouston.com.

Making the Most of your Wedding Portrait Experience on Your Wedding Day – Part I

In my commitment to blog on a more regular basis, I thought this topic would be great as a starter series.
Making the most of your wedding portrait experience. This topic is going to specifically deal with wedding portraits and not any other aspect of the wedding (we can cover something related to those topics at a later date).
This is going to be my intro entry for the topic. Over the next week I will cover tips and tools brides…and other photographers can use to make the portrait experience at weddings a happy and smooth one.
Most often referred to as Formal Portraits or Wedding Portraits, it’s the time at the wedding that the bride and groom take to pose for photographs of themselves, their bridal party, their family, etc.
When talking to brides, it seems that since the trendy thing to do these days is to focus on candids and photojournalistic shots, formal photographs are not “important.” Nothing can be more true from the opposite. While many of my clients walk in stating something to the effect of, “I don’t like posed photos. I love candids, capturing the moment, etc.” These clients have the best intentions in mind & truely do love these types of shots. The ugly truth is that the candid/photojournalistic shots make great 4 x 6 and 5 x 7 images. They aren’t exactly what you are going to hang on your wall at home. Our big print orders and albums are composed of our posed formal portraits and artistic images (that were either posed or directed).
Think about this when you are making out your timeline for your wedding day. If you are going to plan on putting these images in your album and/or know these types of images you will display in your home, you will want to make sure that you allot enough time for them. How much time, when is it best to do this? Those are topics that are coming up in the next week, so stay tuned. Feel free to leave a comment in the meantime!

Mary