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“I can’t afford more” – It’s tempting, we know. However, think of it this way. Your $750 wedding cake – gone in 60 seconds. The $500 Flowers – wilting before the ceremony is over. The thousands upon thousands you spent on the venue, the food, alcohol… and the dress? Why spend all that money only to skimp on the one service that is meant to preserve those memories?
“But I’ll get a CD with thousands of photos on it” – How many of your friends or family will sit down to watch a slideshow of 2000 photos? If each was shown for five seconds that’s almost three hours! Plus, how many photos of you standing at the altar do you really need – a gorgeous one that tells the whole story or 50 that show the same, exact thing? Several large prints hanging in your home, a press-printed book with your favorite photos, perhaps an elegant digitally painted oil over the mantle – these special pieces are what will make the most impact.
“I can print my own photos” – The first thing is, how good will the photos be? M3 Imagery edits our portraits to a magazine quality finish. With a close-up portrait we will eliminate blemishes, wrinkles and stray hairs, enhance the eyes, balance the color, crop to a pleasing aspect and so on. We print our portraits on our 44” 12-ink printer to paper or canvas. Canvas prints can then be stretched or mounted to hard board and hand-textured or varnished for elegance and protection. Other places… well, don’t.
“He said he’d get me the disc the next day!” – How much editing can really be done in those few hours after the wedding? Any chef will say that good things take time. When the wedding is done, we scan through the photos and prune repetitive shots and those with lack of interest. When you see your final selections, they’ll be slightly edited (not to final quality but so you get an idea of their potential). It’s much easier to pick your favorites out of 150 photos than 1500. Quality editing takes time, skill and effort. To rush would be to undercook, and to deliver the next day would be to serve it raw.
“My guests will take most of the pictures” – Unless your guests are professional photographers, they will be taking “snapshots” and they may or may not send you pictures larger than a postage stamp. M3 photographers shoot in a digital negative format which garners the highest quality possible and allows us to print at almost any size. We light, compose, edit and produce photographs meant for display, not meant for an envelope in a drawer.