Where does your art live? How will you bring it to life? What style of imagery will you prefer on your wedding day.
Do you have friends over a lifetime? It’s pretty rare these days to stay in touch with someone from your highschool days. Intense college friendships that helped you grow into your personality in those formative days get fractured by career goals, marriages, and babies. In that theme, it’s not too often that I post a [...]
The Storytellers podcast series goes to the Charlotte gallery scene for an artsy discussion. Carla Garrison talks about her gallery’s wedding services, primarily the ‘Borrow an Artist’ program where an artist paints live at your wedding or event. The Green Rice gallery is also open to hosting your special event in their 2400 square feet [...]
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 [...]
My wife has been slowly putting our home back together after we moved. She’s got a great sense of style and its fun watching her put it all together. The kids were so excited to give her the Geode from one of their trips over Christmas break and she knew right were it would fit. [...]
Where does art live? Read on to see where Kelly & Tom’s wedding art lives…
So if you’ve watched our ‘virtual album meeting’; you’ll want to see the end product… Album Delivery by Neil You’ll be just as excited and enthralled to open your album for the first time! Order a Custom Design Series Album from our three sizes: 8 Series, 9 Series, and 13 Series We also have an [...]
Shannon and Andy were married in 2005 and we were there! Little Ryan Anthony was born November 17th 2007 and I was there to help Shannon make her birth announcements. But sadly that’s another blog post you’ll have to look forward to another day – this one is is about “Where Art Lives” – we [...]
My wife and I are proud to present… Who is Make Love Real? from Neil Cowley on Vimeo. …the first section of four short films about our business. We’re totally excited to share these with you over the next couple months as we book new weddings, meet new people and get used to our new [...]
How to choose a wedding photographer from Sister Wendy’s advice on looking at art
Tammy and John’s wedding album custom designed by Neil Cowley. Tammy and John’s wedding was held at the Genesee Country Museum and this natural organic album design flowed from their gorgeous event. Read the extended post below to see the full design and read Neil’s discussion of the design elements.
I listen to the Camera Position Podcast by Jeff Curto and thought listening to it and thinking it through would help all of you making decisions about what type of wedding photographer to hire. Entry #62 poses the question – Is Beauty Enough? Visit his page to download from his site. “Why do most great [...]
I developed this multimedia presentation to share with all my clients where art comes from: So do you know where the best art comes from now? I didn’t include the story of Courtney and Charlie’s first date, but if you’d like to listen to it here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] …you can [...]
Tanya’s thank you card design: When Tanya ask me for ideas for her thank-you card I recalled the sign welcoming her guests to her reception tent shown in unaltered form below and above cleverly pixel pushed to show a “Thank You” where it used to say welcome (and the pole disappeared). I believe that the [...]