One Year Later: The Bridal Portrait My Daughter Asked Me to Create
When my daughter got married, she had a wonderful wedding photographer. The images were beautiful, candid, full of feeling, everything you'd want from someone documenting your wedding day. But about a year later, she came to me and asked for something different. She wanted a portrait. Not a photo from the day, but a real studio session, formal and intentional, where she could put her dress back on and be still for a minute. She wanted the kind of image that gets framed large and hung on a wall and stays there for decades.
So that's what we did. She and her husband came into my studio one year after their wedding, in their wedding clothes, her dress and his suit. We created a couples portrait together and a solo bridal portrait of her that I had printed large and framed. It hangs in my home now, and I still stop and look at it every single day.
Wedding photography and fine art portraiture are two different things, and they're both worth having. A wedding photographer is there to capture everything as it unfolds, the chaos and the joy and the tears and the dancing. A portrait session is the opposite of that. It's quiet and deliberate, just you in your dress with nothing competing for attention. My daughter understood that difference, which is why she asked. I'm so glad she did.
If you've been thinking about a bridal portrait, whether before your wedding, after, or for a one year anniversary session like this one, I'd love to talk about what that could look like for you.
