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Why You Should Care About Prints alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

4 sad-but-true reasons to turn your wedding pics into OMG REAL LIFE ACTUAL photo prints

As a wedding photographer, I hear these two statements all of the time: “we aren’t worried about prints right now” or “we will order prints after the wedding.” Here’s why you should think about going through the pain-in-the-ass process of turning that convenient USB drive into real life wedding prints…

10 wedding photographer pet peeves alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Don’t let these 10 wedding photographer pet peeves mess with your photos

Wedding-day snafus don’t just stress out the couple — they can also affect your photographer’s ability to get those amazing photos you’ve envisioned. So I polled a handful of longtime pros to find out their biggest pet peeves and the stress-relieving fixes. I hope these 10 tips will help you build an awesome working relationship with your photographer.

post wedding portrait sessions alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

6 excuses to break out your wedding finery for a post-wedding portrait session

My husband and I got married a little over a month ago now, and I have realized that one of the best decisions that we made was to have a second portrait session after we returned home from our honeymoon. Getting good wedding photos was important to me, and I was stressed that perhaps the short timeframe in which we needed to get all of our “perfect wedding portraits” wasn’t going to be long enough, was going to be too stressful, or was going to be too hot. So I decided that having more photos of us taken when we didn’t have those stresses or constraints sounded like a much better idea, and man were there a lot of benefits to that choice…

SM Bridesmaid Legs Light 1 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

How to think like a photographer on your wedding day

I love meeting with newly-engaged couples — joyful, anxious, and bubbling over with excitement about making their wedding plans. I sit across from this couple in love, enjoying my iced coffee, and I ask them about every special aspect and personal touch they’re incorporating in their wedding. As they answer, I’m always struck by how everything is so special to them because of who they are and what it represents to them… Everything but the time of day.