Kalliopi & Peter’s wedding album design flash viewer: (Use your right and left arrow keys to advance the spreads) The 75 page album design is shown in spreads (two pages each) and here are the spreads in scrollable order:

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Take a look at Greatchen and Dan’s wedding album! Here’s Gretchen’s comments from the design process – which she gave no input on – just let me do my thing: First, THANK YOU! It’s even more perfect than we imagined!!! I’m all misty. Second, we have exactly ONE change to request: Dan would like to [...]

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 [...]

Deanna finally approves her wedding album! Sweet success indeed for this well planned, wonderful event.  Catch the blended storylines in this intricately designed and textured wedding album design. Here are a couple of my favorite speads: Here Deanna is coming down the isle (which is a narrow row of cedar bushes) and my three shots [...]

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 a good look at Kelly and Tom’s 70 page Make Love Real album design: Here are a couple of my favorite spreads: If you’ll give me a moment to talk about the elements of design we use in our albums – in this horizontal spread, I cropped the images in a tight panoramic 1:5 [...]

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 the design layout for Morgan and Jason’s toronto skyline wedding: A couple of my favorite design layouts feature the close combination of related photographic moments: I can’t wait until my next Toronto wedding photojournalism assignment!

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

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. [...]

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 [...]