SpikeL

being a wedding photographer is both a honor and nerve wrecking. on the one hand it gives me so much joy to be capturing a couple's fleeting, special moments but on the other hand it's a lot of planning, preparing, observing and a little bit of predicting when something is about to take place. once a moment passes it's something you'll never be able to recapture.

this past weekend i shot a wedding my dad was supposed to shoot for a family friend. he had never shot a wedding before so he asked me to take his place. i hesitated at first but decided it'd be a good opportunity to stay loose and prepare for the upcoming wedding season.

the thing about this wedding is the couple had already been married and so they were throwing the ceremony for their parent's friends. because of this it felt like the couple was just doing the motions and fulfilling their parent's wishes. when you look at a wedding photos, the ones that really stands out are the ones where a moment is captured. when a groom gazes at his bride walking down the aisle, when a father has their first dance with his married daughter, the expressions a bride has as her new husband gazes into her eyes and speaks a vow to eternally devote his life to making her happy.

these are the moments that as a wedding photographer you look for and capture. but i barely found any yesterday. nevertheless i did my best to capture as much as i could. but if the bride and groom are not into it, it shows. a wedding is a sacred union, a moment of joy and celebration as two are united to become one and journey life together. i hope i captured some moments and hope they expressed more sincere emotions during their first wedding ceremony.