It’s an ever changing landscape being a wedding photographer these days. As weddings grow so do the need for reliable second photographers. This guide is all about empowering a second photographer to understand how to not only meet expectations, but exceed them on a wedding day all built around actual images taken by me as a second photographer at a beautiful winery wedding near Fayetteville, Arkansas last year.

The groom’s guide to getting dressed. Tips and rules and things to think about as you choose what you’re going to wear on the other end of the aisle. Fit, Formality, and Functionality explained along side plenty of photos of different styles and looks from real weddings all over the place.

Five tips and tricks to make sure that your engagement photography session is filled with magic. From what to where, location tips, even ways to make sure that your poses feel more natural and intimate and a link to our free Engagement Photography Guide for a more in depth look at how to prep for this playful, fun photo shoot.

There’s a few thing’s to remember when planning a winery wedding but the good absolutely outweighs the bad. For all the places we get to shoot a wedding in a vineyard is one of my very favorites and one of the coolest little wineries we’ve shot at is just down the Road. This real wedding of Cassandra and Blake was at Sassafras Springs and was a perfect example of why we love this spot so much.

For as excited as I am to get back to shooting, back to work, back to storytelling as a wedding photographer there’s a part of me that’s still a little nervous. Here’s either lessons I’ve learned coming out of 2020 and things I’m hoping I can take with me as the wedding world in Arkansas and all over the place continues to come back to life.