Photo Perfection

by Ellen

With one major exception, G & I have stuck to a tight budget. We’ve DIY’d an entire wedding practically and tried to cut costs in lots of places. However, there was one thing on the [LONG] list of things we had to fork over cash on that I refused to be frugal on. Photography. At the end of the day (a beautiful day, but a day none the less) all G & I will have is each other and our photographs. So I wanted our photographs to be AMAZING.

I stumbled across these photos as I was searching for photographs of the inside of my original dream wedding location.

photos by Jessica Johnston Photography

These photos helped me sell G on our original location and the photographer. The photographer was Jessica Johnston and her work was stunning. I was immediately on the internet trying to learn as much about this photographer as possible. I couldn’t find anyone in metro detroit that was better.

In the end our location changed (to my grandmother’s house in South Carolina! SO excited about getting married there). Fortunately, we were able to bring our photographers with us! I can’t wait to post the pictures. I know they’ll be amazing.

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2 comments

1 Garlin { 06.30.09 at 11:08 am }: I am very, very excited about having Jessica & Nate shoot our wedding. It feels great to be able to use a photographer from close to home, and it really is a symbol of how our entire wedding is weaving together different parts of our home and family life.

This was a great find sweetheart.
2 Uncle Joe { 06.30.09 at 3:11 pm }: “A birth certificate tells when you were born. A death certificate says when you died. Pictures show that you lived.”

Take a lot of pictures!

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