Attention Wedding Photographers

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Due to the large amount of wedding photography blogs we receive on a daily basis, the decision has been made to create a new site dedicated to..you guessed it…Wedding Photography. We’ve launched I Love Wedding Photography a few hours ago and we’re working hard to publish all the wedding photography blogs submitted the past few days.

Over the course of the next couple of weeks, you will see multiple daily posts on this site…however, once we’re caught up you should anticipate around 1-2 posts daily. If you sign up for the new feed, I hope you’re not too inconvenienced by the quantity of posts. Trust me..it will slow down.

For the wedding photographers out there, this site will grow rather quickly as we push to make this a valuable resource for photographers looking to get additional exposure as well as readers looking for your services. To accommodate the advertising requests we’ve received for this site ( and turned them down), we will be offering advertising opportunities at the new site. The rates are crazy low at this point. So, if you are interested on even more promotional punch, you may want to consider this avenue.

While we’ll continue to feature wedding photographers on this site, the majority of them will now be featured at I Love Wedding Photography. This site has its own submit your wedding photography site feature, so be sure to submit your site to the correct blog.

Will anything change at I Love Photo Blogs? Not at all…it’s business as usual. To all our loyal readers, thank you for your support and the kind words you forward to me.

I look forward in the challenge of running an additional site and hope you will add our new offering to your web travels.

Melissa Jill Photography

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There’s one thing you should know about me before you hire me to shoot your wedding….I might cry during your ceremony. Despite my best efforts, I’ve done it a number of times. Ok…a lot of times. There’s just certain couples whose love and pure joy at the culmination of their years of waiting for one another pours out of them and infects everyone at the wedding… and I get sucked in. I can’t help it–I shoot with my heart. And if you’re one of the couples I’ve described above–I want to shoot your wedding. I want to be there.

I’m single. Always a wedding photographer…rarely a bridesmaid (because all of my friends want me to shoot their wedding)…never a bride. I’m waiting for Hollywood to contact me about making a sequel to “The Wedding Planner” — “The Wedding Photographer.” I would be there. Even though I’ve never planned a wedding myself, I love the atmosphere that surrounds them–so much emotion, so much beauty; every detail meticulously planned out by the bride and hopefully implemented with the help of her wedding consultant (trust me–it helps a lot with the stress factor). The family and friends who are most important in the lives of the couple all in one place to celebrate. And I get to document it all with art. I get to help tell the story that will live on in their memories long after the day is over, the flowers have died and the guests have gone home. I have one of the best jobs in the world. I love it.

When I was in high school I took my first photo class. We made cameras out of shoeboxes. It’s amazing how far we’ve come. Up until five years ago, I enjoyed photography as a hobby. I studied philosophy, theology and math in college; taking art classes for fun–never dreaming I could be paid to be creative. My dad was an electrical engineer; my mom a nurse. It just wasn’t something I thought of. But God had other plans, as He often does, and they were laid out in front of me five years ago. And all I had to do was put one foot in front of another. I’ve been shooting weddings for five years now and love it.

So I might cry at your wedding but I promise I’ll keep shooting and the photos won’t be blurry because I use auto focus. Technology is great these days.

Melissa Jill Photography

Hot Wedding Photographers – Baltimore, MD

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Hot Wedding Photographers from Baltimore, MD. This is the third installment of our Hot Wedding Photographers feature, where we originally started in Houston, Texas. The project highlights 10 Wedding Photographers from randomly selected cities around the world which show exceptional creativity/originality and have a great web design I feel is a cut above the rest.

As always, I start by acknowledging I probably left several awesome wedding photographers off the list, so here’s your chance to let me know which ones also merit consideration. Kindly leave your suggestions or comments at the end of this post.