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I'm dillydallying today because I have some photos I want to share with our blog family, but to be honest I haven't gotten around to loading them yet. It has been crazy busy scheduling brides for wedding consultations with Bobbi, add to that welcoming them into the Studio and sharing our work and mutual vision for their wedding photography. It is great fun, very exhilirating, but a bit frantic. We have met some hilarious couples lately, perhaps the stress of the whole wedding thing is making everybody funnier than usual???? Or are we just a nation of people who are getting funnier? Life makes you funny sort of thing? Maybe.

For the moment I'll share a couple of the most frequently asked comments/questions from the Bridal Fair last weekend in St. Charles. The first one was "I didn't know that choosing a photographer was going to be so hard." Well, the answer is yes and no and of course. There are a LOT of photographers in St. Louis, just a lot of them. So because todays brides and grooms are so well educated they take it upon themselves to thoroughly research the market. We have heard that just going to websites is helpful but not the be all and end all, and again, of course! More than several couples told us that there were some great websites out there but when they contacted or met with the photographer they were rather disappointed. Hmmmmmmmmmm, yes. We always insist on meeting with brides and their fiance's or families if they are involved in the decision making process. By meeting with each other it is the best way to not only see the work produced but to gauge personalities, to see if there is a "click factor". Without this click..... photographs won't be as good, that is just the truth of it. As we always explain, of course it is hard to choose your wedding photographer, there are not only a lot of choices but this is one of the most important, longest lasting elements in your wedding planning. You may soon forget how the cake tasted (or never get more than a bite), but your photography will last your entire life--- and for all of the generations to come. The no comes in if you consider the work of a wedding photographer. Even if you are sitting in front of a cold and impersonal computer screen, the photographs should speak to you, a primal gut reaction that simply cries out THAT IS MY WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER. Sometimes, a bridal couple might love the work of a particular photographer and their budgets just don't meld. Always ask if they have a payment plan that might work things out. Don't settle if you don't have to!

Another question we heard a lot was about having more than one shooter. Great question, hard to answer without understanding exactly what the needs of each individual bride and groom are. Second shooters are part of most of the weddings BBP photographs, the most intimate may not require that. Having a second shooter generally means that you get another vantage point, another view of your story as it unfolds. It can mean that you justsimply get more images, we try to capture different elements---- details, etc. Two fresh ways of looking at the same event, not a lot of needless duplication.

Have a great day, I promise to be better about uploading those photographs I've been promising!