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 imagine that we could have found anyone else that could have told the story of our journey more accurately.  Your talents are a gift and we appreciate your sharing them with us.

WIth much gratitude -

Tom & Kelly

Thanks guys – we are so grateful to have you as clients!
For those of you that haven’t been following our blog very long, here’s a summary of their journey:

• Kelly & Tom’s save the date cards
• Snowy Organic Signature Journal
• Kelly & Tom’s Buffalo NY wedding album

Quick question: Attract or Fall in love?

Answers will be graded!

Seriously though, leave your approach – or comment if you’ve got a jucy story about ‘attracting’ just the right guy; or falling for a crazy girl.

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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 format to show the tight moments of the bride and groom placing the rings on each other’s fingers. The tight spacing and blurred edges allow for a quick ‘read’ of the eye across the page. That emphasis is heightened by the horizontal bars of color running through the background of the image at the grooms eye height and the bride’s ring height. The lines tie together the separate pictures with implied continuation of line that I ‘felt’ between the photos while laying them out. This extra amount of care and attention brings your album to life telling the visual stories of your wedding.

In this spread we use the design element of a light vignette to tie together and soften the overall page design, can you see the subtle darkening at the coreners?

And if you’re looking for a creative photographer, look at how we tie the action of the day into the album design! We’re wiling to see the whole day for what it is, without presuppositions about what wedding photography ’should be’ – so we notice the littlest things that make your wedding yours! (did you notice the bee on the clover in the above spread? – I know it’s hard on the web, but we noticed it and shot it!)

Enjoy your album Kelly and Tom.

This couple is ridiculous. There, I said it. Ridiculous because they can be so darn cute but so darn sexy and are so darn great at it. Not only that, but Melinda was a real trooper. I had scoped out a field of sunflowers a few weeks before and threw them in to play. After 10 minutes, she was sniffling up a storm since she didn’t tell me she has allergies. At least the photos were definitely worth it. Phew!

Because it was an unusually warm day for fall, Letchworth State Park was full of hikers. I love watching people watch my couples make-out for the camera. They pretend they’re not interested, but are totally trying to sneak peeks in every 5 seconds. Hilarious.

Looking forward to the wedding in June! Enjoy. -Deanna

Music: Lucky by Jason Mraz
Location: Letchworth State Park – Lower Falls and Glen Iris Inn