Wedding photography: Change of styles

My kids are mid twenties, they had formals, we wanted the formals. I am early fifties, now. Late forties when the weddings took place, or maybe fifty. My close friend grew up in the business of wedding photography, and we had pictures done by an award winning photographer from our church. Around here, they still do the formals.

I am 29 and was married almost 10 years ago. I think that the new styles are lovely with just the flowers and different angles of the bridesmaids and all. A lot more people scrapbook now and they make great additions to scrapbooks. But I also like the formal pictures of the parents and the bridal party groupings. I guess with my age I am realizing more the importance of capturing the moments and of the people. Because one day my parents and grandparents will not be around and I want to hold that memory of them forever in my heart and also have something that I can look at from time to time.

I am almost in my mid 30's but I agree with you. I mean peoples faces should always be included in wedding pictures. This sounds like a fun job.

I think you can very well mix the traditional with the newer styles of wedding photography. My friend just got married and since they both love cofee, they had some photos with Starbucks as their background. In one shot, instead of a picture of her shoes on the bed with the dress, the shot was of her actually fixing her shoe, with her foot on a pedestal. But the formals are still part of their album.

I have photographed a few weddings and I find that people like some formal shots but the informal shots of the people who attended are the one they seem to spend the time on and want to look at. I have some people interested in publishing a book on line rather than a formal wedding album. Much easier to handle and take with you. I even have relativs contacting me to get candid photos of them and their family at the wedding.

I have three married sons and all had traditional wedding photos. The last one was married 11 years ago. He had traditional but also a number of "casual traditional" photos. My eldest and youngest sons are not married. My youngest would be in favour of more modern photography but would also want the traditional as well.

Of course, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I think a traditional wedding photo is a must, even if the wedding is simple. Styles change and photographic styles change, but future generations will always want to see a traditional photo of a wedding. Any photographer who ONLY does modern photography is robbing the couple, the family and future generations of a treasure.

I'm in the 'old crowd', 52 in 2 weeks and I prefer the traditional wedding photos. I have 2 sons that have been married within the last 5 years and they and their wives both wanted traditional shots also but each photographer also added a couple 'non-traditional' shots just for fun - they are beautiful pictures but certainly not what get the most attention. People as far as I can tell still want to see 'people'.

I am afraid I"m way over the 20 year target that you're understandably are looking for, but here's my view anyways:)

I think I would prefer a mix of both with less formal ones.

I favor the more modern style over the formal myself, but I understand the need for some formal photos for those who appreciate it more that way.

I sure would like to see peoples faces but not in the formal "rigid" traditional poses. I would like to see them having fun, enjoying the party, doing things:)

My daughter is 16 now and sometimes looking at some pictures of weddings that she attended with us, she tends to go over most saying "boooring" and sometimes I can see what she means. She perks up when the photos deviate a bit from the formal and brings some more life into it. So do I:)

I am 47 today. These are my thoughts on the subject.

When I married we took the traditional photo shots but my little sister and a friend took some photos also. my favorite are the ones of my little sister helping me get into my dress and my youngest daughter sitting patiently waiting to dive into the cake. Also there is a photo of the groom that looks as if her is about to pass out. It's priceless.

My youngest daughter married outdoors and she wanted all of the formal traditional shots but she added to them by positioning the people in interesting places. Such as, there was a small wooden bridge going over a stream and she had the groom and groomsmen all on the bridge cutting up. the photographer got a great shot of them there. Then she shooed the groomsmen away and they got a shot of her and new husband on the bridge. They took a photo of her sitting on a rock near the stream with dress sprayed out and the flower girl and ringbearer were sitting on her dress. A really Priceless photo. The faces are so wonderfully serene and happy. She is looking at the children and they are looking up at her. They are cousins.
My favorite shot from the wedding was an after-shot with mother and daughter in the photo. She had come up from behind me and scared me. She was tickling my ribs and we are both laughing hysterically. We did not evewn know the photographer took the picture until we saw it. She gifted that photo in a beautiful frame for me for mothers day that year. I made her headpiece and it is in the photo and our laughter is contagious when you look at it.

Mix it up a bit and youwill give the best package deals ever.

If it's a formal church wedding be sure to include a photo of wedding couples hands lying on an open bible.

I'm 21 years old. When I get married I plan on have formal pictures. I love the look of them and I want to have pictures of my whole bridal party...but I want an equal amount of candid shots too because I think those are fun and it shows people having fun. But I definitely want formals.