Pre Wedding Photography

Creating An Artwork Out Of Pre Wedding Photography

I’ve seen how pre wedding photography can make love birds walk on cloud nine. Via pre wedding photography, the couple are able to better narrate and share with the rest of the world the story of how love blossomed between them. Wedding day photography is for keeping memories of the event itself.

For those people hearing this for the first time, pre wedding photography is a pretty recent entrant into the wedding photography industry, and it started with a couple wanting to reminisce and document through photos the events that led to the the wedding day.

In pre wedding photography, memory is the operative word. It is really a walk down memory lane expressed through pictures. Or it is also a memory of what couples want to create of their last days as singles.

I’ve really enjoyed my most recent pre wedding photography projects. I got to work with couples who were just endowed with creativity and funk. One such couple conceptualised a period shot, with friends, circa 1950s. They put in a great deal of work getting a professional make up artist and designer to help them achieve the 50s look. I took care of lighting and composition and the result was fantastic.

Another pre wedding photography was done in the school location where the couples first met, and mind you, it was in a primary school.

The criticism pre wedding photography has is that people think photographers, especially neophyte ones, are exploiting it because it is less risky and less complicated. It is less risky because unlike in the actual wedding event, pre wedding photography is composed and set and not event-driven.

I argue to the contrary. Pre wedding photography should require the creative best from any photographer, no less. After all, this is history, too, the history of two separate lives before they become one.