On our recent adventure to Vancouver, Canada to design for Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, I met the most amazing talent: Reine, of Reine Weddings.  As the photographer chosen by Grace Ormonde to do the photoshoot at the Vancouver Club for Grace Ormonde Wedding Style Magazine, she contacted me to see what I was going to design.  She was all at once professional, insanely stylish, amazingly talented and just down right cool AND sweet.  During the shoot she was creative and patient, everything from opening the windows in the ballroom to get the curtains to billow inside the room to  throwing in background pieces – you could see she had a vision, and she was going after it, all while making everyone feel super relaxed.  She was shooting in Medium format, which you don’t see as much anymore, and the results are stunning (we can’t post any pictures until the magazine publishes, but it will be so worth it!)  In order to also have some digitals, she invited some photographers along to shoot along with her – how many photographers trust others on that kind of shoot?

I am enamored by her photography – something about it speaks to me!  Her work is edgy and cool, with an editorial, yet warm and joyful flair. Some pictures are incredibly classic, while others just feel very… authentic. A few are super sexy and raw.  While those evoked feelings may not speak to you, my point is this: if you are in the process of picking a photographer for your wedding, THAT is how you should feel when you see wedding photo portfolios. You should see a photographers work – their art, their vision, and it should make you swoon, it should make you want to say, “I want YOU to take pictures of me!”  Keep looking until you find someone that evokes that feeling inside you.  (Heh, and same goes for the floral and decor – I’ll be happy to evoke those feelings in you!!!)

What do you think? What do these images evoke in you?  Whose work makes you FEEL?