love that ring shot and the dancing shots, i can almost hear the music playing.
This is by far one of my favorite weddings you've done. The couple is absolutely adorable and they look so in love. Beautiful wedding, beautiful details and great photographers to capture it all. Great job.
Sarah and Chris, you guys rock! We are so thrilled with our pictures and have been inundated with compliments left and right. Thank you so much for being such incredible people as well as incredible artists- Adam and I consider ourselves truly lucky to have had the pleasure of working with you!
Thank you so much for the great pictures, you and Chris always do such an amazing job capturing the emotions of the day. Shane & Adam are a wonderful one-of-a-kind couple!
you photos are great and you colours are really special! I ever fall in love O_o
I love the picture of the chucks and many many more!!
I can definitely relate. And it especially doesn't help when you're really close friends with the couple. They'll go through their pictures and then stop at a blurry section and ask what gives. "Oh, that's because I bawled my eyes out and couldn't see clearly."
what a fantastic wedding, i love the umbrella shot of the entire wedding party (rockin)
the chucks just plain rule! gorgeous couple! beautiful as always guys!
Boy have I got some stories from Carowinds! Love that place... brings back a lot of great memories from good ole' NC. What a beautiful wedding too... great details and colors. Well done Sarah!
Love their theme! I was caught off guard when I saw Carowinds... that's just a few miles from where I live, and I use to get free tickets to DollyWood when I was in college... so much fun! Love the images:)
Beautiful wedding. The umbrella shots and headless shot are my faves. You keep it real Sarah Rhoads.
I just did a wedding and incorporated purple umbrellas into the shots. I loved the splash of color it added for color pops. I'm thinking about buying a whole schwackload of different colored/patterned umbrellas to add to my props. You can just use them for so many different shots!
William Fitzsimmons and the colors on these just GO TOGETHER :)
Love this. I've been a fan for a while and i really like your stuff. What font is that on the picture on the right?
RHOADS'... I know you shot this a long time ago, but I was just looking through them again and you guys absolutely nailed this wedding! Really inspiring stuff!
perfectly shot. what great, fun details. this is an incredible blog. can't wait to check back...
Whoa very beautiful dress and I really like the idea of shooting with the sunglasses. Perfect as usual!
Did she design her own ring? I really love it! Btw...awesome pics...as usual!
Once again, so fabulous! I love the shot of her shoes in the kitchen. Not to mention the last shot...so awesome! You rock! Jared and I are so excited for August!!!
Amazing photographs, you dad a lot of fun there too :-)
this couple is adorable. this post left me wanting MORE! ;)
Very inspiring stuff! I just found you guys and really love your style! Beautiful wedding!!
Awesome wedding! The shoe shot rocks my face off!!!
What an awesome shoe shot!!!!! And the shot of the groom when he's watching her walk down the isle is beautiful! Love your work!
I really don't like groom's holding flowers, mostly when they are not supposed to, but I love that shot. IT somehow looks man-ly? Cool toasting shot too.
Holy amazing shoe shot! Why am I not surprised? It's sarah rhoads.
Great set of images and love the touch of quirkiness in some of them! The 'shoot through the steps' shots of the lads is cool and I love the b&w shot of the bride from above!
This makes me want to get married again. Her dress is fantabulous, and the party booth is awesome!
LOVE that shoe shot. Monique IS my very favourite dress designer, dying to have a bride wear Monique!! I love the portraits from this wedding, Sarah.
That dress is stunning ... wow ... what a gorgeous couple. :)
haha-- what maureen said.. that was awesome!
..and what a fun bride!
Are you kidding me? The shoes shot? Get out of here!
Hi Sarah. Sorry I'm a little late in commenting, but I'm intrigued that you use InDesign for your albums. Do you send one PDF to your lab (prodpi) and they then print each individual page from that PDF? I would love to design all of my albums in InDesign if only I could find a printer who will print from the PDF file.
Sarah,
Thanks for being so forthcoming on albums! I recently saw a 'sample' album of yours, a Galleria album, and was wondering if you can design that without the Soho styler (if you even designed that one--maybe they just used your images). My second question is whether you use the Soho and Mercer books (no gutter) which means you'd have to get incredibly long seamless prints done yourself? Or do you think the Fine Art is the way to go? Albums can be overwhelming! Sorry--this may be too much for a blog.
Sarah!! Do you design your own albums? Or do you outsource it? You dont use indesign do you? hahhaahhahaha HAHAHAHHAA JK. IM FUNNY
Great looking album guys...hope you have a sample to show me when you get back into town :) Isn't it ALWAYS refreshing to work with other vendors (book-binders, pro labs etc.) who actually CARE about the quality and craftsmanship of their products? ;)
Sarah these albums are beautiful, I see why you use them! :)
Such a gorgeous album!!
@daniel as I mentioned to @Liam we do not use Any templates for our album design. Each individual spread is custom created by US for each wedding. No two albums exactly alike. Each of our couples has a truly cutom book that is unique to their story and is created by us, no templates are used.
Beautiful work as usual. Do you use templates for your album design or do you create each page seperately? If you do, are they your personal templates or did you purchase them from somewhere?
@Liam we don't use the soho styler. All of our designs are custom created and designed by us in Indesign. :)
hey Sarah,
you mentioned you use InDesign for album design. Have you used and what are your opinions on the SoHo styler for the design?
Thanks!!!
liam
Wow! Just... wow!
Promise to never put this offline. Because the day I plan my own wedding I'll show this one to the photographer and tell him: That's how I want it to be!
The best would of course be to ask you to take the photos - but I live in Germany and well... the costs... you know ;)
@dennis not a stupid question at all!! It is actually an artist that Chris records with named Ben Rector. Chris laid down a lot of the bass tracks on the record. the song is called "Disarm"
@Ron you know I would love loved to shoot your wedding photos ;) you are too sweet
boy wish we could go back in time and have you take our pictures.
wonderful job as always.
This is probably a stupid question but what is the song in the slideshow?
@merideth we use InDesign for all of our album designs
@jonathan yes we select the images that will go into the album for the initial design preview. We have had nothing but a fantastic response from our couples. Our couples respect and trust the artistic process and the professional and artistic service we are providing them and they know up front that this is part of the overall experience of working with us.
Hey Sarah,
Great stuff. You said, 'Asking ourselves, "how will this series of images fit together on a page?"' Does that imply y'all choose which pictures are put into the book rather than the couple? If so, what has been the reaction of (potential) clients upon hearing that.
Tanksabunch. -J
hi sarah! i was just curious....what program do you use to design the album? i just started photography & want to find the cheapest way to do the albums....and i totally respect doing it yourself!
@sara we send our pages to our AMAZING professional lab in California, ProDPI for the printing. Once they are printed, our lab sends them back to us so we can make sure everything looks flawless and then we send it to our Album Company in NYC (Renaissance) to put it all together beautifully for us. It is a nice checks and balances system. The total design/crafting/delivery process usually takes about 4-6 months from start to finish. hope that helps!
I guess seeing pictures of it is almost as good as having it, right? :P
How many pages on average are your albums?
Hello, I love this album, it's beautiful!! I am wondering where you have your pages printed at? and about how long does it take for the whole process of designing the album to presenting it to the client? thanks so much for sharing, take care:)
that album is amazing!! i am in love with the layouts! and am particularly drawn to those three photos in the tunnel with the shadow play. LOVE those!!
so many outsource their albums and I never see it as an issue, but what a difference your care and attention makes! thanks for sharing : )
Beautiful! Where did you get this? I love the cover material!
Hi Mellissa! What we mean when I say the design is done IN house, is that some photographers outsource their album design to an external vendor. For us, the design is part of our artistic process, so it is done by us personally and then sent to our album company to Bind and put it all together for us and we use Renaissance Albums, a top of the line album crafter for this part. Hope that helps!
What do you mean you don't outsource your images. Lol. I'm slow. You make this from scratch!? Who prints, binds, etc?
What do you mean you don't outsource your images. Lol. I'm slow. You make this from scratch!? Who prints, binds, etc?
Beyond gorgeous!! Perfectly Elegant to match your Amazing Photography!