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Earlier this morning I read an article that included advice for a husband and wife photography team like us.  And then I went to upload some of our favorites from Kate and Joe’s English Manor Wedding to Wedding Wire.  As I was choosing the pictures to include in the album, I kept coming back to this shot:

st. mary of the lake lakewood wedding

I love this photograph for so many reasons – the moment, the friends & family, the perspective, the bubbles, the LIGHT!  But also, I love it because Jay took it. Just like the article I read this morning on husband and wife photography teams, it reminds me of how lucky I am to have Jay with me for each and every wedding we do…  especially since it wasn’t always the case.  When I first started shooting weddings, Jay was an “add-on.”  Brides and grooms would pay extra to have him with me.  Yes, Jay was “optional”.  When brides and grooms booked me for a wedding, I was excited.  When they booked both of us?  I was ecstatic.  I knew I’d be able to include so much more in our collection of photos for that wedding.  A different perspective, a different style, a different overall feel to our service.  Jay quickly stopped being optional and became a must for all weddings.  Whether he’s doing photo or video, I love knowing that he’ll capture moments like these in a way that will be different from what I’m capturing.  I love knowing that he’ll catch tons of unplanned moments while I’m setting up shots.  I love knowing that he’ll connect with our grooms in a different way than I do (like immediately understanding the reference to the tuxedos in “Dumb and Dumber” while I sit there, clueless).  I love spending the day with him when we shoot weddings.  I love knowing that he has my best interests at heart and will back me up and support me and be my right-hand man for setting up our lighting and anything and everything else that comes up.  And I know that when I exit the church and get my shot, Jay is there… somewhere… getting something completely different!   Just like he did on this day.  His and mine:

bride and groom

How great is that?!  And you know what’s also great?  I don’t direct Jay to get the types of shots I need.  So many photographers have to train their second shooters and members of their team.  Jay?  Jay just *knows* what to do.  He knows that we want to offer our couples a true blend of modern, traditional, and photo-journalistic photographs and he knows what his role is in achieving this.

And I’d be lying if I said those were all of the reasons why I love Jay’s shot.  Here is the last reason:

Photo by Daniele Lanci

Photo by Daniele Lanci Photography
www.danielelancifotografo.com

It reminds me so, so much of this shot, one of my favorites from our own wedding day.  Looking at it now I know that, inevitably, at some point during a bride and groom’s wedding day, I’ll see something, or hear something, that will remind me of the happiest day of my life.  And then I look over at the Asian guy climbing on our stool to get a shot from a completely different angle than mine and a big smile comes across my face :-)

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