Dotuns Blog » Wedding books http://www.dotunsblog.com Washington DC based photographer Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:48:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 The guest book http://www.dotunsblog.com/guestbooks2/ http://www.dotunsblog.com/guestbooks2/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:05:57 +0000 Dotun http://www.dotunsblog.com/?p=2858 I get lots of inquiries about guest books, so I’m posting some shots from a recent book I did for Toks and Cels.  I’m a believer of putting your shots to good use.  Websites will go away, hard drives will crash but printed images are usually well preserved.  I still look at some prints from when my parents when they were much younger and I smile and sometimes poke fun…I think that’s the essence of photography- preserving memories.  I even see brides these days getting their wedding photos done and refuse the print and later lose their images on a disc or something…not good.

These are my premium style guest book or memory books.  I’ve had lots of brides opt to do other guest books at local stores for much cheaper and thin not so durable pages. But in the photography world like most things, you really get what you pay for. Toks and Cels book comes with solid pages and printing that will last a very long time and most importantly their guest loved their book when it was displayed at their wedding. This year I will be working with some couples on putting some twist on these books so stay tuned.

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4.  Guests can sign over any white space

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5. I love this spread, nothing beats a couple who is ready to have fun with their pics

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9. Some spreads just have pics without the sign-in pages, so we have a guest sign-in book and photo book combined in one.

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]]> http://www.dotunsblog.com/guestbooks2/feed/ 3 Engagement/Guest books http://www.dotunsblog.com/guestbooks/ http://www.dotunsblog.com/guestbooks/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 23:22:57 +0000 Dotun http://www.dotunsblog.com/?p=2640 So I get asked this question very often, “what do you do with your engagement pictures?”. Well, here is one of them below using the shots from Stephanie and Matt’s shoot.

These are more than just guest books and I refer to them as keep or engagement books.  My brides usually will order one which would be displayed at the church entrance or reception. But the good thing about how I design these books is that some pages are for guest to sign and some pages will display your pictures alone so it serves more than one purpose.  I do offer other types of guest books but the sample here is actually my premium book – it looks and feels solid and definitely a nice way to preserve your memories. It looks even better if you see this in person but I the pictures show you close.

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Guests will sign in the white area of the page

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]]> http://www.dotunsblog.com/guestbooks/feed/ 2 The journey of Maliq Kingston http://www.dotunsblog.com/maliq/ http://www.dotunsblog.com/maliq/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:16:00 +0000 Dotun http://www.dotunsblog.com/?p=1263 I did a “track the baby” shoot with the Kingston’s and here are some of my favs from our shoots.

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]]> http://www.dotunsblog.com/maliq/feed/ 66 Toks and Femi http://www.dotunsblog.com/toksandfemi/ http://www.dotunsblog.com/toksandfemi/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:44:16 +0000 Dotun http://www.dotunsblog.com/?p=564 A few of my favorites from Toks and Femi. It is one thing to have ideas in mind and it is another for the couple to be down for it. Toks and Femi are fun and down for some creative shots and you will see this in the shots at the beginning and at the end of this post. Ok, the shots at the end were taken after the wedding, so brides fear not..lol. On a serious note, I had a great time shooting them and I can’t wait to see how their final wedding book will turn out.

Vendors:

Makeup – Zainab from Zfaces

Wedding planning – A Gracious Affair

Florals and Decor – BCG Events

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I love her shoes, colorful shoes seem to be in vogue and she pulled this off nicely.

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I love this one, Toks is really a trooper!

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]]> http://www.dotunsblog.com/toksandfemi/feed/ 57 Nikky and Alex wedding book http://www.dotunsblog.com/nikky-and-alex-wedding-book/ http://www.dotunsblog.com/nikky-and-alex-wedding-book/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 18:27:00 +0000 Dotun http://www.dotunsblog.com/?p=259 The final wedding book is one of the main reasons that makes shooting weddings worth it for me.  Just being able to present the shots taken on that day in a very elegant way is priceless.  So if you are a bride or groom reading this then take the hint – I always shoot with your book in mind. Here are a few pages from Nikky and Alex’s wedding I shot in Minn assisted by Chris Myers. This book is a gorgeous 9 by 13 coffee table book and of course every brides book is custom designed. This actually what the book inner pages will look like once you open it, so the page has a left or right side. I will put up a couple of shots of the physical book and cover some other time.

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