Blog: * For The Bride & Groom *

Together friend and fellow photographer Ryan Phillips and I created WeddingPhotography411.com   to educate future brides and grooms about the most important part of any wedding day, their wedding photographs. As wedding photographers, nothing is more heart breaking than to hear a couples horror story about how they hated their wedding pictures or even worse, that not one picture turned out! This usually happens due to lack of knowledge of how to find and hire a great wedding photographer. We are here to help you understand everything there is to know about getting great wedding photography....

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PurePhoto and Style Me Pretty have teamed up to help educate brides and grooms  about how to get the most out of their wedding photography. Myself and Ryan Phillips will be hosting two one hour webinars on Wednesday November 17th 2010 So here’s the deal. Ryan and Robert will be hosting a completely comprehensive wedding photography workshop on Wednesday, November 17th with slots open at 7PM and 10PM EST and will be tackling ALL of the questions and concerns that we get on a daily basis from brides-to-be. Here are some of the topics that they will cover… How to look your best in all your...

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There are three important factors when hiring a wedding photographer. Two are character traits unique only to one photographer and cannot be copied.  The third element fluctuates due to many different variables.  Let’s talk about each in the order of importance. First and most importantly are the character and personality of the individual who you will hire, and invite as a guest to your wedding.  These characteristics may not be the first thing you think about when hiring a photographer, however, it will definitely be the most important factor in the decision-making process. The first thing...

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MISSION STATEMENT My mission is to be the most trusted name in wedding photography by creating artful images that freeze time and provide memories that last far beyond the fleeting moment. PRINCIPLES I believe that photographing a wedding is a privilege and an honor which I cherish each time I am invited to participate. I am entrusted to capture moments in time that will be shared with family and friends for many generations into the future. I photograph each wedding as if it was my own. I shoot to capture emotion in art so people are swept back to the exact feeling and moment the image...

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Planning a destination wedding can be much harder than if you were to marry close to home. You will rely on someone else to bring in all your vendors without meeting any of them. You put your faith and hope in your coordinator and their vendors, show up and get married. If the cake is not what you envisioned, you will soon forget and put it behind you. If your pictures are terrible however you will spend the rest of your life looking at your disappointing images reminded of your bad photographer. When planning a destination wedding you might want to consider bringing your favorite photographer...

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I guarantee one the best ways to get great images from your wedding day is to have ample time dedicated towards capturing those once in a life time images. Being on time for your pictures is the key, not only will you have more fun but you get more pictures as a result. The foundation for your timely arrival starts with the hair and makeup artist. Of course you want to look like the model bride on your wedding day and hair and makeup are naturally the best way to accentuate your beauty. You hire your facial artist, her/she arrives to your wedding ready to perform your cover-girl makeover, but the one tool...

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Sometimes a destination wedding doesn't mean you have to take a trip far from home, maybe you just need to be in the right place to feel like you are far away. Take the St. Regis  Monarch Beach Resort along the Dana Point coastline, one of Orange County's luxury resorts and wedding locations in Orange County.  The St. Regis is California's only Mobil Five-Star resort and a AAA Five-Diamond retreat located in Orange County, CA.  This resort is the SoCal experience at its finest, the perfect home base for exploring all things OC...and one of the most beautiful places to have your very own home-away-from-home...

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There are many factors and lots of hard work that go into planning and pulling off the perfect wedding. Your wedding day isn’t a complete success until everyone has returned home safely and is reminiscing about what a great time they had, all the while raving about how beautiful the wedding was. After photographing more than 800 weddings over the past 20 years I have created a set of goals for my weddings. There are many people who come together to make the wedding a success. I have always felt a responsibility to do my part to make sure all my couples have beautiful wedding images. I know...

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