Wedding photography is one of the most important parts of the wedding.  After the wedding, the flowers will wilt, the food will be eaten, the decorations will be thrown away, but the wedding photos and the wedding album will stay with the family for years and years to come.  Most people still have their parents’ or grandparents’ wedding albums 10, 20, 50 years after the wedding.

The wedding day is the one day in a person’s life that they actually NEED a professional photographer.  The bride looks more beautiful on this day than any other day in her life.  She has probably spent hundreds or thousands of dollars on the wedding dress, her makeup, her hairstyle, her shoes and her accessories.  You need a professional photographer to make sure that you and your wedding are captured in the best way possible.

How to choose a wedding photographer

Price
A major consideration for most wedding couples is the price.   Some couples allot 10% of their wedding budget for the photographer; others allot 60% of their wedding budget.  It all depends on how important wedding photography is in your priorities.

Wedding photographers range anywhere from $900 - $5000.   Usually, the higher you pay, the better quality photography you will get.  This is because, in general, better wedding photographers are able charge more.  Sometimes, you will luck out and get somebody really good but still in the early part of their career so you can get a lower price.

Generally, depending on your needs, it is cheaper to buy a whole package than buying a la carte.

Wedding Photography Package
In today’s digital age, it is very important to own a CD of your wedding photos.  Make sure your wedding photography package includes a CD of your high-resolution images that you will be able to print, view and share from, or that it is relatively inexpensive to purchase it from your wedding photographer.

Style
There are different styles of wedding photography.

• Traditional Wedding Photography
  This is the photographic style from our parents’ and grandparents’ wedding albums.  In traditional wedding photography, the photographer poses and sets up everything.  This produces very pleasing, formal, “perfect” images which sometimes might seem too unnatural or contrived. 

• Photojournalistic Wedding Photography
  (also called documentary, candid photojournalism)
  In photojournalistic wedding photography, the photographer captures moments as they happen and doesn’t direct any action at all.  The resulting photographs look more natural but might be too gritty sometimes.

• Portrait Journalism 
  Portrait Journalism is a blend of the traditional and photojournalistic style.  This is a great compromise for people who want the more modern look of photojournalism but also a little bit of the traditional elegant poses.

When you find a wedding photographer that you like, book him or her as soon as possible to ensure their availability.  Most wedding photographers reserve dates on a first-come, first-served basis so make sure you book them so you don’t miss out.

View our website at www.SilvasPhoto.com to view our portfolio.

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Places for wedding photography & engagement shoots in South Carolina

Here are my favorite locations for engagement sessions, bridal portraits and wedding photography in South Carolina. 

Downtown Charleston area

(lots of historic buildings, churches, residential houses) 

• Battery Park and Whitepoint Gardens
• Rainbow Road
• Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge
• Cobblestone Road
• South Carolina Aquarium Admission: $16 per person
• Pineapple Fountain (Waterfront Park)

Best Beaches for Wedding Photography and Engagement Shoots

• Isle of Palms
• Sullivan’s Island
• Folly Beach
• Edisto Beach
• Myrtle Beach
• Hilton Head Island Beach

Historical Plantation and Gardens

• Magnolia Plantation and Gardens   Admission $15 per person
• Boone Hall Plantation Admission $17.50 per person
• Middleton Place  ADMISSION         Adult $25, CARRIAGE TOUR     +$15

Summerville, South Carolina

• Azalea Park

  Main Street, Summerville, South Carolina  Map to this Location

Beaufort, South Carolina

• Old Sheldon Church Ruins
  Old Sheldon Church Rd
  Yemassee, SC 29945  
  View Map to Location
  Contact: St. Helena’s Parish church in Beaufort, SC
  843-522-1712
  The service has to be performed by an ordained minister as one of their rules.

Hampton, South Carolina

• Lake Warren State Park

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Marriage License Requirements in South Carolina

Here are the Marriage License Requirements in South Carolina.

Charleston County

100 Broad Street Ste. 469
Charleston, SC 29401

(843) 958-5183
(843) 958-5182
Office Hours: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Cost: $70 (cash only)
Requirements: valid ID of bride and groom (driver’s license, SC id card by SC Highway Dept. or military ID)

Berkeley County

300 California Avenue
Moncks Corner, SC 29461

(843) 719-4519
Office Hours: 9am-5pm

Cost: $50 (cash only)
Requirements: Social Security Card and a certified copy of the birth certificate or military ID card of bride and groom

Dorchester County

101 Ridge Street
St. George, SC 29477

Office Hours: 8:30am-5pm

Cost: $40 (cash only)
Requirements: Photo ID

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How much does a normal wedding cost?

The wedding day is one of the most important days in a woman’s life.  Many girls grow up dreaming about their wedding day and already imagining all the tiny details.

So how much should you spend for a wedding? 

According to costofwedding.com, the average couple in Charleston, South Carolina spends $25,340 for their wedding.  (You can also view the cost of wedding in other cities in the USA in their website)

This is just an average.  Some people spend more, some people spend less.  

Here is a sample breakdown by percent of how much the wedding budget should be broken down.  This is just a rough guide to be used as a starting point and not a hard and fast rule.  Some brides give more priority to certain items, such as a wedding gown or a spectacular venue or a six-string orchestra, and may adjust their budget accordingly.  It all depends on what is most important to the wedding couple.  Also, wedding budgets differ depending on how many guests you have.

When making up your wedding budget, don’t forget to leave some money for starting out a new life as a couple.  This would include buying a new house (or moving in together), buying new furniture and appliances, and other things that you might need as a new couple. 

The most important thing is not to go broke over the process.  There is no point in having a $3000 wedding gown and a $4000 wedding ring, then having a lot of credit card debt after the wedding.  It is, after all, just one day.  There is are vendors for weddings of all budgets, so a little research and a little compromise will go a long way into saving some money.

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Greatest Wedding Love Songs

Greatest Wedding Love Songs

Choosing songs for your big wedding day is quite a daunting task. You have to take into consideration the personal taste of the bride and groom, as well as the sensibilities of your guests (meaning you can’t play hard metal just because your groom likes that type of music), as well as fit it into the structure of the wedding itself.

Choosing the music is such an important part of the wedding, because it sets the mood and affects people in a very subtle but powerful way. Personally, I would love a six-string orchestra, but of course, not everybody can afford that. But you can have beautiful music for your wedding from a cd. You just have to be careful about the type of songs that you play.

This is a song list that I had made for my friend’s wedding. Both the bride and groom don’t like music so much, so I basically had free rein about the choices. The couple was young, twenty-somethings, so I wanted the music to be very edgy with a lot of pop, alternative, acoustic and rock, mostly from the 90’s cause I love 90’s music.

A very important thing to remember is to choose songs that go together well for every part of the ceremony. They should probably be in the same genre or tempo so that it doesn’t feel too random.

Pre-Wedding Ceremony

This is music played before the ceremony starts, while everyone is going to their places and getting ready to walk down the aisle. The guests are getting seated. I wanted it to be upbeat so people won’t be bored, but not too upbeat because this will segue into the serious wedding ceremony music. The more upbeat music, I placed in front, the less upbeat ones, I placed towards the back.

• Wishing and Hoping - My Best Friend’s Wedding

This might be too cute for some, but it is cute for the early part of the wedding and kinda echoes the chaos that’s happening while everybody is getting ready. It is also a great idea to look at movie soundtracks, especially wedding movies and see the songs that they have that you can use.

• Everyday - Barbie’s Cradle

 

When I brush my teeth
or when you drive a car
sweep me off my feet
and take me very far
When I’m going out
And I’m sinking down
Save me every time
Never let me drown.

• Grow Old with You - Adam Sandler from The Wedding Singer

This is a funny sweet song. “Let me do the dishes in the kitchen sink/Carry you around when you’ve had too much to drink/Oh it would be so nice/To grow old with you.”
 

• Baby, One More Time - Travis

I love unusual covers. This is the Britney Spears song covered by a rock band in an acoustic style. That’s a great technique, if you have a song that you like that might be too cheesy or too cliche, just find a really great cover of it in a different style and it’s fresh and new again.
 

• Kiss From a Rose - Seal from Batman Forever
• Walking After You - Foo Fighters

Very sad song.
 

• Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden(acoustic duet version)
• Yellow - Coldplay
• I’ll Be - Edwin McCain
• Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
• Best I Ever Had - Vertical Horizon
• 214 - Rivermaya

Great bass and keyboard intro. “The world could die/and everything may lie/still you shan’t cry/Cause time may pass/and now that it won’t last/I’ll be by your side/Forever by your side”
 

• Parachutes - Coldplay

This is a very short song, it has only two verses but it’s lovely. It goes:

In a haze, in a stormy haze
I’ll be ’round, I’ll be loving you always
AlwaysHere I am and I’ll take my time
Here I am and I’ll wait in line always
Always

• If - Rivermaya

Wedding Ceremony

You want the wedding march and ceremony to be very solemn and elegant. A lot of the ceremony music is going to be background music while the officiant is speaking or fillers when it is quiet. I highly recommend NOT using “Here Comes the Bride” during the wedding march because it is so old and used and abused. If you do want to use it though, Queen has a great version of Wedding March.

• Pie Jesu - Charlotte Church (plus other songs by Charlotte Church)

Any song by Charlotte Church is great. It’s classical music, but her voice is so angelic that even if you don’t like classical music, it still works. It is very solemn and very formal, but still with a young spirit. I like using her for the wedding march for the bridesmaids and the groomsmen. If you are Christian, she has a lot of great traditional Christian songs as well.
 

• May It Be - Enya (Theme from Lord of the Rings)

Enya also has a lot of great songs. I like using this one for when the bride walks down instead of the traditional “Here Comes the Bride”. When I used this for my friend’s wedding, the guests said they felt goosebumps when this song came on, which is exactly the effect that we wanted. You also have that additional “haha” that the song came from Lord of the Rings.
 

• Only Hope - Switchfoot or Mandy Moore

I like the Switchfoot version better than the Mandy Moore one. It has a lovely violin part in it. It goes, “To be only yours I pray/ to be only yours I know now you’re my only hope.”

After Ceremony (while picture-taking)

For this, I chose upbeat, happy music. It should echo the happiness and the energy after the wedding.

• At Your Side - Corrs
• Hundred Years - Five For Fighting
• Wonderwall - Oasis
• I’m a Believer - Smash Mouth ? from Shrek
• Crash - Dave Mattews Band
• Thank You - Dido
• I Love You Always Forever - ???
• Beatles

There are a lot of good Beatle love songs. You can either use the original Beatles or find a great cover, which they have in virtually every genre you can think of. You can check out the I am Sam soundtrack which is all Beatles covers or any Beatles tribute cd.
 

• I Will - Beatles
• In My Life - Beatles

I like using this for the Father-Daughter dance.
I Want You - Alana Davis

Originally by Third Eye Blind, but great cover by Alana Davis. “People always take a step away from what is true/That’s why I like you around/I want you/Yeah you do you do you do you do you do you do you do/Make me want you”

Reception (Dinner)

For this part, I chose a lot of jazzy songs by Sonia, Norah Jones, Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr, Bossa n’ Marley, Sitti.

• Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
• Just the Two of Us - Sonia
• Kokomo - Beach Boys
• By Your Side - Sade
• Message in a Bottle - Sonia
• Fever - Michael Buble

There are lots of versions of this. Pick your favorite.
 

• Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Lauryn Hill
• Crazy Thing Called Love - Michael Buble
• Girl From Ipanema - Pizzicato 5

So many versions of this song. This is my favorite one.
 

• If I was a Painter - Norah Jones

I chose this cause my friend was a Fine Arts major.
 

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Fun Facts About Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina is a city known for its Southern charm.  It is a very popular wedding destination.

Here are some fun facts about the city:

Charleston was originally named Charlestown or Charles Towne.

Charleston’s Nicknames are  “The Palmetto City”, “The Holy City”,”Chucktown,” Carolopolis (Latin).

Charleston’s motto is Aedes Mores Juraque Curat (She cares for her temples, customs, and rights).

Charleston, South Carolina has been named “best-mannered city” by an etiquette expert.

The TV show “Army Wives” is filmed in Charleston, South Carolina.

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