If you’re looking for a photographer and videographer for any reason in your life like a wedding, elopement or couples session, you might have considered a lot of things.
- Are they good communicators the day of a wedding?
- Are they reputable?
- Will they get along with each other or are they gonna fight for our attention the whole day?
- How do I find someone with similar styles for my wedding day?
- How many extra people are they bringing with them and how do I know they actually care about my wishes?
Do any of those sound like something you’ve wondered when looking for your photographer or videographer? Know you’re not alone!! It’s no secret that a lot of photographers or videographers offer the great benefit of having two people working to capture every aspect of your wedding day. One person physically can’t be two places at once and sometimes epic moments are happening at the same time….but in two different places!! Two people working together make sure that neither of those moments are missed.
Sometimes though, you might wonder WHO that second person will be that’s coming with the photographer or videographer you carefully selected. After all they’re now a third party vendor that you’re entrusting your booked photographer/videographer with choosing. Let’s be real here, that’s scary! Not that it doesn’t ever work out, but that could be one more thing that you’re adding onto your already busy plate and the surprise of a random person showing up to your wedding could send off sirens in that pretty lil head of yours.
Over here at the Guzman house, our main goal is making the experience of your wedding photography and videography as easy and stress-free as possible! We’re a wife and husband photography and videography team. We have the honor of capturing couples sessions and wedding days both local and destination!
SO hi hey there officially!! We’re the Guzmans behind The Guzman Photo Co. Me, hi I’m Tina, the lead photographer and second videographer, and that cutie man down there in those photos is my husband, Kenny who is your lead videographer and second photographer.
As a married media team, we work together to capture all your moments in a way that you don’t find many other places! There are lots of benefits and advantages of entrusting your important events to a dynamic duo who share not only a passion for love stories and seeing people happy, but also the deepest connection with each other. Keep reading to see 5 perks of hiring a married media team for your wedding or elopement 🙂
- A Harmonious Collab
One of the big advantages of hiring a wife and hubby photo/video team is the inherent synergy between us. To this day we’ve been together for 10 years and married for 7 of them! That’s a whole DECADE of shared experiences, not to mention a solid foundation of trust and understanding that allow us to work seamlessly together. We can lock eyes across a dance floor and know exactly where the other is moving next and we don’t get in each others shots. PLUS we don’t have to worry about invading a strangers personal bubble to get a similar angle. It lets us have a smooth and coordinated approach to every wedding day, ensuring that every moment is captured from multiple angles and perspectives while having a seamless flow in your gallery. Being able to anticipate each other’s actions creates a really harmonious workflow that enhances the overall quality of your final photo gallery and video!
- Complementary Skill Sets
A husband and wife photography team brings complementary skill sets to the table for a wedding like we do to our relationship. We joke all the time that we are 99% the same human. But yet we still have our own unique perspective, artistic style, and technical expertise, resulting in a well-rounded approach to capturing your special day. While Kenny is the pro on video, I’m the pro on photo and we are both each others seconds or assistants for those moments during the wedding day you need two photographers or two videographers. A combo of our strengths like this allows for a comprehensive coverage of your wedding or elopement and guarantees a diverse and captivating collection of photos and moments on your film.
- Natural and Relaxed Atmosphere
The presence of a husband and wife photography team like us can create an immediately comfortable and relaxed atmosphere during your wedding day. Our personal connection and familiarity with each other often puts our clients at ease, allowing them to be more themselves in front of the camera. Kenny and I are constantly joking with each other, telling stories and jokes and we are each others best friends, and genuinely enjoy spending time together. Spending time together capturing love stories brings us legit happiness to see another couple hit the milestone that we did years ago because we KNOW how amazing marriage to your person is. We take all that love into a wedding with us. We make friends with our couples along the way and when it comes time for you to be in front of the camera, you can guarantee that you’ll be comfy because you’re with your friends, you’ll be laughing and having a great time on what feels like a double date adventure! Whether it’s a wedding with your friends and family mingling around or an elopement where its the 4 of us, having a photo/video team that’s skilled at making you feel comfortable can result in the most authentic and heartfelt photographs. Word of caution, your sides may hurt from laughing too much just FYI. 🙂
- Enhanced Communication
Effective communication is key when working with any wedding vendor team. However, a husband and wife duo like us has a distinct advantage in this aspect. Our whole marriage is forged together with communication and understanding. Our shared history and years spent understanding each other enables us to communicate effortlessly and effectively, anticipate each other’s needs, and synchronize our actions. If you’ve booked video for your wedding too, just wait until your special dances. We move as one when capturing this moment and it makes you feel and look like the only ones in the world. It’s the coolest thing and I always feel so awesome when this happens!! Another way of communication that we have that benefits you is when it comes time for your portraits. Sometimes what we may ask you to do something that may not be totally understood in the moment or easy to do in wedding attire, especially if you’ve never had professional photos and videos done before! Literally 80% of our couples have NEVER done professional photos together before so don’t worry about it. If that’s you guys and you’re not sure exactly how to do something we ask, we will literally demonstrate it for you! We will never leave you hanging! You get live demonstrations of what we ask you to do from two people who are also very much in love and show you in a way that makes sense to you. 🙂
- Streamlined Coordination During The Planning Process
Let’s face it. You have a TON going on planning your wedding. We get it! We also planned our wedding, in fact I DIY’d the majority of it my own self, even down to my florals. We KNOW how much work goes into planning a wedding, and especially planning a wedding with GUESTS. And you’re having to do this on top of maintaining some sort of sleep schedule, working your full time job, dating each other, caring for pets, self care time, errands, maintaining a house, I mean the list just goes on and on right? That’s just in daily life you got going on right now, so one way that having a married photo/video team helps you with that is thats 4 people, condensed into 2. And those two live together. That means, you’re emailing me directly for the work of essentially 4 people on your wedding day. Instead of you trying to coordinate a photographer who would bring a second photographer, and a videographer who would bring a second videographer, worrying about them getting along and acting in a professional manner, potentially clashing over trying to “get the shot/moment” and potentially missing vital parts, getting them all to coordinate with your planner, create timelines that work for everyone and trying to manage 4 peoples needs during a day, you only have to communicate with one person. Me!
We try really hard to make things as easy for you as we can when it comes to your photo and video needs. You will be getting no less love, work, effort and passion than an entire FLEET of media, but I make it really simple for you to check these two main vendor teams off your “to be booked” list. I help you with your timeline, I make up your groupings list to send to you for approval (Kenny even calls your families names out during family photos to help that process go smoothly!), I can communicate directly with your planner, Kenny and I arrive in 1 vehicle, so you don’t have to worry about travel costs for multiple vendors AND you don’t have to feel like theres a swarm of people around you at all times. 🙂
There are a lot of benefits to booking and wife + hubby media team but these are just the top 5 reasons we feel its a beneficial investment! If you ever have other questions on us or how we work together during a certain point on a wedding day, don’t hesitate to reach out and send a DM on Instagram or send your questions in via my website that’s linked below. 🙂
Enjoy some of our favorite pictures! We are real humans that are madly in love, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we have SO much fun and laughter in our lives. If we’re your kind of people then come find us on Insta and be friends with us! Maybe we even get to share your wedding day 🙂
