Studio Ostendo operates in multiple creative fields including photography, design, and education.
When Kaleb and I started planning our own wedding, I didn’t understand the hype about the details. I remember thinking things like, nobody notices them anyway…I don’t think I care about photos of the small things…I don’t want to waste too much time and energy on them. As we got deeper and deeper into the planning process, that perspective started to change.
We chose stylish colors we loved with simple, geometric, modern details to accompany them. Kaleb and I chose our details and decorations based on who we are as people. We wanted to incorporate ourselves into those details, like the fact that we’re artists, that we value routines, that we love patterns and the way things fit together, that we’re fans of clean lines and clean lives, that we like to make things simple so we can focus on people first. As we made lists each week of which wedding project or decision we would work on during the upcoming weekends, I started to realize how valuable those details were, and how much time and energy we put into them.
Like Kaleb would say, it’s like getting ready in the morning. You might shower and do your hair, put on some eyeliner and mascara, choose the shoes you love to wear with the outfit you picked, and grab something for breakfast. All of those decisions aren’t monumental on their own. It’s the sum of those details that makes them important; the total that prepares you well for your day.
In the same way, each wedding detail may not seem all that important or monumental. But when you get to see all of those details–all of those phone calls and emails and online orders and meetings that went into those decisions–when you see them come together on the day you marry your best friend, they perfectly set the tone and sweetly represent who you are.
That’s why we love the details. That’s why we ask our brides to set aside some details for us to shoot right away when we arrive on their wedding days. We love the details because together they set the tone and represent our couples–their love, their personalities, their hard work, and the day they officially became husband and wife.
Wedding photography is my heartbeat. For me, it holds the perfect tension between creativity and authenticity, observation and connection. In front of my camera clients transform to friends, and behind it you'll usually find me tearing up, cheering you on, or holding my breath because of the raw goodness of the moment at hand.
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