Seattle Wedding Photographer | Why The Details Matter

I must admit I’m one of those people who has fallen into the deep and glorious pit of dreaming about their wedding day since age three when my moused curls first sauntered down the aisle.  I was a flower girl and wearing what I thought was a dress fit for a princess (more specifically, Ariel from The Little Mermaid, she was always my favorite). The dress was made of red shiny fabric and it’s main attraction was 5-inch shoulder pads. When I say “dreaming of my wedding day,” I’m being literal, there isn’t a binder of wedding ideas with tattered edges and dog eared pages kept hidden under my bed. Although I’m not ragging on that sort of planning, it would probably make the process a breeze. But I have put some thought into a few details I’d love to slip in at my wedding. I’ll go to a venue, or see a cute invitation on a blog, and say to myself.. I dig that.

Weddings, or love stories rather, are like novels. Think about favorite stories you read as a kid, or any good story for that matter. Chances are there’s something of great significance that reappears throughout the novel. It may be obvious- like the tree in The Giving Tree- or something smaller, perhaps a reoccurring phrase like Jane Austin’s, “Kindred spirits.” I think every wedding should have a small detail, that carries itself through the storyline. This detail could pop up on the invitations, engagement photos, hidden under the bottom of your shoe, in a table arrangement. Get creative. The importance of this is to help better explain the story of who you are to people who know you. The more this symbol makes people go, “Ah, this is so them,” The better. Recent example: At my friend’s Janessa and Jensen’s wedding because they both adore Gustav Klimt’s work they bought a little sculpture of his work and used it as their cake topper.

If I was getting married tomorrow, I’d probably do something with vintage typewriters and cameras. These marks of expression are both sentimental to me because I love to write, and of course take photos. I have a naturally affinity for things of the past, and this oh-so-dear typewriter from 1910 is no exception. My mother picked this Corona up for me last week at an auction. Character and style like this is magnetic.