May 15th, 2013
Last night we had a chance to slip over to he coast for a fun engagement session with Laura & Trenton. Laura and Trenton are getting married in October this year at Los Willows.
Here are a few of our faves from their session….
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May 4th and 5th
This weekend had team Shadowcatcher out for another double header wedding weekend!
Our first day, Saturday was spent with a wonderful couple, Sarah and Robert. These two had a beautiful wedding at Los Willows in Fallbrook. The weather was perfect and the love these two have for eachother had everyone feelin the love!
Here are a few of our faves from their day……
Congratulations Sarah & Robert!
Our next day had us a little closer to home, in Poway at the Maderas Golf Club. This was a first time for us at this venue and we were excited to see what kind of magic we could create there.
Sunday May 5th was the wedding of Kelly and Kevin! Kelly and Kevin had a fabulous wedding at Maderas, the flowers were beautiful, Kelly was beautiful, and Kevin was looking pretty amazing too! The weather did throw us a bit of a loop with rain starting an hour before ceremony time. It did let up for about 15 minutes though and that allowed us a little time to get out and enjoy some of the beautiful scenery at Madreas.
Here are a few of our faves from Kelly & Kevin’s wedding day…..
Congratulations to Kelly & Kevin!
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5-2-13
This evening Skip and I had the opportunity to go out to the coast and enjoy a fabulous sunset and get to know Danielle and Farid a little better while doing their engagement sesion.
This wonderful couple is getting married in just 8 short weeks!
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Friday April 19th, 2013
April was our month for covering the weddings of some great friends. Today was family day as we covered the wedding of Janette and Ivan.Janette and Ivan were married at The Golf Club of California.
Here are a few of our faves from the day….
Congratulations Janette & Ivan!
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April 4th, 2013
It’s always a very special wedding day when it is one of your friends tying the knot That how it was for all of us today. Our good buddy Alex owner of Pro Sound DJ’s married his sweetheart Myshelle at the venue we all work together a lot at, and the venue he met Myshelle at… Los Willows!
Here are a few of our faves from the day…..
Congratulations Myshelle & Alex… Love you guys!
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4-7-13
Today we broke out of the routine a little and had some fun doing an engagement session with Julie & Mike. Fate brought these two love birds together when Julie had a bit of a car wreck and Mike just happened to be the lucky service writer at the auto repair where her came to be fixed. Since Julie’s car was what brought these two together, it really just had to be included in their engagement session photos!
Here are a few of our faves from their session…..
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My parents have exactly 18 professional images from their wedding. Eighteen. I know them inside and out. I could describe each image to you so well that a sketch artist would be able to recreate them.
How do I know them so well? Because I’ve looked at them hundreds of times. I’ve looked at them hundreds of times because they were on display, in an album. An album that was made by a professional, filled with prints made through a professional lab and bound in a book available only to professionals. From the time I was a little girl I was fascinated by it — seeing my parents so young, my grandparents and aunts and uncles surrounding them. It was a simple leather book, with the images slipped in and preserved behind plastic but it held up surprisingly well over time. Even though I looked at it more times than I could count. Even though this May those images will turn 42 years old.
But what about couples that marry today? What if they decide to forgo an album? What if they decide it’s not worth the cost? How many images do you really think they’ll put into frames? Five? Ten? Maybe that first year married, they’ll have a bunch. But then, kids comes along. Baby pictures replace wedding pictures in those frames. They move, things change. In 40 years, how many pictures do you think their children will know by heart? How many pictures will they have even seen?
Today, a lot of couples think just getting the disc of images is “good enough.” Here’s the problem with that thinking: it’s not true. Not by a long shot.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that getting the files from your day is great. Today’s couples probably get up to 1,000 images from their wedding, WAY more images than my parents did. After all, what happened to all those other images from my parents’ wedding day? They probably sat, negatives in a box, at their photographer’s studio never again to see the light of day. So I think it’s wonderful that couples get ALL their photos. But what worries me is that even with that option, it won’t mean that today’s couples will necessarily be better off. My fear is that today’s couples will actually end up with LESS than what my parent’s got in 1971.
Think about it, will the computers of 2055 even have DVD drives? USB ports? Will they even have hard drives at all? If the past is any indication, the answer is no. You know what the big technological advancement was when my parents got married? Eight-track players. What if their images were stored on the equivalent of that? How in the world would I see those images today?
But you know what never becomes obsolete? What never goes out of style? Photographs. And not just any photographs. Not photos printed at a drugstore. Professional photographs, printed by a professional lab. Those are the photos you find in an attic. It could be a 100-year-old photo, but it still looks good. Because back then, the paper photographs were printed on was high quality and developing them was an art form. There were no machines that spit out pictures onto cheap paper with inexpensive ink. I actually have to stop myself from intervening when I see people at those automated machines in a drugstore. Whatever they’re charging, it’s too much. Because those prints aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. They will fade. They will curl. They will not stand the test of time. Not even close.
Your memories are worth more than that. And your wedding images? They are worth TONS more than that. These aren’t snapshots from a vacation. They aren’t pictures from your iPhone. You cared enough about these moments to hire a professional to photograph them. Follow that through by having a professional print them. Have that professional print the pictures you put into frames and have them design you a high-quality wedding album that you will cherish for decades.
If you purchase an album through your photographer, you can see a sample in person. You can touch and feel it and make sure it is worth every penny.
I know that albums are expensive. That’s for good reason. They are custom-designed books, usually hand-stitched and hand assembled and made just for you.
But of all the things you spend money on for your wedding, your wedding photographs are the ONLY thing that will increase in value over time. As the years pass, you’ll be more and more glad that you have them. Especially, if you can experience looking through them by flipping through a gorgeous custom-designed album instead of sitting in front of your computer and clicking “next” with your mouse.
So, figure out a way to make it happen. Figure out a way to afford that album. Forgo a centerpiece. Cut back on your guest list. Opt out of the vintage car you’ll drive in for all of 20 minutes.
Don’t just do it for you. Do it for your children. Do it for your grandchildren. Because when they root around in your attic in 2075, they will have no idea what do with a USB key anymore than they would with a laser disc player.
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3-28-13
Today was another Thursday wedding for us, Thursday weddings seem to be really big this year!
Today Janet and Ariel said their “I Do’s” in a beautiful lakeside ceremony!
Here are few of our faves from the day….
CONGRATULATIONS again Ariel &Janet from all of us at Shadowcatcher Imagery!
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3-23-13
Today team Shadowcatcher was out at Los Willows in Fallbrook for the wedding of Cherlyn and Daniel. This day could not have been more fabulous! From the super cute leopard trim petticoat that peeked out for Cherlyn’s gown to the canine inspired table place cards all stamped with a paw print! The attention to detail was beautiful and everything came together so well in a funky eclectic sort of way.. LOVED it!
Here is a little back-story on Cherlyn and Daniel as told by their officiant the Rev. Don…. “ Cherlyn and Daniel first met 17 years ago. In fact, it seemed to be a foregone conclusions that their paths would intersect since Daniel’s sister is married to Cherlyn’s brother and Daniel’s mother is married to Cherlyn’s uncle. But no “Jerry Springer” show for this clan; no genetics were harmed in the making of this unique intertwined family tree! These two dated, lost touch, and then reconnected four years ago. Their four boys joined them for a dedication and to pour colored sand into a glass heart as a family.”
And here is our story of the day… of course in photos!
Congrats again you two! We are so happy to have been a part of such a FABULOUS day!
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3-21-13
Today team Shadowcatcher was out in Fallbrook at Los Willows for a Thursday wedding. Thursday weddings seem to be very popular this spring!
Here are is a little sneak peek of some of our favorite moments of the day!…….
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