If you’re not a DIY type, then we will work with you for creative shoot ideas that show your relationship, make your friends and family laugh as they post your picture to their refrigerators and cubicles! We can print your Save The Date project on: business cards magnets postcards folded greeting cards bookmarks any shape, [...]

I sat down with Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo…to chat about her storytelling in Stationery Design. My favorite quotes from Amy: “There’s perfection in imperfection” “Paper is sexy” TOAST (listen till you get it) “I didn’t care if I got married” “I wasn’t the Bridey Kind of bride” Subscribe to our podcast to receive automatic notification [...]

I recieved a Thank-You note from Tom and Kelly today: Neil & Leisl – Thank you, once again for truly capturing hte heart of our special day.  It is thanks to you that these special moments have been immortalized.  We look forward to sharing the albums/photos with our families for years to come.  I can’t [...]

We do not limit ourselves to just photography here at Make Love Real – we design all our own books, do the creative production for our shoots, and provide creative elements to your wedding planning.  Here we’ll showcase a suite of designed cards for Heather and Drew’s wedding.  This is a long post, so settle [...]

Here’s the design for Morgan’s “Thank You” card design: And here’s what Morgan said about the card: Thank you so so so so soso much I am so excited to have our beautiful wedding in the paper for all to see! I also meant to tell you that when I sent out our thank you [...]

Here’s a Christmas Card Sample from a family in Lake Wylie North Carolina Front above – Inside below Back below: Book your portrait session with Neil and choose your card style: 8×5 full color double sided postcards 4×5.5″ Folded Greeting Cards 5×7″ Folded Delux Greeting Cards

Heather and Drew had me shoot their engagement photo session at their Lake Norman shoreline home. You can see the golden sparkles from the fall sun bursting around the couple’s clasp hands in the cover photo on their custom designed greeting card.  Heather ordered that picture on metallic paper as a 16×24 enlargement for her [...]

Thanks you cards are an expressive part of our packages:   Thank you cards illustrated watch in High Definition Video on Vimeo. Thank-you cards are a fun way to show everyone your wedding style with a lovely photo card.  You can purchase your card set from one of the many types we have in our [...]

Wow, the wonders google can bring up, I got a lot of inspiration from this site on 1940′s vintage wedding styles to inspire my design for Bill and Deanna’s Thank You postcard design. I made a stop to my local New York Antique shop and picked up some choice authentic postcards. A quick scan later [...]

Organic Granola save the date card photos by Neil on this snowy outdoor shoot…

I’ve had this one in the que to get on the blog for a while! Can you guess which one is Kona? This is the front of their Christmas card shot in the snow here outside Rochester. Read on to see the back and inside photos…

Here’s the front of their 5×5″ high and 8.5″ wide full color postcard: For the back of the postcard they chose a crazy fun picture with a wild angle showing them having a blast with each other.

Display preferences don’t change how we shoot…but good communication from you can free us up to do our job the best way we can!! For example, this is the front of Tanya’s thank-you card: To get this shot I had Tanya sit on the diving board of the pool and Erik jumped in to get [...]

I spent an evening with Heather and Dave at Letchworth park for their engagement photos.

Save the date postcard front^ Beth & Wade helped me finalize their save the date postcards today, and I thought since you probably don’t have the privilege of being on their guest list – I’d give you a peak no less.   That’s putty and Olive prancing in the picture, it was imperative that they [...]