You never forget the first time. Right away I knew it wasn’t a regular ‘thank you’. It was one of those moments where the tone of the message is sweet but for some reason you know bad news is coming.
‘My mother passed away. The photo you have from our wedding day is the last photo I have with her. Thank you.’
To be perfectly honest, sometimes I feel like our work isn’t real. Let me explain. We’re living in a digital age where moments are captured digitally, edited digitally, and delivered digitally. It’s not until we see our photos being made as prints or in albums where it suddenly hits you like, ‘Oh right, what we do is real’. All of a sudden, what we do becomes really tangible and we realize how big of a responsibility we have.
When you shoot a bunch of weddings over the years, you naturally take some things for granted. Before this moment, I forgot and didn’t realize the magnitude of the job. We’re not only tasked with capturing the importance of the events of the day, but also the depth of the stories involved, and the richness of the stories that made everything possible. So that we never forget the real MVPs.
Alright, that’s a wrap on our 2AM deep talk on your driveway. Here are some of our favourite moments of parental units and their offspring.
