Put your bossy auntie in charge and other tips for making family photos the easiest part of the wedding day
As a wedding photographer, one of the biggest questions/concerns my couples have is about family photos. How do you do them and keep everyone happy? When is the best time of day? How long do they take? And so on. Given all of the potentially complex and likely murky make-up of families, couples, photographers, and planners could spend HOURS strategizing family photo time… or they could follow these three simple guidelines…
Should photographers shoot same-sex weddings any differently?
As some of you might know, I wear two professional hats: one as the managing editor of Offbeat Families and another as a wedding photographer. As such, it made sense that Ariel asked my opinion on Capturing Love: How to Photograph Same Sex Weddings, an NPR piece about how “different” it is to photograph same-sex weddings. Based on the title alone, I was puzzled…
Wedding dresses you can breastfeed in: nursing mothers rejoice, we have a gigantic round-up just for YOU
All kinds of tops and dresses can are breastfeeding-friendly, especially once you get the hang of it. While I didn’t don a wedding or bridesmaid gown during my stint as a nursing mother, I did experiment with a variety of necklines to find out what was the easiest to maneuver my son around. You also want to wear something that can be folded back/pushed to the side pretty quickly — hungry babies are demanding!
I need inspiration for fun, non-blah wedding party poses!
You’ve featured non-sucky, offbeat, original suggestions for shoes, wedding rings, etc., but I couldn’t find a thorough compendium of fun, non-sucky wedding pictures/poses. I like the already passé everyone-jumping and everyone-running pictures, but I wonder if there is anything even better.
A step-by-step guide to making your OWN wedding album with Blurb books
A few months ago I waxed poetic about the amazingness of Blurb books on Offbeat Mama, and it dawned on me that sharing this knowledge on Bride could only do good things for everyone reading.
I recently made a wedding album from a set of photo booth shots, and figured that’d be the perfect thing to share with you guys.
How to change your relationship status on Facebook without everyone knowing
I get that this is a very twenty-first century only-for-people-who-are-online-a-lot problem, and a silly one at that. Why, at the end of a long-term relationship that really meant something, would your mind wander to your Facebook relationship status? I can’t tell you, I just know that for many people it does, and the creepy-crawly, upside-down-stomach feeling that goes along with those thoughts isn’t the best thing ever. So here’s how to hide your relationship status, updates and all.