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Inspired by Love | A Wedding Contest!

 

Our Inspired By Love giveaway is officially here!  We’re challenging brides and grooms to step up the creativity in their wedding planning, think about what makes their love unique, and inspire them to make their wedding day the perfect expression of their individual personalities.  And then we want to photograph it- for free!

At Reams Photo, we’re all about capturing you: silly you, glamorous you, thoughtful you, beautiful you. Your wedding day shouldn’t be laden with obligatory traditions or cookie-cutter decorations. Instead, it should be infused with you, powered by you—truly celebrating the gorgeous, quirky, bring-you-to-tears-of-joy love you share. 

So here’s the challenge: show us all the unique and creative ways you plan to infuse your wedding day with “you” and you could win a full wedding package worth $2800! Make a pinboard on Pinterest with your best ideas, submit it to us via the Contact Page at the top of our webpage by February 7th, and cross those fingers!
We’ll be choosing the top five entries, then the rest is up to voters! And the prizes, well, they’re AWESOME. See for yourself:

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Workin’ Hard for the Money « Melanie Crutchfield - [...] some social media/marketing stuff which is fun, but the SUPER FUN thing we’re working on is a contest that’s going on right now! I worked on this cute little graphic and helped them put the rules and stuff together. You all, [...]

Lisa McLaughlin - Love the picture you’re using! ;)

Pratima Patel - Hi, Im in the process of entering your contest! In the meantime would love quote for a ~ 2hr photojournalistic photo session with scenes in San diego of our dating put together as a picture slide show presentation with voice recording of why we love each other, when we knew we had to be married, etc cut in and out of the background music. You where referred to me by Vivian :)

Paul - Thanks for the entry, Pratima! Wow! You’ve got some really beautiful elements for your wedding.

Inspired by Love | Guest Post

Melanie Crutchfield is a writer and designer living in San Diego with her filmmaker husband and genius daughter (20 mos). They’re artsy. You can read more over her work over at www.melaniecrutchfield.com.

I’ve been working with Paul and Amy on their “Inspired by Love” wedding contest, and Amy and I came up with the brilliant idea of having me do a sample pinboard for all you folks getting ready to enter. Who cares that I’ve been married for 12 years? In fact, that’s awesome. Because now I get to do my WHOLE wedding all over again (in my head, but let’s not get too picky, okay?)!

Let’s face it, 1999 was not as cool as 2012. It’s the truth. I mean, sure, we could play Prince’s 1999 over and over and feel like we’re bending the fabric of space and time by doing so, but really, wedding style has come a LONG way in the last decade +.

First, let me say that planning a wedding is so hard! I guess I can’t even say that, because I’m not really planning a wedding, I’m just imagining it. But still! Regardless, I love the look that I’ve come up with and now I TOTALLY want to renew our vows. Well, rob a bank, THEN renew our vows. But the nice thing about 2012, too, is that there are tons of DIY tips out there, and you can really make your money go a long way. (Seriously, y’all, the internet was barely a thing in 1999…could you imagine doing anything, much less planning a wedding that way?! Insanity!) So, here’s what my Inspired by Love wedding would be like:

Creative Idea #1 – It’s a Glam-B-Que!

Okay, let’s be honest—I don’t even know what that means. But here’s what I WANT it to mean: a fun, relaxed get together where Stephen and a get all goofy with love each other, then we have dinner with all of our guests in a casual, intimate, and BEAUTIFUL setting. See? Glam meets the back yard

BBQ, right? Glam-B-Que! I’d put up these amazing lace curtains as a back drop for the ceremony, and also to border the space where we hang out and eat and stuff. I’d also send out instructions to all of our guests ahead of time so they can make and bring one of these pretty paper lanterns! We’d string the reception area with the cords and bulbs, then the guests would bring their paper lanterns, we’d hang them up and bask in their glow all night. They can use copies of hymns or poetry or other beautiful words and those words would hang over us as we celebrate. LOVE. IT.

Creative Idea #2 – It’s the Palette of Love!

Well, I can’t claim that it’s the pallet for all love of all time, but I think it’s pretty. We’d use a range of neutrals (cream, white, chalkboard gray and black) and highlight with pink and a blue-green. The neutrals would be on the chalkboard elements for the seating charts, the lace curtains, and the dresses, then we’d

pop in some pink and blue-green in the bouquets (made of paper!) and on the tables. It’s soft and pretty but not exclusively so. The black and dark gray elements will ground the color scheme and keep it from being too dainty. Love isn’t dainty—it’s delicate and gorgeous, but deep and mysterious and strong as well, so our colors would be too.

I hope all you brides and grooms out there are having as much fun creating your pinboards as I had creating mine. If you haven’t got started yet, go check out my full pinboard for inspiration, then hop to it! Congrats to you all!

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Amy and Juan | Engaged | Downtown LA | Lifestyle Session



Check out our wedding inspiration Pinterest contest, Inspired by Love. The winner will receive their wedding photography for free, courtesy of Reams Photo!

 

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Genni Harris - WOW, what breathtaking photos. I wish I could see LA through YOUR lens, my eyes see too much of the mundane. Congratulations to the happy couple – you captured their joy.

Joan Tilley - Love the ring picture on this group! and the one of Amy and Juan kissing in the middle of the street with LA behind them. Nice work, Reams Photo!

sara - gorgeous! love these. Beautiful work and congrats, amy and juan!!

Susan Valeriano - You too! Congratulations Juan and Amy! Beautiful photos and I recognize where you are in all the photos. How Neat! When is the wedding?

Cathy Bass - I can feel your happiness! These photos are so true to your world and your love. Very artsy!!!