About our blog

People say to me all the time: “You're so lucky. You get to go to weddings all the time." They're right. We are lucky. We get to be among people having a great time, looking and feeling their best and participating in what is often the most important day in someone's life.

Here’s the other thing we are lucky to see: the terrific style and creativity that our clients bring to their celebrations. If there is one thing we’ve learned while photographing weddings, it is that a wedding doesn’t have to be expensive to be lovely. We dedicate our blog to sharing the terrific ideas that we’ve seen before and will see this coming season, with a focus on ideas that are simple, elegant and stylish.

All these images are the work of us or our associate photographers from events we've photographed. So, we say "thank you" to our clients who have shared their warmth and happiness with us.

About John & Theresa Valls

Because we love to travel, we photographed our first wedding together in exchange for two plane tickets to Europe. That was our original plan: we'd photograph a wedding or two, basically just enough to underwrite our love of italian food eaten in Italy. What we hadn't counted on, however, was how much we would grow to love everything about shooting and working together.

John's wedding photography is influenced by his advertising work with agencies, companies and magazines he shoots for. Avoiding an overly-produced style for his photos, John's images reflect his light touch as well as his ability to capture what is descriptive, yet beautiful.

My background in design management helps us create wedding albums that are both contemporary and timeless. I'm an avid believer in the strength of a killer edit, so I work with our clients to compile a photo selection that will meaningful and satisfying 25 years in the future.

2007: Our favorites

December 18, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized

Now’s the quiet time of year when we update our portfolios and remake our sample albums. It’s also a great time for John and me to reflect back on our favorite photos from the last season. More and more, we’ve noticed that our favorite images are often black and white. True, color does play into our opinions, but for different reasons. Black and white images seem more emotional, as though you can reach into the frame and sense the feeling taking place. Color is like candy–sweet and fun and necessary–but too much of it and you lose your sense of the sweetness.

This time of year also gives us the chance to look back and consider what way of working led to making the photos that have become our favorites. Funny thing is–none of the photos (except the dress image) was one that we had planned. Each one was a result of just being present and patient and observing what our clients do naturally. It makes me laugh, because planning is such a pivotal part of what we do. We plan like crazy, prepping and anticipating, but the best things seem to happen when we’re ready for a “zig” and instead, the couple “zags”.