Resources
With over 15 years of wedding photography experience, we’re dedicated not only to the art of visual storytelling but also providing excellent service and education for our clients. Whether you’re looking for the perfect outfit for your engagement photos or how to craft the ideal family portrait list for your wedding, we’ve got you covered. Our wedding photography resources below span best wedding and engagement photo locations, history of wedding traditions, wedding photography albums, our favorite New England and Palm Springs wedding vendors, and more. As a gay-owned wedding photography business committed to our LGBTQ+ couples, we’ve also included a resource for some of our favorite twists on wedding traditions. We're constantly adding and refreshing these wedding resources to keep up with best industry practices.
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Best Palm Springs Wedding and Engagement Photography Locations in the Coachella Valley Desert
As local Palm Springs wedding photographers, we’ve photographed weddings and engagements all around Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley. Here are the best venues and locations for wedding photography in the Southern California desert. Whether you’re engaged, planning a wedding, or looking for Palm Springs inspiration, check out images from the best photo locations around the Coachella Valley.
The Best Engagement Photo Locations in New England and New York
New England and New York are full of gorgeous locations for engagement photos. Whether you’re looking for an iconic beach, an intimate and historic venue, or lush greenery, there is a location for you! We’ve compiled below a guide of some of our favorite locations and venues for engagement photos in and around New England and New York.
The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book
The Legacy Fine Art Wedding Book is a completely custom, one-of-a-kind wedding keepsake. We partner with a master bindery in Vermont, whose design team sources bespoke fabrics selected to match your wedding photos. They then design embroidered detailing, select custom decorative papers, and hand-craft letter imprinting and foiling—the final result is an heirloom that is a true representation of your love story.
Best Palm Springs Wedding Vendors
As local Palm Springs wedding photographers, we are dedicated to supporting our community. This is a short list of our favorite and trusted wedding vendors and creatives in the Palm Springs and Coachella Valley region.
Working with Todd Danforth Photography
From initial inquiry and booking through pre-wedding consultation and wedding day to the final delivery of images and albums, this resource will walk you through what you can expect from our process as professional wedding photographers.
Answers to the Most Common Questions We Get Asked as Wedding Photographers
There are so many choices when it comes to your photographer—so how do you chose? There are countless wedding resources to help guide couples on how to select their wedding photographer. Our goal is to help you make the best decision for your big day. To that end, we’ve answered the most common questions we get asked when clients are looking for a wedding photographer!
The Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Film and Digital Wedding Photography
At a time when nearly all of us carry a digital camera in our pockets everywhere we go in the form of a smartphone, you might wonder why we still choose to shoot on film. For us, film evokes a feeling and emotion. In this resource, we’ll describe some of the reasons you may want to consider film photography for documenting your wedding.
Eleven Essential Jewish Wedding Traditions Explained
From the tisch to the bedeken, and the breaking of the glass (and plates!), we explore eleven wedding traditions that you might see at a Jewish wedding, accompanied with images and blog posts from Jewish weddings we've photographed over the years.
Crafting a Legacy for Generations to Come: Our Process for Delivering Handmade, Heirloom Quality Wedding Albums
As wedding photographers, we have the pleasure of providing couples with the same opportunity to create a legacy for their own families by crafting a physical keepsake which is wholly theirs and 100% unique: a wedding album that they can treasure for years.
Best Practices and Solutions to Backup Your Wedding Photos
After your big day, you’ll be left with a lifetime of memories and numerous photos to help you relive them. These photos are heirlooms, mementos celebrating you and your partner’s love. But how can you ensure that your photos survive the test of time and are able to be accessed for generations to come? We’ve compiled our best advice for storing your wedding images.
The Heirloom Wedding Album
The Heirloom Wedding Album is a flush-mount style book. Each spread is a unique layout with your photographs graphically designed into the pages to tell the story of your wedding day from start to finish. All pages are printed on archival quality paper to ensure that your wedding photographs stay vibrant and will not fade over time.
Modern Wedding Traditions for LGBTQ+ Couples
Marriage is an institution steeped in tradition. From the proposal to saying your “I dos”, there are specific expectations of the bride and the groom. But what if there are two brides, two grooms, or neither? Couples are increasingly bucking tradition, opting instead to create new, personalized wedding customs that feel right for them. For LGBTQ+ couples, this practice is even more prevalent as many of the traditional wedding customs never really worked for us in the first place! Here, we’ll share some ways we’ve seen LGBTQ+ couples create wedding magic by confidently defying tradition.
Frankie Grande on Letting Your Rainbow Flag Fly High
We had the honor of photographing actor and artist, Frankie Grande, in the California desert this spring. For us, something about the dramatic and wild landscape feels like freedom, freedom to live your truth. And Frankie does that better than anyone else we know. Images from this photoshoot are featured in the recently published #LGBTQ+Empowerment campaign in collaboration with Mediaplanet and USA Today!
Feel Proud: A Pride Playlist by DJ Brynn Taylor
We asked DJ Brynn Taylor to put together a Spotify playlist to celebrate Pride. From fabulous icons to today’s pop divas, Brynn has combined an eclectic mix of Pride classics! These triumphant anthems are sure to get you on your feet and in the spirit of Pride!
Planning Your LGBTQ+ Wedding: Interview with Expert Event Planner Hovik Harutyunyan
We sat down with Hovik Harutyunyan of Harutyunyan Events to discuss the nuances of planning LGBTQ+ weddings, some subtle but important differences between LGBTQ+ and straight weddings and what inspires him most about wedding planning. Hovik’s keen eye for design and detail, passion for planning, and commitment to every facet of his craft make him one of our favorite wedding professionals to work with!
Our Favorite Locations for Engagement and Couple’s Photoshoots in Southern California
Los Angeles and Southern California are chalk-full of gorgeous locations for engagement and couples photoshoots. Whether you’re looking for an iconic beach, an intimate and historic venue, or lush greenery, there is a location for you! We’ve compiled below a guide of some of our favorite locations and venues for couples and engagement photoshoots.
Interview with LGBTQ+ Couple: Brittny and Brittany
We had the pleasure of photographing Brittany and Brittny’s LGBTQ destination wedding in October of 2019 at the stunning Waterfront Park in San Diego, California. We asked “The Britts,” as they are known to their close friends and family, about what it was like planning their LGBTQ+ wedding.
Interview with LGBTQ+ Couple: Kate and Holly
We had the chance to chat with Kate and Holly, a true east-coast-meets-west-coast couple, to discuss what it was like planning their big day. They’ve faced their fair share of challenges in planning their wedding due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but have persevered nevertheless.
Interview with LGBTQ+ Couple: Casey and Avery
Casey and Avery Klein are two creatives living in Los Angeles, California. Besides being incredible artists, they are also our good friends. We sat down with Casey and Avery to talk about how they planned their wedding.
Let Them Eat Cake! A Delicious Confectionery History
The wedding cake tradition dates back to ancient Rome when barley cake was broken over the brides head as a gesture to encourage good luck and fertility. The newlyweds would then eat the crumbs together to symbolize their union.