So Nice to Meet You!
It was great meeting you at the Wedding Show this past weekend!
I appreciate your coming out during this particular time. How was the show experience for you?
Now that you’ve had a moment to catch your breath and relax and just think, I want to encourage you to reflect on how you want your wedding day to be remembered.
The day will fly by (you have probably heard this from everyone, and it’s true) and the next thing you know, your life will be hurling at breakneck speed toward the next big chapter in your new life together whether that means work changes, a new home, and perhaps children down the road.
It’s really as if your lives are now just beginning.
Having a set of incredible photographs that remind you of those moments that you saw — and the ones that you might have missed — is what I bring to couples like you and it’s what drives me. When people say, after viewing your photographs, that they felt like they were there, then I know I have achieved what I set out to do.
Telling your unique story is so important. It’s important for you and your family members in the here and now and it’s also important for the future and your family legacy. You are so lucky because now we can truly capture the sights (and sounds) of the day when in the fairly recent past there might only be that one formal photograph of a relative’s wedding. Never before have we had this ability as photographers to be able to translate virtually everything we see and feel into an image.
Fashion trends change, hair styles evolve, but the thing that always stays true is honest and authentic emotion when captured in your wedding photographs. Emotions are simply timeless.
Those real moments simply can’t be faked and thank goodness.
They’re always better than anything I could ever orchestrate and these type of photographs just resonate so much more for you and your families.
You know when you’re being real in your photographs and I want you to experience your day in that way. And then remember that exact feeling when viewing your photographs.
Did you have any questions about planning your wedding photography coverage since we met at the show? What works best from a photography standpoint? What maybe doesn’t work as well? What should we be considering? Why should we have an album (isn’t seeing the photos online enough?)
On that day, I love being an oasis of calm when it can often be full of high emotion. That emotion though just is a reminder that it’s important and historic for you and your families. Up until this point in your lives, it is the most important thing you will do.
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Paul Gero | 920.728.6183 | paul@paulfgero.com | IG@paulgero
p.s. I know how quickly the time flies. I met my wife at a wedding in 2000 (she was the Maid of Honor and I was photographing the wedding for the groom, a photojournalist friend of mine). We were engaged in 10 days and married just one day shy of one year since meeting. She lived, at the time, in Cape Town, South Africa so you could say it was quite a long distance romance. Marrying a “Yank” requires a lot of legal stuff and it meant hiring a lawyer and being separated for two months before Nicki arrived back in the States (on 9/9/2001 — she was supposed to arrive in NYC on 9/11/2001!). Nearly 20 years later we are happily married, have two amazing kids and love our life back in my home state of Wisconsin (after living in CA for the previous 16 years and Arizona before that). Because of our own story, weddings are particularly meaningful and I believe it was destiny to become a photographer of weddings so that I might tell your story too!
Congratulations on your engagement and what this day will mean for you both and your families! Enjoy every minute of it! It goes too fast!