Beauty in the small things

One of the things I love about wedding photography is that there is beauty in the small things. It’s everywhere. Not just the flowers, and the shoes, and the veil – but right down to the different colours of confetti, and the sparkle of light on the bride’s ring.

As my brother-in-law says, “Only at a wedding do you create a piece of art in black-and-white of a fork.”

All these details are the result of months of planning, and as such every detail deserves its own honour. The hours spent tying ribbons on invitations. The careful choosing of the best hairdresser. The shoes polished to a gleaming shine. If it’s going to be the most important day of your life, every aspect of it will reflect that.

So too when choosing a photographer. Make sure you get not just a series of formal photos, and a few artsy ones thrown in, but the whole picture of the day from the putting on of the lipstick in the morning, to the kicking off of the shoes at the end of the evening. The emotion and the laughter and a few tearful moments. Because everything about your day is beautiful.