Faux greenery has moved on from the dusty ficus in a dentist’s waiting room. Commercial-grade trees now turn up at ballroom weddings and backyard ceremonies, and most guests never clock them. It fails in predictable ways, though. Glossy leaves flare under a camera flash. Light pots tip over when someone backs into them mid-conversation. And […]
Read MoreThe wedding sunglasses trend is a photo format before it’s a favor. Guests put on matching shades, someone shoots them with direct flash, and the photos get cut to music fast enough that the faces blur past while the glasses stay locked in the same spot. That stillness is the gag. It only happens when […]
Read MoreGroom attire is a pretty long list. The suit or the tuxedo, the shirt, the shoes, the belt, the watch, the cufflinks, the bow tie, the boutonniere, the socks, what he wears to the rehearsal dinner, and the question of how the guys standing next to him fit around all of it. Every piece is […]
Read MoreThe mother of the groom look comes down to two decisions, and hair is the one that gets left until last. Which is odd, because it’s the part sitting right next to your face in every photo from the day. Length is the real constraint here, not age. A chin-length bob rules out a braided […]
Read MoreGroom attire gets a fraction of the planning time the wedding dress gets, and roughly the same amount of camera time. That’s the whole problem in one line. In our experience the decisions land late, in a rental shop, under lighting nobody looks good in, next to a guy with a tape measure and strong […]
Read MoreA groom wears his tuxedo once, gets photographed in it from every angle for eight hours, and then hands it back to a shop. That’s a lot of permanent evidence resting on one afternoon at a fitting. The choices are smaller than they look, and every one of them shows up in the pictures. Shawl […]
Read MoreThe groom’s suit gets decided late, usually after the dress, the venue and the flowers are locked. Then it shows up in roughly half the photos. Color, cut, two pieces or three, how far it should sit from what the groomsmen are wearing. Those are genuine decisions, and black off a rental rack is only […]
Read MoreThe default groomsmen outfit is a rented black tux in whatever size is closest, collected on the Thursday and returned on the Monday. There’s nothing wrong with it. It also means the wedding party photos could belong to just about anybody’s wedding. The real decisions are smaller than they look. How closely the guys match […]
Read MoreThe mother of the groom ends up in more photographs than almost anyone who isn’t wearing white. Getting ready. Family portraits. The walk up the aisle. That dance where the whole room stops to watch. So you want something that photographs well and that you can hug people in for nine hours straight. The venue […]
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