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 How Valuable Are Your Photos?
By:
Sharon Naylor
You might know the price packages of every professional photographer in town, and you might already know which packages present the most value to you. What we're talking about here, though, is the value of your wedding photos...and the answer is: they're priceless.
That's why most people, when asked what they'd grab first on their way out of their burning house, say ‘my wedding photos.' Pictures from your big day grow far more valuable over time. As much as you love them now, you'll love them even more ten, twenty and thirty years from now.
What makes wedding photos climb so near to your heart? Here are the top reasons why you'll want every photo from your day, in their full hi-resolution glory:
- The looks in people's eyes, such as when your groom first sees you appear at the end of the aisle, ready to walk toward him. You can't put a price on the awe and appreciation in his expression.
- The footage of parents and grandparents, dressed to the nines, looking happy and healthy as they dance, dine and celebrate with relatives and friends. While we hate to think about any dark days of the future, someday relatives will pass away. And these photos allow them to stay in your presence, looking radiant and well, enjoying the best day ever. Especially if parents and grandparents get quite ill, or go through difficult medical treatments before they pass, having these images of them in better days becomes a comfort and an everlasting presence in your home and photo collection.
- The unmistakable looks of love and the romance between you both. In the future, when life gets hectic, kids come along, money's tight and you find yourselves taking each other for granted, these photos can remind you of your great love that still lives between you. You might make it an anniversary tradition to look through your wedding photos and reminisce.
- If your wedding photos are a gift from your parents, they become more valuable when you experience the gratitude of having such a gorgeous collection.
- The photos you give to friends and family members as gifts become priceless mementoes for them as well. Consider your group of college friends who - let's face it - might not get together again for a very long time, if ever. What a great present to give them all the perfect shot of your group on the dance floor, or the guys enjoying their cigars, the girls walking on the beach together just like you did on Spring Break long ago.
- Your wedding photos will surely be displayed in your home.
- Your kids, and grandkids, will look at these photos someday.
For all these reasons, and more, every photo from your wedding day (and before and after) deserves to be collected, treasured, shared, and stored safely so that they may enrich your life together for as long as you both shall live. And ever after.
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