wedding ideas

Congratulations on your engagement!

T
life!
here’s a lot to know about making great wedding photos, and we’re excited you’ve
invited us to share our experience and expertise during this special time in your

W e’ve found that planning makes a huge difference in your satisfaction with your
wedding portraits. From timelines and locations to expectations, we go through
all your wedding details at our initial consultation and a planning meeting one month
before your wedding. That’s how we’re able to spring, ninja-like, to all the right places
at all the right times!

A get-to-know-you engagement
session is included with every
wedding that we photograph. This is a
great chance for us to get used to each
other in a low-stress environment. A
lot of folks like to use engagement
portraits to decorate their home after
the wedding, too!

W e encourage couples to plan a

special time on their wedding day
for their first look. We’ll help you carve out a beautiful, secluded place to rendevous.
It’s a great way to start your wedding day together. A lot of people like to pray
together, exchange gifts, or just cry and embrace. Of course, we’ll be there to preserve
the moment for you. But it’s not about pictures - it’s about the start of your new life
together! You make it a great moment, and we’ll make great images for you.

W e custom-design a wedding
album for each wedding we
have the privilege of photographing.
We offer both a classic 24-page leather-
bound album and a 100-page fine
art wedding album. The album is
an important marker in your life
together, and it’s the centerpiece of
our wedding offering to you.
H igh-resolution and medium-resolution image files are available from your
wedding pictures. A set number are included with our wedding collections, and
you’re welcome to add more before or after your wedding. Medium-resolution files will
print well up to 5x7 size, and high-resolution files will print as large as you can imagine,
given that you know how to handle them. It’s very important that we also include a
license to use these images for printing and posting online. We’ll make sure you’re
legally covered for your use of the images--all you have to do is enjoy the pictures.

W e’ll introduce you to your images at a personal viewing a few weeks after your
wedding. You’re welcome to bring parents and friends, or just enjoy an intimate
viewing with your new spouse. It’s a lot of fun to relive your wedding day and start
enjoying your pictures. After your viewing, we’ll post your portraits to our web site
so you can start selecting which files you’d like, share your pictures with friends and
family, and choosing other products to order.

D on’t be afraid to dream big and schedule times and locations for really cool
wedding party pictures. Do you want album-cover-style wedding party photos?
Want to head out to the airport where you hang out with your buddies? Try to find a
wildflower field or forest? Throw all your crazy ideas our way and we’ll try to make
them happen for you.

A re you looking for a florist? Baker for your wedding cake? Venue for your deam
wedding? Let us know and we’ll happily make recommendations based our
experience working with them in the past.
P hilosphy: We want to make wedding portraits that are totally unique to you. We’re
not going to try to stuff you into someone else’s mold or impose a shot list from a
wedding planning book. We’re going to tell YOUR story. Whether you’ve been taking
dance lessons with your dad for your father-daughter dance or want to remember the
crazy antics of your groomsmen, we’ll tackle it with a documentary style and crystallize
your moments with our fine-art approach.

U nlimited time: We see your wedding as a story to be told from beginning to end.
For that reason, we’re not making any other plans on your wedding day. We’re
available from the time you start getting ready in the morning to the happy moment
when you ride off into the sunset.

T wo shooters: Lisa and Andrew will both be at your wedding to provide maximum
coverage. Lisa usually spends time with the girls while Andrew is keeping up with
the groomsmen. We each bring different strengths and experience, but together we
make beautiful music!

Bride talk:
“Working with the Shinns for
our wedding was an incredible
experience. Shooting our photos
was fun and relaxing and the
photos turned out better than we
could have ever expected! Not only
were the pictures beautiful, but
the Shinns took time to make our
family feel comfortable and even
showed our grandmother how to
take some pictures with her camera.
Choosing Andrew and Lisa as our
photographers was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding!”
• Alyssa

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