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wedding photographer

Are you looking for an offbeat wedding photographer? We can help! First, you should check out our directory of Offbeat Wed-approved wedding photographers. We’ve also got tons of advice about wedding photographers, including questions to ask your photographer, how to look great in photos, and insider secrets from wedding photographers themselves.

6 photos that made us praise hands emoji the photo prowess of Dustin Cantrell

6 photos that made us praise hands the photo prowess of Dustin Cantrell

I wanted to share a few of my favorite gorgeous photos from traveling wedding photographer Dustin Cantrell, as I truly think his work speaks volumes about how he’s able to capture moments you never see otherwise, emotions you thought you wouldn’t be able to relive, and looks of love that will make you weep all over again. It’s genius.

The trick to colorful, authentic, and totally YOU wedding photos? This Philly wedding photographer!

The trick to colorful, authentic, and totally you wedding photos? THIS Philly wedding photographer

Philly photographer Justin Heyes is one of our favorite wedding photographers with a seriously interesting background. Not only does he capture all kinds of amazing offbeat weddings, write as an industry expert for photography magazines, and generally own the space in creative photography, but he used to work with photography and lighting at QVC — yep, the home shopping channel. It gave him a really diverse array of skills when it comes to making stage lighting more exciting and capturing details. But will it translate to capturing your wedding? Just wait until you see the proof.

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5 weddings that prove LA’s Rawtography excels at stunning wedding photography and video

If there was ever a photo and video team who keeps us googly-eyed at the weddings they send our way, it’s the LA-based superstars of Rawtography. They’ve captured some truly stunning offbeat weddings including one of the most amazing goth weddings, a natural history event complete with volcano, a wedding at the Houdini Estate, a Muppet extravaganza at Jim Henson Studios, and the incredible seafoam circus wedding of Dick Van Dyke and Arlene Silver-Van Dyke. Yep, THAT Dick Van Dyke.

Here are some of their favorite weddings (that are now ours’, too!)…

This NY to Mexico globetrotting photographer is ready to capture all of the moments you never saw coming

This NY to Mexico globetrotting photographer is ready to capture all of the moments you never saw coming

When I think of a killer set of wedding photos, I sometimes don’t even want to see “WEDDING” all over it. I want to see amazing candids of old friends, tiny moments of ring bearers going rogue, tears in the groom’s eyes as he waits at the ceremony, and above all, an AMAZING story told in images. When I think of getting that amazing story? I think of Celia at The Lovely Lens. Here’s why Celia is ALL about the moments and not the stuffiness…