Have I mentioned how much I love being a wedding photographer?  Yeah.  I have.  You know I have.  And if you’ve been reading my blog you know why.  People.  Lots and lots of people.  Weddings are about people, defined by the people who are involved and who are invited to attend.  When I first got started in photography it was my dream to be a street photographer like the famous Magnum group members or an editorial photographer like the insanely talented NatGeo staff.   And I’d say a good 90% of my early film days were spent with a camera around my neck, wandering this town or that city, trying desperately to catch those “decisive moments” that I knew were happening all around me.  I had no idea that I’d be using all that practice to capture weddings and couples.  None.  In fact it wasn’t until my friend Todd Smith, whom I met first as my own wedding photographer, encouraged me to try it that it even became a possibility for me.

But here I am 13 years later, having spent countless hours surrounded by happy, smiling faces.  Even in the midst of the hot, full wedding season I find it really hard to feel burdened by the work.  You see, I took wedding photography on as a cause quite some time ago.  That cause was to create the best, most illustrative and enduring images that I possibly could.  I didn’t want to just make a pretty picture and walk away.  I wanted my photographs to define the day for my couples and their families.  If my best work at any wedding looked like any generic magazine cover then I’d failed.  So it was and still is my mission to be better than what’s expected.  And the more weddings I was invited to photograph, the more I wanted to.

So, how does this relate to Euridice and Andrew?  Look through their images and tell me you don’t smile when she smiles, reflexively and then openly.  When I tell you that the picture of the beautiful woman in the picture frame is of Euridice’s recently passed mother, look again at the images of her and her father throughout the day and tell me you can’t feel their expressions as if they’re your own.  Look at Andrew’s face as he quite obviously loves and admires Euridice, how he holds her and tell me you don’t root for their lifelong happiness.  So yeah, I love my job.

Enjoy.