I’m going to run through the gist of my conversation on this subject and you can decide for yourself if you feel they’d have any worth in your wedding day photographs. But please bear in mind that even if I do take some detail shots on your day they won’t go in your album unless you select them, so in many ways you really have nothing to lose.
Your wedding photographs are your memories from what is the most important day of your life. For the most part the photographs will be the only tangible thing you retain from the day that will be brought out repeatedly over the forthcoming years. The wedding dress, shoes and all the accessories will likely not be worn again. The cake will get eaten. The flowers will be gone and the wedding car returned. Okay, I’m not going to go on and on…don’t want to depress you too much, lol! But that’s why I think its nice to have a photographic record of these items so you can remember exactly what they looked like and how much they contributed to enhancing such a special day.
Lets take one example…the wedding cake. This is a costly item if bought and perhaps even more precious if a close friend or relative has baked and decorated it for you. If you don’t have a picture for your collection will you recall exactly what it looked like in a few years time and how it was displayed as well as all those intricate details that went into the decoration? At most of the weddings I’ve attended the wedding cake is put out in a prominent position on display before the wedding breakfast.
Virtually all the guests at some point will saunter over and pay admiring looks. However, for the bride and groom the wedding day unfolds so quickly they seldom get chance to even see the cake until its time for the cake cutting ceremony.
It is similar with the ceremony and dining rooms.
Anyway, that’s my viewpoint on the merit of detail shots. I’ve included a few here from the last few weddings I’ve photographed. A couple of these were selected for the newly weds album but most of the images are so recent the bride and groom haven’t yet finalized their photograph selection so it will be interesting to see how many get chosen.