By Jamie May Photography Lessons from Both Sides of the Wedding Business: A Photographer’s Perspective As a wedding photographer, I’ve spent years capturing special moments for couples on their big day. When my own daughter got married, I experienced the other side of the wedding industry—planning, decision-making, and selecting the best vendors. Through this process, …
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November 13, 2024
The Process of Planning a Michigan Wedding Part 2: The Dress
By Jamie May Photography: The Process of Planning a Michigan Wedding The Dress One of the best parts of the planning process was the bride’s dress. The next step we decided to take in the wedding process was finding a bridal dress. We took the recommendations from past brides through some of my previous blog …
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November 12, 2024
The Process of Planning a Michigan Wedding: Part 1 The Venue by Jamie May Photography
By Jamie May Photography: The process of planning a wedding in Michigan : Part 1 The Venue Wedding Planning I have helped people coordinate the day of their wedding for about 15 years now. When my daughter proposed to get married, I thought it would be very interesting to see what my customers have to …
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March 13, 2023
Wedding Advice from West Michigan Brides
By Jamie May Photography: Another wedding season is approaching soon, I thought another blog post about Wedding Advice from West Michigan Brides would be beneficial. I, myself, will be planning a wedding for my daughter. Therefore, I find that I can not gather enough helpful information. I hope the blog helps Brides …
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May 10, 2022
Wedding Advice and Tips. Planning a wedding in West Michigan
By Jamie May Photography: Since people are often planning weddings, I thought it would be beneficial to ask for wedding advice and tips to planning a wedding in West Michigan. I gathered information from random people by posting on Facebook. I collected nine responses. Each number represents that person throughout the questions. I …
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February 22, 2021
Beautiful Mackinac Island Wedding & Do It Yourself Makeup Tips
By Jamie May Photography: Beautiful Mackinac Island Wedding & Do It Yourself Makeup Tips I had to take some time to blog about this beautiful Mackinac Island wedding! This is the first time that Marie and I had the opportunity to photograph in Mackinac Island. I did not remember the island at all, I …
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July 30, 2020
Michigan Couples Planning a Wedding in the Midst of a Pandemic
By Jamie May Photography: Planning a wedding in the midst of a pandemic is not easy. It has been stressful, annoying, unknown among other adjectives! I am a photographer in West Michigan, and I am going to share my personal experience with Michigan couples during the 2020 wedding season. We are a few months into …
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March 20, 2020
Coronavirus and Your Wedding
By Jamie May Photography: Let’s talk about the coronavirus and your wedding I cannot even imagine what brides and families are facing. Their perfect day, that has had so much planning, time ,and thought, has been thrown a major curveball. What are brides doing? Do we reschedule? Change the guest list to accommodate? All the …
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February 28, 2020
The Insta, Prayerful, Fairytale Wedding
By Jamie May Photography The Insta, Prayerful, Fairy Tale Wedding When I sit down to write a blog, I never know what I am going to talk about so I title this blog to describe the day. We walked into a very friendly environment, with the groom’s mom giving us a hug, she lives …
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January 31, 2020
Helpful Tips When Having Children in Your Bridal Party
By Jamie May Photography: Helpful Tips When Having Children in Your Bridal Party Sometimes we attend weddings that have children in the bridal party. It can be challenging because we all know sometimes these little people will not cooperate! What I can guarantee is that these kids will have ups and downs that day. …