Last summer we were celebrating our 10th business anniversary and we gave away a free shoot. Nicole and Michael were the lucky winners, a lovely couple from Upper Austria. They are moving to Singapore for four years in a few months and they wanted to take some wonderful Austrian memories to their new home. Now it was time for this special couple shoot and we met in Kitzbühel at the Schwarzsee. I'm absolutely in love with this lake as I spent all my summer holidays there when I was a child. When I think back there are lots of beautiful memories in my mind, e.g. there I learned to waterski. We had a great time and a lot of fun with Nicole and Michael. Time flew by and we were lucky that it did not rain too much for the main part of the shoot. We would like to thank Der Visagist Michel Schiwon for taking care of Nicole's make-up, so she could relax and enjoy right from the beginning. Always a great idea to book a make-up artist for your shoot, so you don't have to worry about your styling and the enjoyment starts even earlier. Dear Nicole and Michael, thanks a lot for coming to Tyrol. It was a pleasure to work with you and we hope we could create everlasting memories! We wish you all the best for your stay in Singapore and if we should travel into your direction within the next years, be prepared for a call - we would love to meet you again!
Read MoreWhen you receive the final photos from your wedding photographer and you have booked a wedding reportage for several hours, it can be quite overwhelming when you should choose the right photos for your wedding album. It's pretty hard to cut down the number of photos when there are several hundred moments beautifully captured. You can hardly go without any of these photos as you chose your wedding guests wisely, planned this special day for several months, picked your wedding venue carefully and chose the color theme and style of your decoration intentionally. There are so many wonderful moments and emotions on such a great and unique day and you would like to relive your wedding day over and over again when you flip through your wedding album. We suggest to keep the following things in mind when you pick the photos for your wedding album - your first family heirloom: 1. Add lots of emotional photos Emotions make a wedding day unique and they will stay in your minds forever. When your photographer captured these highlights beautifully you have a great opportunity to relive these moments over and over again when you page through your album. You will laugh about the funny moments and the hiccups occurred, you will cry when you see all the reactions during the emotional speeches, you will reminisce about everything what happened in between and you cannot believe that this day flew by so quickly. So choose as many emotional photos for your wedding album as possible as, so you will bring your coffee-table book to life. 2. Add detail shots It took quite a lot of time to pick all the little details for your wedding. Your dress, jewelry, shoes, bouquet, suit, cufflinks, boutonniere, etc. and so these things should be part of your wedding album as well. You don't need to add every single detail shot of your wedding outfit, maybe there is also a photo with more details in one shot to receive an overview. The detail shots can also be presented a bit smaller, but it's important to add these photos to create an airy design. Otherwise, when there are just photos of people in your album, you don't know where to look at first. So many faces and emotions. Detail shots are a great opportunity to mix things up and show the uniqueness of your wedding. 3. Be careful with the amount of group shots In our opinion it is best to incorporate not too many group shots. We totally get it: the guests you invited are important, but instead of choosing 20 group shots for your wedding album we would suggest you go with on big photo of your whole wedding party and adding three or four photos with smaller groups like families and witnesses. Of course you can add a view more photos on some pages, but overall the book should not look like a stamp-album with lots of tiny images where almost nothing or nobody is recognizable because of the small size. That leads towards the next point. 4. Cut down the number of photos - less is more I totally understand how hard it is to break down the number of images. I have to deal with the same problem every year when I create a sample album with last season's best-of and for that I have to choose from thousends of images but at the end it's always worth the effort. LESS is MORE and so it's possible to show as many photos as big as possible. When you look at an album with hundreds of photos you are overwhelmed and each image cannot really breath on a spread. So it's not really fun to browse through the book as there is so much going on on each spread. If you don't know where to start when it comes to your image selection for your wedding album you can always start with your photographer's blog post. Usually there are some great emotions, details and also the highlights of your ceremony and party presented. You can go from there and add photos with a special meaning. Here you can see the final result of Julie & Jan's coffee-table book. They did a great job with regard to their image selection. They started with some photos of their preparations, followed by detail shots of rings and flowers, their first look with beautiful emotions, their couple shoot photos, lots of ceremony moments and emotions, some ballroom decoration, all the great moments and laughter during their speeches, their first dance, fireworks, cake cutting, rocking the dancefloor and ending with an impressive sparkler shot. It's fun to flip through their album and it never gets boring. Not too much or little of one part of their wedding day. Enjoy this beautiful wedding day again and if you would like to see and read the whole story check out Julie & Jan's wedding blog post.
Read MoreLovely client feedbacks are coming in and we are happy to share these words with you! Please enjoy Julie and Jan´s feedback in German and English in the details of this post! Thank you guys, we were so happy to be part of your destination wedding here in Austria!
Read MoreThe love story of these two sweethearts is just amazing! You may have already seen the engagement session we did with them a few month ago in Innsbruck and in this blog post we explained how they met. Both working at Google - Julie in New York City and Jan in Germany - they first met during a business meeting. Their first five dates were taking place in five different countries all over the world: Portugal, Iceland, Germany,... just to name a few and one year later Jan move to New York. For their destination wedding they chose the wonderful Grand Tirolia in Kitzbühel, Austria's Best Golf Hotel 2015. All wedding guests travelled to this wonderful location in Tyrol, Austria and the bridal couple was really surprised but more than happy that ALL invited guests followed up on the invitation and travelled to Austria to share their special day. Even with thousends of kilometers to travel from the United States, Germany, Switzerland and the rest of the world their wedding guests did not spare any efforts! Bride and groom both have multicultural backgrounds: Swiss and German roots on the groom's side as well as Chinese and American/Jewish roots on the bride's side. All those things were part of the beautiful outdoor ceremony held by Henrik Eder - Der Hochzeitsredner at the terrace at The Grand Tirolia. They also incorpoarted some Jewish traditions like braiking a glass to symbolize the fragile nature of life as well as the uniqueness of the moment that arises and passes away, a letting go of the past and looking toward the future. Dear Julie and Jan, we wish you all the best for your future as a new family and to say it with your groomsmen's words: Every minute, every hour, every week and every year - we will toast you and we start right here! - Cheers and enjoy your honeymoon to the full! Special thanks to my loving parents for taking care of our little daughter, even on my mom's own birthday. We are really thankful to have such a caring and supporting family - without you it would not be possible to do our job as wedding photographer besides having our own little family. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
Read MoreIt´s always something special to be part of friends weddings and even more if two love birds found each other and you can almost feel the sizzle between them. Manuela and Herbert are such a lovely couple, they are perfect for each other and it was so great to see all their love and emotions! And how cool are their custom-made outfits?! I absolutely love the look-and-feel and their two witnesses where also dressed accordingly and to top it all they were also wearing the same shoes as the groom ;) The civil ceremony took place in Kitzbühel and they celebrated the first part of their marriage at Wirtshaus Steuerberg - the Falstaff summer location winner Tyrol - where Herbert usually works and creates delicious food. We were so honored to be part of their weddings - stay tuned for more images of their church wedding soon on our blog: Part 2 - church wedding
Read MoreDo you remember Katrin & Manuel?! We were honored to document their civil wedding a view weeks ago in Switzerland, you should not miss this colorful wedding: Follow your Heart | Katrin & Manuel | Zollikon, Switzerland! Katrin and Manuel are such a great couple and we were really sad that we were already booked for the date of their church wedding in Kitzbühel. Katrin called us at the beginning of this year and we got along very well right from the beginning. As we met in person we all knew it will be a perfect fit ;) And so we had the pleasure to photograph their Get-Together on Friday at the incredible Grand Spa Resort A-ROSA in Kitzbühel as well as their Brunch at Rosi´s Sonnbergstuben on Sunday! We also planned an outdoor couple shoot on Friday but the weather was really bad, it rained cats and dogs and it was freezing cold. So we changed our plans and did a short couple shoot with the two after their brunch on Sunday.
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