John Drew Wedding Artistry

In response to people seeking to just have photographs of the most important part of the day, the ceremony, some familty portraits, and some other reception events; I have added a 3 hour coverage to my offerings. This booking can only be used if you are within 30 miles of downtown Boise. So if you want great photos, are close to Boise, and are on a budget, or a scrapbooker; consider hiring me for 3 hours to cover your wedding day.

i will provide a DVD of high resolution images to use as you see fit for any personal use, a website, prints, to show to family and friends, etc. 

A 1 hour engagement session can be added to your coverage for $75, while a finished album of 20 pages would cost an additional $219.

As always, you get my experience, attitude, and desire to make your wedding day photographs the second best part of the day, and make some memorable memories to treasure forever!

We've met. You like me, like my work, and booked me to photograph your wedding. Recently, a bride asked me why she needs an engagement portrait.

Good question!

Chance are at this point, we have exchanged a few emails, spent an hour together, maybe talked on the phone. The engagement portrait gives us a couple hours together without your parents, friends, and families. It gives you some images for your invitation, a signing board, or web-site. It gives us a chance to get to know each other a bit, and I am able to see how you both fit together. Plus, it's fun.

We can go to a place that is important to you, or downtown, or the foothills, anywhere you like. During a recent engagement session, we went to the outdoor place where the reception will be. Another was in the Hulls Gulch area, whil another was in downtown Boise.

If you don't need this photo, that's fine, but if you do, it is an opportunity for us to spend some time together, and for you to have a casual portrait of the wonderful time before you became husband and wife.

The economy is bad, money is tight, and you have friend or relative who had a good enough year to purchase one of the new digital SLR's with a great lens and flash, and suddenly, they are shooting like a pro. Their shots look great, and they will photograph your wedding for free. What a way to save some money for the honeymoon-right?

   This has happenned to me, and the bride really loved my images from her best friend's weddding that I photographed last summer. Her uncle will be shooting their wedding. She was in the wedding party, and just loves the portrait that I made of her and her fiance, and them dancing lovongly later on. But Uncle Sid is free-and will do it for fun.

   Consider this-Will Uncle Sid  be as interested in socializing with his family and friends as taking photos? Might he miss something while talking to his brother, wife, children, etc.

   Though I have great fun photographing your wedding, and want you to also, I bring professionalism, 15 years of experience, and am there for one purpose only, to make photographs to capture every aspect of your wedding day.

   Does he know how to pose people, or will he let groups form themselves into unorganized gatherings? Will you be able to see everyone's faces?

   What happens if he misses the cake cutting, or another once in the day event to smoke, got the bathroom, dance with his wife, or just gab with other family members?

  Will he be able to pose you and your husband for some memorable portraits?

  What he have enough memory cards to cover your wedding?

  What if his camera stops working for some unknown reason?

  Worse yet, what if a several critical photos are affected by bad exposure, bad focus, or other technical problems. Will he have the Photoshop expertise to fix those problems?

   These are important questions to ask yourself. I know photography is not cheap, but most pros bring about $10,000 worth of equipment to your wedding, and several thousand invested in a computer system to manage, enhance, store, and back-up your files. I (we) take this seriously, and want everything to go perfectly from the moment we arrive to the moment that we deliver the images or album.

 Besides, do you really want to spend your wedding day with Uncle Sid?