Using Signs to Tell Your Wedding Photography Story – Part 1 No comments yet

A couple embrace in a Private Moment

I think this is an interesting post in that I don’t see too many wedding photos that use signs to help communicate an idea, or tell a wedding story. I personally find it a challenge to seek out signs at a wedding location that I can use in a photo to tell a story of the couple or just the bride or groom. I’m not talking about a sign for the name of the wedding venue (I’ll cover that in part 4 of this series). I’m talking about signs that are just ordinary signs that can help enhance the photo and really tell a story.

Whether you are a photographer, bride, or groom, take notice of the signs around the wedding venue. See what’s available and how you can use them to your advantage to tell a story.

One of my favorite photos is the one in this post. The couple in the background embrace in a kiss, slightly out of focus, with a sign in the forground that reads “Private”.  I couldn’t have asked for a better picture that day. The sign, carved in stone, allowed me to create an image that not only communicated romance, but illustrated a “private moment” between the bride and groom after their wedding ceremony. In addition, the photo created the illusion that the couple where the only two people in the world at that moment. It’s these types of photos that create an everlasting memory of the couples wedding day.

Photograph was taken at Moortens Botanical Gardens in Palm Springs, California. (I’ll feature this wedding location in a future post).