Ceremony Photography

Ceremony photography is arguably the most commonly requested form of wedding photography on the planet, and understandably so. People spend thousands of hours and countless thousand dollars planning and preparing for the most important moment of their lives, and they want to capture that moment. From the moment the music starts and the blushing bride takes her first step, right up to the happy couple leaving the venue as husband and wife, ceremony photography is all about capturing those split seconds that tell amazing stories of our love, dedication, devotion, family, and friends.

Each split-second instant in time tells its own story, and then fades away. The first confident step of a gorgeous bride radiating love and joy. The fleeting look on a father’s face as he gives his daughter away shows equal parts pride in his daughter and a sadness in the realization that daddy’s little girl is really not a little girl anymore. The look on the face of the young ring bearer as he realizes that the huge shiny ring he has been looking at all week is soon to be given away…to a girl no less! What is that groom thinking!? The mutual adoration on the faces of man and wife as they complete their vows and share an intimate moment where their eyes exchange more emotional information than could ever be put into words. The rain of rice or the popping of glass that offers some cultural and religious overtones to the event. These are also fleeting moments in our lives, and they all happen during that ceremony that took so long to plan yet seemed to be over all too soon.

Ceremony photography is the art of capturing these moments and ensuring that every little detail is ready to be shared and remembered for more than a lifetime, but ceremony photography is also more than that. Ceremony photography is an art form that is akin to storytelling, as each of these split-second events tells a story that starts well before the picture. The bride’s first step started with that first kiss, the father’s mixed emotions began so long ago when he fell in love with a little bundle of joy in the delivery room, the ring bearer has a history of liking shiny objects and thinking that girls have cooties…every story is told carefully by the photographs taken by a ceremony photographer, and that is why almost no wedding today goes without a ceremony photography.