OK…you have read my blogs before on this and I am a bit passionate about the topic. If a friend or relative offers their services to you to be your photographer, and unless they have wedding photography experience with an expensive camera with back up, you might be very disappointed. Also you won’t be destroying a friendship if the shots do not turn out as you had hoped. By contracting a professional, a person who does wedding photography as a career, you know you’ll get great images of your big day.

If you find your photographer rushing you it might be for a good reason.Photographers have to deal with a little thing called timeline. We have a number of obstacles to overcome and sometimes it is to keep things moving and to get the shots necessary to telling your story.You have a wedding that starts at a certain time; you have a reception start at a certain time.Often times the bride and groom want to stay with tradition so they cannot see one another prior to the wedding. This means a photographer has to work fast and be creative.

I have been watching this area quite closely to see (if any) major changes may carryover into 2012. Of course, 2011 trends will spill into 2012. So don't think of it as "last season" for doing something that feels personal and unique. Trends (to me) become less important when you find those things that you feel really fit your style and make you both look and feel like the couple you see yourself as.