We booked our wedding photographer last weekend!
There are essentially two main styles of wedding photography: traditional (mostly posed shots) and photojournalism (storytelling or documentary styles). Some photographers can blend styles, and some are more artsy than others, but usually they boil down to one or the other category. I knew that we needed a photojournalistic approach, because Lance is notoriously bad at taking pictures. We usually get one good one out of every four we take because of his knack for blinking at the wrong time. I wanted to find someone who could catch him genuinely smiling (which is beautiful) and goofing around (which is often), rather than ending up with a bunch of forced-looking posed shots. The problem is that there are very few good wedding photojournalists in Missouri and downstate Illinois.
To find a photographer, we checked out studios that people we know have used, looked at our recently married local friends' albums, and scoured wedding websites. I followed their pages on Facebook for a while to see what kind of work they do. Ultimately, one emerged as a clear front-runner: a husband-wife team that, by some weird coincidence, grew up with one of my college friends in Virginia. We met with them to make sure that we all clicked, since we will be spending 10+ hours with them on our wedding day, and we were very happy with their professionalism and laid-back vibe. If you want to check them out, visit the Carretto Studio Photography blog here. :)
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