I'm oh-so happy to announce that I was interviewed for an article in Baltimore Bride on interesting photographic location around Baltimore, and how to make time for them on your wedding day.

Here's the excerpt:

Photographers recommend allowing a significant amount of time for photography. "It takes a lot longer than you think," says Jocelyn Mathewes of Studio Mathewes. She recommends at least an hour for each location. "That doesn't mean each photograph takes an hour, but it takes time to set up, and if people are wound up, they need time to relax and get into it." For couples intent on a specific location, she recommends two hours between ceremony and reception. "That way, you'll have time to stop somewhere."

I spoke at length with the author, Martha Thomas, and definitely had a lot more qualifiers about that two-hour statement than what got conveyed in the article. Those two hours are meant to allow for the lag time at the end of the ceremony--family photos, gathering all your belongings, greeting stragglers, and whatnot--as well as travel time between the ceremony and reception.

Example scenario: your ceremony ends at 3pm and your reception begins at 5pm. You've allotted 30 minutes for formal family portraits, and have 30 minutes of travel time to get to the reception. That only leaves about an hour for portraits of the bride and groom at a unique location. Sounds like plenty of time, right? It very well may be! But make sure you're accounting for travel time to that other location (perhaps another 20 minutes), as well as lag time for setting up and walking to and from each shot.

Really, the important thing is to talk over your timeline with your photographer beforehand so that both of you can be on the same page about what needs to happen when. And the second most important thing is to be flexible; things may not go as planned, but that doesn't mean you won't get amazing photographs in the end--just not the planned ones!

Oh, and they also squeezed in this fabulous shot of Nathalie and Cory at the end of their printed magazine. Sweet.

Is it strange to say that I'm almost more thrilled that they spelled my last name correctly than the fact that my image was published? The way I tell people how to spell my name is this, "Think of female sheep doing calculus: MATH + EWES." Works (nearly) every time.