It’s that emotion that drives Leigh and me to capture what we do. When we meet with couples, that is what we are looking for in them. We love to see couples in love. I think it shows in our work, and is one of the reasons couples book us.
Secondly, I think a reason we don’t see many bridezillas is how we get to know couples. Quite often, we become friends with them, even before the wedding day. We meet with them before-hand, more than likely have photographed their engagement session, and become more than just someone who shows up on their wedding day just to photograph the “I Do’s”.
I remember a few years back, we arrived at the church to hear that the bride was stressing out. One of her bridesmaids got sick overnight (spending the morniing on the bathroom floor), her flowers and cake were both late, and she really felt like nothing was going right that day. When she saw Leigh and I, she smiled and said “I am so glad you are here!”. She calmed down quite a bit, and was able to relax and ejoy the rest of her day. I don’t think it was because of our photograhy, or becuase of us. I think that because she got to know us before the wedding day, we were familiar to her – friends. We were friends who knew how to work through the wedding day. We were someone she could count on to help make her day special, and that was a big relief to her.
On the wedding day, we are more than just photographers. We’ve been couselors, coordinators, seemstresses (I’ve had to sew a bride into her wedding dress), wintnesses, drivers, musicians, and many other roles (along with photographers). It is important to us that at the end of the wedding day, they are a happily married couple. I think that comes across from the moment people meet us, and even throughout the weedding day. I think those are the reasons why we don’t see any bridezillas.
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