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christene · 07-23-2009, 04:15 PM

Thanks so much Bryan and Julia...

See -- here's the thing - we don't really care about the 'wedding photos'... we've seen lots of gorgeous sunset photos and wonderful wedding photos. There is no doubt a lot of great skill in some of the portfolios I saw. But, we aren't too worried about those kind of photos. We'll be having the cocktail hour for our guests during sunset so they can watch it while we wrap up our photos but we aren't really that interested in the sunset photos themselves. I totally understand that it does take a lot of skill and experience to capture them, however they are not the photos we would display. The ones I'll put on our walls will likely be dramatic black and whites.

I'm more interested in a 'fashion photography' style and a sort of abstract, artistic approach. I want my couture dress captured a certain way... I need some 'glam' - this is one day I expect to feel beautiful and confident and I have strong ideas as to how I want this captured. Also, we're most interested photos of the intimate private moments that we'll have in a session prior to the ceremony... Those personal exchanges that are just about us. Of course we'll have the obligatory ceremony and family photos and love them but they aren't the ones we're excited about. I know this makes us weird - that the ceremony should be the most important thing and how could we not be fixated on getting the stunning Aruban sunset photos? I don't know...

We had first chosen Puerto Vallarta for our wedding and while researching PV I fell in love with two photographers. Paulina Ulloa and Elizabeth Medina. There is a certain glam and art in their photos that is different than most wedding photography. I'm not saying that approach is better than another and expect that there are plenty of couples that would be disappointed in the portfolios here -- they're just different. You can ask our wedding planner -- we're all about something different. I'm sure we're driving the poor lady crazy. Luckily for us she's extremely patient. =)

But please please know that I totally respect and appreciate all the talent on Aruba and when I talk to other brides on other forums I point them to my Aruban favorites. Also, if we can work it in the budget somehow, I might want to have a local photographer stop out to our welcome party and take some pics. We'll have a henna artist and I expect it to be a lot of fun and would love to capture those candid moments of my ladies excited about being painted up. Of course it would be a small job that many probably won't be interested in, but I have to find out if I have any budget yet anyway. The catering person I need to talk to isn't even back in town for another 10 days.

Thanks again.

07-23-2009, 04:15 PM	#10 (permalink)
christene Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 190	Thanks so much Bryan and Julia... See -- here's the thing - we don't really care about the 'wedding photos'... we've seen lots of gorgeous sunset photos and wonderful wedding photos. There is no doubt a lot of great skill in some of the portfolios I saw. But, we aren't too worried about those kind of photos. We'll be having the cocktail hour for our guests during sunset so they can watch it while we wrap up our photos but we aren't really that interested in the sunset photos themselves. I totally understand that it does take a lot of skill and experience to capture them, however they are not the photos we would display. The ones I'll put on our walls will likely be dramatic black and whites. I'm more interested in a 'fashion photography' style and a sort of abstract, artistic approach. I want my couture dress captured a certain way... I need some 'glam' - this is one day I expect to feel beautiful and confident and I have strong ideas as to how I want this captured. Also, we're most interested photos of the intimate private moments that we'll have in a session prior to the ceremony... Those personal exchanges that are just about us. Of course we'll have the obligatory ceremony and family photos and love them but they aren't the ones we're excited about. I know this makes us weird - that the ceremony should be the most important thing and how could we not be fixated on getting the stunning Aruban sunset photos? I don't know... We had first chosen Puerto Vallarta for our wedding and while researching PV I fell in love with two photographers. Paulina Ulloa and Elizabeth Medina. There is a certain glam and art in their photos that is different than most wedding photography. I'm not saying that approach is better than another and expect that there are plenty of couples that would be disappointed in the portfolios here -- they're just different. You can ask our wedding planner -- we're all about something different. I'm sure we're driving the poor lady crazy. Luckily for us she's extremely patient. =) But please please know that I totally respect and appreciate all the talent on Aruba and when I talk to other brides on other forums I point them to my Aruban favorites. Also, if we can work it in the budget somehow, I might want to have a local photographer stop out to our welcome party and take some pics. We'll have a henna artist and I expect it to be a lot of fun and would love to capture those candid moments of my ladies excited about being painted up. Of course it would be a small job that many probably won't be interested in, but I have to find out if I have any budget yet anyway. The catering person I need to talk to isn't even back in town for another 10 days. Thanks again. Last edited by christene; 07-23-2009 at 04:25 PM.