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Backyard Weddings

If you are looking for an alternate to the traditional church wedding and formal reception often times a backyard wedding can be a great alternative.

Advantages

• Sentiments. Think how special it would be to get married at your childhood house. To be able to get dressed in your childhood bedroom. What a great way to connect different parts of your life. Or, how about getting married at your own house? A wedding at the house where the two of you will be living is a special way to start your life together.
• Cost. By having the wedding and reception at your house you will save the money normally spent on the locations.
• Casual and Relaxed. A backyard wedding is generally a casual and relaxed event.

Things to keep in mind

• Your neighbors. A wedding at your house will require the support of your neighbors, even if they are not invited. Cars will be parked up and down your street. Loud music will probably be playing. You should make sure you neighbors don’t have a problem with your plans well in advance of your big day.
• Parking. Building from the above, you will need to make sure there is enough parking around your house for all your guests. While you may be able to have your guests park on the street, make sure they can do so legally. Tow trucks descending on your wedding will not be a good way to start the reception.
• Nuisance Laws. You’ll need to know the noise ordinances for your area. You don’t want a police visit.
• Pets. Many pet owners would like their pets to be part of the ceremony, some even going so far as using a cat or dog as the ring bearer. But you also don’t want your dog running around during your vows. Or trying to eat off your guests’ plates during the reception.
• Alcohol. Some cities have ordinances against serving alcohol to guests.
• Weather. What are your plans if the weather is bad? Is there enough room in your house in case you have to bring your guests inside?

Frequently Asked Questions

Should we get our wedding photographs printed or on CD-ROM?

We strongly suggest that you allow us to handle any prints you want to have made from your wedding day. While many wedding photographers are starting to offer a CD-ROM with all images from your wedding and allowing you to print, there are several disadvantages to this solution.

Disadvantages to CD-ROM only weddings

• Print Quality. A professional wedding photographer should use a professional level lab rather than a neighborhood photo lab. This will lead to a better quality print, made on better quality paper, and better color and contrast on the print.
• Time and Cost. Yes, you can generally get prints made more inexpensively at your local photo lab compared to the price directly from your wedding photographer. You also need to consider the amount of time it will take getting together your prints if you do it yourself.

Advantages of ordering prints from your wedding photographer

• Print Quality. We make sure that any print that leaves our studio will exceed your expectation. We do this by individually editing each photograph before printing and only print at a professional photo lab. And we check all photographs for quality before we send them out to you.
• Time. When you order prints directly from us you free up time that can better be spent with your new spouse. We will spend the time making sure that the print is perfect so that you don’t have to.

More Information

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