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Photographers don’t always keep your files: Why and how you should protect your wedding photos

Crap happens. Fires, floods, massive earthquakes that flatten Seattle (you all know what I’m talking about). Or maybe we’re just talking about an excited kid who rips a page, or a toddler who spills their milk. Prints can be damaged. And as much as we would like to think that we can always go back and buy another copy, not all photographers keep an archive. So here’s why and how to capture, display, and protect your wedding photos…

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Why Mixbook wedding albums are the bomb-diggity

I know that these were featured on Offbeat Bride some time ago, but honestly when bogged down in the trenches of wedding planning, thinking about what to do with photos after you get them is light years away from the thought process. It was for me anyway.

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Don’t forget to ask these 9 super important wedding photographer questions

If you’re looking for a professional photographer who knows their stuff and will rock your emotional socks when you see the end result, your first stop is our Offbeat Bride Vendor Guide. Once you’ve narrowed down your options for a photography vendor, you’ll want to get your list o’ questions going — and it’s a pretty important set of questions. Let’s talk shop about what to ask your potential wedding photographer.

4 types of wedding photobombers alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Save yourself from these 4 common kinds of wedding photobombers

With pretty much every guest bringing some sort of recording device to a wedding nowadays, the odds of running into photobombers is growing increasingly higher. Many couples have avoided this with planning “unplugged” weddings; however, there are still a few types of people who don’t like to play by the rules.

After having shot weddings for nearly seven years, I feel like I’ve seen enough photobombers to be able to not only classify them but have learned a little about how to deal with them. Here are, from my experience, the four categories of photobombers, and how to deal with them…