Bridal

We’re proud to offer a new addition to the Big Box lineup.

Enter The After Session.

A Two Hour after the wedding session in your Wedding Dress and Suit. After the wedding, after the pressure, informal, & just the two of you. Get ready for some super fun & creative post-wedding photos.

You want one more session to remember your wedding day by. To be able to have just one more set of photos in your dress before it’s preserved, and this will most likely be the last time you get to wear your dress too! Bring out your new husband and we will head out, just the 3 of us, to locations we might not have otherwise gone to. We can disregard grass, pebbled roads, even water.

But we can draw the line where you like it. We can get wet, or stay dry, we can head out to the country, or stick to some sleek urban spots.

You might not want to destroy your dress, but lets have some fun – knowings it’s going to get cleaned later! So we’re going to head out for what you could call “Trash The Dress”, but we’re not going to destroy anything…unless you want to!

Book your after session today. Sessions are 10% off until 2/28/12.

Bridal photos are a lot of fun. Showcasing the best parts of your dress, highlighting the best part of your gorgeous  hair. OMG. I mean really.

But why not consider bringing a couple of props to help out too. You can think of props in two different ways.

Props as someplace to put your hands
So you’re super awkward in photos huh? I mean like really, it’s almost a Saturday Night Live Sketch it so bad. Consider that you’ll be a lot better if you know where to put your hands. Having a prop, even something simple as a chair, gives you some relief. It’s a prop to give your photos setting, but it’s also a place to rest your arms, something to lean up against, really something else to take the pressure off of you.

A Chair is a great way to add variety to your Bridal Photos

Props can highlight your location
Another great idea for props is to consider how they will work with your location. Sometimes there’s great things that stand out even more if you add contrast to them. Be it in style, shape, texture – anything that creates a juxtaposition and bring a lot of interest, and sometimes even some drama to your photos. In this case we chose a yellow parasol for Pearl. Not only does the umbrella fit with her style, but it gives some amazing contrast with the vivid blue background.

Consider props that will contrast or complement your location

Yup. Props are awesome, and if shot right not as much of a distraction from your dress as a complement to your style and location. Give it some thought before your next shoot! It’s a great way to stand out from the crowd!

How many locations do you want to go to for your Bridals? Pick one, Pick two, Pick three. Most Brides won’t pick 3, but most wont pick only one either -you want variety (it gives you so many options for different backgrounds). Try shooting your Bridal photography at the Dallas Arboretum, there is seemingly endless options inside the garden for different background options, and outside of the Gardens is White Rock Lake, which is beautiful. Bridal Portraits at White Rock Lake are some of my favorite to shoot (don’t get me wrong, they’re all fun) but the Lake in Dallas gives me the chance to be right next to the big city without having to park in the big city. We manage, we manage.

But back to talking about Bridal Photography at the Dallas Arboretum. We pay for the entrance fee for you and your friends/family so the only thing you have to do is show up. Be sure that you come in your wedding dress though – Dallas city laws don’t allow you to change on the grounds and there’s not so many great places to change around there (unless you’re saying “Oh Thank-Heaven it’s 7-11″). We did make a temporary tent around a bride one time by holding up sheets around her so she could change though, I wouldn’t recommend that though! One stiff wind and it could have been a disaster!

Once you’re in the Arboreturm for pictures we can move nearly anywhere we like. If you see soemthing while we’re headed from spot to spot just say so – and we’ll stop to shoot there. Don’t worry about having to pick all of your backgrounds though, I’ll have a unique route picked out for you so you get Bridal Pictures unlike any others. We will shoot for about 2 hours for your Bridals (Up to 3 if we need the time), and it’s as easy as that. Simple Bridal Photos. Especially easy because you won’t have to travel far for garden photos, lake photos, and even after a short 7 minute drive to Deep Ellum, urban photos.

In the Big D we’re not hurting for a variety of locations, that’s for sure! We’re in one of the most beautiful places for weddings as far as I’m concerned!

Below are some examples of photos from the Dallas Arboretum and White Rock Lake

You’ll hear photographers describe themselves as “lifestyle photographers” or “journalistic photographers” maybe even “traditional photographers.”

Can you really decide whether you want a journalistic photographer rather than a documentary/lifestyle type of photography? I’d think not, that’s a super involved process and who knows what kind of photographer you’re going to need! I think you’ll need all kinds.

Who is to say that at one point you won’t need all three types? We’re not limiting ourselves to a genre. We’re photographers, and we want to capture you. Not in a creepy CSI kind of way, but we want your friends to see the photos and say “Holy Moly (never actually spelled that out before) that is so ___(fill in the blank)___. After all this is about emotions,  make sure you photos are emotionally driven.

I get to shoot lots of things, mostly weddings – but we get around. We’ve done TV commercials, corporate events, photo-journalism, so we’ve got lots to draw from. I even brush shoulders with a few local movie producers – not a lot of Wedding Photographers can offer that. BAM.

Weddings are by far our main focus though, and our favorite. Weddings rich with details and unique factors (once a bride even made her bouquet out of brooches and pins that she had been given through-ought her life, wow – it was a beautiful bouquet!) those are by far our most exciting weddings. Since we’re in it to capture the essence of who you are it helps when we’re in an environment that reflects your smashing personality.

You’re most likely looking for a photographer that’s there to capture YOU and who YOU ARE

(sorry mom & dad)
You’re looking for a guy who enjoys his job as much as you’re enjoying your wedding. That’s us.

Photo-journal-tradition-modern-digi-freestyle photogs. Take that, we do it all. :0)

I was updating some of my photos the other day and decided to share a few of my favorites with everyone! Have a look, most of these are from Brides of North Texas & Houston. Though we have started to do some destination weddings.

Stay tuned for photos from our recent trip to Las Terrazzas resort in Ambergris Caye, Belize. A very beautiful wedding with Nick & Meredith!

There you have it!

Today marks another great day here at Big Box (well it looks like it’ll be a good day, the sun isn’t up for another hour or so). Introducing Coffee Table Albums we can all afford. Starting at $110 for a 5×5 album. This is no craft store album either. Printed on acid free paper rated to last over 100 years, flush mount (stay with me here, that just means that your images are printed all the way to the edge of the page), and there’s no seam in the middle so we can show images all the way across the page. So so so cool, I wish I had something like this for my wedding. And we’re actually going to be ordering one of these for our 2010 vacation too, good for sitting out in the Living Room to flip through every once and a while.

If you’ve shot with Big Box before then I’ve got your images and we can get this ordered quick! But don’t worry if you don’t have a shoot with us, we’ll get you scheduled within the next 3 weeks and have your album back before thanksgiving!

Get a hold of us here and we’ll send over pricing to you!

There’s a lot of talk about wedding season. But do you have to be limited to just a couple months out of the year? You’ll be booking somewhere around 8 vendors (at least) to operate your wedding, why pick the same month that everybody else has picked?

Take a look around and you’ll see that a lot of wedding vendors (wedding photographers and wedding videographers especially) run off-season rates. WHAT?!

Since March and June are the busiest wedding seasons often times late fall is an open invitation for vendors. You can work out special arrangements for extra services even!

Don’t limit yourself by only considering march for your wedding date (though it is beautiful!) because one month ahead or a couple seasons later offer the same beauty in a different way.

Looking for a way to get in touch with a group of vendors willing to work with your wedding date? Use the contact form at www.bigboxphoto.com and we’ll get a list of preferred vendors right back over to you!

Best luck planning brides! And Congratulations!

It’s a great day when I get to meet up with a couple that is so in tune with who they are they make me question myself. It’s refreshing to spend time with somebody who’s as laid back and kind as Jared & Stephanie. The wedding was great last weekend, stay tuned for the wedding photos!

Location: The Canals At Las Colinas
Photographer: Caleb Fleming of Big Box Photography

Dallas Wedding Photographer | Dallas Bridal Photographer

Just throwing out a couple more bridal pictures from last weekend. We had a blast Sabrina!