How to make your photographer feel like a friend-tographer
I’m Angie Gaul, I am an avid Offbeat Bride reader, and have been since I started planning my own wedding way back in 2007. I keep coming back because I love the community here, along with the other Offbeat Wives who still read after their weddings. I love weddings, obviously, and I love learning about people’s cultures and subcultures, and I really love the respectful tone and intelligent level of commentary and discussion that Ariel, Megan, and the rest of the team work so hard to maintain.
I read the same articles you do, so I know that Offbeat Bride readers are really debating going back and forth between having a friend take their photos and a vendor. I so get this. That’s why I try to offer the best of both worlds…
Jenny GG: The super-amazeballs talented, LGBT-friendly, discount-offering, Seattle wedding photographer
There are soooo many reasons we love wedding photographer Jenny GG. Find out all the reasons, and you’ll see why Offbeat Brides have been booking Jenny since 2009!
Philadelphia’s Allebach Photography is booking in your neighborhood (and has TWO discounts)
Philly-based photographer Mike Allebach of Allebach Photography is one guy you’ve likely already heard us rave about before. Around these parts, he’s been known to totally rock the tattooed wedding market, and HALF of his bookings are same-sex couples. On top of it all, Mike has been partnering with us for over six years and has used his expertise to write some pretty boss posts for us.
Wedding photography that’s “a little nerdy and a lot laid back” from Atlanta’s YouAreRaven
Photographer Raven Shutley is a traveling wedding photographer, who’s as obsessed with emotions and what makes you YOU. So if one of you is chillin’ in a creek in your wedding clothes, or a Star Wars fanboy, and the other is Browncoat, then your Boba Fett/Jayne wedding portrait request is exactly what Raven wants to shoot. Let’s talk about how you can get your hands on your own photoshoot mash-up of you-ness with a special discount from YouAreRaven.
Are photographers going to start offering discounts for unplugged weddings?
In my almost-eight years of running Offbeat Bride and working with wedding photographers, I’ve heard of photographers offering potential clients discounts for all sorts of things: discounts for destination weddings, discounts for LGBT-identified couples, discounts for sci-fi weddings or elopements and all sorts of other niche weddings. But yesterday was the first time I saw a photographer who’s offering a discount for couples doing an unplugged wedding. Is this a new thing?
What are destination wedding photographer Dustin Cantrell’s 3 favorite things about offbeat weddings?
Guess who Ariel and I partied with at Lovesick in San Francisco? Our sponsor Dustin Cantrell! We had a blast with this guy who (we decided) is as awesome as he is talented. Which means it’s a safe bet that you will have a blast with him at your wedding… no matter where it is. Let’s look at some of Dustin’s favorite shots from his favorite locations, while we talk about his three favorite things about shooting offbeat couples…