I know another one of my catchy titles: I picked this one up while I was shooting a clients wedding in Ireland this past spring. I do have to say the Irish have some great one liners but onto the point….

Most people have no clue how to write a best man or maid of honor speech and I can’t blame you its tough. The biggest piece of advice I have to give you is, IF YOU PLAN ON WINGING YOUR SPEECH IT WILL STINK in comparison to the other person who thought about what they are going to say and you don’t want to be that turd who thought they could wing it, drank just a wee bit to much, and then didn’t really have much or anything entertaining to say.

So for the Best man or Maid of honor: Research using google, write your speech, practice your speech

For the Bride or Groom reading this: Encourage your people to actually pour time into writing a speech. Also if you know one person is going to do a great job and the other is going to be a dud, have the dud go first, it will save the dud from waiting and sweating bullets knowing their speech can’t compare.

I guess the long and short point of this message is to save some heart ache and someone feeling bad the day of the wedding. A little preparation goes a long way and with all of the weddings I have been too (tons) very infrequently are there two well put together speeches delivered that draw laughter and even sometimes tears.

I will leave you with another one liner I picked up in Ireland during a best man’s speech “In life there are many up’s and downs, may all of yours be between the sheets”

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Yesterday I received an email inquiring if I had a date open for wedding photography. Reply: Yes.
Today I received a phone call at 9:43 from a really nice Girl (the one who emailed me) by 9:46 she confirmed to book a her wedding photography with me. Three total minutes of interaction and now I’m shooting [...]

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I am a firm believer that in order to excel in anything you must have a great many skills to accompany that one thing you are excelling at. That brings me to the title of my article “photographer meet my swiss army knife”. Many of you know me personally and many only professionally, I’ll dive [...]

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I was talking with my friend (one of the worlds best wedding videographers, not exaggerating) Matt Brue of Capture Studios based out of Minneapolis a couple of weeks back and he struck a chord that resonated inside of me. He said “our generation is different, we want to know everything about someone before we are [...]

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This week it is going to be a short one folks, Why might you ask? Well, its wednesday and I forgot to write out my sweet blog post yesterday thus short but sweet today.
This week we are talking about the phrase, when life hands you lemons make lemonade. As a wedding photographer many times I [...]

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Ireland… Its like driving to door county to shoot a wedding, except for the unique accents and a couple of customs checks. Some of you may recall the Volcanic ash northern europe and a large part of the world was affected by early this spring. Well I was almost one of those people. On April [...]

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Catchy title I know, but its true. I for one didn’t always like “shooting” taking pictures of babies. They are so unpredictable and when they get upset they just start crying. Not to mention getting peed on is the grossest thing every (well almost) See the picture below of one of my clients being graced [...]

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Summer is upon us YippEEEEEEE

(steve rocking the wake surfing!)
Anyways I’m  making a commitment, yes a commitment to make your tuesdays a bit brighter. How will I do this? its quite simple, I’m vowing for the next three months to blog every tuesday.
So put an alarm in your calendar, tuesday stalk the capfoto blog!
What will our [...]

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Very few times in your life are you presented to do work for friends you have not seen in a long time. I have the opportunity to do just that and shoot my friend from high school’s re-wedding ceremony. Her Husband Cliff and her were actually married one year prior, but had their real wedding [...]

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I had the opprotunity to shoot an after the dress session with Sarah and Drew, pictures speak louder than words so I will let the images do the talking. Also here is a little video to show how we pulled off just a couple of the shots!

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