revisiting.

Erin and I pride ourselves in our devotion to our clients.

The reason we both shoot people is because of how endlessly fascinated and amazed we are by the people we meet and are blessed to shoot. we both say landscape photography has never been our passion for this very reason.

We often times will meet up with our couples months later to just get drinks and see how they are because truth be told, we start to miss them when we think back to their wedding day and see the photos, and have become friends with a lot of our "clients" because of how attached we get to them in the process of getting to know them during their wedding planning.  

Yesterday I invited a couple we shot last summer to see a band play, because it wasn't far from where they lived, and I knew from being friends on facebook they had both just returned from a strenuous and hard training trip with the US army, and I wanted to hear about that and their tarantula stories from being in Texas.

Jeremy said people in his group were still talking about their wedding photos a year later and that they referred to Erin and I specifically as "their" photographers as if we only ever shoot them.

as the night wore on, we were sitting outside on a balmy summer night sharing drinks and talking about how they had first met and Jeremy couldn't help but gush about how he knew autumn was the one from the very first day they spent together, and that even though it took quite a bit longer for autumn to be sold on the idea he never wavered on his love for her, and he knew he would give up everything to be with her after having the worst day at work he came home and she was waiting with a plate of buffalo chicken wings and a movie, and he forgot all about his no good, rotten day, because he was with her.

They talked about having babies, and taking risks, and being willing to do whatever it took to make sure they were always together and it made my heart swell with happiness. and I sat there on that hot summer night, so proud of my role in their wedding, and feeling renewed on how incredibly lucky I am to get to be a part of our brides and grooms lives, not only on their wedding day, but years later when they look at their photos and see the painstaking care we took in recording their memories accurately and artistically.  Getting to hang out with them from time to time, well that's just the icing on the cake.