A Better Wedding: Chasing the Sun
The following is the first in a series of posts about planning your wedding with your wedding photography in mind.
For New England brides, outdoor weddings are a popular option for hundreds of reasons. There are the beautiful beaches of Cape Cod, graceful historic gardens, picturesque farms and about a thousand places in between. However, an outdoor wedding can often offer up as many challenges as it does opportunities.
One frequently overlooked variable is the sun, which can dramatically change the look and feel of your wedding and have a profound impact on your wedding photography. So what impact can the sun have and how can you take advantage of your outdoor venue?
To the Backyard: The Heart of a Wedding
After five years of wedding photography, I've been to all kinds of venues; documenting events from Boston to Providence and from Provincetown to Northampton. Some have been nearly palatial, while others have been a little more run down or rustic but five years ago Ryan Richardson Photography started with me standing in some stranger’s backyard.
The house was a rambling building, slowly built up over the years piece by piece in that particular New England style. After months of having gorged myself on pictures and dreams of platinum weddings, I stumbled. How could something in a backyard launch my new career? What I found on the other side of that weathered gray fence would surprise me.