Christine Chang Photography

Here’s my post as a customer.  I finally received my wedding albums in the mail (I got married this year, in March), and they’re really professional and lovely.  Queensberry did an excellent job, their albums are hand assembled in New Zealand, and though I paid an arm and a leg for the albums, they’re definitely worth it. 

The thing about my wedding is that I thought it was one of the most stressful things I have ever gone through in my life.  A lot of people wish they could get married all over again and go through all of the excitement, but for me it was really nerve-racking, and usually when people ask me how it was I say that it was the most stressful thing in my life, and thank God I am only planning to get married once.  We were on a budget, I couldn’t get days off at work, and most of all, I felt like everything was compressed and sometimes I felt like I was missing the point of it all but there were so many things I had to get done.

Though I couldn’t shoot my own wedding, we found someone who did:  Darcy Padilla, and when I saw her credentials and her pictures, my husband and I knew she was the one.  By hiring her to shoot our wedding, she taught me much about what it means to be a wedding photographer, and it’s more than the pictures.  it’s how you interact with people, it means being supportive, and it means taking on the full responsibility of capturing a couple’s milestone. 

Now that I think about it, we spent about a third of our wedding budget on photography, but it’s all worth it.  Now when I look at my album (she took the pictures, I designed the album), I get to relive my wedding, without all of the stress and the fuss.  I get to dwell on colors, and people, and when I see the album I see the main point of the wedding and the important things, like friends and family and a lifetime promise.  Even the pictures on the beach are stunning, and I only remember slightly that I was in a strapless dress and it was 40 degrees and a thunderstorm seemed imminent.

Check out Darcy’s website  www.weddingsbydarcy.com.  She was a great deal when she shot our wedding, though I’m not sure if she raised her prices.  I know that part of my business is shooting weddings, and if I shoot your wedding I’ll do my best, but if you can afford Darcy, I would recommend her, she’s really good.  If you do consider her tell her I said hi. 

The other thing that I realized is that alot of you don’t know what I look like.  I know that for many of you the blog is the only thing you know of me in this Internet era, so if you go to www.weddingsbydarcy.com, and click on “my wedding portfolio”, my own wedding pictures will be in her portfolio, under Carmel.