I took a slightly different approach to this wedding, in my ever evolving approach to photography gigs. With each wedding, I have been trying to add services to what I can provide for a wedding shoot. This time, the big thing I did was to provide the photography online so that guests of the wedding—well, of course, for the couple themselves too—could view the wedding photos without needing to wait weeks just to see an album in person with the couple.
That is why the photos, though taken way back in February, are just now hitting the gallery. I had them online for the guests, and waited to give them more than enough time to browse through those, before I took them down and created the gallery. Just between you and me: it was taking up a good bit of space for the website, and I had to take them down sometime. 🙂
It really did not add all that much to my workload. I must admit, I used the free and easy Picasa to develop the web pages for me. Then, I altered them just a intsy-wintsy bit so that it did not look like I used Picasa. Sneaky.
I think the best decision was not a technical decision, but one of foresight. I printed out some business cards with the web address to which I would post the wedding photos. Then, on the day of the wedding, I could hand them out when folks asked or just let the program ladies hand them out as they wished. The site did not have any photos on it, of course, because I had not shot them yet, but that is really the only way I could think of to let people know when they would most naturally want to know.
Feel free to drop by the ChinaCoop Gallery and look through these wedding photos.
