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Wedding Inspo

When you’re planning a wedding, really good wedding photography can almost be like looking at dirty pictures! This is our archive of posts focused more on wedding photography (and less on written explanations).

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Aussie anime lovers tie the knot

One thing you must know about this couple, Karl and Kristina, is that they had this engagement shoot. Yep, that’s a cosplay of the anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which was a shared interest when they met. Their wedding, while not an exercise in cosplay, totally had veins of their anime love throughout (including the main characters of their favorite show as the cake toppers!).

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Give your “perfect match” favors a new spin with fancy jars

Tim and Amy celebrated their own perfect match by giving out these jarred matches with custom labels as favors. I realize that matchbooks aren’t totally new favor territory, but you have to admit these look pretty snazzy and very “take home and display”-worthy.

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A 1920s-era vintage wedding in a 19th-century Victorian house

In the mood for some fabulous vintage style? This wedding delivers. The bride, Courtney, gives us two dresses to satisfy our appetites: a lusciously beaded, green flapper-style number and a vintage 1920s dress with the actual accompanying headpiece, which we’ve been staring at covetously ever since we first saw it. There was even a photo shown at the wedding of the original bride wearing both pieces (look for it on the guest book table!).

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Pre-wedding excitement with bubble wrap, comics, shoes, and hedgehogs

This week it’s all about the excitement of wedding prep in our reader round-up. We have sci-fi-esque Save the Date video teasers, comic book invitations, wedding crafts, a cute hedgehog, and even the coolest wedding countdown calendar you’ve ever seen. Oh, and I show off some of my favorite wedding purchases that you’ve made recently. So let’s throw our hands (and paper hearts?) in the air and say “Yay for wedding planning!”…