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Things to do Before “I Do” at Bee’s Wedding and Event Designs

Michael Caswell — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:47:13 +0000

Eric at Bee’s Wedding and Event Designs has put together a wonderful series of events to help brides and their moms get great information on planning their wedding, appropriately called Things to do Before “I Do”. Top wedding vendors and professionals in the New Orleans area will be on hand to make presentations and answer questions, and cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served, along with dinner by Pigeon Caterers.

The first Things to do Before “I Do” is coming up on Tuesday, September 1. For more information, and to sign up, visit this page.

See you there!

Los Angeles

Michael Caswell — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:15:05 +0000

I spent last week in Los Angeles photographing a medical conference as I’ve done for the past 4 years, and was able to go out shooting around town for a few days!

A reminder to couples – safeguard your wedding images!

Michael Caswell — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:04:17 +0000

Last week a bride from 2006 emailed me that her parent’s house had burned down. Fortunately, no one was hurt in the blaze, but her wedding images were stored there and were destroyed.

The good news was that I still had her images in my archives, and was able to send her a replacement disk.

But there are important lessons to be learned here…

1) Always keep backup copies of your images in at least two different locations. I supply two copies for all of my weddings, so make sure one of these gets stored elsewhere. I encourage couples to make additional copies as well, just in case.

2) Recordable DVDs do not last forever. Though experts estimate a lifespan of 20 – 100 years, this is based on the media being stored in perfect and stable archival conditions, which is likely not going to be the case for most of us. I suggest copying the images to fresh media once every year or two. Currently Sony and TDK recordable DVDs are rated among the best in terms of quality.

3) Even if your DVD does last a long time, media does eventually become obsolete. 25 years ago, 5.25″ floppy disks dominated the computer storage market. Today, it would be a struggle to find a computer equipped with a drive able to read these disks (and as a fascinating side note, it would take THREE of those disks to store just ONE of your wedding images… a stack of about 1,800 disks would be required for a complete wedding). So, over the years, you will want to migrate your images to new types of media as they become available.