The summer street wedding album
It all started when…
Last winter we made a trip to Nebraska to visit our family, including my Grandfather who is in his nearing his 90th Birthday. He's a very sharp man who doesn't look a day over 70 but since my Grandmother passed away nine years ago he hasn't quite had the same spunk as he always had. I don't blame him. My Grandmother was the most caring, lovely person I've ever known and all of our family feels her absence with great weight. We even named our daughter after her. As we were chatting over some coffee and cookies with him we started talking about our work and the pleasure we take in developing relationships with our clients and capturing their love stories. Eventually the conversation shifted to the details of my Grandparents Wedding. After he retold the details of their brief courtship and engagement and the way they celebrated their wedding day we asked him to show us some photos.
He ran upstairs and came back down with a very simple wedding album. It didn't have more than a half a dozen posed portraits, but there it was, all wrapped up in a box with portraits of my dashing Grandpa and my beautiful Grandma on their Wedding day. A whole life filled with five daughters, world travels, fulfilling careers, challenging years in their marriage, difficult times in the economy, an abundance of love and over 30 grandchildren lay ahead of them. As we looked at the photos of them and the excited sparkle in their Wedding Day eyes it was as if they knew the wonderful adventure that lay ahead. We passed the album around the big round table and laughed. We sipped our coffee, ate cookies, marveled at how certain cousins look identical to my Grandpa in his twenties and shed some tears about how lovely my Grandmother was and how much we missed her. I treasure this day in my heart and am so glad to know that those photos will live on beyond the time that my Grandparents were married.
That was the moment we knew that Wedding Albums had to be the end goal of how we approached our photography. Laying sensory details along with natural and candid images and beautiful portraits was the key to reliving this monumental day at the beginning of every marriage. Putting your wedding story images in an album is, without a doubt, the best use of your wedding photos. We have a very large wedding album (from the same company we offer to our clients) that lives on our coffee table. When guests come over it gets cracked open and enjoyed. We don't keep our album on a shelf because we want to enjoy it on a regular basis (besides, the albums we offer are durable enough to withstand dust, dirt, and the sticky fingerprints of children). Wedding Albums should be durable, beautiful, accessible and withstand years of love. It is our goal that every wedding client we work with has an album to remember their beginning.
Simple, Affordable and achingly beautiful
The Summer Street Wedding Album is easy to create with us, fast to produce and will be enjoyed for years to come.
“Even after 5 years of marriage, our Summer Street Album is one of the first things I’d grab if there was a fire in our house. It’s beautiful and reminds us of why we said yes” - EB & AW”
