This year, I’ve spent time analyzing my work and focusing my style. It would seem that focusing on something would narrow that perspective. However it has definitely broadened the level of creativity I want to achieve within a wedding.
Previously my wedding language was light, airy, and infused with blurred greenery. My interests were for outdoor venues with lots of trees and wooded spaces. Much of that resonates with the fact that I loved living in the scenic state of Alaska.
TEXAS VS. ALASKA WEDDINGS
My re-emergence into the wedding industry started in 2019. I moved to Texas in 2016 from Alaska. Taking on weddings in Alaska is significantly different than Texas lol! Texas has much harsher light, hotter temps, grander landscapes and ballrooms, and lots of barns and shiplap lol! I’d also say decor comes into play a lot more in Texas than in Alaska.
In Alaska, the beautiful mountains and lakes were often the backdrop. (See examples of weddings in the magazine I was published in years ago at Alaska Bride & Groom here. So it’s fun to see how much people in Texas devote to florals, table decor, creative arches, etc. (See examples of weddings in Houston. I’ve been published in Wed Society here.)
However, after spending 2 years focusing on not melting in the Texas heat, understanding the Texas wedding industry, and photographing several weddings and styled shoots at various venues, my style has emerged and shifted a bit. It’s also accommodated several of my clients to incorporate my Sanguine Portraiture brand into weddings. (See my Sanguine Portraiture style here.)Out of these experiences my Rustic Romantic brand went to Romantic Vogue.
ROMANTIC VOGUE
Romantic Vogue, for me is redefining the art of capturing weddings by providing both refined fine art traditional imagery with ethereal images. My philosophy is that images should do more than just document time.
I view the wedding day like a cinematic film. Depending on where you grab the stills images can be perfect or something in between. I’m there to capture the whole story. On a wedding day, couples experience a myriad of emotions. The anticipation, elation, exuberance, joy and tears all flow within a few short hours.
Parts of a film are beautiful and perfect and detailed. That’s where my romantic and vogue images come from. But the wedding day is also fast, and busy, and crazy. That’s where I love to capture the authentic imagery that’s not always clear, but blurry, and busy, and full of energy.
WEDDING CATEGORIES
Below I describe the four viewpoints I see and intend to seek when I capture a wedding.
ROMANTIC: All the moments that warm your heart and make you smile; the loving times between the bride and groom. Often these feel like “fly on the wall” moments where the B&G take quiet time for themselves.
VOGUE: The Sanguine section of my weddings. Everything that is posed to perfection, edited for a Vanity Fair magazine. Typically these are darker images. But we definitely pose Vogue outside in greenery…because that’s what I practiced for so many years.
AUTHENTIC: Showcasing the authentic is the newest section of what my goals are to capture on wedding day. It’s always been done accidentally…now I it’s with more intention. So the blurred imagery, moving and motions images, the big laughs and cries…all the emotions fall under this category.
CURATED: The details are so important to complete a wedding story. The shoes, dress, cake, and venue (as it was on your wedding day), all the time spent putting together florals and decor, are so important to documenting your day.
Images captured at the following venues:
The Peach Orchard, Briscoe Manor, Hochzeit Hall, Julia Ideson Library, Lakeside Country Club, Heaven on Earth Oaks, The Farmhouse, The Magnolia Hotel,
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