“Do you think we should shake up the order of the photos we’re showing in our galleries on our website? Put more emphasis on the details instead of showing just portraits and candid shots?”

Danny was finishing up his lunch when he asked this, while I had barely put a dent in mine because, as is so often the case, I’d been too busy talking to chew. Chances were, I wasn’t going to eat any more for the next few minutes now that this was the topic of discussion, so I went ahead and put my spoon down.

“I like details, and I included a bunch,” I said, “but we’re not wedding detail photographers. I mean, sure, we shoot the details, and we love shooting the details. But that isn’t what we’re all about. There are lots of photographers who showcase the pretty, bright and airy details they photograph at weddings. But when someone looks at our body of work, I want them to walk away remembering the moments we capture.”Because that’s what we care about most.

Because that’s what our couples are going to care about most in forty years, when life looks very different and their parents and grandparents are gone.

Because that’s what our couples’ children and grandchildren are going to want to hold onto in fifty or sixty or seventy years.

It won’t be photographs of beautiful rings or stylish place settings that bring them comfort and connect them to the past they cherish and miss. It will be moments of real, riveting love.~ Laura