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Planning your Engagement Session

by Rebecca Bystrom | Mar 1, 2016 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

You’re about to take that leap of faith, into a new life with with your fiance.  As you are busy planning and spending the big bucks on creating that fairy tale wedding. Researching and hunting down the perfect vendors you can trust and rely on to fulfill your dream wedding visions.  The last thing you may think of is an engagement session. Perhaps you have no desires for photo’s because you are camera shy.  It’s not important to capture a few pre-wedding photo’s.  I’d love to persuade you into a different mind set.  Your engagement session IS important.

This is the beginning of your story.  A new chapter where two become one.  It doesn’t start at the wedding.  This is the prequel to the big celebration day.  It is a time to celebrate your love for each other.  It’s a time to capture moments that illustrate who you are individually and who you are together.  I don’t know about you, but when I read a book, I want to know the beginning; I crave all those juicy details that sets the scene of the story.  Most books typically have a major event and a story line to keep the reader entertained.  When creating a story with visuals, it is important to set the scene.  Your pre-wedding story.  I’d like to think that I already know the outcome of a wedding.  First comes love.  Then comes marriage.  Then comes the baby in the baby carriage…. right?  Oh, and they lived happily ever after.
Engagement Session

Your engagement session is a great way to understand your photographers style.  Get to know them, and how they capture moments. This allows you to be more relaxed & comfortable having your pictures taken on your wedding day.  From a photographers perspective: the engagement session is a stepping stone to understanding each client on a personal basis.  What they like to do as a couple, what posing is most flattering and what angles to avoid.  I love engagement sessions, witnessing “young” love as a spectator and given the gift to capture these moments is a heartwarming experience while standing behind the lens.  I want to share that with you, with your family & friends.

So you’ve had your engagement session, now what?
Having digital files is a great way to share your images with friends and family.  Upload them to social media and brag about your lovely fiance!  Think of how romantic it would be to have your first chapter in your story visually told.  A picture book showing off your images from the engagement session.  You won’t have to worry about losing your digital files when the flash drive becomes obsolete or when your computer crashes and all your digital images are lost.
Photo Book   Wooden USB Flash Drive

Want to really make a statement?  Hang a 20×30 canvas in your living room.  Visually seeing your love for each other on display, those tender moments will remind you where it all began.

Create Save the Dates:
This is a great way to make sure your guest are available for your wedding date.  By sending out a reminder to keep the date available with more information to follow.  You can easily incorporate your engagement photo’s on your custom save-the-dates.

Start your own Instagram Hashtag:
The pressure is on, you will need to come up with a fun hashtag for your family and friends to start tagging photo’s of the 2 of you. This a great way to share images and have them earmarked in one location.  Be sure to include your hashtag on your save-the-dates and your wedding invites.

Create a Wedding Website:
This is a great way to share all the information regarding your plans, things to prepare for, and how-to’s for your wedding date.  Keep in touch with your guests & share up-to-date progress on the planning.  This is a great place to share a few of your favorite engagement session images.
TSP is currently working on making this become a reality for future clients.  I can’t wait to share the details ~stay tuned.

Your engagement session should reflect you.  It’s a time to slow down and spend some time with the love of your life.  Make it a date night.  Hang out and relax with each other.  This is all about you and what brought you two together.

To learn more about TellaStory Photography Engagement Session follow the Engagement Planning Guide link to view full magazine:  Engagement Planning Guide

XO~B

So…You want those Digital’s eh?

by Rebecca Bystrom | Nov 6, 2015 | TSP Journal | 0 comments

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        WOW!  That CD looks great on your wall….   says no one ever!

Image CD with print release

Then why as consumers do we automatically request to have the CD with all our images from our most recent photo session?
It’s very rare that you’ll print all the images.
There may be a few select pictures that will make it to print & get framed.
Who the heck still gives out CD’s?!!!

Our technology is evolving.  Did you know that new computers are no longer made with CD drives??  MIND BLOWING!!  That’s a shocker, eh?

At TellaStory Photography, we strive to give a wholesome experience.

Flash Drive box Wedding Photography Gift

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From start to finish.  From the pre-consultation, to session day.

Right on down to the gallery reveal meeting.
It’s all about the details.
As much as I would love to ‘stop giving away digitals’  and go to strictly print purchases.
I want you as my client to feel like you are receiving your memories.
I don’t want your images to sit stagnant on my computer.
I want your images in your hands so you can enjoy them.

PLEASE do not hang your flash drive or CD directly on the wall….. I was displaying a little sarcasm.

Consider getting professional prints made.  Prints of high standards and quality so you can be sure they will not wrinkle, warp or fade over time.
Leave the printing to the professionals.  The long term cost is so worth it!  All you have to do is trust me.

It’s no secret that I LOVE to shop!!  I am constantly on the look out for new and creative ways to display YOUR art.
Let’s get your images OFF that CD– OFF that flash drive– OFF my computer!
Let’s get your images into your home.  Onto Your Walls.  And fill your hearts with those cherished memories.

Float Wraps  Accordian Albums  Wedding Album

BW8_6438  Barn Wood Print
Glass Block Print  Glass Block Print

Above pictured from left to right & on-down the line.
Stack of Float Wraps.  Also available canvas and standard prints.
Magnetic Accordian Albums
Flush mount Album- these are great & NOT just for weddings.
Barn Wood Print– need I say more?  SUPER AWESOME!
Acrylic Glass Block — ALL NEW.  Super fun way to display your pictures at home or at work.

There is so much more to show you!! -these are just a few samples of images I had stored on an image CD 😉

Image CD with print release

 

 

Angel & Joe are Getting Married…

by Rebecca Bystrom | Aug 28, 2015 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

 

Angel and Joe – Getting Married in Taylors Falls MN

Yes, I am a wedding photographer.  During the wedding day, I am also a hair dresser, a cake server, a dress fluffer and bustler, bartender, a sparkler-lighting assistant.  I can place veils, arrange flowers and pin boutonnieres.  Tie a tie like nobodies business, seamstress to ripped groomsmen pants (yes) and hem a dress in lightening speed.  I can coordinate large groups, small groups all with the crack of my whip and still bring out fun genuine smiles.  Wouldn’t it be nice if all I had to do was take pretty pictures of the emotions and the details of the day instead?

Enough about me…..

Words can not describe the feeling I get, when I meet amazing clients.  It has been so much fun working with Angel and Joe — and tomorrow (Saturday August 29) I will be with these two while they take the most important step into creating one family.  I am honored and thrilled to be a part of this event.  As they join together on the family farm — lots of DIY details will be on display.  I can’t WAIT!!!  For now, take a look at our engagement session at Taylors Falls, Pot Hole Pass.  Awesome couple, Amazing location and a Wonderful way to spend a sunny spring day!

After our engagement session, we met over a cup of java, and it was then that we knew,  “the perfect fit”  like a Cinderella shoe.

CONGRATULATIONS Angel & Joe. What a great way to spend an afternoon with a fun couple!! I wish you all the best

-Tellastory Photography

 

 

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