Meeting the Bride and Groom and Their Family

Lipton & Lucy - Your happy photographers!

We love meeting the bride and groom and their families. We all discover if we like each other enough to participate in the wedding together. After all, we spend a lot of time together. We get up close and personal. It’s important to like each other.

Some people want only to get a quote online with no meeting of us at ShadeTree Production. I say, ‘What’s the point?’ People who live in Sri Lanka can definitely come to visit us, meet us, decide if they like our personalities, see our work in person and get a quote designed especially for their special day.

People who are out of the country and have to plan everything online spend a lot of time ‘talking’ to us; chatting, skyping and Viber calling. We get to know each other over time.

Speaking of personalities – I’ve heard many stories about photographers being bossy and rude and just plain unlikable. IMHO the bride and groom need to have friendly photographers, and even fun ones (like us!). I once saw a dresser make the bride cry – how can that be? I’ve heard many stories about photographers scolding the couple if they don’t pose the way they are told to. Come on!

Everything on the special day itself should be special. Happy. Stress free. That’s why we suggest that the couple designate a wedding CEO; a person who can make things happen so that the bride or the groom is not constantly on the phone fixing problems. Wedding planners are good for that. Sans a wedding planner, a good bossy family member is the perfect wedding CEO.

There’s a lot to think of before the wedding – during the wedding the bride and groom shouldn’t have to think, just enjoy!

Silly happy couple!

Very happy!

Happy family!

Happy dad (center)!

Happy groom!

Happy mom & dad!

To see if we are the photographers/videographers for you, call and make an appointment! 

Come meet us!

If your want to book your wedding shoot or a pre/post shoot, give us a call at: 0777 387734/5.

Check out our Sri Lankan wedding photography, travel photography, portrait photography, female photographers, commercial photography at our website at: http://www.shadetreeSL.com

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Pee Wee Bans Smoking!

I recently found a website of the newspaper, The Northville Record, in my hometown where I grew up. I clicked and clicked for hours on the site to find articles about my mother. She was very active in the community and very active with feeding the birds, scribing for the blind, adopting stray dogs, gardening, and was always written about in the paper.

There was one story I especially wanted to find – the story about our pet bird; a Grackle (or crow blackbird). Pee Wee. That bird was such a character and a crazy member of our family. My favorite memory was of Pee Wee digging into my mother’s pack of cigarettes and strutting around the table with the cigarette hanging out of his beak. Very funny! And once tired of strutting, he’d rip apart the cigarette. He apparently didn’t think smoking was good for my mom’s health!

I wish I had been a photographer back then and had gotten a picture of it!

Unfortunately the picture in the paper isn’t very good quality, but you get the idea.

PS—check out the price of lobsters in the ad below the article!

If your want to book your wedding shoot or a pre/post shoot, give us a call at: 0777 387734.

Check out our Sri Lankan wedding photography, travel photography, portrait photography, female photographers, commercial photography at our website at: http://www.shadetreeSL.com

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Feel Good is GOOD!

I haven’t written LucysBuzz lately because I’ve been too ticked off at world events, racism, idiot politicians (around the globe) and the lack of gun control. I did begin a blog the other day but it turned out to be a rant! So I scrapped it.

What have I been doing? I’ve been dreaming of building a garden – but I don’t know if I should use wood, bricks or concrete pieces. My gardener is steering me away from wood, which is what I really want, because of the cost and the problem with termites. So, I’ll wait, until the answer comes, and dream about what veggies I’ll plant.

Much of my daily time, when not photographing, is taken up by designing wedding albums. I did a 52-page album the other day (actually it took me 4-5 days to do it) and sent the proofs to the bride’s mother. She loved it and did not make one change! That was awesome! We did the Waleema for the same family – the brother this time and out of 36-pages there were only 6 changes. Not too bad. Makes my job easier.

There's no formula for me designing albums. Each design comes to me as I look at the photos that the couples have picked, the colors, and the couple’s wishes. It just evolves. I like my work. One of these days I want to do a completely black and white album! My job is creative and I especially like it when the couple and their families are thrilled with the album. It’s a feel good thing. Better than thinking about politics, the poor state of stray dogs, murder and mayhem.

Feel good is GOOD!

So, check out some of our pages. As you might know, we photograph all types of weddings: Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim (yes, we have female photographers), Christian, Foreign and small intimate ones with just the couple on the beach!

If your want to book your wedding shoot or a pre/post shoot or any kind of shoot, give us a call at: 0777 387734/5

Check out our Sri Lankan wedding photography, our videography, travel photography, portrait photography, female photographers, commercial photography at our website at: http://www.shadetreeSL.com

© ShadeTree Productions