What is Documentary style Wedding Photography
Candid, natural and beautiful wedding photography.
Documentary style photography is unobtrusive and yields stunning results. It’s also a fantastic choice if you’re nervous in front of the camera. All the images are candid, so there’s no pressure on you to strike a pose or keep up with the photographer. It’s also a fantastic style for capturing the natural moments that you want to remember.
A selfie with your niece, nervously fumbling the ring or a loving touch from a sibling. These are the moments you want to remember.
Documentary style wedding photography captures the moments you can’t plan for.
It’s impossible to plan for all the special moments on your wedding day. Often the best moments of the day are because of the people and not the planning. Yes, you can fill out your shoot list and incorporate all the important people and things to want photographed, but documentary style photography also captures everything in between.
Dad chilling amidst the chaos of pre-ceremony, putting the brothers to work on the car or just the best aunt distracting the kids. These will be conversation starters for years to come.
It tells your story. It’s uniquely yours, it cannot be replicated.
In my opinion the beauty of documentary style wedding photography is the story telling. It cannot be scripted, your day is photographed from start to finish, the story tells itself. Photographs captured this way are special. Every time you review your images, look at your album or pass the photo collage hanging in the hall you’ll be brought back to the best day of your life. They’re more than just photographs.
With a second shooter you can see the story from both sides too. Bliss.
Your photographs will bring inspire a million stories.
When you review your photographs and share them with friends and family, each and every photograph will inspire a story. There will be photographs captured that you didn’t even know about. Your day will have a ton of intricate little scenarios all playing out behind the scenes that you will be completely unaware of, that is until you sit down with friends and family to look at the photographs. All those little stories will come to life again and it could be your first time hearing them.
Checking the score of the match during the ceremony, not keeping his outfit on and the little last minute phone calls…there’s a story behind all of these!
In summary…
You can’t go wrong with documentary style wedding photography. It encompasses every moment on your day and the photographs tell the story as it was told. It’s candid nature creates natural moments and captures those memories forever. Every time you review your wedding photographs you’ll be brought right back to the day to live it all over again.
Thanks for reading, if you were on the fence about booking a documentary style photographer, hopefully this will help answer a few questions!
